Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Use Aff1 with mpidr

[Pavel Fedin]

 Hello!

> That's what I see as correct way to go
> and along the way teach KVM to not derive mpidr encoding from vcpuid
> and use QEMU provided mpidr value, that way mpidr would be consistent.

 Yes, and this would make modelling of real hardware working much better. 
However,
unfortunately, i have just tested it, and it does not work. MPIDR can be set 
for the vCPU,
and i believe it will even give back the value when read. But PSCI completely 
ignores this
setting.

> As it currently stands QEMU notion of mpidr and KVM's will diverge
> onece CPU count goes above 16 CPUs.

 Yes, but fortunately the code which cares about it (PSCI and Shlomo's GICv3 
software
emulation) is not used with KVM. So i think we have no other choice if we want 
to be
compatible with current KVM APIs.

Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin
Expert Engineer
Samsung Electronics Research center Russia