This topic has a very long history. It comes from Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> For v3: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/834860/ I hope we can acquire it for "kexec -p" soon. V4->V5: improve the [1/3] implementation based on Benjamin's suggestion. Mahesh Salgaonkar (1): ppc64 boot: Wait for boot cpu to show up if nr_cpus limit is about to hit. Pingfan Liu (2): powerpc, cpu: partially unbind the mapping between cpu logical id and its seq in dt powerpc, cpu: handling the special case when boot_cpuid greater than nr_cpus arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h | 3 +++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h | 2 ++ arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c | 19 ++++++++++++++----- arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++----------- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 5 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec