[PATCH] ARM: KVM: iterate over all CPUs for CPU compatibility check

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Wed Apr 17 07:42:10 EDT 2013


On 17.04.2013, at 13:38, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 17 April 2013 12:30, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>> By disabling the problematic configuration, we just bury our head in the
>> sand and pretend everything is fine. Yes, this is a new feature. But by
>> saying "not a supported configuration", while the code *should* support
>> it, we're only fooling ourselves.
> 
> Who says the code should support running on big.LITTLE? I think
> it's very clear that the only thing it should support at the
> moment is A15 guest CPUs on an all-A15 host CPU system.

Is anyone going to run this code on big.LITTLE systems before 3.10 is out?

Just fix it for real with 3.10 and everyone's happy. If need be, you can always CC the fixes to stable to have them in 3.9.


Alex




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