Commit b4d103d1 authored by Russell King's avatar Russell King

ARM: add help text for HIGHPTE configuration entry

Add some help text for the HIGHPTE configuration entry.  This comes from
the x86 entry, but reworded to be more a more accurate description of
what this option does.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
parent e6ae32c3
......@@ -1661,6 +1661,12 @@ config HIGHMEM
config HIGHPTE
bool "Allocate 2nd-level pagetables from highmem"
depends on HIGHMEM
help
The VM uses one page of physical memory for each page table.
For systems with a lot of processes, this can use a lot of
precious low memory, eventually leading to low memory being
consumed by page tables. Setting this option will allow
user-space 2nd level page tables to reside in high memory.
config HW_PERF_EVENTS
bool "Enable hardware performance counter support for perf events"
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