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

Randy Dunlap rdunlap at infradead.org
Wed Nov 25 06:47:15 AEDT 2020


On 11/24/20 4:05 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>

Thanks.

> ---
>  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
> 


-- 
~Randy



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