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authorAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>2013-08-29 02:41:59 +0400
committerAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>2013-08-29 02:41:59 +0400
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/next' into kvm-ppc-next
Conflicts: mm/Kconfig CMA DMA split and ZSWAP introduction were conflicting, fix up manually.
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@@ -370,8 +370,10 @@ A: There is no clear spec defined way from ACPI that can give us that
CPUs in MADT as hotpluggable CPUS. In the case there are no disabled CPUS
we assume 1/2 the number of CPUs currently present can be hotplugged.
- Caveat: Today's ACPI MADT can only provide 256 entries since the apicid field
- in MADT is only 8 bits.
+ Caveat: ACPI MADT can only provide 256 entries in systems with only ACPI 2.0c
+ or earlier ACPI version supported, because the apicid field in MADT is only
+ 8 bits. From ACPI 3.0, this limitation was removed since the apicid field
+ was extended to 32 bits with x2APIC introduced.
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