linux-kernel - Re: xfs: Xen/HPT related regression in v6.6

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Message-ID: <ba06e9e2-c0d4-45be-99bd-17a3eb3c15d5@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 09:56:46 +0100
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>, arkamar@...as.cz
Cc: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, willy@...radead.org
Subject: Re: xfs: Xen/HPT related regression in v6.6

On 05.11.24 09:55, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> At least years ago, this feature was not available in XEN PV guests [1].
>> Yes, as I understand it, the hugepages are not available in my Xen
>> guest.
> 
> Xen PV guests are strictly 4k-only.
> 
> Xen HVM guests (using normal VT-x/SVM hardware support) have all page
> sizes available.
> 
> But lucky to find this thread.  We've had several reports and no luck
> isolating what changed.
> 
> ~Andrew (Xen maintainer)

Thanks for that information, Andrew!

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb