From patchwork Fri Mar 24 05:22:32 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Mike Rapoport X-Patchwork-Id: 13186440 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB6FC6FD20 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2023 05:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231704AbjCXF0Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2023 01:26:16 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:33888 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231669AbjCXFZa (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2023 01:25:30 -0400 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4601:e00::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E02582A9AE; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98EFCB8227A; Fri, 24 Mar 2023 05:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8DE6FC433EF; Fri, 24 Mar 2023 05:24:19 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1679635466; bh=1zRPyaaLaKChlaF3HiLNG8L4a1+H9YMBeM142XTaxBY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=OaMe0O8Y/VqFyvv8P3AJ1JWfaNX6fUglLOJcj3uiMUNqxbjm8gr3zQzueLpQbru3k epbhwOHrXR1omZCGUJ46MWgrzi5JVVVUMbEvFwbZBHTNJoP1R3O3Rt357nnca+/Y50 MazCC6m/TE6Wk5itsz2kNTymFFE6Ee7czzfdznGtRIDbRXKkKdT8k8Q69UUznV4zMY kNNQO5IhLe22jyNOezzwMTCICskwDUKeXENIxmLxZ4yPWLQaCW5OKBlzmo+od0rKRh WosyWZZ35ErgkBKSd9iQE6LbvHpmmzi5D05v0zIQAi4gdnhM3ArvsglzNbBv6+vb9z 9Y8re2b10Yv7w== From: Mike Rapoport 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 Subject: [PATCH v2 13/14] sparc: reword ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER prompt and help text Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 08:22:32 +0300 Message-Id: <20230324052233.2654090-14-rppt@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.35.1 In-Reply-To: <20230324052233.2654090-1-rppt@kernel.org> References: <20230324052233.2654090-1-rppt@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-sh@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. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov --- arch/sparc/Kconfig | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig index e3242bf5a8df..959e43a1aaca 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig @@ -270,15 +270,17 @@ config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT def_bool y if SPARC64 config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER - int "Maximum zone order" + int "Order of maximal physically contiguous allocations" default "12" 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. + + Don't change if unsure. if SPARC64 || COMPILE_TEST source "kernel/power/Kconfig"