------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-03-06 02:58 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #13)
> Assuming that this happens with all guests with more than 256GB of memory,
> since it's a KVM host kernel side issue.
it happens only with Power8 compat(HPT) guests, and specifically older guest kernels, in this case 3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.ppc64le.
------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-03-06 02:58 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #13)
> Assuming that this happens with all guests with more than 256GB of memory,
> since it's a KVM host kernel side issue.
it happens only with Power8 compat(HPT) guests, and specifically older guest kernels, in this case 3.10.0- 957.5.1. el7.ppc64le.
this upstream commit should possibly fix it, https:/ /git.kernel. org/pub/ scm/linux/ kernel/ git/paulus/ powerpc. git/commit/ ?h=kvm- ppc-next& id=46dec40fb741 f00f18645801307 79aeeaf24fb3d
Regards,
-Satheesh.