Re: [PATCH 1/4] arch: consolidate existing CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_*KB definitions

Arnd Bergmann
2024-02-27T15:48:51Z

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024, at 16:44, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 27/02/2024 à 16:40, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :
>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024, at 17:55, Samuel Holland wrote:
>
>
> For 256K pages, powerpc has the following help. I think you should have
> it too:
>
> The kernel will only be able to run applications that have been
> compiled with '-zmax-page-size' set to 256K (the default is 64K) using
> binutils later than 2.17.50.0.3, or by patching the ELF_MAXPAGESIZE
> definition from 0x10000 to 0x40000 in older versions.

I don't think we need to mention pre-2.18 binutils any more, but the
rest seems useful, changed the text now to

config PAGE_SIZE_256KB
bool "256KiB pages"
depends on HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_256KB
help
256KiB pages have little practical value due to their extreme
memory usage. The kernel will only be able to run applications
that have been compiled with '-zmax-page-size' set to 256KiB
(the default is 64KiB or 4KiB on most architectures).

Arnd