Re: [PATCH] ix86: minor highmem related Kconfig cleanup

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jan Beulich wrote:
> Remove a redundant conditional and consolidate a dependency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>  config HIGHPTE
>  	bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem"
> -	depends on X86_32 && (HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G)
> +	depends on HIGHMEM
>  	---help---
>  	  The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory.
>  	  For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious
> 

This is probably correct, but the "3rd-level" should have been removed
from the description long ago when this was made available to non-PAE
mode (if it ever wasn't.)

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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