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

From: Kefeng Wang
Date: Sun Dec 26 2021 - 03:30:02 EST


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@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
--
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