From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Don't give a warning when HPT resizing isn't available
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:56:39 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fui846g8.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tw6sbims.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au>
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> writes:
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> writes:
>
>> As of 438cc81a41 "powerpc/pseries: Automatically resize HPT for memory hot
>> add/remove" when running on the pseries platform, we always attempt to
>> use the PAPR extension to resize the hashed page table (HPT) when we add
>> or remove memory.
>>
>> This is fine, but when the extension is available we'll give a harmless,
>> but scary warning. This patch suppresses the warning in this case. It
>> will still warn if the feature is supposed to be available, but didn't
>> work.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> Kind of cosmetic, but getting an error message on every memory hot
>> plug/unplug attempt if your host doesn't support HPT resizing is
>> pretty ugly. So I think this is a candidate for quick inclusion.
>
> Yeah thanks, I forgot I was going to send a patch for it.
>
> I was thinking of doing the following instead, or maybe we can do both?
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
> index 251060cf1713..8b1fe895daa3 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
> @@ -751,7 +751,9 @@ void __init hpte_init_pseries(void)
> mmu_hash_ops.flush_hash_range = pSeries_lpar_flush_hash_range;
> mmu_hash_ops.hpte_clear_all = pseries_hpte_clear_all;
> mmu_hash_ops.hugepage_invalidate = pSeries_lpar_hugepage_invalidate;
> - mmu_hash_ops.resize_hpt = pseries_lpar_resize_hpt;
> +
> + if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_HPT_RESIZE))
> + mmu_hash_ops.resize_hpt = pseries_lpar_resize_hpt;
> }
>
> void radix_init_pseries(void)
Applied to powerpc fixes.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8971e1c79d3f6c9a5e6f7a65c50c41
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-20 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-17 1:11 [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Don't give a warning when HPT resizing isn't available David Gibson
2017-03-17 5:02 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-03-20 9:56 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2018-01-22 3:34 ` Michael Ellerman
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