Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/28] riscv: sifive_u: Set the minimum number of cpus to 2

[Bin Meng]

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 5:46 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 8/7/19 9:45 AM, Bin Meng wrote:
> > It is not useful if we only have one management CPU.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <address@hidden>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > - update the file header to indicate at least 2 harts are created
> >
> >  hw/riscv/sifive_u.c | 6 ++++--
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/riscv/sifive_u.c b/hw/riscv/sifive_u.c
> > index 821f1d5..91f3c76 100644
> > --- a/hw/riscv/sifive_u.c
> > +++ b/hw/riscv/sifive_u.c
> > @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
> >   * 1) CLINT (Core Level Interruptor)
> >   * 2) PLIC (Platform Level Interrupt Controller)
> >   *
> > - * This board currently generates devicetree dynamically that indicates at 
> > most
> > - * five harts.
> > + * This board currently generates devicetree dynamically that indicates at 
> > least
> > + * two harts and up to five harts.
> >   *
> >   * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> >   * under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
> > @@ -429,6 +429,8 @@ static void riscv_sifive_u_machine_init(MachineClass 
> > *mc)
> >       * management CPU.
> >       */
> >      mc->max_cpus = 5;
>
> I'm confuse this patch does not apply on top of v4.1.0-rc4.
>

I suspect you need apply the whole series, not this single one due to
patch dependencies in this series?

> Using #define makes these comments redundant, something like:
>
> #define MANAGEMENT_CPU_COUNT 1
> #define COMPUTE_CPU_COUNT 4
>
> then you could use
>
>   max_cpus = MANAGEMENT_CPU_COUNT + COMPUTE_CPU_COUNT
>
> and
>
>   min_cpus = MANAGEMENT_CPU_COUNT + 1.
>

Good idea! I will change that in the next version. Thanks!

Regards,
Bin