Re: [PATCH] core: Fix maxcpus boot option broken

2013-05-31 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:06 -0400 Youquan Song wrote: > maxcpus boot option to limit maximum number of CPUs on system, but this option > is broken at recent kernel. Can you help us identify which kernel versions have this bug? Identifying the offending commit would be best. Thanks. > Though

[PATCH] core: Fix maxcpus boot option broken

2013-05-29 Thread Youquan Song
maxcpus boot option to limit maximum number of CPUs on system, but this option is broken at recent kernel. Though we use maxcpus to limit CPUs number, but current kernel will register all of present CPUs in sysfs. udev will enumerate all registered cpu at sysfs, and it will bring up the CPU if the