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From: Avnish Chouhan <avnish@linux.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au, brking@linux.ibm.com,
	meghanaprakash@in.ibm.com, sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com,
	maddy@linux.ibm.com, Avnish Chouhan <avnish@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] powerpc: increase MIN RMA size for CAS negotiation
Date: Fri,  6 Dec 2024 12:25:45 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241206065545.14815-1-avnish@linux.ibm.com> (raw)

Change RMA size from 512 MB to 768 MB which will result 
in more RMA at boot time for PowerPC. When PowerPC LPAR use/uses vTPM,
Secure Boot or FADump, the 512 MB RMA memory is not sufficient for 
booting. With this 512 MB RMA, GRUB2 run out of memory and unable to 
load the necessary. Sometimes even usage of CDROM which requires more
memory for installation along with the options mentioned above troubles
the boot memory and result in boot failures. Increasing the RMA size 
will resolves multiple out of memory issues observed in PowerPC. 

Failure details:

1. GRUB2

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.

2. Kernel

[    0.777633] List of all partitions:
[    0.777639] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
[    0.777640]
[    0.777649] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on "" or unknown-block(0,0)
[    0.777658] CPU: 17 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.11.0-0.rc4.20.el10.ppc64le #1
[    0.777669] Hardware name: IBM,9009-22A POWER9 (architected) 0x4e0202 0xf000005 of:IBM,FW950.B0 (VL950_149) hv:phyp pSeries
[    0.777678] Call Trace:
[    0.777682] [c000000003db7b60] [c000000001119714] dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xc4 (unreliable)
[    0.777700] [c000000003db7b90] [c00000000016c274] panic+0x174/0x460
[    0.777711] [c000000003db7c30] [c00000000200631c] mount_root_generic+0x320/0x354
[    0.777724] [c000000003db7d00] [c0000000020066f8] prepare_namespace+0x27c/0x2f4
[    0.777735] [c000000003db7d90] [c000000002005824] kernel_init_freeable+0x254/0x294
[    0.777747] [c000000003db7df0] [c00000000001131c] kernel_init+0x30/0x1c4
[    0.777757] [c000000003db7e50] [c00000000000debc] ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c
[    0.777768] --- interrupt: 0 at 0x0
[    0.784238] pstore: backend (nvram) writing error (-1)
[    0.790447] Rebooting in 10 seconds..

Signed-off-by: Avnish Chouhan <avnish@linux.ibm.com>
---
Change logs:

v2:
 - Added GRUB2 debug logs and Kernel traces.

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index fbb68fc28ed3..c42fd5a826c0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
@@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ static const struct ibm_arch_vec ibm_architecture_vec_template __initconst = {
 		.virt_base = cpu_to_be32(0xffffffff),
 		.virt_size = cpu_to_be32(0xffffffff),
 		.load_base = cpu_to_be32(0xffffffff),
-		.min_rma = cpu_to_be32(512),		/* 512MB min RMA */
+		.min_rma = cpu_to_be32(768),		/* 768MB min RMA */
 		.min_load = cpu_to_be32(0xffffffff),	/* full client load */
 		.min_rma_percent = 0,	/* min RMA percentage of total RAM */
 		.max_pft_size = 48,	/* max log_2(hash table size) */
-- 
2.43.5



             reply	other threads:[~2024-12-06 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-06  6:55 Avnish Chouhan [this message]
2024-12-07  1:58 ` [PATCH v2] powerpc: increase MIN RMA size for CAS negotiation Michael Ellerman
2024-12-11 12:05   ` Avnish Chouhan
2025-01-09  9:32   ` Sourabh Jain
2025-01-22 12:43 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2025-01-23  3:06   ` Sourabh Jain
2025-01-24  3:58   ` Sourabh Jain

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