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authorMike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>2023-03-24 08:22:32 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-04-19 02:29:46 +0300
commit8def4c058fe1a560b2e68e98a824b44e7e012024 (patch)
treed84fb43d2952789a88cbf7419537e9afd931af11 /arch/sparc
parent0495408240c97429cb2d21c6aca717baacb9199f (diff)
downloadlinux-8def4c058fe1a560b2e68e98a824b44e7e012024.tar.xz
sparc: reword ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER prompt and help text
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. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230324052233.2654090-14-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/Kconfig16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
index e3242bf5a8df..959e43a1aaca 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -270,15 +270,17 @@ config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
def_bool y if SPARC64
config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
- int "Maximum zone order"
+ int "Order of maximal physically contiguous allocations"
default "12"
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.
+
+ Don't change if unsure.
if SPARC64 || COMPILE_TEST
source "kernel/power/Kconfig"