On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:13:25 -0700 Yury Norov <yury.norov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > @@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ to change, such as less cores in the CPU list, then N and any ranges using N > will also change. Use the same on a small 4 core system, and "16-N" becomes > "16-3" and now the same boot input will be flagged as invalid (start > end). > > +The special case-tolerant group name "all" has a meaning of selecting all CPUs, > +such that "isolcpus=all" is the equivalent of "isolcpus=0-N". I'm OK with the concept of this patch set, but really? That is a horrible example. One should NEVER set isolcpus to all! -- Steve > + > +The semantics of "N" and "all" is supported on a level of bitmaps and holds for > +all users of bitmap_parse(). >
