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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2009-01-09 03:39:43 -0500 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2009-01-09 03:39:43 -0500 |
| commit | b2576e1d4408e134e2188c967b1f28af39cd79d4 (patch) | |
| tree | 004f3c82faab760f304ce031d6d2f572e7746a50 /Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | |
| parent | 3cc8a5f4ba91f67bbdb81a43a99281a26aab8d77 (diff) | |
| parent | 2150edc6c5cf00f7adb54538b9ea2a3e9cedca3f (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into release
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index 94bbc27ddd4..9d620c153b0 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. |