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-From patchwork Thu Mar 30 04:03:49 2017
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
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-Subject: powerpc/prom: Increase RMA size to 512MB
-From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-X-Patchwork-Id: 745044
-Message-Id: <20170330040349.GA31756@us.ibm.com>
-To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
-Cc: praveen.pandey@in.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
- linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 21:03:49 -0700
-
->From 3ae8d1ed31b01b92b172fe20e4560cfbfab135ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: root <root@furatripa-lp2.aus.stglabs.ibm.com>
-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 19:43:14 -0400
-Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/prom: Increase RMA size to 512MB
-
-When booting very large systems with a large initrd, we run out of
-space for either the RTAS or the flattened device tree (FDT). Boot
-fails with messages like:
-
- Could not allocate memory for RTAS
-or
- No memory for flatten_device_tree (no room)
-
-Increasing the minimum RMA size to 512MB fixes the problem. This
-should not have an impact on smaller LPARs (with 256MB memory),
-as the firmware will cap the RMA to the memory assigned to the LPAR.
-
-Fix is based on input/discussions with Michael Ellerman. Thanks to
-Praveen K. Pandey for testing on a large system.
-
-Reported-by: Praveen K. Pandey <preveen.pandey@in.ibm.com>
-Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
----
- 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 1c1b44e..dd8a04f 100644
---- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
-+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
-@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ struct ibm_arch_vec __cacheline_aligned ibm_architecture_vec = {
- .virt_base = cpu_to_be32(0xffffffff),
- .virt_size = cpu_to_be32(0xffffffff),
- .load_base = cpu_to_be32(0xffffffff),
-- .min_rma = cpu_to_be32(256), /* 256MB min RMA */
-+ .min_rma = cpu_to_be32(512), /* 512MB 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) */