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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-10-22 12:33:16 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-22 13:30:12 +0200
commit9e899816d126cc6f7d405c349f65363214fe7399 (patch)
treea28f4c6357aa987ccfd8faf4f03dbb0005153451 /arch
parent2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 (diff)
x86, mm: enable GBPAGES option by default
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> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig9
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig.debug12
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 5b9b12321ad..c00aefcb47d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/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)"
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index 2a3dfbd5e67..567fe543e09 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/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