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SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20210305_120225_701182_EA99911F X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 15.51 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:34:25 +0000, Yejune Deng wrote: > > In big.LITTLE architecture,the application layer calls KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT > several times.Sometimes the thread will run on the big core, sometimes > will run on the little core.The big core and the little core has always > different cpuid, but the init target is fixed. and that leads to > init->target != phys_target. So modify phys target from the current core > to all cpu online. This is done on purpose, and it is userspace's responsibility to pin its vcpu threads to a certain type of CPUs if it cares at all. Thanks, M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel