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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 09/12] mm: Make MAX_ORDER of buddy allocator configurable via Kconfig SET_MAX_ORDER.
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On 8/12/22 19:37, Zi Yan wrote:
>
> On 12 Aug 2022, at 21:11, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
>> Hi--
>>
>> On 8/11/22 16:16, Zi Yan wrote:
>>
>>> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
>>> index bbe31e85afee..e558f5679707 100644
>>> --- a/mm/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
>>> @@ -441,6 +441,20 @@ config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
>>> pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most
>>> efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
>>>
>>> +config SET_MAX_ORDER
>>> + int "Set maximum order of buddy allocator"
>>> + depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP && (ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER = 0)
>>> + range 10 255
>>> + 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. A value of 10 means that the largest free memory
>>> + block is 2^10 pages.
>>
>> Please make sure that all lines of help text are indented with one tab + 2 spaces,
>> as specified in Documentation/process/coding-style.rst.
>
> I guess you mean the wrong indentation of "depends on" here, since all
> the help text is correctly indented. Thanks. I fixed it locally.

Oops, yes. Thanks.

--
~Randy

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