Commit 6303dbf5 authored by Heiko Carstens's avatar Heiko Carstens Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] cpu hotplug documentation fix

Looks like there was a merge conflict when patches
8f8b1138 and
255acee7 were applied which wasn't properly
resolved. Fix this and add some additional description.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 2e2b4263
......@@ -46,10 +46,12 @@ 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, 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 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.
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
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