[PATCH v5 2/4] sparc: Advertise gigantic page support

Alexandre Ghiti alex at ghiti.fr
Thu Mar 7 06:00:03 AEDT 2019


sparc actually supports gigantic pages and selecting
ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE allows it to allocate and free
gigantic pages at runtime.

sparc allows configuration such as huge pages of 16GB,
pages of 8KB and MAX_ORDER = 13 (default):
HPAGE_SHIFT (34) - PAGE_SHIFT (13) = 21 >= MAX_ORDER (13)

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex at ghiti.fr>
---
 arch/sparc/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
index d5dd652fb8cc..0b7f0e0fefa5 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ config SPARC64
 	select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
 	select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
 	select PCI_DOMAINS if PCI
+	select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE if (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA
 
 config ARCH_DEFCONFIG
 	string
-- 
2.20.1



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