Commit 4632cb22 authored by Mike Rapoport (IBM)'s avatar Mike Rapoport (IBM) Committed by Andrew Morton

arm64: reword ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER prompt and help text

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.

[rppt@kernel.org: change ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER dependencies]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230325060828.2662773-4-rppt@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230324052233.2654090-4-rppt@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarZi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 34affcd7
......@@ -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 EXPERT && (ARM64_4K_PAGES || ARM64_16K_PAGES)
int "Order of maximal physically contiguous allocations" if EXPERT && (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
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