[PATCH][Xenial] UBUNTU: [Config] CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS=48

dann frazier dann.frazier at canonical.com
Sat Jan 30 01:23:35 UTC 2016


On NUMA implementations of Cavium ThunderX, node1 memory addresses start with
bit 40 set to 1, and therefore requires >= 41 bits of VA.

Since we are using 4K pages, this also means moving from 3 to 4 level page
tables. The alternative would be increasing our page size. Upstream supports
16K and 64K pages; 16K pages are not universally supported by ARM64 SoCs.

64K pages are pretty universal, but has issues of it's own:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/skipper/+bug/1522204
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2014-December/038572.html
(and not an ideal change to introduce before an LTS)

Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dann.frazier at canonical.com>
---
 debian.master/config/arm64/config.common.arm64 | 2 +-
 debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu      | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian.master/config/arm64/config.common.arm64 b/debian.master/config/arm64/config.common.arm64
index 70ab3c0..e98bd48 100644
--- a/debian.master/config/arm64/config.common.arm64
+++ b/debian.master/config/arm64/config.common.arm64
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ CONFIG_PCIPCWATCHDOG=m
 CONFIG_PCI_PASID=y
 CONFIG_PCI_PRI=y
 CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y
-CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS=3
+CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS=4
 CONFIG_PGTABLE_MAPPING=y
 CONFIG_PHANTOM=m
 CONFIG_PHONET=m
diff --git a/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu b/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
index a7de418..163e7af 100644
--- a/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
+++ b/debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu
@@ -499,9 +499,9 @@ CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM=y
 CONFIG_ARM64_PAN=y
 # CONFIG_ARM64_PTDUMP is not set
 # CONFIG_ARM64_RANDOMIZE_TEXT_OFFSET is not set
-CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS=39
-CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_39=y
-# CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_48 is not set
+CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS=48
+# CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_39 is not set
+CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_48=y
 CONFIG_ARMADA375_USBCLUSTER_PHY=y
 CONFIG_ARMADA_370_CLK=y
 CONFIG_ARMADA_370_XP_TIMER=y
-- 
2.7.0





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