From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> CONFIG_HIGHPTE was added in linux-2.6.32, a few years before 64-bit support. At the time it made sense, as the CONFIG_ARM_LPAE option allowed systems with 16GB of memory that made lowmem a particularly scarce resource, and the HIGHPTE implementation gave feature parity with 32-bit x86 and frv machines. Since Arm is the last architecture remaining that uses this, and almost no 32-bit machines support more than 4GB of RAM, the cost of continuing to maintain HIGHPTE seems unjustified, so remove it here to allow simplifying the generic page table handling. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241204103042.1904639-8-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- I sent a patch to drop HIGHPTE support on x86 today, see https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241210144945.2325330-9-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u If that one gets merged, we can merge this one instead of the one that makes HIGHPTE depend on !PREEMPT_RT, but if we decide against the x86 change, then we probably don't want this one either. --- arch/arm/Kconfig | 11 ----------- arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 8 +------- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index 4de4e5697bdf..e132effafd8b 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -1229,17 +1229,6 @@ config HIGHMEM If unsure, say n. -config HIGHPTE - bool "Allocate 2nd-level pagetables from highmem" if EXPERT - depends on HIGHMEM && !PREEMPT_RT - default y - help - The VM uses one page of physical memory for each page table. - For systems with a lot of processes, this can use a lot of - precious low memory, eventually leading to low memory being - consumed by page tables. Setting this option will allow - user-space 2nd level page tables to reside in high memory. - config ARM_PAN bool "Enable privileged no-access" depends on MMU diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h index a17f01235c29..ef6cb3e6d179 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h @@ -85,18 +85,12 @@ pte_alloc_one_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm) return pte; } -#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHPTE -#define PGTABLE_HIGHMEM __GFP_HIGHMEM -#else -#define PGTABLE_HIGHMEM 0 -#endif - static inline pgtable_t pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm) { struct page *pte; - pte = __pte_alloc_one(mm, GFP_PGTABLE_USER | PGTABLE_HIGHMEM); + pte = __pte_alloc_one(mm, GFP_PGTABLE_USER); if (!pte) return NULL; if (!PageHighMem(pte)) -- 2.39.5
