From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Rapoport Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 06:08:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v3 09/14] powerpc: reword ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER prompt and help text Message-Id: <20230325060828.2662773-10-rppt@kernel.org> List-Id: References: <20230325060828.2662773-1-rppt@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20230325060828.2662773-1-rppt@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Catalin Marinas , Christophe Leroy , "David S. Miller" , Dinh Nguyen , Geert Uytterhoeven , Guo Ren , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Max Filippov , Michael Ellerman , Mike Rapoport , Rich Felker , Russell King , Will Deacon , Yoshinori Sato , Zi Yan , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org From: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" 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. Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) --- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index 24d56536b269..c0095bf795ca 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/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 -- 2.35.1