tree e0eac949aec0e97f739109a354428ce6f41db707
parent 3975d16760d4be7402d1067c548c30c427971331
author Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> 1274886213 +0200
committer Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> 1276121052 -0400

ACPI: Do not try to set up acpi processor stuff on cores exceeding maxcpus=

Patch is against latest Linus master branch and is expected to be
safe bug fix.

You get:
ACPI: HARDWARE addr space,NOT supported yet
for each ACPI defined CPU which status is active, but exceeds
maxcpus= count.

As these "not booted" CPUs do not run an idle routine
and echo X >/proc/acpi/processor/*/throttling did not work
I couldn't find a way to really access not onlined/booted
machines. Still this should get fixed and
/proc/acpi/processor/X dirs of cores exceeding maxcpus
should not show up.

I wonder whether this could get cleaned up by truncating possible cpu mask
and nr_cpu_ids to setup_max_cpus early some day
(and not exporting setup_max_cpus anymore then).
But this needs touching of a lot other places...

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
CC: travis@sgi.com
CC: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
CC: lenb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>