Hello,
Regression set to "yes". Not sure how I missed that. :)
Will report future PPC issues to that I come across to this list as well.
Thanks!
-Cameron
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On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 00:04:26 +0000 bugzilla-dae...@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204789
Bug ID: 204789
Summary: Boot failure with more than 256G of memory
Product: Memory Management
Version: 2.5
Kernel Version: 5.2.x
Hardware: PPC-64
OS: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: high
Priority: P1
Component: Other
Assignee: a...@linux-foundation.org
Reporter: c...@neo-zeon.de
Regression: No
"Yes" :)
Kernel series 5.2.x will not boot on my Talos II workstation with dual POWER9
18 core processors and 512G of physical memory with disable_radix=yes and 4k
pages.
5.3-rc6 did not work either.
5.1 and earlier boot fine.
Thanks. It's probably best to report this on the powerpc list, cc'ed here.
I can get the system to boot IF I leave the Radix MMU enabled or if I boot a
kernel with 64k pages. I haven't yet tested enabling the Radix MMU with 64k
pages at the same time, but I suspect this would work. This is a system I
cannot take down TOO frequently.
The system will also boot with the Radix MMU disabled and 4k pages with 256G or
less memory. Setting mem on the kernel CLI to 256G or less results in a
successful boot. Setting mem=257G or higher no Radix MMU and 4k pages and the
kernel will not boot.
Petitboot comes up, but the system fails VERY early in boot in the serial
console with:
SIGTERM received, booting...
[ 23.838858] kexec_core: Starting new kernel
Early printk is enabled, and it never progresses any further.
5.1 boots just fine with the Radix MMU disabled and 4k pages.
Unfortunately, I currently need 4k pages for bcache to work, and Radix MMU
disabled in order for FreeBSD 12.x to work under KVM so I'm sticking with
5.1.21 for now.
I have been unable to reproduce this issue in KVM.
Here are my PCIe peripherals:
1. Microsemi/Adaptec HBA 1100-4i SAS controller
2. Megaraid 9316-16i SAS RAID controller.
I've only tried little endian as this is a little endian install.
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