Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc4, maxcpus=1 regression

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Aug 29 2007 - 00:04:09 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> maxcpus=1 fails to boot on my T60 laptop, it hangs in early bootup
> (right after setting up the local APICs). I bisected it down to this
> recent commit:
>
> | commit 61ec7567db103d537329b0db9a887db570431ff4
> | Author: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
> | Date: Thu Aug 16 03:34:22 2007 -0400
> |
> | ACPI: boot correctly with "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"
>
> reverting that commit makes the system boot again. I've attached the
> .config.

i suspect it's due to this:

-early_param("maxcpus=", maxcpus);
+__setup("maxcpus=", maxcpus);

i'm quite sure maxcpus still needs to be an early-param.

Ingo
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