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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 72A88A0007 X-Rspamd-Server: rspam03 X-Stat-Signature: f7bsdpjh97ui9qnwxbp6ohr36e15had5 X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1766177545-450097 X-HE-Meta: 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 gWzqlPps XgNp54YCJwTFqFLerHU77h7Nq08fEX/X5kjSvRK6XU2D6l/oncgJvyiE6CkxdU7MhFjEBc8oG0Aitmp58HylFYI6I67MOZDVN+yjdCvThNRmgDHwx5U+OhnxSVgvH5mqx/s+ADklOxS1Wu8eTVVSlO14urhlJ0S7D0WYMLKAy1co4+a3W9UxAuHs9LbsGxWgEx6Mt6rROLKvUq6w= X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 12/19/25 12:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> For simplicity, I think this can just be: >> >> - default VMSPLIT_3G >> + default VMSPLIT_2G >> >> I doubt the 2G vs. 2G_OPT matters in very many cases. If it does, folks >> can just set it in their config manually. >> >> But, in the end, I don't this this matters all that much. If you think >> having x86 be consistent with ARM, for example, is more important and >> ARM really wants this complexity, I can live with it. > Yes, I think we do want the default of VMSPLIT_3G_OPT for > configs that have neither highmem nor lpae, otherwise the most > common embedded configs go from 3072 MiB to 1792 MiB of virtual > addressing, and that is much more likely to cause regressions > than the 2816 MiB default. > > It would be nice to not need the VMSPLIT_2G default for PAE/LPAE, > but that seems like a larger change. The only thing we'd "regress" would be someone who is repeatedly starting from scratch with a defconfig and expecting defconfig to be the same all the time. I honestly think that's highly unlikely. If folks are upgrading and _actually_ exposed to regressions, they've got an existing config and won't be hit by these defaults at *all*. They won't actually regress. In other words, I think we can be a lot more aggressive about defaults than with the feature set we support. I'd much rather add complexity in here for solving a real problem, like if we have armies of 32-bit x86 users constantly starting new projects from scratch and using defconfigs. I'd _really_ like to keep the defaults as simple as possible.