Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64: 64K pages support
From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:16:42 -0800
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On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 00:08 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Wed, Nov 09, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 09:01 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > I didn't have any luck on 2.6.14-git12 either.
> > > > I tried 64k page support on my P570. 
> > > > 
> > > > Here are the console messages:
> > > 
> > > What distro do you use in userland ? Some older glibc versions have a
> > > bug that cause issues with 64k pages, though it generally happens with
> > > login blowing up, not init ...
> > 
> > SLES9 (could be SLES9 SP1).
> 
> Can you double check? rpm -qi glibc | head should be enough.
> Would be bad if SP2 or SP3 does not work with 64k.
> 

I think I am using SLES9. Planning to update to SP3.

# rpm -qi glibc | head
Name        : glibc                        Relocations: (not
relocatable)
Version     : 2.3.3                             Vendor: SuSE Linux AG,
Nuernberg, Germany
Release     : 98.28                         Build Date: Wed Jun 30
15:55:45 2004
Install date: Wed Jul  6 17:24:44 2005      Build Host:
gooseberry.suse.de
Group       : System/Libraries              Source RPM:
glibc-2.3.3-98.28.src.rpm
Size        : 6161800                          License: GPL, LGPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Wed Jun 30 16:00:21 2004, Key ID
a84edae89c800aca
Packager    : http://www.suse.de/feedback
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Summary     : The standard shared libraries (from the GNU C Library)

Thanks,
Badari

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