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Subject[tip:x86/pci] vgaarb: Add user selectability of the number of GPUS in a system
Commit-ID:  36028f3383872eefb558a4aae4c12ec2b5fa640f
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/36028f3383872eefb558a4aae4c12ec2b5fa640f
Author: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:45:01 -0800
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
CommitDate: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:02:47 -0800

vgaarb: Add user selectability of the number of GPUS in a system

Update the VGA Arbiter to allow the user to select the number
of GPU's supported in a system.

v2: simplify setting of MAX_USER_CARDS, revert back to original default of 16

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B68D51D.6090401@sgi.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
---
drivers/gpu/vga/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++
drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/vga/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/vga/Kconfig
index 790e675..0920492 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/vga/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/vga/Kconfig
@@ -8,3 +8,11 @@ config VGA_ARB
are accessed at same time they need some kind of coordination. Please
see Documentation/vgaarbiter.txt for more details. Select this to
enable VGA arbiter.
+
+config VGA_ARB_MAX_GPUS
+ int "Maximum number of GPUs"
+ default 16
+ depends on VGA_ARB
+ help
+ Reserves space in the kernel to maintain resource locking for
+ multiple GPUS. The overhead for each GPU is very small.
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c b/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
index ba7fa9e..325a533 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vga_client_register);
* the arbiter.
*/

-#define MAX_USER_CARDS 16
+#define MAX_USER_CARDS CONFIG_VGA_ARB_MAX_GPUS
#define PCI_INVALID_CARD ((struct pci_dev *)-1UL)

/*

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