[PATCH] x86: sutomatically enable bigsmp when we have more than 8 CPUs

i386 generic subarchitecture requires explicit dmi strings or command line
to enable bigsmp mode.  The patch below removes that restriction, and uses
bigsmp as soon as it finds more than 8 logical CPUs, Intel processors and
xAPIC support.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c b/arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c
index 25883b44f625..037b2af1a1f4 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mach-generic/bigsmp.c
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ static struct dmi_system_id __initdata bigsmp_dmi_table[] = {
 
 static __init int probe_bigsmp(void)
 { 
-        dmi_check_system(bigsmp_dmi_table);
+        if (def_to_bigsmp)
+                dmi_bigsmp = 1;
+        else
+                dmi_check_system(bigsmp_dmi_table);
         return dmi_bigsmp; 
 }