From: Daniel Kiper via Grub-devel <grub-devel@gnu.org>
To: Avnish Chouhan <avnish@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>,
grub-devel@gnu.org, brking@linux.ibm.com,
meghanaprakash@in.ibm.com, mamatha4@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] powerpc: increase MIN RMA size for CAS negotiation
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:38:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z9RNjVFb5Flaf6Vm@tomti.i.net-space.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250313141550.7664-1-avnish@linux.ibm.com>
On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 07:45:50PM +0530, Avnish Chouhan wrote:
> Change RMA size from 512 MB to 768 MB which will result
> in more memory at boot time for PowerPC. When vTPM, Secure Boot or
> FADump are enabled on PowerPC, the 512 MB RMA memory is not sufficient for
> booting. With this 512 MB RMA, GRUB2 runs out of memory and fails to
> boot the machine. Sometimes even usage of CDROM requires more memory
> for installation and along with the options mentioned above exhausts
> the boot memory which results in boot failures. Increasing the RMA size
> will resolves multiple out of memory issues observed in PowerPC.
>
> Failure details (GRUB2 debugs):
>
> kern/ieee1275/init.c:550: mm requested region of size 8513000, flags 1
> kern/ieee1275/init.c:563: Cannot satisfy allocation and retain minimum runtime space
> kern/ieee1275/init.c:550: mm requested region of size 8513000, flags 0
> kern/ieee1275/init.c:563: Cannot satisfy allocation and retain minimum runtime space
> kern/file.c:215: Closing `/ppc/ppc64/initrd.img' ...
> kern/disk.c:297: Closing `ieee1275//vdevice/v-scsi@30000067/disk@8300000000000000'...
> kern/disk.c:311: Closing `ieee1275//vdevice/v-scsi@30000067/disk@8300000000000000' succeeded.
> kern/file.c:225: Closing `/ppc/ppc64/initrd.img' failed with 3.
> kern/file.c:148: Opening `/ppc/ppc64/initrd.img' succeeded.
> error: ../../grub-core/kern/mm.c:552:out of memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Avnish Chouhan <avnish@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Daniel
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