[PATCH 2/3] arm64: Support huge vmalloc mappings

Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com
Sun Dec 26 00:39:11 PST 2021


This patch select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC to let arm64 support huge
vmalloc mappings, it is disabled by default, use hugevmalloc=on to
enable it in some scenarios.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++--
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                              | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4107136097a6..235a23b08809 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@
 			precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
 
 
-	hugevmalloc=	[PPC] Reguires CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC
+	hugevmalloc=	[KNL,PPC,ARM64] Reguires CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC
 			Format: { on | off }
 			Default set by CONFIG_HUGE_VMALLOC_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
 
@@ -3415,7 +3415,7 @@
 
 	nohugeiomap	[KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
 
-	nohugevmalloc	[PPC] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
+	nohugevmalloc	[KNL,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
 
 	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
 			Equivalent to smt=1.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index c4207cf9bb17..6cedb06b4cab 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ config ARM64
 	select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
 	select HAVE_ARCH_BITREVERSE
 	select HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
+	select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC
 	select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
 	select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
-- 
2.26.2




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