From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jeremy.linton@arm.com (Jeremy Linton) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 13:29:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 7/7] Document the use of the arm64 contpte/nonconpte flags. In-Reply-To: <20151005164924.GB5557@MBP.local> References: <1443818865-19846-1-git-send-email-jeremy.linton@arm.com> <1443818865-19846-8-git-send-email-jeremy.linton@arm.com> <20151005164924.GB5557@MBP.local> Message-ID: <5612C1A3.3040904@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 10/05/2015 11:49 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > I recall you asked the question but I didn't have the time to reply. I > don't think we need a command line option for this. In the "unlikely" > event that something is broken in hardware (or software) and we want to > disable the contiguous bit, I would rather have a Kconfig option. How about both? Other users of early_param_on_off() set the default state using kconfig. Is that an acceptable choice, or should I remove the command line parameter all together? I sort of expect that in a few years time, the whole option goes away once it been in use for a while and there are a number of V8 implementations widely available.