Hi Gavin, On 29/03/2023 03:35, Gavin Shan wrote: > On 2/3/23 9:50 PM, James Morse wrote: >> If folk want to play along at home, you'll need a copy of Qemu that supports this. >> https://github.com/salil-mehta/qemu.git >> salil/virt-cpuhp-armv8/rfc-v1-port29092022.psci.present >> >> You'll need to fix the numbers of KVM_CAP_ARM_HVC_TO_USER and KVM_CAP_ARM_PSCI_TO_USER >> to match your host kernel. Replace your '-smp' argument with something like: >> | -smp cpus=1,maxcpus=3,cores=3,threads=1,sockets=1 >> >> then feed the following to the Qemu montior; >> | (qemu) device_add driver=host-arm-cpu,core-id=1,id=cpu1 >> | (qemu) device_del cpu1 >> >> >> This series is based on v6.2-rc3, and can be retrieved from: >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/morse/linux.git/ virtual_cpu_hotplug/rfc/v1 > I give it a try, but the hot-added CPU needs to be put into online > state manually. I'm not sure if it's expected or not. This is expected. If you want the CPUs to be brought online automatically, you can add udev rules to do that. Thanks, James