diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 705fb915cbf7..a1489e14f8ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,37 @@ can also be entered as
 Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
 	param="spaces in here"
 
+cpu lists:
+----------
+
+Some kernel parameters take a list of CPUs as a value, e.g.  isolcpus,
+nohz_full, irqaffinity, rcu_nocbs.  The format of this list is:
+
+	<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
+
+or
+
+	<cpu number>-<cpu number>
+	(must be a positive range in ascending order)
+
+or a mixture
+
+<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
+
+Note that for the special case of a range one can split the range into equal
+sized groups and for each group use some amount from the beginning of that
+group:
+
+	<cpu number>-cpu number>:<used size>/<group size>
+
+For example one can add to the command line following parameter:
+
+	isolcpus=1,2,10-20,100-2000:2/25
+
+where the final item represents CPUs 100,101,125,126,150,151,...
+
+
+
 This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
 "modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable
 module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also
@@ -1789,13 +1820,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
 
 	irqaffinity=	[SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask
-			Format:
-			<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
-			or
-			<cpu number>-<cpu number>
-			(must be a positive range in ascending order)
-			or a mixture
-			<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
+			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
 
 	irqfixup	[HW]
 			When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers
@@ -1812,13 +1837,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
 
 	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP] Isolate CPUs from the general scheduler.
-			Format:
-			<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
-			or
-			<cpu number>-<cpu number>
-			(must be a positive range in ascending order)
-			or a mixture
-			<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
+			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
 
 			This option can be used to specify one or more CPUs
 			to isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
@@ -2680,6 +2699,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			Default: on
 
 	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT]
+			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
 			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
 			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
 			whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside
@@ -3285,6 +3305,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
 
 	rcu_nocbs=	[KNL]
+			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
+
 			In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
 			the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
 			Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
diff --git a/lib/bitmap.c b/lib/bitmap.c
index eca88087fa8a..0b66f0e5eb6b 100644
--- a/lib/bitmap.c
+++ b/lib/bitmap.c
@@ -496,6 +496,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_print_to_pagebuf);
  * ranges.  Consecutively set bits are shown as two hyphen-separated
  * decimal numbers, the smallest and largest bit numbers set in
  * the range.
+ * Optionally each range can be postfixed to denote that only parts of it
+ * should be set. The range will divided to groups of specific size.
+ * From each group will be used only defined amount of bits.
+ * Syntax: range:used_size/group_size
+ * Example: 0-1023:2/256 ==> 0,1,256,257,512,513,768,769
  *
  * Returns 0 on success, -errno on invalid input strings.
  * Error values:
@@ -507,16 +512,20 @@ static int __bitmap_parselist(const char *buf, unsigned int buflen,
 		int is_user, unsigned long *maskp,
 		int nmaskbits)
 {
-	unsigned a, b;
+	unsigned int a, b, old_a, old_b;
+	unsigned int group_size, used_size;
 	int c, old_c, totaldigits, ndigits;
 	const char __user __force *ubuf = (const char __user __force *)buf;
-	int at_start, in_range;
+	int at_start, in_range, in_partial_range;
 
 	totaldigits = c = 0;
+	old_a = old_b = 0;
+	group_size = used_size = 0;
 	bitmap_zero(maskp, nmaskbits);
 	do {
 		at_start = 1;
 		in_range = 0;
+		in_partial_range = 0;
 		a = b = 0;
 		ndigits = totaldigits;
 
@@ -547,6 +556,24 @@ static int __bitmap_parselist(const char *buf, unsigned int buflen,
 			if ((totaldigits != ndigits) && isspace(old_c))
 				return -EINVAL;
 
+			if (c == '/') {
+				used_size = a;
+				at_start = 1;
+				in_range = 0;
+				a = b = 0;
+				continue;
+			}
+
+			if (c == ':') {
+				old_a = a;
+				old_b = b;
+				at_start = 1;
+				in_range = 0;
+				in_partial_range = 1;
+				a = b = 0;
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			if (c == '-') {
 				if (at_start || in_range)
 					return -EINVAL;
@@ -567,15 +594,30 @@ static int __bitmap_parselist(const char *buf, unsigned int buflen,
 		}
 		if (ndigits == totaldigits)
 			continue;
+		if (in_partial_range) {
+			group_size = a;
+			a = old_a;
+			b = old_b;
+			old_a = old_b = 0;
+		}
 		/* if no digit is after '-', it's wrong*/
 		if (at_start && in_range)
 			return -EINVAL;
-		if (!(a <= b))
+		if (!(a <= b) || !(used_size <= group_size))
 			return -EINVAL;
 		if (b >= nmaskbits)
 			return -ERANGE;
 		while (a <= b) {
-			set_bit(a, maskp);
+			if (in_partial_range) {
+				static int pos_in_group = 1;
+
+				if (pos_in_group <= used_size)
+					set_bit(a, maskp);
+
+				if (a == b || ++pos_in_group > group_size)
+					pos_in_group = 1;
+			} else
+				set_bit(a, maskp);
 			a++;
 		}
 	} while (buflen && c == ',');