As Radix MMU with superpages enabled is now stable, make it the
default choice on supported hardware (POWER9 and above), since its
performance is greater than that of HPT MMU.
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Tested on POWER8 and POWER9 VMs and physical machines.
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For some reason this breaks the boot with VGA console on Blackbird.
I'm using D30626 locally, but reverted it as well. With D30626 reverted and adding kernel parameter 'hw.ofwfb.physaddr=0x000600c280000000' the kernel hangs as well with no output.
Works:
'hw.ofwfb.physaddr=0x000600c280000000 radix_mmu=0 vm.pmap.superpages_enabled=0'
'hw.ofwfb.physaddr=0x000600c280000000 radix_mmu=0 vm.pmap.superpages_enabled=1'
Doesn't work:
'hw.ofwfb.physaddr=0x000600c280000000 radix_mmu=1 vm.pmap.superpages_enabled=0'
'hw.ofwfb.physaddr=0x000600c280000000 radix_mmu=1 vm.pmap.superpages_enabled=1'
It seems like superpages doesn't hurt, but something must be changed in ofwfb to work with radix_mmu
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D31232 fixes OFWFB with radix. After it lands it should be safe to make radix default.
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I tested this patch with D31232 few weeks ago on the Blackbird and it looks good to me once it's approved.