[PATCH v2 1/3] ARM: Make FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER configurable if ARM_SINGLE_ARMV7M

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Sep 8 15:19:13 PDT 2015


On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 10:38:04PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> This patch makes FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER configurable in defconfig for ARMV7-M
> when built for a single platform.

I'd prefer if we didn't do this, because this isn't supposed to be a user
visible "option".  It's an option that was introduced to avoid having to
throw masses of #ifdefs into the definition of MAX_ZONEORDER.

The problem with it is that it's a "well, what do I set this to?" option
and that leads to "oh, I'll just choose the default because I don't know
any better".

Do we know why EFM32 needs a value of 9 here?  It's not documented in
the original commit, and it really _should_ have been.

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