On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 01:29:55PM -0500, Jeremy Linton wrote: > On 10/05/2015 11:49 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > >I recall you asked the question but I didn't have the time to reply. I > >don't think we need a command line option for this. In the "unlikely" > >event that something is broken in hardware (or software) and we want to > >disable the contiguous bit, I would rather have a Kconfig option. > > How about both? Other users of early_param_on_off() set the default state > using kconfig. Is that an acceptable choice, or should I remove the command > line parameter all together? I sort of expect that in a few years time, the > whole option goes away once it been in use for a while and there are a > number of V8 implementations widely available. If for debugging purposes we could get away with just changing PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_CONT, I think we can avoid both command line and Kconfig option. Otherwise only a Kconfig option, I don't see much point in a command line option (maybe benchmarking). -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
