ACPI: Do not try to set up acpi processor stuff on cores exceeding maxcpus=

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.

I wonder whether this could get cleaned up by truncating possible cpu mask
and nr_cpu_ids to setup_max_cpus early some day
(and not exporting setup_max_cpus anymore then).
But this needs touching of a lot other places...

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
CC: travis@sgi.com
CC: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
CC: lenb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 3bdb152f412f..ac2e4a5f59ee 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -125,7 +125,9 @@ static char *ramdisk_execute_command;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 /* Setup configured maximum number of CPUs to activate */
-unsigned int __initdata setup_max_cpus = NR_CPUS;
+unsigned int setup_max_cpus = NR_CPUS;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(setup_max_cpus);
+
 
 /*
  * Setup routine for controlling SMP activation