[PATCH 03/14] arm64: reword ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER prompt and help text

Mike Rapoport
2023-03-23T09:23:06Z

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.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 25 ++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index bab6483e4317..75af4c329224 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1487,24 +1487,24 @@ config XEN
# 16K | 27 | 14 | 13 | 11 |
# 64K | 29 | 16 | 13 | 13 |
config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
- int "Maximum zone order" if ARM64_4K_PAGES || ARM64_16K_PAGES
+ int "Order of maximal physically contiguous allocations" if ARM64_4K_PAGES || ARM64_16K_PAGES
default "13" if ARM64_64K_PAGES
default "11" if ARM64_16K_PAGES
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.

- We make sure that we can allocate up to a HugePage size for each configuration.
- Hence we have :
- MAX_ORDER = PMD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT => PAGE_SHIFT - 3
+ The maximal size of allocation cannot exceed the size of the
+ section, so the value of MAX_ORDER should satisfy

- However for 4K, we choose a higher default value, 10 as opposed to 9, giving us
- 4M allocations matching the default size used by generic code.
+ MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT <= SECTION_SIZE_BITS
+
+ Don't change if unsure.

config UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0
bool "Unmap kernel when running in userspace (aka \"KAISER\")" if EXPERT
@@ -2298,4 +2298,3 @@ endmenu # "CPU Power Management"
source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig"

source "arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig"
-
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2.35.1