Adds support for Numascale NumaChip large-SMP systems. It is
needed to enable the booting of more than ~168 cores.
v2:
- [Steffen] enumerate only accessible northbridges
- [Daniel] rediffed and validated against 3.1-rc10
v3:
- [Daniel] use x86_init core numbering override
- [Daniel] cleanups as per feedback
v4:
- [Daniel] use updated x86_cpuinit override
v5:
- drop disabling interrupts locally, as ISR write is atomic; drop delay
- added read-mostly annotations where appropriate
- require CONFIG_SMP, so drop conditional path
Workload tested on 96 cores/16 sockets.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale-asia.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323101246-2400-1-git-send-email-daniel@numascale-asia.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steffen Persvold