Switching to automatic bigsmp causes a misleading error message, that more
then 8 cpus are detected, and user needs to select either X86_GENERICARCH
or X86_BIGSMP to handle.
Reason is we switched to bigsmp to avoid IP race when new cpu is comming
up. [bigsmp is nothing but using physical flat mode that can work for 1 ..
255 cpus] [default is X86_PC, that uses logical flat mode up to 8 CPUs
max] Current x86_64 code uses bigsmp as default when hotplug is enabled.
It would be preferable to make bigsmp as default, and work the dependencies
of other related code like SMP_SUSPEND, and some related to memory hotplug
code for i386.
Current logical flat mode doesnt use shortcuts that cause the race by using
the send_IPI_mask() instead of shortcuts when HOTPLUG_CPU is enabled.
In the meantime this patch is the path of lease resistance.
We will switch to bigsmp default sometime soon, when we get to work it again.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
int smp_found_config;
unsigned int __initdata maxcpus = NR_CPUS;
-#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
-#define CPU_HOTPLUG_ENABLED (1)
-#else
-#define CPU_HOTPLUG_ENABLED (0)
-#endif
-
/*
* Various Linux-internal data structures created from the
* MP-table.
cpu_set(num_processors, cpu_possible_map);
num_processors++;
- if (CPU_HOTPLUG_ENABLED || (num_processors > 8)) {
+ /*
+ * Would be preferable to switch to bigsmp when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y
+ * but we need to work other dependencies like SMP_SUSPEND etc
+ * before this can be done without some confusion.
+ * if (CPU_HOTPLUG_ENABLED || num_processors > 8)
+ * - Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
+ */
+ if (num_processors > 8) {
switch (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor) {
case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
if (!APIC_XAPIC(ver)) {