On 2 March 2018 at 10:29, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 2 March 2018 at 04:34, Alistair Francis <alistai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> target/arm: Report the number of cores in the cluster >> >> Previously we assumed that we only has a single cluster, which meant we >> could get away with reporting smp_cpus to the guest. There are cases >> where we have two clusters (Xilinx's ZynqMP is a good example) so >> reporting the number of smp_cpus is incorrect. Instead count the cores >> in the cluster.
> This seems a bit ad-hoc (it will give the wrong answer if we have > two clusters both of the same kind of CPU, for instance). > Maybe it would be better to have a "cluster-size" property on > the CPU (with the default being number of cores in whole system) ? ...though I think "cluster size" isn't quite the right name -- if you have a big.LITTLE cluster with 2xA57 and 2xA53, there are 4 cores in the cluster but I think reading the TRM that the cores will report 2 in the L2CTLR. thanks -- PMM
