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* [merged mm-stable] powerpc-reword-arch_force_max_order-prompt-and-help-text.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2023-04-18 23:33 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2023-04-18 23:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mm-commits, ziy, ysato, will, mpe, linux, kirill.shutemov,
	jcmvbkbc, guoren, glaubitz, geert, dinguyen, davem, dalias,
	christophe.leroy, catalin.marinas, arnd, rppt, akpm


The quilt patch titled
     Subject: powerpc: reword ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER prompt and help text
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     powerpc-reword-arch_force_max_order-prompt-and-help-text.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Subject: powerpc: reword ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER prompt and help text
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 08:22:28 +0300

The prompt and help text of ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER are not even close to
describe this configuration option.

Update both to actually describe what this option does.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230324052233.2654090-10-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 arch/powerpc/Kconfig |   16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig~powerpc-reword-arch_force_max_order-prompt-and-help-text
+++ a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ config DATA_SHIFT
 	  8M pages will be pinned.
 
 config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
-	int "Maximum zone order"
+	int "Order of maximal physically contiguous allocations"
 	range 7 8 if PPC64 && PPC_64K_PAGES
 	default "8" if PPC64 && PPC_64K_PAGES
 	range 12 12 if PPC64 && !PPC_64K_PAGES
@@ -910,17 +910,19 @@ config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
 	range 10 63
 	default "10"
 	help
-	  The kernel memory allocator divides physically contiguous memory
-	  blocks into "zones", where each zone is a power of two number of
-	  pages.  This option selects the largest power of two that the kernel
-	  keeps in the memory allocator.  If you need to allocate very large
-	  blocks of physically contiguous memory, then you may need to
-	  increase this value.
+	  The kernel page allocator limits the size of maximal physically
+	  contiguous allocations. The limit is called MAX_ORDER and it
+	  defines the maximal power of two of number of pages that can be
+	  allocated as a single contiguous block. This option allows
+	  overriding the default setting when ability to allocate very
+	  large blocks of physically contiguous memory is required.
 
 	  The page size is not necessarily 4KB.  For example, on 64-bit
 	  systems, 64KB pages can be enabled via CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES.  Keep
 	  this in mind when choosing a value for this option.
 
+	  Don't change if unsure.
+
 config PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT
 	bool "Support setting protections for 4k subpages (subpage_prot syscall)"
 	default n
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from rppt@kernel.org are

powerpc-drop-ranges-for-definition-of-arch_force_max_order.patch
sh-reword-arch_force_max_order-prompt-and-help-text.patch
sh-drop-ranges-for-definition-of-arch_force_max_order.patch
sparc-reword-arch_force_max_order-prompt-and-help-text.patch
xtensa-reword-arch_force_max_order-prompt-and-help-text.patch
mm-move-free_area_empty-to-mm-internalh.patch


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