Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 3 authors, 2013-05-02

[RFC PATCH 8/9] ARM64: mm: Introduce MAX_ZONE_ORDER for 64K and THP.

From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
Date: 2013-05-02 10:00:12
Also in: linux-arch, linux-mm

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 05:30:47PM +0100, Steve Capper wrote:
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The buddy allocator has a default order of 11, which is too low to
allocate enough memory for 512MB Transparent HugePages if our base
page size is 64K. For any order less than 13, the combination of
THP with 64K pages will cause a compile error.

This patch introduces the MAX_ZONE_ORDER config option that allows
one to explicitly override the order of the buddy allocator. If
64K pages and THP are enabled the minimum value is set to 13.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 16aa780..908fd95 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -196,6 +196,23 @@ config ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
 
 source "mm/Kconfig"
 
+config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
+	int "Maximum zone order"
+	range 11 64 if !(ARM64_64K_PAGES && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
+	range 13 64 if ARM64_64K_PAGES && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+	default "11" if !(ARM64_64K_PAGES && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
+	default "13" if (ARM64_64K_PAGES && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
Can we just keep some sane defaults here without giving too much choice
to the user? Something like:

config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
	int
	default "13" if (ARM64_64K_PAGES && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
	default "11"

We can extend it later if people need this but I'm aiming for a single
config on a multitude of boards.

-- 
Catalin
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