On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Srivatsa Bhat wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day >> <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Srivatsa Bhat wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> You might want to take a look at Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt for >> >> some details regarding online/possible CPUs... >> > >> > ah, quite so, although that file is definitely out of date. it >> > doesn't mention the command-line parameters "nosmp" or "nr_cpus=" >> > which are defined in kernel/smp.c. more in a bit ... >> >> I believe you'll find them in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. >> Of course, it would be good to have them documented or at least >> mentioned in the above file (cpu-hotplug.txt) as well.. > > while it's useful, the kernel-parameters.txt file is notoriously > behind the times. in this case, it does mention "nosmp" and "nr_cpus" > but doesn't mention the X86-only "possible_cpus" parameter. oh, well > ... Documentation not keeping up with the code is an eternal issue :) Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
