From ba72cb8cb0cdc0a65b3abe9a387f1a26bfd49b8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:21:13 -0800 Subject: Fix boot problem with iSeries lacking hugepage support Ordinarily the size of a pageblock is determined at compile-time based on the hugepage size. On PPC64, the hugepage size is determined at runtime based on what is supported by the machine. With legacy machines such as iSeries that do not support hugepages, HPAGE_SHIFT is 0. This results in pageblock_order being set to -PAGE_SHIFT and a crash results shortly afterwards. This patch adds a function to select a sensible value for pageblock order by default when HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE is set. It checks that HPAGE_SHIFT is a sensible value before using the hugepage size; if it is not MAX_ORDER-1 is used. This is a fix for 2.6.24. Credit goes to Stephen Rothwell for identifying the bug and testing candidate patches. Additional credit goes to Andy Whitcroft for spotting a problem with respects to IA-64 before releasing. Additional credit to David Gibson for testing with the libhugetlbfs test suite. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Acked-by: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index 18f397ca05ef..232c298c933f 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -187,6 +187,11 @@ config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER default "9" if PPC_64K_PAGES default "13" +config HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE + bool + depends on HUGETLB_PAGE + default y + config MATH_EMULATION bool "Math emulation" depends on 4xx || 8xx || E200 || PPC_MPC832x || E500 -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b