On 28 January 2016 at 12:27, Suzuki K. Poulose <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/01/16 11:08, Will Deacon wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:34:41AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 04:10:30PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: >>>> >>>> 16K page size is an optional feature of the architecture, and is not >>>> supported by the X-Gene SoC family. > > > This enables support for AppliedMicro X-Gene SOC Family >>> >>> >>> This would be the case on Juno as well. But maybe at some point the >>> X-Gene family would gain a CPU with such support. >>> >>> Anyway, I would rather make 16K pages depend on EXPERT, make it a bit >>> harder to enable. We've had a few questions recently about enabling it >>> on CPUs that don't have such feature. >> >> >> I thought there was also a suggestion that we could fail gracefully in >> the EFI stub if we detected an unsupported page size? > > > Yes, there was. But then it was also recommended [1] to add a new stubbed > function > for both arm & arm64, where it got lost. May be we should revive it. > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/15/489 >
I can pick this up -- Ard.
