APPLIED [U/raspi]: [SRU][U/raspi][H/raspi][PATCH v2 0/1] HUGETLBFS is disabled (LP: #1933627)

Juerg Haefliger juerg.haefliger at canonical.com
Mon Jul 26 07:54:30 UTC 2021


Applied to impish:linux-raspi-unstable master.

...Juerg


> [Impact]
> 
> Huge pages can't be managed via hugeadm which requires hugetlbfs.
> 
> [Test Case]
> 
> $ hugeadm --pool-list
> hugeadm:ERROR: kernel does not support huge pages
> 
> With fix:
> $ hugeadm --pool-list
>       Size  Minimum  Current  Maximum  Default
>      65536        0        0        0
>    2097152        0        0        0        *
>   33554432        0        0        0
> 1073741824        0        0        0
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> Enable CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> 
> This config enables code that is disabled by default. However, there is minimal stub code running at boot so problems would most likely show up as splats during boot or later on when hugetlbfs is explicitly mounted by systemd.
> 
> Juerg Haefliger (1):
>   UBUNTU: [Config] raspi: Set HUGETLBFS=y
> 
>  debian.raspi/config/annotations          | 3 +++
>  debian.raspi/config/config.common.ubuntu | 5 ++++-
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/attachments/20210726/f544c170/attachment.sig>


More information about the kernel-team mailing list