From: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> 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) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 25 ++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index bab6483e4317..75af4c329224 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 ARM64_4K_PAGES || ARM64_16K_PAGES + int "Order of maximal physically contiguous allocations" if 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 @@ -2298,4 +2298,3 @@ endmenu # "CPU Power Management" source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig" source "arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig" - -- 2.35.1
