| Message ID | 86fsbavdzl.fsf@burningswell.com |
|---|---|
| State | New |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [bug#61461,core-updates] gnu: jemalloc: Build with THP support on aarch64. | expand |
Roman Scherer <roman.scherer@burningswell.com> writes: > Hello Guix, > > I'm running Guix on an aarch64 system that uses a Linux kernel configured with > a page size of 16K. Some of the substitutes I receive from Guix sometimes do > not work. I believe all packages that use jemalloc, which are quite a lot. > > Rust is one example. It fails like this: > > ``` > [roman@bombaclaat guix]$ rustc > <jemalloc>: Unsupported system page size > <jemalloc>: Unsupported system page size > <jemalloc>: Unsupported system page size > terminate called without an active exception > Aborted > ``` > > Building packages that depend on jemalloc also fail. I can't compile the rust > package from Guix for example. > > This patch series updates jemalloc and enables the use of transparent huge > pages on the aarch64 architecture. I saw we support THP as well for i686-linux > and x86_64-linux, so I think it's fine to enable it here as well. At least > it's better than crashing. > > The patch should also make it possible to use substitutes built on CI by > systems running with larger kernel pages sizes, avoiding long compilation > times for things like the whole rust toolchain. > > Since jemalloc has a lot of dependencies, I think it's a candidate for > core-updates. > > I submitted parts of this patch series in another ticket where I tried to fix > Icecat compilation on my aarch64 system. But I think it's worth a separate > issue. And I'm blocked on the other issue at the moment. > > Could you please review the patchs? The patches don't look to apply to core-updates, as far as I can see, core-updates already has jemalloc 5.3.0 and doesn't pass the --disable-thp flag for any architecture.
Hi Christopher, ok, I see. Thanks for looking into this. Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > > Roman Scherer <roman.scherer@burningswell.com> writes: > >> Hello Guix, >> >> I'm running Guix on an aarch64 system that uses a Linux kernel configured with >> a page size of 16K. Some of the substitutes I receive from Guix sometimes do >> not work. I believe all packages that use jemalloc, which are quite a lot. >> >> Rust is one example. It fails like this: >> >> ``` >> [roman@bombaclaat guix]$ rustc >> <jemalloc>: Unsupported system page size >> <jemalloc>: Unsupported system page size >> <jemalloc>: Unsupported system page size >> terminate called without an active exception >> Aborted >> ``` >> >> Building packages that depend on jemalloc also fail. I can't compile the rust >> package from Guix for example. >> >> This patch series updates jemalloc and enables the use of transparent huge >> pages on the aarch64 architecture. I saw we support THP as well for i686-linux >> and x86_64-linux, so I think it's fine to enable it here as well. At least >> it's better than crashing. >> >> The patch should also make it possible to use substitutes built on CI by >> systems running with larger kernel pages sizes, avoiding long compilation >> times for things like the whole rust toolchain. >> >> Since jemalloc has a lot of dependencies, I think it's a candidate for >> core-updates. >> >> I submitted parts of this patch series in another ticket where I tried to fix >> Icecat compilation on my aarch64 system. But I think it's worth a separate >> issue. And I'm blocked on the other issue at the moment. >> >> Could you please review the patchs? > > The patches don't look to apply to core-updates, as far as I can see, > core-updates already has jemalloc 5.3.0 and doesn't pass the > --disable-thp flag for any architecture. > > [[End of PGP Signed Part]]
From 7818da5d28d15099594df897da0dc62e299dee43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: r0man <roman@burningswell.com> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 10:59:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: jemalloc: Build with transparent huge pages on aarch64. * gnu/packages/jemalloc.scm (jemalloc-4.5.0): Build with transparent huge pages on aarch64. --- gnu/packages/jemalloc.scm | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/jemalloc.scm b/gnu/packages/jemalloc.scm index 354f07a838..6c6ba0f568 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/jemalloc.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/jemalloc.scm @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ (define-public jemalloc-4.5.0 #t))) #:configure-flags '(,@(match (%current-system) - ((or "i686-linux" "x86_64-linux") + ((or "aarch64-linux" "i686-linux" "x86_64-linux") '()) ("powerpc-linux" (list "--disable-thp" "CPPFLAGS=-maltivec")) -- 2.38.1