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Date:	Fri, 5 Feb 2010 23:09:36 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
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	travis@....com, holt@....com, airlied@...ux.ie,
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Subject: [tip:x86/pci] vgaarb: Add user selectability of the number of GPUS in a system

Commit-ID:  36028f3383872eefb558a4aae4c12ec2b5fa640f
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/36028f3383872eefb558a4aae4c12ec2b5fa640f
Author:     Mike Travis <travis@....com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:45:01 -0800
Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
CommitDate: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:02:47 -0800

vgaarb: Add user selectability of the number of GPUS in a system

Update the VGA Arbiter to allow the user to select the number
of GPU's supported in a system.

v2: simplify setting of MAX_USER_CARDS, revert back to original default of 16

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@....com>
LKML-Reference: <4B68D51D.6090401@....com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@....com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/vga/Kconfig  |    8 ++++++++
 drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/vga/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/vga/Kconfig
index 790e675..0920492 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/vga/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/vga/Kconfig
@@ -8,3 +8,11 @@ config VGA_ARB
 	  are accessed at same time they need some kind of coordination. Please
 	  see Documentation/vgaarbiter.txt for more details. Select this to
 	  enable VGA arbiter.
+
+config VGA_ARB_MAX_GPUS
+	int "Maximum number of GPUs"
+	default 16
+	depends on VGA_ARB
+	help
+	  Reserves space in the kernel to maintain resource locking for
+	  multiple GPUS.  The overhead for each GPU is very small.
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c b/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
index ba7fa9e..325a533 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vga_client_register);
  * the arbiter.
  */
 
-#define MAX_USER_CARDS         16
+#define MAX_USER_CARDS         CONFIG_VGA_ARB_MAX_GPUS
 #define PCI_INVALID_CARD       ((struct pci_dev *)-1UL)
 
 /*
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