From 2b633e3fac5efada088b57d31e65401f22bcc18f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yinghai Lu Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:20:37 -0800 Subject: smp: Use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early On x86, before prefill_possible_map(), nr_cpu_ids will be NR_CPUS aka CONFIG_NR_CPUS. Add nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids. so we can simulate cpus <=8 are installed on normal config. -v2: accordging to Christoph, acpi_numa_init should use nr_cpu_ids in stead of NR_CPUS. -v3: add doc in kernel-parameters.txt according to Andrew. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu LKML-Reference: <1265793639-15071-34-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Tony Luck --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 736d4560288..51bceb0fb27 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1772,6 +1772,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or SAL PALO. + nr_cpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel + could support. nr_cpus=n : n >= 1 limits the kernel to + supporting 'n' processors. Later in runtime you can not + use hotplug cpu feature to put more cpu back to online. + just like you compile the kernel NR_CPUS=n + nr_uarts= [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered. numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. -- cgit v1.2.3