On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 11:19:13PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 10:38:04PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> > This patch makes FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER configurable in defconfig for ARMV7-M
> > when built for a single platform.
> 
> I'd prefer if we didn't do this, because this isn't supposed to be a user
> visible "option".  It's an option that was introduced to avoid having to
> throw masses of #ifdefs into the definition of MAX_ZONEORDER.
> 
> The problem with it is that it's a "well, what do I set this to?" option
> and that leads to "oh, I'll just choose the default because I don't know
> any better".
> 
> Do we know why EFM32 needs a value of 9 here?  It's not documented in
> the original commit, and it really _should_ have been.
IIRC it was done because of memory pressure. But not sure this makes any
sense. I will try with the default value later today and report back.

Best regards
Uwe

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