i386: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G

PAE is useful for more than supporting more than 4GB RAM.  It supports
expanded swapspace and NX executable protections.  Some users may want NX
or expanded swapspace support without the overhead or instability of
highmem.  For these reasons, the following patch divorces CONFIG_X86_PAE
from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G.

Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Signed-off-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index 361aca8b3ec3bc1ce7195babe77efa95d55aa965..0790bdf8c1f108644e486eb91e600a8d2814fda3 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -548,6 +548,7 @@ config HIGHMEM4G
 config HIGHMEM64G
        bool "64GB"
        depends on !M386 && !M486
+       select X86_PAE
        help
          Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4
          gigabytes of physical RAM.
@@ -577,12 +578,12 @@ choice
        config VMSPLIT_3G
                bool "3G/1G user/kernel split"
        config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
-               depends on !HIGHMEM
+               depends on !X86_PAE
                bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)"
        config VMSPLIT_2G
                bool "2G/2G user/kernel split"
        config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
-               depends on !HIGHMEM
+               depends on !X86_PAE
                bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)"
        config VMSPLIT_1G
                bool "1G/3G user/kernel split"
@@ -602,10 +603,15 @@ config HIGHMEM
        default y
 
 config X86_PAE
-       bool
-       depends on HIGHMEM64G
-       default y
+       bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support"
+       default n
+       depends on !HIGHMEM4G
        select RESOURCES_64BIT
+       help
+         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.
 
 # Common NUMA Features
 config NUMA

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
index 2986b48a823fa15546a03b507cc194c27252a0d4..d474cd639bcb8ece22f706d285950926a50541ac 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
@@ -273,18 +273,18 @@ unsigned long __init find_max_low_pfn(void)
                printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning only %ldMB will be used.\n",
                                        MAXMEM>>20);
                if (max_pfn > MAX_NONPAE_PFN)
-                       printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a PAE enabled kernel.\n");
+                       printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a HIGHMEM64G enabled kernel.\n");
                else
                        printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.\n");
                max_pfn = MAXMEM_PFN;
 #else /* !CONFIG_HIGHMEM */
-#ifndef CONFIG_X86_PAE
+#ifndef CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G
                if (max_pfn > MAX_NONPAE_PFN) {
                        max_pfn = MAX_NONPAE_PFN;
                        printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning only 4GB will be used.\n");
-                       printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a PAE enabled kernel.\n");
+                       printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a HIGHMEM64G enabled kernel.\n");
                }
-#endif /* !CONFIG_X86_PAE */
+#endif /* !CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G */
 #endif /* !CONFIG_HIGHMEM */
        } else {
                if (highmem_pages == -1)