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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-08-16 03:34:22 -0400 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-08-21 00:33:35 -0400 |
| commit | 61ec7567db103d537329b0db9a887db570431ff4 (patch) | |
| tree | 7287eb4bd00c09434fc2dd0babadfd0eb7ddc832 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | 28e8351ac22de25034e048c680014ad824323c65 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-61ec7567db103d537329b0db9a887db570431ff4.tar.gz lwn-61ec7567db103d537329b0db9a887db570431ff4.zip | |
ACPI: boot correctly with "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"
In MPS mode, "nosmp" and "maxcpus=0" boot a UP kernel with IOAPIC disabled.
However, in ACPI mode, these parameters didn't completely disable
the IO APIC initialization code and boot failed.
init/main.c:
Disable the IO_APIC if "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"
undefine disable_ioapic_setup() when it doesn't apply.
i386:
delete ioapic_setup(), it was a duplicate of parse_noapic()
delete undefinition of disable_ioapic_setup()
x86_64:
rename disable_ioapic_setup() to parse_noapic() to match i386
define disable_ioapic_setup() in header to match i386
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1641
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 975f029be25c..17770b456310 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -952,14 +952,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: <1-256> maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel - should make use of. - Using "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0" will disable SMP - entirely (the MPS table probe still happens, though). - A command-line option of "maxcpus=<NUM>", where <NUM> - is an integer greater than 0, limits the maximum number - of CPUs activated in SMP mode to <NUM>. - Using "maxcpus=1" on an SMP kernel is the trivial - case of an SMP kernel with only one CPU. + should make use of. maxcpus=n : n >= 0 limits the + kernel to using 'n' processors. n=0 is a special case, + it is equivalent to "nosmp", which also disables + the IO APIC. max_addr=[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater than or equal to this physical address is ignored. @@ -1184,7 +1180,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file nosep [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support. - nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel. + nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel, + and disable the IO APIC. legacy for "maxcpus=0". nosoftlockup [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector. |