[PATCH] ARM: add help text for HIGHPTE configuration entry
Russell King
rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Jul 1 14:45:49 PDT 2015
Add some help text for the HIGHPTE configuration entry. This comes from
the x86 entry, but reworded to be more a more accurate description of
what this option does.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
---
arch/arm/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 45df48ba0b12..cc0ea0c6cfc9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1661,6 +1661,12 @@ config HIGHMEM
config HIGHPTE
bool "Allocate 2nd-level pagetables from highmem"
depends on HIGHMEM
+ 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
+ precious low memory, eventually leading to low memory being
+ consumed by page tables. Setting this option will allow
+ user-space 2nd level page tables to reside in high memory.
config HW_PERF_EVENTS
bool "Enable hardware performance counter support for perf events"
--
2.1.0
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