When highmem is enabled, there's little reason not to also enable
highpte support as well. Rather than leaving this to chance, make
it an expert option, and default it to be enabled if highmem is
enabled. Add some help text to the option while we're here.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
If unsure, say n.
config HIGHPTE
- bool "Allocate 2nd-level pagetables from highmem"
+ bool "Allocate 2nd-level pagetables from highmem" if EXPERT
depends on HIGHMEM
+ default y
help
The VM uses one page of physical memory for each page table.
For systems with a lot of processes, this can use a lot of