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powerpc/64s/hash: Restrict stress_hpt_struct memblock region to within RMA limit
authorRitesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:57:27 +0000 (20:27 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:03:04 +0000 (14:03 +0100)
commit1fcbf18558c5df09ffb4d75c811471055edbcb62
treeac389144266dbeb4418f99331888ccd3b6ba9a7d
parent2579c356ccd35d06238b176e4b460978186d804b
powerpc/64s/hash: Restrict stress_hpt_struct memblock region to within RMA limit

[ Upstream commit 17b45ccf09882e0c808ad2cf62acdc90ad968746 ]

When HV=0 & IR/DR=0, the Hash MMU is said to be in Virtual Real
Addressing Mode during early boot. During this, we should ensure that
memory region allocations for stress_hpt_struct should happen from
within RMA region as otherwise the boot might get stuck while doing
memset of this region.

History behind why do we have RMA region limitation is better explained
in these 2 patches [1] & [2]. This patch ensures that memset to
stress_hpt_struct during early boot does not cross ppc64_rma_size
boundary.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20190710052018.14628-1-sjitindarsingh@gmail.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87wp54usvj.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com/

Fixes: 6b34a099faa12 ("powerpc/64s/hash: add stress_hpt kernel boot option to increase hash faults")
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ada1173933ea7617a994d6ee3e54ced8797339fc.1761834163.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_utils.c