From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Do not try to set up acpi processor stuff on cores exceeding maxcpus= Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 14:46:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <1274886213-16337-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from vms173011pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.11]:62144 "EHLO vms173011pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752532Ab0E1Sqr (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 14:46:47 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([unknown] [98.118.125.200]) by vms173011.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0L3500IEV85HV1E2@vms173011.mailsrvcs.net> for linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 28 May 2010 13:46:34 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: <1274886213-16337-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: travis@sgi.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 May 2010, Thomas Renninger wrote: > Patch is against latest Linus master branch and is expected to be > safe bug fix. > > You get: > ACPI: HARDWARE addr space,NOT supported yet > for each ACPI defined CPU which status is active, but exceeds > maxcpus= count. > > As these "not booted" CPUs do not run an idle routine > and echo X >/proc/acpi/processor/*/throttling did not work > I couldn't find a way to really access not onlined/booted > machines. Still this should get fixed and > /proc/acpi/processor/X dirs of cores exceeding maxcpus > should not show up. Can we delete the /proc/acpi/processor/ dirs instead of maintaining them? thanks, -Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center