[SRU][Bionic][PATCH 0/1] Revert "powerpc/powernv: Increase memory block size to 1GB on radix"

Joseph Salisbury joseph.salisbury at canonical.com
Thu Sep 27 20:20:23 UTC 2018


BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792102

== SRU Justification ==
Due to a recent change for powernv, now the total GPU memory is no longer 
available. This impacts performance for any application/benchmark has a 
large GPU memory utilization.

IBM is requesting mainlien commit 7acf50e4efa6 in Bionic, which reverts
mainline commit 4b5d62ca17a1.

== Fix ==
7acf50e4efa6 ("Revert "powerpc/powernv: Increase memory block size to 1GB on radix"")

== Regression Potential ==
Low.  This is a revert that was also done upstream due to a regression.
Limited to powerpc.

== Test Case ==
A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.

Balbir Singh (1):
  Revert "powerpc/powernv: Increase memory block size to 1GB on radix"

 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 10 +---------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

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