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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | 8 |
5 files changed, 20 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt index 83c0033ee9e0..804d9b1a46ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ Protocol: 2.00+ 3 SYSLINUX 4 EtherBoot 5 ELILO - 7 GRuB + 7 GRUB 8 U-BOOT 9 Xen A Gujin diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt index efce75097369..29b52b14d0b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables: 0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm hole caused by [48:63] sign extension ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40 bits) guard hole -ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46 bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory +ffff880000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=57 TB) direct mapping of all phys. memory ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space ffffe20000000000 - ffffe2ffffffffff (=40 bits) virtual memory map (1TB) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index ac22bb7719f7..e795b5ba25b2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -958,22 +958,26 @@ config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT # Common NUMA Features config NUMA - bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)" + bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support" depends on SMP depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM64G && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_BIGSMP || X86_SUMMIT && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL) default n if X86_PC default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP) help Enable NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access) support. + The kernel will try to allocate memory used by a CPU on the local memory controller of the CPU and add some more NUMA awareness to the kernel. - For 32-bit this is currently highly experimental and should be only - used for kernel development. It might also cause boot failures. - For 64-bit this is recommended on all multiprocessor Opteron systems. - If the system is EM64T, you should say N unless your system is - EM64T NUMA. + For 64-bit this is recommended if the system is Intel Core i7 + (or later), AMD Opteron, or EM64T NUMA. + + For 32-bit this is only needed on (rare) 32-bit-only platforms + that support NUMA topologies, such as NUMAQ / Summit, or if you + boot a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit NUMA platform. + + Otherwise, you should say N. comment "NUMA (Summit) requires SMP, 64GB highmem support, ACPI" depends on X86_32 && X86_SUMMIT && (!HIGHMEM64G || !ACPI) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index 2a3dfbd5e677..2be1e6b8e18b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -307,10 +307,10 @@ config OPTIMIZE_INLINING developers have marked 'inline'. Doing so takes away freedom from gcc to do what it thinks is best, which is desirable for the gcc 3.x series of compilers. The gcc 4.x series have a rewritten inlining algorithm and - disabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully - this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc4 to make the decision can - become the default in the future, until then this option is there to - test gcc for this. + enabling this option will generate a smaller kernel there. Hopefully + this algorithm is so good that allowing gcc 4.x and above to make the + decision will become the default in the future. Until then this option + is there to test gcc for this. If unsure, say N. diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h index c2a812ebde89..397efa375581 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h @@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ static inline unsigned long long native_read_tscp(unsigned int *aux) } /* - * i386 calling convention returns 64-bit value in edx:eax, while - * x86_64 returns at rax. Also, the "A" constraint does not really - * mean rdx:rax in x86_64, so we need specialized behaviour for each - * architecture + * both i386 and x86_64 returns 64-bit value in edx:eax, but gcc's "A" + * constraint has different meanings. For i386, "A" means exactly + * edx:eax, while for x86_64 it doesn't mean rdx:rax or edx:eax. Instead, + * it means rax *or* rdx. */ #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 #define DECLARE_ARGS(val, low, high) unsigned low, high |