x86/mm: Further simplify 1 GB kernel linear mappings handling
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 5 Mar 2015 07:18:23 +0000 (08:18 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:23:04 +0000 (09:23 +0100)
It's a bit pointless to allow Kconfig configuration for 1GB kernel
mappings, it's already hidden behind a 'default y' and CONFIG_EXPERT.

Remove this complication and simplify the code by renaming
CONFIG_ENABLE_DIRECT_GBPAGES to CONFIG_X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES and
document the DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC and KMEMCHECK quirks.

Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: JBeulich@suse.com
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: julia.lawall@lip6.fr
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/Kconfig
arch/x86/mm/init.c

index 4d06e1c8294a3d0d260ca1198354e1cb4cf3bdfa..d03847513b6dfd03b705ef031decd5b9ad099d4f 100644 (file)
@@ -1299,22 +1299,14 @@ config ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT
        def_bool y
        depends on X86_64 || HIGHMEM64G
 
-config ENABLE_DIRECT_GBPAGES
+config X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES
        def_bool y
        depends on X86_64 && !DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !KMEMCHECK
-
-config DIRECT_GBPAGES
-       bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EXPERT
-       default y
-       depends on ENABLE_DIRECT_GBPAGES
-       ---help---
-         Enable by default the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs
-         that support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit
-         by reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y". If you've disabled
-         option but your platform is capable of handling support for this
-         you can use the gbpages kernel parameter. Likewise if you've enabled
-         this but you'd like to force disable this option you can use the
-         nogbpages kernel parameter.
+       ---help---
+         Certain kernel features effectively disable kernel
+         linear 1 GB mappings (even if the CPU otherwise
+         supports them), so don't confuse the user by printing
+         that we have them enabled.
 
 # Common NUMA Features
 config NUMA
index c35ba8bce7cbf6daad0dcd4806b17377a10e752f..8704153f26759a61eefbb4cd8b768cb7b3ccc317 100644 (file)
@@ -133,15 +133,10 @@ int after_bootmem;
 
 static int page_size_mask;
 
-early_param_on_off("gbpages", "nogbpages",
-                  direct_gbpages, CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES);
+early_param_on_off("gbpages", "nogbpages", direct_gbpages, CONFIG_X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES);
 
 static void __init init_gbpages(void)
 {
-       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ENABLE_DIRECT_GBPAGES)) {
-               direct_gbpages = 0;
-               return;
-       }
        if (direct_gbpages && cpu_has_gbpages) {
                printk(KERN_INFO "Using GB pages for direct mapping\n");
                page_size_mask |= 1 << PG_LEVEL_1G;