[IA64] Count disabled cpus as potential hot-pluggable CPUs
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>
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
index 08c5d04..e052780 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
@@ -44,10 +44,20 @@
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
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[More on cpumaps and primitive to manipulate, please check