smp: Allow booting a specific subset of CPUs
In a heterogenous multiprocessor system, specifying the
'maxcpus' parameter on the kernel command line does not
provide sufficient control over which CPUs are brought
online at kernel boot time, since CPUs may have nonuniform
performance characteristics. Thus, we introduce a
'boot_cpus' command line argument, allowing the user to
explicitly specify the list of CPUs that shall be brought
online during kernel boot.
Change-Id: I7bf5efa94785bc6cf1236aa71f4d7364e859fc37
Signed-off-by: Channagoud Kadabi <ckadabi@codeaurora.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index a4f4d69..ded40e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -575,6 +575,10 @@
embedded devices based on command line input.
See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
+ boot_cpus= [SMP]
+ Rather than attempting to online all possible CPUs at
+ boot time, only online the specified set of CPUs.
+
boot_delay= Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
no delay (0).