linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/19] arm: expose number of page table levels on Kconfig level

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Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:02:13 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/19] arm: expose number of page table levels on Kconfig
 level

It'd be nice to see the cover for this series so that people know the
reason behind this change is.  Maybe it'd be a good idea to add a
pointer or some description below the "---" to such patches which
are otherwise totally meaningless to the people you add to the Cc
line?

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 04:43:12PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> We would want to use number of page table level to define mm_struct.
> Let's expose it as CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>
> ---
>  arch/arm/Kconfig | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 4211507e2bca..d7dca652573f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -286,6 +286,11 @@ config GENERIC_BUG
>  	def_bool y
>  	depends on BUG
>  
> +config PGTABLE_LEVELS
> +	int
> +	default 3 if ARM_LPAE
> +	default 2
> +
>  source "init/Kconfig"
>  
>  source "kernel/Kconfig.freezer"
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 

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