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Andi Kleen committed 01d4bed417b
[PATCH] x86_64: Limit max number of CPUs to 255 Because 256 causes overflows in some code that stores them in 8 bit fields and the x86 APIC architecture cannot handle more than 255 anyways. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>