Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756620AbXFKX7U (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:59:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753916AbXFKX7O (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:59:14 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:41310 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752828AbXFKX7N (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:59:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:00:26 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Adrian Bunk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Lord , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G Message-ID: <20070612000026.GC6909@holomorphy.com> References: <20070608023551.GJ15426@holomorphy.com> <20070611235235.GR3588@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070611235235.GR3588@stusta.de> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1510 Lines: 33 On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:35:51PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> + PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables >> + larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It >> + has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also >> + consumes more pagetable space per process. On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:52:35AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > It's not specific to this help text, but I start becoming a bit picky > about this issues: > If you understand this help text after reading it, you don't need a help > text for this option... ;-) > What is "NX support"? > What are "non-overcommit purposes"? > What is "pagetable lookup overhead"? > And if in doubt, should I say Y or N? > "System administrator who knows which hardware components he put into > the computer and which filesystems his data is on" might be a good > description for the average kconfig user, and these are the people who > should understand this help text. I would like to have some place to explain issues such as those, but there are as of yet no designated places for tutorial-level information. If such a place were provided, I would provide storybook commentary to explain all those. Similarly actually holds for kernel function docbook. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/