[PATCH 3/3] powerpc: Update NUMA Kconfig description & help text

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Nov 24 23:05:47 AEDT 2020


Update the NUMA Kconfig description to match other architectures, and
add some help text. Shamelessly borrowed from x86/arm64.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 4d688b426353..7f4995b245a3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -659,9 +659,15 @@ config IRQ_ALL_CPUS
 	  reported with SMP Power Macintoshes with this option enabled.
 
 config NUMA
-	bool "NUMA support"
+	bool "NUMA Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support"
 	depends on PPC64 && SMP
 	default y if PPC_PSERIES || PPC_POWERNV
+	help
+	  Enable NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support.
+
+	  The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the
+	  local memory controller of the CPU and add some more
+	  NUMA awareness to the kernel.
 
 config NODES_SHIFT
 	int
-- 
2.25.1



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