Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v13 02/12] mm: hugetlb: introduce a new config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP

From: David Rientjes
Date: Tue Jan 26 2021 - 22:18:55 EST


On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, Muchun Song wrote:

> > I'm not sure that Kconfig is the right place to document functional
> > behavior of the kernel, especially for non-configurable options. Seems
> > like this is already served by existing comments added by this patch
> > series in the files where the description is helpful.
>
> OK. So do you mean just remove the help text here?
>

Yeah, I'd suggest removing the help text from a non-configurable Kconfig
option and double checking that its substance is available elsewhere (like
the giant comment in mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c).