online, possible and disabled cpus

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Srivatsa Bhat wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You might want to take a look at Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt for
> some details regarding online/possible CPUs...

  ah, quite so, although that file is definitely out of date.  it
doesn't mention the command-line parameters "nosmp" or "nr_cpus="
which are defined in kernel/smp.c.  more in a bit ...

rday

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