[PATCH] arm64: Disallow combination of ARCH_XGENE and 16K page size
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Jan 28 02:34:41 PST 2016
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 at canonical.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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