Skip to content
Commit 2a3313f4 authored by Michael K. Johnson's avatar Michael K. Johnson Committed by H. Peter Anvin
Browse files

x86: more than 8 32-bit CPUs requires X86_BIGSMP



$ cat x86-more-than-8-cpus-requires-bigsmp.patch

Enforce NR_CPUS <= 8 limitation if X86_BIGSMP not set

Configuring more than 8 logical CPUs on 32-bit x86 requires
X86_BIGSMP to be set in order to boot successfully, if more than 8
logical CPUs are actually found at boot time.  The X86_BIGSMP help
text describes that it is required to be set if more than 8 CPUs
are configured, but this was previously not enforced.

This configuration error has affected multiple distributions:
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480844
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-3022

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael K Johnson <johnsonm@rpath.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090422014448.GB32541@logo.rdu.rpath.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent fcc5c4a2
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment