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authorRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>2007-02-17 19:58:30 +0100
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>2007-02-17 19:58:30 +0100
commit78f92a82c20a9f66d215f6c6d96fb91c0763ce95 (patch)
treef0929fcde8615bfa23334f44bf592e11c12909a1
parent4b2d5c049079d342e3e268c162dcecbd7bad1411 (diff)
doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible
Some people are confused about maxcpus=1 and maxcpus=0, so put the documentation text from init/main.c into Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt also. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index abd575cfc75..f6a3961da34 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -863,7 +863,14 @@ 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
+ 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.
max_addr=[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater than or
equal to this physical address is ignored.