From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:08:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: Disallow combination of ARCH_XGENE and 16K page size In-Reply-To: <20160128103441.GS14823@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1453936230-7305-1-git-send-email-dann.frazier@canonical.com> <20160128103441.GS14823@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> Message-ID: <20160128110820.GE30928@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:34:41AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 04:10:30PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > 16K page size is an optional feature of the architecture, and is not > > supported by the X-Gene SoC family. > > > > Signed-off-by: dann frazier > > --- > > arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 1 + > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms > > index 21074f6..b241290 100644 > > --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms > > +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms > > @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ config ARCH_VEXPRESS > > > > config ARCH_XGENE > > bool "AppliedMicro X-Gene SOC Family" > > + depends on !ARM64_16K_PAGES > > help > > This enables support for AppliedMicro X-Gene SOC Family > > This would be the case on Juno as well. But maybe at some point the > X-Gene family would gain a CPU with such support. > > Anyway, I would rather make 16K pages depend on EXPERT, make it a bit > harder to enable. We've had a few questions recently about enabling it > on CPUs that don't have such feature. I thought there was also a suggestion that we could fail gracefully in the EFI stub if we detected an unsupported page size? Will