On 24.09.2024 13:54, Ayan Kumar Halder wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> On 23/09/2024 11:23, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 18.09.2024 19:51, Ayan Kumar Halder wrote:
>>> Secondary cpus initialization is not yet supported. Thus, we print an
>>> appropriate message and put the secondary cpus in WFE state.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ayan Kumar Halder <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>> Changes from :-
>>>
>>> v1 - 1. NR_CPUS is defined as 1 for MPU
>> Not quite, what you do is ...
>>
>>> --- a/xen/arch/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/xen/arch/Kconfig
>>> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ config NR_CPUS
>>>     default "8" if ARM && RCAR3
>>>     default "4" if ARM && QEMU
>>>     default "4" if ARM && MPSOC
>>> +   default "1" if ARM && MPU
>>>     default "128" if ARM
>>>     help
>>>       Controls the build-time size of various arrays and bitmaps
>> ... merely set the default. I wonder how useful that is, the more that
>> - as per the description - this is temporary only anyway.
> 
> Yes, I can enforce a build time check like this.
> 
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
> @@ -295,6 +295,12 @@ void asmlinkage __init start_xen(unsigned long 
> fdt_paddr)
>       struct domain *d;
>       int rc, i;
> 
> +    /*
> +     * Currently MPU does not support SMP.
> +     */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MPU
> +    BUILD_BUG_ON(NR_CPUS > 1);
> +#endif
>       dcache_line_bytes = read_dcache_line_bytes();
> 
> Does this look ok ?

Well, I'd still want to understand the purpose (if I was maintainer of
this code at least). You can't bring up secondary processors yet - fine.
But why does that mean you want to limit the build to NR_CPUS=1? Any
number is fine, but just not useful?

Jan

Reply via email to