Re: CPU hotplug with KVM(ARM)

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On 17/04/13 14:25, Giridhar Maruthy wrote:

Hi Giridhar,

> I was trying out cpu hotplug of secondary processors when kernel has
> booted with hypervisor mode on all the processors. Though I was able
> to remove and hotplug the cpu, any running guest will crash and no
> more guests are able to bootup. I see that many of the initializations
> like cpu_init_hyp_mode() on each cpu being done during startup will not
> be done during the hotplug. Does the framework not support hotplug at the
> moment with guest OS running?

As you found out, it is utterly broken at the moment.

This patch series should hopefully solve the issue:
https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2013-April/005340.html

Please let me know if it solves your problem.

> A patch follows this email I used to put secondary processors into
> hyp mode for cpu hotplug.

You'll definitely need something like that indeed. It'd better be in
your firmware, though.

	M.
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