Add support for 16g huge pages on Ubuntu 16.04.2 PowerNV

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-08-02 00:43 EDT-------
Cannonical, Any update here ?

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-08-04 02:45 EDT-------
Canonical, Can you fix those ?

16G Huge Pages are not supported on PowerNV (bare metal) installations. Ubuntu 16.04.2 still allows 16G huge pages to be turned on.

Do you happen to know if there is a boot or sysctl option that can be used to disable 16G Huge Pages?

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-10-09 01:29 EDT-------
Aneesh, (from Canonical) Do you happen to know if there is a boot or sysctl option that can be used to disable 16G Huge Pages?

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-10-26 01:24 EDT-------
We do support 16GB hugepage from hardware point of view. What we had missing was the ability to allocate such large contiguous memory in the kernel. The pseries platform solved this by taking help from hypervisor.
PAPR introduced a mechanism for hypervisor to mark 16G contiguous region reserved and pass the details via device tree. On Powernv this is not available and hence we are not able to make use of 16G hugepages.

I have added the ability to allocate 16G hugepages on powernv platform. The relevant fixes can be found at

commit 4ae279c2c96ab38a78b954d218790a8f6db714e5
Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 28 10:31:27 2017 +0530

powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Allow runtime allocation of 16G.

You may want that and other dependent kernel patches.

-aneesh

I built X, Z and A test kernels with commit 4ae279c2c96ab38a78b954d218790a8f6db714e5. The test kernels can be downloaded from:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1706247/

Can you test these kernels and see if they resolve this bug?

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-10-26 23:16 EDT-------
Hi,

There are other dependent patches needed. The full series that we need to support 16G on powernv include:

commit 4ae279c2c96ab38a78b954d218790a8f6db714e5
Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 28 10:31:27 2017 +0530

powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Allow runtime allocation of 16G.
commit 79cc38ded1e1ac86e69c90f604efadd50b0b3762
Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 28 10:31:26 2017 +0530

powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Add support for reserving gigantic huge pages via kernel command line
commit e24a1307ba1f99fc62a0bd61d5e87fcfb6d5503d
Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 28 10:31:25 2017 +0530

mm/hugetlb: Allow arch to override and call the weak function
ommit 40692eb5eea209c2dd55857f44b4e1d7206e91d6
Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Jul 6 15:39:20 2017 -0700

powerpc/mm/hugetlb: add support for 1G huge pages
commit e1073d1e7920946ac4776a619cc40668b9e1401b
Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Jul 6 15:39:17 2017 -0700

mm/hugetlb: clean up ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE

I built an Artful test kernel(17.10) with the following three commits:

4ae279c2 powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Allow runtime allocation of 16G.
79cc38de powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Add support for reserving gigantic huge pages via kernel command line
e24a1307 mm/hugetlb: Allow arch to override and call the weak function

Commits e1073d1e7 and 40692eb5 were not needed since there are already in Artful/4.13.

The test kernel can be downloaded from:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1706247/artful

Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug?

I will work on building Zesty and Xenial test kernels next. They required those two extra commits and they need some back porting.

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-12-14 03:49 EDT-------
Hi ,

I verified this on kernel available on http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1706247/artful/ and able to allocate 16GB huge pages number .

ubuntu@ltc-garri3:~$ cat /proc/cmdline
root=UUID=9db8977d-1eec-4245-b1d9-b4f2aa615a36 ro default_hugepagesz=16G hugepagesz=16G hugepages=4 quiet splash
ubuntu@ltc-garri3:~$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep -i huge
AnonHugePages: 0 kB
ShmemHugePages: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 4
HugePages_Free: 4
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 16777216 kB
ubuntu@ltc-garri3:~$ uname -a
Linux ltc-garri3 4.13.0-16-generic #19~lp1706247 SMP Wed Nov 1 23:21:53 UTC 2017 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

ubuntu@ltc-garri3:~$ ls /sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/
hugepages-16384kB hugepages-16777216kB
ubuntu@ltc-garri3:~$

Regards
Praveen

SRU request submitted for Artful:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2017-December/088932.html

The Xenial and Zesty SRU request will also be sent shortly.

I built a Zesty test kernel with the following six patches:

a525108cf1cc14651602d678da38fa627a76a724
e1073d1e7920946ac4776a619cc40668b9e1401b
40692eb5eea209c2dd55857f44b4e1d7206e91d6
e24a1307ba1f99fc62a0bd61d5e87fcfb6d5503d
79cc38ded1e1ac86e69c90f604efadd50b0b3762
4ae279c2c96ab38a78b954d218790a8f6db714e5

The test kernel can be downloaded from:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1706247/zesty

Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug?

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2018-01-12 06:04 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #29)
> I built a Zesty test kernel with the following six patches:
>
> a525108cf1cc14651602d678da38fa627a76a724
> e1073d1e7920946ac4776a619cc40668b9e1401b
> 40692eb5eea209c2dd55857f44b4e1d7206e91d6
> e24a1307ba1f99fc62a0bd61d5e87fcfb6d5503d
> 79cc38ded1e1ac86e69c90f604efadd50b0b3762
> 4ae279c2c96ab38a78b954d218790a8f6db714e5
>
> The test kernel can be downloaded from:
>
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1706247/zesty
>
> Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug?

https://bugzilla.linux.ibm.com/show_bug.cgi?id=156931#c25

Praveen K. Pandey 2017-12-14 02:49:52 CST

Hi ,

I verified this on kernel available on http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1706247/artful/ and able to allocate 16GB huge pages number .

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-artful' to 'verification-done-artful'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-artful' to 'verification-failed-artful'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.13.0-38.43

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