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diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index a750c14..1c50210 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -1693,6 +1693,12 @@ 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" |