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authorVenkatesh Pallipadi2005-09-04 00:56:31 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds2005-09-05 09:06:10 +0200
commit911a62d42365076209e2c327e7688db296e35d62 (patch)
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parent[PATCH] kdump: Save parameter segment in protected mode (x86) (diff)
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[PATCH] x86: sutomatically enable bigsmp when we have more than 8 CPUs
i386 generic subarchitecture requires explicit dmi strings or command line to enable bigsmp mode. The patch below removes that restriction, and uses bigsmp as soon as it finds more than 8 logical CPUs, Intel processors and xAPIC support. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/acpi')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
index b7808a89d945..34ee500c26e5 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
@@ -833,6 +833,9 @@ acpi_process_madt(void)
if (!error) {
acpi_lapic = 1;
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH
+ generic_bigsmp_probe();
+#endif
/*
* Parse MADT IO-APIC entries
*/