[PATCH] mm: update split ptlock Kconfig

Closer attention to the arithmetic shows that neither ppc64 nor sparc really
uses one page for multiple page tables: how on earth could they, while
pte_alloc_one returns just a struct page pointer, with no offset?

Well, arm26 manages it by returning a pte_t pointer cast to a struct page
pointer, harumph, then compensating in its pmd_populate.  But arm26 is never
SMP, so it's not a problem for split ptlock either.

And the PA-RISC situation has been recently improved: CONFIG_PA20 works
without the 16-byte alignment which inflated its spinlock_t.  But the current
union of spinlock_t with private does make the 7xxx struct page significantly
larger, even without debug, so disable its split ptlock.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index ae9ce6b..21eb51d 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -125,12 +125,10 @@ comment "Memory hotplug is currently incompatible with Software Suspend"
 # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
 # Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
 # ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
-# PA-RISC's debug spinlock_t is too large for the 32-bit struct page.
-# ARM26 and SPARC32 and PPC64 may use one page for multiple page tables.
+# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
 #
 config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
        int
        default "4096" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
-       default "4096" if PARISC && DEBUG_SPINLOCK && !64BIT
-       default "4096" if ARM26 || SPARC32 || PPC64
+       default "4096" if PARISC && !PA20
        default "4"