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| author | Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> | 2023-03-24 08:22:26 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-04-18 16:29:45 -0700 |
| commit | 5646e83d6ae6f41d999b365d7d555fcdbcabc82b (patch) | |
| tree | a9f4d7077e50f255d0206af6bbbde8715160b0d9 /arch/nios2 | |
| parent | 7a5b272e0b17bcb431b5bc1d46d369871c391837 (diff) | |
nios2: 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/20230324052233.2654090-8-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/nios2')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/nios2/Kconfig | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/nios2/Kconfig b/arch/nios2/Kconfig index 89708b95978c..fcaa6bbda3fc 100644 --- a/arch/nios2/Kconfig +++ b/arch/nios2/Kconfig @@ -45,16 +45,18 @@ menu "Kernel features" source "kernel/Kconfig.hz" config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER - int "Maximum zone order" + int "Order of maximal physically contiguous allocations" range 8 19 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. + + Don't change if unsure. endmenu |