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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-02 22:41:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-02 22:41:36 +0100 |
| commit | 923a789b49c7269a0245d5af6afe486188d940df (patch) | |
| tree | c3f168427372e64f7467a794f313416da5086ba0 /Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | |
| parent | 103ceffb9501531f6931df6aebc11a05189201f0 (diff) | |
| parent | b840d79631c882786925303c2b0f4fefc31845ed (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cleanups
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index 94bbc27..9d620c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt @@ -50,16 +50,17 @@ additional_cpus=n (*) Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus (*) Option valid only for following architectures -- x86_64, ia64 +- ia64 -ia64 and x86_64 use the number of disabled local apics in ACPI tables MADT -to determine the number of potentially hot-pluggable cpus. The implementation -should only rely on this to count the # of cpus, but *MUST* not rely on the -apicid values in those tables for disabled apics. In the event BIOS doesn't -mark such hot-pluggable cpus as disabled entries, one could use this -parameter "additional_cpus=x" to represent those cpus in the cpu_possible_map. +ia64 uses the number of disabled local apics in ACPI tables MADT to +determine the number of potentially hot-pluggable cpus. The implementation +should only rely on this to count the # of cpus, but *MUST* not rely +on the apicid values in those tables for disabled apics. In the event +BIOS doesn't mark such hot-pluggable cpus as disabled entries, one could +use this parameter "additional_cpus=x" to represent those cpus in the +cpu_possible_map. -possible_cpus=n [s390 only] use this to set hotpluggable cpus. +possible_cpus=n [s390,x86_64] use this to set hotpluggable cpus. This option sets possible_cpus bits in cpu_possible_map. Thus keeping the numbers of bits set constant even if the machine gets rebooted. |
