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-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index d237a02eb228..28a2980ee435 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1283,7 +1283,12 @@ module_exit(hugetlb_exit);
static int __init hugetlb_init(void)
{
- BUILD_BUG_ON(HPAGE_SHIFT == 0);
+ /* Some platform decide whether they support huge pages at boot
+ * time. On these, such as powerpc, HPAGE_SHIFT is set to 0 when
+ * there is no such support
+ */
+ if (HPAGE_SHIFT == 0)
+ return 0;
if (!size_to_hstate(default_hstate_size)) {
default_hstate_size = HPAGE_SIZE;