[PATCH v2] powerpc: enforce sane MAX_ORDER

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Thu Sep 25 00:29:08 EST 2008


powerpc uses CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER, and some things depend on it
being at least 10 when 64k pages are not configured (notably the dart
iommu code with CONFIG_PM). The defaults are fine, but when going from a
64K pages config to one without 64K pages, MAX_ORDER stays at 9 which is
too low for 4K pages.

This patch makes the Kconfig enforce at least the defaults.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net>
---

> We'll I'm ok with that, but I dont think we should be values that
> make  
> no sense.  64 would seem the max even in a 64-bit system.

Indeed, it makes little sense to allow you to set more than the address
space, so here's a version with max 64.

--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -415,8 +415,11 @@ config PPC_64K_PAGES
 
 config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
 	int "Maximum zone order"
+	range 9 64 if PPC_64K_PAGES
 	default "9" if PPC_64K_PAGES
+	range 13 64 if PPC64 && !PPC_64K_PAGES
 	default "13" if PPC64 && !PPC_64K_PAGES
+	range 11 64
 	default "11"
 	help
 	  The kernel memory allocator divides physically contiguous memory





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