From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86/smpboot: Add the missing description of possible_cpus Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:37:12 +0100 Message-ID: <20180320123712.GR4043@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20180320110432.28127-1-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> <20180320110432.28127-2-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180320110432.28127-2-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dou Liyang Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, corbet@lwn.net, rjw@rjwysocki.net, lenb@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 07:04:28PM +0800, Dou Liyang wrote: > + possible_cpus= [s390,x86_64] Use this to set hotpluggable cpus. > + This option sets possible_cpus bits in cpu_possible_map. > + Thus keeping the numbers of bits set constant even if > + the machine gets rebooted. That description, esp. the last sentence, doesn't make any kind of sense to me. What?