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From:   Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To:     Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>,
        Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: THP broken on OCTEON?
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On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 06:13:46PM +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:

> I'm getting kernel crashes (see below) reliably when building Perl in
> parallel (make -j16) on OCTEON EBH5600 board (8 cores, 4 GB RAM) with
> Linux 4.6.
> 
> It seems that CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE has something to do with the
> issue - disabling it makes build go through fine.
> 
> Any ideas?

I thought it was working except on SGI Origin 200/2000 aka IP27 where
Joshua Kinard (added to cc) was hitting issues as well.

Joshua, does that similar to the issues you were hitting?

  Ralf