From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755888AbZF3OdL (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:33:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752589AbZF3Oc6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:32:58 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45830 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752583AbZF3Oc6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:32:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4A4A21EB.9070708@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:32:11 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Beulich CC: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ix86: minor highmem related Kconfig cleanup References: <4A4A0B2E02000078000082FE@vpn.id2.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <4A4A0B2E02000078000082FE@vpn.id2.novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Beulich wrote: > Remove a redundant conditional and consolidate a dependency. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich > > config HIGHPTE > bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" > - depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) > + depends on HIGHMEM > ---help--- > The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. > For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious > This is probably correct, but the "3rd-level" should have been removed from the description long ago when this was made available to non-PAE mode (if it ever wasn't.) -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.