Update hotplug cpu documentation to clearly state when to use
register_cpu_notifier() and register_hotcpu_notifier.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Replace for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
Modifies occurences in documentaion.
for_each_cpu in whatisRCU.txt should be for_each_online_cpu ???
(I'm not sure..)
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Introduce possible_cpus command line option. Hard sets the number of bits set
in cpu_possible_map. Unlike the additional_cpus parameter this one guarantees
that num_possible_cpus() will stay constant even if the system gets rebooted
and a different number of cpus are present at startup.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Introduce additional_cpus command line option. By default no additional cpu
can be attached to the system anymore. Only the cpus present at IPL time can
be switched on/off. If it is desired that additional cpus can be attached to
the system the maximum number of additional cpus needs to be specified with
this option.
This change is necessary in order to limit the waste of per_cpu data
structures.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Minor updates to earlier patch.
- Added to documentation to add ia64 as well.
- Minor clarification on how to use disabled cpus
- used plain max instead of max_t per Andew Morton.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>