Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:32:11 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ix86: minor highmem related Kconfig cleanup |
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Jan Beulich wrote: > Remove a redundant conditional and consolidate a dependency. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> > > config HIGHPTE > bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem" > - depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G) > + depends on HIGHMEM > ---help--- > The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. > For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious >
This is probably correct, but the "3rd-level" should have been removed from the description long ago when this was made available to non-PAE mode (if it ever wasn't.)
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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