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diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index e05278087ffa..e71bc6cbbc5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt @@ -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>, @@ -44,11 +46,9 @@ 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 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 +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 @@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ 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 ----------------- [More on cpumaps and primitive to manipulate, please check |