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-rw-r--r--arch/nios2/Kconfig16
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.
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