From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750988AbWBRK5Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:57:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751089AbWBRK5Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:57:25 -0500 Received: from mtagate1.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.150]:15395 "EHLO mtagate1.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750988AbWBRK5Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:57:25 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:57:12 +0100 From: Heiko Carstens To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ashok Raj Subject: [patch] cpu hotplug documentation fix Message-ID: <20060218105712.GC9216@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r781 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Heiko Carstens Looks like there was a merge conflict when patches 8f8b1138fc9f65e3591aac83a4ee394fef34ac1d and 255acee706b333b79f593dd366f16e1f107cccc3 were applied which wasn't properly resolved. Fix this and add some additional description. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens --- Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index e71bc6c..57a09f9 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt @@ -46,10 +46,12 @@ maxcpus=n Restrict boot time cpus to 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, s390 only] use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. - This option sets +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, s390 + 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 @@ -57,6 +59,9 @@ apicid values in those tables for disabl 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. +s390 uses the number of cpus it detects at IPL time to also the number of bits +in cpu_possible_map. If it is desired to add additional cpus at a later time +the number should be specified using this option or the possible_cpus option. possible_cpus=n [s390 only] use this to set hotpluggable cpus. This option sets possible_cpus bits in