From patchwork Sat Mar 25 06:08:17 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Mike Rapoport X-Patchwork-Id: 13187595 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 10734C7619A for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2023 06:09:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232157AbjCYGJZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Mar 2023 02:09:25 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:55180 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232187AbjCYGJM (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Mar 2023 02:09:12 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B9A7413DC1; Fri, 24 Mar 2023 23:09:08 -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 dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8274608D6; Sat, 25 Mar 2023 06:09:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 870B1C433D2; Sat, 25 Mar 2023 06:09:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1679724547; bh=qNh6nhkYIBdXaRuLL5GYGOpZBsiUYM9+UhineGTjJPU=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=rirI1LE3IL192S0yKzg6Y9hCPNuKuJBa8/FnRMwHG+5iLbDwTy50fX949R6Y63xTF UXgqPugUFhJmfiXPsf80n0rIx2hpYxXgF013LBy9/cuaPPknS52iQCHlE9I/eNqysy YA5VqoQdNZbXputm2MtEunhOqdux1Kh0R1JI/PpfdvIMBpHcnD+7de9og02ue3WXm9 0M/AXHZ0+Vav4cfU8cZirL/pvPdBPSCqFqtvhnml0w4rkC9tX34dsfUjcp9G6nULZG oBPlI/jXvQ4LSznp1Wy4B+lgG4MPAphGjzPzbxy93VbPRvoljM+BMe3yd5jHEvzR4E ThQp2TwEZDftA== 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 v3 03/14] arm64: reword ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER prompt and help text Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 09:08:17 +0300 Message-Id: <20230325060828.2662773-4-rppt@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.35.1 In-Reply-To: <20230325060828.2662773-1-rppt@kernel.org> References: <20230325060828.2662773-1-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. Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang --- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index 7324032af859..cc11cdcf5a00 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -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