[PATCH] x86_64: Limit max number of CPUs to 255

Because 256 causes overflows in some code that stores them in 8 bit
fields and the x86 APIC architecture cannot handle more than 255
anyways.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
index 24a3016c079d..6fc631457196 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
 
 config NR_CPUS
         int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-256)"
-        range 2 256
+        range 2 255
         depends on SMP
         default "8"
         help