[PATCH] ppc64: increase TREEWORDS value in ppc64

Neil Horman nhorman at tuxdriver.com
Fri Oct 1 06:56:22 EDT 2010


On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 05:01:13PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> hey-
>      Got a segfault recently on ppc64 kexec with a system with 256Gb of ram.
> Tracked it back to running over the end of the device tree buffer that we have
> allocated.  I can't find any docs on how big the device tree can legally be, so
> for now I figure just upping its size is sufficient.  Confirmed that this fixed
> the segfault.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
> 
> 
>  fs2dt.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc/fs2dt.c b/kexec/arch/ppc/fs2dt.c
> index 238a3f2..2f0f937 100644
> --- a/kexec/arch/ppc/fs2dt.c
> +++ b/kexec/arch/ppc/fs2dt.c
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
>  
>  #define MAXPATH			1024	/* max path name length */
>  #define NAMESPACE		16384	/* max bytes for property names */
> -#define TREEWORDS		65536	/* max 32 bit words for properties */
> +#define TREEWORDS		131070	/* max 32 bit words for properties */
>  #define MEMRESERVE		256	/* max number of reserved memory blks */
>  #define MAX_MEMORY_RANGES	1024
>  #define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE	512	/* from kernel */
> 

Ben, do you have any thoughts on this?  It would be nice if we could avoid
just making this buffer bigger until the crashes stop :)

Neil




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