On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 01:44:48PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> From: Robert Richter <rrich...@cavium.com>
> 
> Raising the current maximum limit to 64. This is needed for Cavium's
> Thunder systems that will have at least 48 cores per die.
> 
> The change keeps the current memory footprint in cpu mask structures.
> It does not break existing code. Setting the maximum to 64 cpus still
> boots systems with less cpus.
> 
> Mark's Juno happily booted with a NR_CPUS=64 kernel.
> 
> Tested on our Thunder system with 48 cores. We could see interrupts to
> all cores.
> 
> Cc: Radha Mohan Chintakuntla <rchintakun...@cavium.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrich...@cavium.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index fd4e81a4e1ce..67fca2ea81a7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -252,11 +252,11 @@ config SCHED_SMT
>         places. If unsure say N here.
>  
>  config NR_CPUS
> -     int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-32)"
> -     range 2 32
> +     int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-64)"
> +     range 2 64
>       depends on SMP
>       # These have to remain sorted largest to smallest
Unrelated to the patch: What does this comment mean? There is only one
line following, so it's sorted implicitly.

Best regards
Uwe

> -     default "8"
> +     default "64"

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