x86/cpu: Allow higher NR_CPUS values

The current range for SMP configs is 2 - 512 CPUs, or a full
4096 in the case of MAXSMP.  There are machines that have 1024
CPUs in them today and configuring a kernel for that means you
are forced to set MAXSMP.  This adds additional unnecessary
overhead.  While that overhead might be considered tiny for
large machines, it isn't necessarily so if you are building a
kernel that runs across a wide variety of machines.

To cover the range of more common machines today, we allow
NR_CPUS to be up to 4096 when CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131105143728.GJ9944@hansolo.jdub.homelinux.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index f67e839f06c845e406d81c8b2be285ced8b57448..f03e428112eb10f8577e9a5c123cd98a43a7614c 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -825,14 +825,16 @@ config MAXSMP
 config NR_CPUS
        int "Maximum number of CPUs" if SMP && !MAXSMP
        range 2 8 if SMP && X86_32 && !X86_BIGSMP
-       range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP
+       range 2 512 if SMP && !MAXSMP && !CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
+       range 2 4096 if SMP && !MAXSMP && CPUMASK_OFFSTACK && X86_64
        default "1" if !SMP
        default "4096" if MAXSMP
        default "32" if SMP && (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT || X86_BIGSMP || X86_ES7000)
        default "8" if SMP
        ---help---
          This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
-         kernel will support.  The maximum supported value is 512 and the
+         kernel will support.  If CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, the maximum
+         supported value is 4096, otherwise the maximum value is 512.  The
          minimum value which makes sense is 2.
 
          This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds