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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [4.7] arm64: Honor nosmp kernel command line option
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:15:27AM +0100, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> Passing "nosmp" should boot the kernel with a single processor, without
> provision to enable secondary CPUs even if they are present. "nosmp" is
> implemented by setting maxcpus=0. At the moment we still mark the secondary
> CPUs present even with nosmp, which allows the userspace to bring them
> up. This patch corrects the smp_prepare_cpus() to honor the maxcpus == 0.
>
> Commit 44dbcc93ab67145 ("arm64: Fix behavior of maxcpus=N") fixed the
> behavior for maxcpus >= 1, but broke maxcpus = 0.
>
> Fixes: commit 44dbcc93ab67145 ("arm64: Fix behavior of maxcpus=N")
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>

Queued for 4.8, with Mark's comment and a cc stable for 4.7

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Catalin

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