ACPI: delete the "acpi=ht" boot option
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:09:22 +0000 (00:09 -0500)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:58:38 +0000 (20:58 -0400)
commit68ca406930d6380b3be7ada5f15fcf85bfcbd552
tree866864defb2733d71bce04e342638c60f92fb928
parent4c81ba4900ab4eb24c7d2ba1aca594c644b6ce4c
ACPI: delete the "acpi=ht" boot option

acpi=ht was important in 2003 -- before ACPI was
universally deployed and enabled by default in
the major Linux distributions.

At that time, there were a fair number of people who
or chose to, or needed to, run with acpi=off,
yet also wanted access to Hyper-threading.

Today we find that many invocations of "acpi=ht"
are accidental, and thus is it possible that it
is doing more harm than good.

In 2.6.34, we warn on invocation of acpi=ht.
In 2.6.35, we delete the boot option.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/ia64/include/asm/acpi.h
arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
drivers/acpi/tables.c