[PATCHv4 5/5] arm64: cpuinfo: print info for all CPUs
Peter Maydell
peter.maydell at linaro.org
Thu Jul 17 06:55:37 PDT 2014
On 17 July 2014 13:35, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> We're not denying the possibility of heterogeneity, we're trying to expose a
> consistent view of the system to userspace. Differences between cores should
> be dealt with by the kernel (e.g. IKS, HMP scheduling), not blindly
> passed off to userspace.
On that basis, why report anything at all about invididual cores?
Just have /proc/cpuinfo report "number of processors: 4" and
no per-CPU information at all...
-- PMM
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