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 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
+
+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
+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.
+
+
CPU maps and such
-----------------
[More on cpumaps and primitive to manipulate, please check
int possible, disabled_cpus;
disabled_cpus = total_cpus - available_cpus;
+
if (additional_cpus == -1) {
- if (disabled_cpus > 0) {
- possible = total_cpus;
+ if (disabled_cpus > 0)
additional_cpus = disabled_cpus;
- }
- else {
- possible = available_cpus;
+ else
additional_cpus = 0;
- }
- } else {
- possible = available_cpus + additional_cpus;
- }
+ }
+
+ possible = available_cpus + additional_cpus;
+
if (possible > NR_CPUS)
possible = NR_CPUS;
printk(KERN_INFO "SMP: Allowing %d CPUs, %d hotplug CPUs\n",
- possible,
- max_t(int, additional_cpus, 0));
+ possible, max((possible - available_cpus), 0));
for (i = 0; i < possible; i++)
cpu_set(i, cpu_possible_map);