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diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index 5f29018a6533..656f0ca52782 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -542,6 +542,8 @@ config QEMU
select SYS_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
select ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
select GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ
+ select NR_CPUS_DEFAULT_1
+ select SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
help
Qemu is a software emulator which among other architectures also
can simulate a MIPS32 4Kc system. This patch adds support for the
@@ -1805,6 +1807,9 @@ config SMP
config SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
bool
+config NR_CPUS_DEFAULT_1
+ bool
+
config NR_CPUS_DEFAULT_2
bool
@@ -1825,8 +1830,9 @@ config NR_CPUS_DEFAULT_64
config NR_CPUS
int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-64)"
- range 2 64
+ range 1 64 if NR_CPUS_DEFAULT_1
depends on SMP
+ default "1" if NR_CPUS_DEFAULT_1
default "2" if NR_CPUS_DEFAULT_2
default "4" if NR_CPUS_DEFAULT_4
default "8" if NR_CPUS_DEFAULT_8
@@ -1837,10 +1843,13 @@ config NR_CPUS
This allows you to specify the maximum number of CPUs which this
kernel will support. The maximum supported value is 32 for 32-bit
kernel and 64 for 64-bit kernels; the minimum value which makes
- sense is 2.
+ sense is 1 for Qemu (useful only for kernel debugging purposes)
+ and 2 for all others.
This is purely to save memory - each supported CPU adds
- approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image.
+ approximately eight kilobytes to the kernel image. For best
+ performance should round up your number of processors to the next
+ power of two.
#
# Timer Interrupt Frequency Configuration