PROBLEM: Off-by-one bug on sun4u SMP

[Ryan Davis]

On at least some sun4u machines, the CPU numbering starts at one not 0.
This causes an off-by-one bug as other parts of the code assume
zero-based numbering.

If you set max-cpus in the kernel config to the actual number of CPUs,
the last CPU will be ignored and unused.
This is because the CPU numbering starts at 1 but the code to check
against max-cpus assumes a zero-based numbering.

On my computer: Sun Ultra 60 2x450mhz Ultrasparc.
Building with max-cpus of 2 ignores the second cpu because 2 (one
based cpu number) >= 2 (zero based max cpus)
Rebuilding with a larger max-cpus is a workaround but non optimal.
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