docs: Document possible_cpus parameter
authorGuilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Sat, 3 Feb 2024 15:21:13 +0000 (12:21 -0300)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mon, 5 Feb 2024 17:21:08 +0000 (10:21 -0700)
commit3e3ede49ce93bc5549d1a1a756410071d6e3a7b1
tree1d434e8eef35fc786a359c463c663780522b544f
parent932be49b71e7a67a288b29e78c45bd095a4be704
docs: Document possible_cpus parameter

The number of possible CPUs is set be kernel in early boot time through
some discovery mechanisms, like ACPI in x86. We have a parameter both
in x86 and S390 to override that - there are some cases of BIOSes exposing
more possible CPUs than the available ones, so this parameter is a good
testing mechanism, but for some reason wasn't mentioned so far in the
kernel parameters guide - let's fix that.

Cc: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240203152208.1461293-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt