[PATCH v3 01/14] arm: reword ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER prompt and help text

Mike Rapoport rppt at kernel.org
Sat Mar 25 17:08:15 AEDT 2023


From: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt at kernel.org>

The prompt and help text of ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER are not even close to
describe this configuration option.

Update both to actually describe what this option does.

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy at nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 929e646e84b9..0b15384c62e6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1354,17 +1354,19 @@ config ARM_MODULE_PLTS
 	  configurations. If unsure, say y.
 
 config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
-	int "Maximum zone order"
+	int "Order of maximal physically contiguous allocations"
 	default "11" if SOC_AM33XX
 	default "8" if SA1111
 	default "10"
 	help
-	  The kernel memory allocator divides physically contiguous memory
-	  blocks into "zones", where each zone is a power of two number of
-	  pages.  This option selects the largest power of two that the kernel
-	  keeps in the memory allocator.  If you need to allocate very large
-	  blocks of physically contiguous memory, then you may need to
-	  increase this value.
+	  The kernel page allocator limits the size of maximal physically
+	  contiguous allocations. The limit is called MAX_ORDER and it
+	  defines the maximal power of two of number of pages that can be
+	  allocated as a single contiguous block. This option allows
+	  overriding the default setting when ability to allocate very
+	  large blocks of physically contiguous memory is required.
+
+	  Don't change if unsure.
 
 config ALIGNMENT_TRAP
 	def_bool CPU_CP15_MMU
-- 
2.35.1



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