On 08/06/15 11:52, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 June 2015 at 11:32, Igor Mammedov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 18:17:39 +0100
>> Peter Maydell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 4 June 2015 at 17:40, Shlomo Pongratz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> In order for it to work correctly we must use MPIDR values in
>>> the device tree which match the MPIDR values the kernel has picked
>>> for the vcpus, so ask KVM what those values are.
>
>> Could we set QEMU's generated mpidr in kernel instead of pulling it from
>> kernel,
>> like we do with APIC ID in x86 and fix kernel not to reset it its own value
>> (i.e. untie mpidr from vcpuid)?
>>
>> Then later we could move setting mpidr from kvm_arch_init_vcpu() into
>> board code which should be setting it, since it knows/defines what topology
>> it has.
>
> This is a question better asked on the kvmarm list (which I have cc'd),
> because that is where the kernel folks hang out...
Care to provide some context? Why is this required?
Thanks,
M.
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