Thanks Tim. We would like to have this fix also available on 14.04 (before 14.04.02). Do you think it is feasible? If so, we can work on the backport of the patches.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1357014 Title: Add THP fixes in 14.10 kernel Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “linux” source package in Utopic: Fix Committed Bug description: Hi Canonical, We would like to include 8 patches regarding Transparent Huge Page for powerpc. The patches are already upstream on Ben powerpc-next tree and should be sent to Linus' tree today, which mean that they are expected to make 3.17. Here are the patches 9e813308a5c18c58f9ccae1ec72ed4e14eaf9025 powerpc/thp: Add tracepoints to track hugepage invalidate 85c1fafd7262e68ad821ee1808686b1392b1167d powerpc/mm: Use read barrier when creating real_pte 7e467245bf5226db34c4b12d3cbacfa2f7a15a8b powerpc/thp: Use ACCESS_ONCE when loading pmdp 969b7b208f7408712a3526856e4ae60ad13f6928 powerpc/thp: Invalidate with vpn in loop fc0479557572375100ef16c71170b29a98e0d69a powerpc/thp: Handle combo pages in invalidate 629149fae478f0ac6bf705a535708b192e9c6b59 powerpc/thp: Invalidate old 64K based hash page mapping before insert of 4k pte fa1f8ae80f8bb996594167ff4750a0b0a5a5bb5d powerpc/thp: Don't recompute vsid and ssize in loop on invalidate b0aa44a3dfae3d8f45bd1264349aa87f87b7774f powerpc/thp: Add write barrier after updating the valid bit I am also adding the patches here for reference. Thank you, Breno To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1357014/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
