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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, kleen@suse.de
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: [patch] x86: enable GBPAGES option by default
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:33:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081022103316.GB27862@wotan.suse.de> (raw)

DIRECT_GBPAGES was under DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL and disabled by default.
Turn it on by default and put it under EMBEDDED.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
---
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -946,6 +946,15 @@ config X86_PAE
 config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
        def_bool X86_64 || X86_PAE
 
+config DIRECT_GBPAGES
+	bool "Enable 1GB pages for kernel pagetables" if EMBEDDED
+	default y
+	depends on X86_64
+	help
+	  Allow the kernel linear mapping to use 1GB pages on CPUs that
+	  support it. This can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by
+	  reducing TLB pressure. If in doubt, say "Y".
+
 # Common NUMA Features
 config NUMA
 	bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -114,18 +114,6 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA
 	  data. This is recommended so that we can catch kernel bugs sooner.
 	  If in doubt, say "Y".
 
-config DIRECT_GBPAGES
-	bool "Enable gbpages-mapped kernel pagetables"
-	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && X86_64
-	help
-	  Enable gigabyte pages support (if the CPU supports it). This can
-	  improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit by reducing TLB
-	  pressure.
-
-	  This is experimental code.
-
-	  If in doubt, say "N".
-
 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
 	bool "Testcase for the DEBUG_RODATA feature"
 	depends on DEBUG_RODATA

             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-22 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-22 10:33 Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-10-22 10:35 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-22 11:30 ` Ingo Molnar

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