i386, x86-64: show that CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is required for suspend on SMP
authorStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Wed, 23 May 2007 20:58:08 +0000 (13:58 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 24 May 2007 03:14:14 +0000 (20:14 -0700)
It's not sufficiently documented that CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is required for
suspend/hibernation on SMP.

Point out the non-obvious.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/i386/Kconfig
arch/x86_64/Kconfig

index c2d54b80223287174d3cabee4ddd932f4355e401..8770a5d0b1433fbad255d0de00bb8b21fecfb592 100644 (file)
@@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
          Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
 
 config HOTPLUG_CPU
-       bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+       bool "Support for suspend on SMP and hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)"
        depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && EXPERIMENTAL && !X86_VOYAGER
        ---help---
          Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on, and to
index 145bb824b2a878fcd0334021e8d434d1898d5a7f..5ce94430c019cfe90bb647082d0c63e41e0c09e5 100644 (file)
@@ -428,12 +428,15 @@ config NR_CPUS
          memory in the static kernel configuration.
 
 config HOTPLUG_CPU
-       bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+       bool "Support for suspend on SMP and hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)"
        depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && EXPERIMENTAL
        help
                Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on.  CPUs
                can be controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#.
-               Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug.
+               This is also required for suspend/hibernation on SMP systems.
+
+               Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug and don't need to
+               suspend.
 
 config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
        def_bool y