[Crash-utility] [PATCH v2] book3s/ppc64: update hash page table geometry

Hari Bathini hbathini at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Nov 9 17:14:21 UTC 2017



On Thursday 09 November 2017 10:13 PM, Dave Anderson wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Starting with kernel 4.12, the hash page table geometry is updated to
>> accommodate larger VA range. Update here accordingly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> changes in v1:
>> * Kernel commit 92d9dfda8b54 reverted the geometry update
>>    for 4K hash pagetable. So, undo'ing 4K pagesize changes.
> Hari,
>
> As discussed in the related bugzilla, this patch fixes the user-space address
> translation issues seen in 4.14-based kernels.  Queued for crash-7.2.1:
>
>    https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/commit/c8178eca9c74f81a7f803a58d339635cc152e8d9

Hi Dave,

I guess, the changelog should read *4.12 and later* instead of *4.14 and 
later* ...
Thanks for taking the patch.

- Hari




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