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authorBecky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>2011-06-28 09:54:48 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-09-20 09:19:40 +1000
commit41151e77a4d96ea138cede6d84c955aa4769ce74 (patch)
tree2d997b77b9adf406a2fd30326bff688577d2e64f /arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
parent7df5659eefad9b6d457ccdee016bd78bd064cfc0 (diff)
powerpc: Hugetlb for BookE
Enable hugepages on Freescale BookE processors. This allows the kernel to use huge TLB entries to map pages, which can greatly reduce the number of TLB misses and the amount of TLB thrashing experienced by applications with large memory footprints. Care should be taken when using this on FSL processors, as the number of large TLB entries supported by the core is low (16-64) on current processors. The supported set of hugepage sizes include 4m, 16m, 64m, 256m, and 1g. Page sizes larger than the max zone size are called "gigantic" pages and must be allocated on the command line (and cannot be deallocated). This is currently only fully implemented for Freescale 32-bit BookE processors, but there is some infrastructure in the code for 64-bit BooKE. Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
index e06e39589a09..a85990c886e9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ config PPC_BOOK3S_64
bool "Server processors"
select PPC_FPU
select PPC_HAVE_PMU_SUPPORT
+ select SYS_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS
config PPC_BOOK3E_64
bool "Embedded processors"
@@ -173,6 +174,7 @@ config BOOKE
config FSL_BOOKE
bool
depends on (E200 || E500) && PPC32
+ select SYS_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS if PHYS_64BIT
default y
# this is for common code between PPC32 & PPC64 FSL BOOKE
@@ -296,7 +298,7 @@ config PPC_BOOK3E_MMU
config PPC_MM_SLICES
bool
- default y if HUGETLB_PAGE || (PPC_STD_MMU_64 && PPC_64K_PAGES)
+ default y if (PPC64 && HUGETLB_PAGE) || (PPC_STD_MMU_64 && PPC_64K_PAGES)
default n
config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING