* Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For boot-time switching between paging modes, we need to be able to > adjust size of physical address space at runtime. > > As part of making physical address space size variable, we have to make > X86_5LEVEL dependent on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. !SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP > configuration doesn't work well with variable MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS. > > Affect on kernel image size: > > text data bss dec hex filename > 10710340 4880000 860160 16450500 fb03c4 vmlinux.before > 10710666 4880000 860160 16450826 fb050a vmlinux.after > > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + > arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h | 2 +- > arch/x86/include/asm/sparsemem.h | 9 ++------- > arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 5 ++--- > 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig > index 6a15297140ff..f75723d62c25 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig > @@ -1403,6 +1403,7 @@ config X86_PAE > config X86_5LEVEL > bool "Enable 5-level page tables support" > depends on X86_64 > + depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP Adding a 'depends on' to random kernel internal implementational details, to support new hardware, sucks as an UI, as it will just randomly hide/show the new hardware option if certain magic Kconfig combinations are set. Please check how other architectures are doing it. (Hint: they are using select.) Also, what is the real dependency here? Why don't the other memory models work, what's the failure mode - won't build, won't boot, or misbehaves in some other way? Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>