[PATCH V2] powerpc/Kconfig: Update config option based on page size.

Rashmica Gupta rashmicy at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 16:38:47 AEDT 2016


Currently on PPC64 changing kernel pagesize from 4K to 64K leaves
FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER set to 13 - which produces a compile error.

The error occurs because of the following constraint (from
include/linux/mmzone.h) being violated:

	MAX_ORDER -1 + PAGESHIFT <= SECTION_SIZE_BITS.

Expanding this out, we get:

	FORCE_MAX_ZONEBITS <= 25 - PAGESHIFT,

which requires, for a 64K page, FORCE_MAX_ZONEBITS <= 9. Thus set max
value of FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER for 64K pages to 9, and 4K pages to 13.

Also, check the minimum value:
In include/linux/huge_mm.h, we have the constraint HPAGE_PMD_ORDER <
MAX_ORDER which expands out to:

	PTE_INDEX_SIZE < FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER.

PTE_INDEX_SIZE is:
	9 (4k hash or no hash 4K pgtable) or
	8 (64K hash or no hash 64K pgtable).
Thus a min value of 8 for 64K pages and 9 for 4K pages is reasonable.

So, update the range of FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER from 9-64 to 8-9 for 64K pages
and from 13-64 to 9-13 for 4K pages.

Signed-off-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy at gmail.com>
---

v2: Changed the range for 4K pages and minimum for 64K pages as suggested
by Balbir Singh. 


 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index e4824fd04bb7..b933530821fb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -585,9 +585,9 @@ endchoice
 
 config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
 	int "Maximum zone order"
-	range 9 64 if PPC64 && PPC_64K_PAGES
+	range 8 9 if PPC64 && PPC_64K_PAGES
 	default "9" if PPC64 && PPC_64K_PAGES
-	range 13 64 if PPC64 && !PPC_64K_PAGES
+	range 9 13 if PPC64 && !PPC_64K_PAGES
 	default "13" if PPC64 && !PPC_64K_PAGES
 	range 9 64 if PPC32 && PPC_16K_PAGES
 	default "9" if PPC32 && PPC_16K_PAGES
-- 
2.5.0



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