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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2006-02-18 15:07:18 +0000
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2006-02-18 15:07:18 +0000
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Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
ia64/x86_64:
Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
+ s390:
+ Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Authors: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Lots of feedback: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>,
@@ -44,9 +46,23 @@ maxcpus=n Restrict boot time cpus to n. Say if you have 4 cpus, using
maxcpus=2 will only boot 2. You can choose to bring the
other cpus later online, read FAQ's for more info.
-additional_cpus=n [x86_64 only] use this to limit hotpluggable cpus.
- This option sets
- cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus
+additional_cpus=n [x86_64, s390 only] use this to limit hotpluggable cpus.
+ This option sets
+ cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus
+
+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 doesnt
+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.
+ This option sets possible_cpus bits in
+ cpu_possible_map. Thus keeping the numbers of bits set
+ constant even if the machine gets rebooted.
+ This option overrides additional_cpus.
CPU maps and such
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