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Message-ID: <20160128103441.GS14823@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 10:34:41 +0000
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: dann frazier <dann.frazier@...onical.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, Duc Dang <dhdang@....com>,
Kumar Sankaran <ksankaran@....com>, Loc Ho <lho@....com>,
Feng Kan <fkan@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Disallow combination of ARCH_XGENE and 16K page
size
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 04:10:30PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> 16K page size is an optional feature of the architecture, and is not
> supported by the X-Gene SoC family.
>
> Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dann.frazier@...onical.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> index 21074f6..b241290 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms
> @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ config ARCH_VEXPRESS
>
> config ARCH_XGENE
> bool "AppliedMicro X-Gene SOC Family"
> + depends on !ARM64_16K_PAGES
> help
> This enables support for AppliedMicro X-Gene SOC Family
This would be the case on Juno as well. But maybe at some point the
X-Gene family would gain a CPU with such support.
Anyway, I would rather make 16K pages depend on EXPERT, make it a bit
harder to enable. We've had a few questions recently about enabling it
on CPUs that don't have such feature.
--
Catalin
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