On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 9:41 AM Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In 5c6064 the qemuarm* machines gained vmalloc=256, because in testing
> Bruce was seeing problems when the vmalloc area was too big for the
> memory size of the machine (eg 256MB).
>

default seems to be 128M for 32bit systems with memory < 1G and 256M
for memory < 2G
but I think using defaults might be preferred it works with original problem too

> The intention was for the area to be very small, but 256 bytes is too
> small and the kernel sets a minimal vmalloc area of 16MiB:
>
> [    0.000000] vmalloc area is too small, limiting to 16MiB
>
> However, a 16MiB area is too small and results in pages of messages when
> you try and use the system:
>
> [  242.822481] vmap allocation for size 4100096 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to 
> increase size
>
> There have been a number of changes since this commit, remove the
> explicit vmalloc argument and use the default.  I've tested that the
> system still boots locally.
>
> [1] early_vmalloc(), 
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c#L1170
> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <[email protected]>
> ---
>  meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf   | 2 --
>  meta/conf/machine/qemuarmv5.conf | 1 -
>  2 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf b/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf
> index c5234231e2e..aa9ce882035 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf
> +++ b/meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf
> @@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ QB_SYSTEM_NAME = "qemu-system-arm"
>  QB_MACHINE = "-machine virt,highmem=off"
>  QB_CPU = "-cpu cortex-a15"
>  QB_SMP ?= "-smp 4"
> -# Standard Serial console
> -QB_KERNEL_CMDLINE_APPEND = "vmalloc=256"
>  # For graphics to work we need to define the VGA device as well as the 
> necessary USB devices
>  QB_GRAPHICS = "-device virtio-gpu-pci"
>  QB_OPT_APPEND = "-device qemu-xhci -device usb-tablet -device usb-kbd"
> diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/qemuarmv5.conf 
> b/meta/conf/machine/qemuarmv5.conf
> index 6e59e42c3ab..ef1b4ece230 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/machine/qemuarmv5.conf
> +++ b/meta/conf/machine/qemuarmv5.conf
> @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ SERIAL_CONSOLES ?= "115200;ttyAMA0 115200;ttyAMA1"
>  # For runqemu
>  QB_SYSTEM_NAME = "qemu-system-arm"
>  QB_MACHINE = "-machine versatilepb"
> -QB_KERNEL_CMDLINE_APPEND = "vmalloc=256"
>  QB_GRAPHICS = "-device virtio-gpu-pci"
>  QB_OPT_APPEND = "-device qemu-xhci -device usb-tablet -device usb-kbd"
>  QB_DTB = "${@oe.utils.version_less_or_equal('PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto', 
> '4.7', '', 'zImage-versatile-pb.dtb', d)}"
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>
> 
>
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Links: You receive all messages sent to this group.
View/Reply Online (#180199): 
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/180199
Mute This Topic: https://lists.openembedded.org/mt/98348317/21656
Group Owner: [email protected]
Unsubscribe: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/unsub 
[[email protected]]
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Reply via email to