arm: reword ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER prompt and help text

Patch series "arch,mm: cleanup Kconfig entries for ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER",
v3.

Several architectures have ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER in their Kconfig and
they all have wrong and misleading prompt and help text for this option.

Besides, some define insane limits for possible values of
ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER, some carefully define ranges only for a subset of
possible configurations, some make this option configurable by users for no
good reason.

This set updates the prompt and help text everywhere and does its best to
update actual definitions of ranges where applicable.

kbuild generated a bunch of false positives because it assigns -1 to
ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER, hopefully this will be fixed soon.

This patch (of 14):

The prompt and help text of ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER are not even close to
describe this configuration option.

Update both to actually describe what this option does.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230325060828.2662773-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230324052233.2654090-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230324052233.2654090-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 929e646e84b9b0d5dea73102093daf9e01d17973..0b15384c62e653561d0910a9e7c1baee741745f4 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1354,17 +1354,19 @@ config ARM_MODULE_PLTS
          configurations. If unsure, say y.
 
 config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
-       int "Maximum zone order"
+       int "Order of maximal physically contiguous allocations"
        default "11" if SOC_AM33XX
        default "8" if SA1111
        default "10"
        help
-         The kernel memory allocator divides physically contiguous memory
-         blocks into "zones", where each zone is a power of two number of
-         pages.  This option selects the largest power of two that the kernel
-         keeps in the memory allocator.  If you need to allocate very large
-         blocks of physically contiguous memory, then you may need to
-         increase this value.
+         The kernel page allocator limits the size of maximal physically
+         contiguous allocations. The limit is called MAX_ORDER and it
+         defines the maximal power of two of number of pages that can be
+         allocated as a single contiguous block. This option allows
+         overriding the default setting when ability to allocate very
+         large blocks of physically contiguous memory is required.
+
+         Don't change if unsure.
 
 config ALIGNMENT_TRAP
        def_bool CPU_CP15_MMU