1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 8a63c404ef44..8e9904fc3024 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -924,6 +924,15 @@ config KMOD
 
 endif # MODULES
 
+config INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE
+        bool
+        help
+          Back when each arch used to define their own cpu_online_map and
+          cpu_possible_map, some of them chose to initialize cpu_possible_map
+          with all 1s, and others with all 0s.  When they were centralised,
+          it was better to provide this option than to break all the archs
+          and have several arch maintainers persuing me down dark alleys.
+
 config STOP_MACHINE
         bool
         default y