The other architectures with ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER are selectable,
but not for ARM64, this is to make it selectable on ARM64, which
is useful for user that need to allocate more than 4MB of physically
contiguous memory with 4K pagesize, also more bigger on 16K pagesize
too, the max value of MAX_ORDER is calculated bellow,
see include/linux/mmzone.h,
MAX_ORDER - 1 + PAGE_SHIFT <= SECTION_SIZE_BITS
so max value of MAX_ORDER = SECTION_SIZE_BITS + 1 - PAGE_SHIFT
| SECTION_SIZE_BITS | PAGE_SHIFT | max MAX_ORDER | default MAX_ORDER |
----+-------------------+--------------+-----------------+--------------------+
4K | 27 | 12 | 16 | 11 |
16K | 27 | 14 | 14 | 12 |
64K | 29 | 16 | 14 | 14 |
----+-------------------+--------------+-----------------+--------------------+
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <[email protected]>
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arch/arm64/Kconfig | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 03934808b2ed..22f0fb73a762 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1457,9 +1457,11 @@ config XEN
Say Y if you want to run Linux in a Virtual Machine on Xen on ARM64.
config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
- int
+ int "Maximum zone order" if ARM64_4K_PAGES || ARM64_16K_PAGES
default "14" if ARM64_64K_PAGES
+ range 12 14 if ARM64_16K_PAGES
default "12" if ARM64_16K_PAGES
+ range 11 16 if ARM64_4K_PAGES
default "11"
help
The kernel memory allocator divides physically contiguous memory
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2.35.3
On Wed, 04 Jan 2023 21:00:00 +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> The other architectures with ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER are selectable,
> but not for ARM64, this is to make it selectable on ARM64, which
> is useful for user that need to allocate more than 4MB of physically
> contiguous memory with 4K pagesize, also more bigger on 16K pagesize
> too, the max value of MAX_ORDER is calculated bellow,
>
> see include/linux/mmzone.h,
>
> [...]
Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!
[1/1] arm64: make ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER selectable
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/5a4c2a314083
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