> On 29 Oct 2024, at 09:41, Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote:
> 
> On 29.10.2024 10:30, Luca Fancellu wrote:
>> Hi Jan,
>> 
>>> On 29 Oct 2024, at 08:08, Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 28.10.2024 18:38, Ayan Kumar Halder wrote:
>>>> On 28/10/2024 15:01, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 28.10.2024 15:39, Ayan Kumar Halder wrote:
>>>>>> On 28/10/2024 12:55, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>>> On 28.10.2024 13:45, Ayan Kumar Halder wrote:
>>>>>>>> --- a/xen/arch/Kconfig
>>>>>>>> +++ b/xen/arch/Kconfig
>>>>>>>> @@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ config PHYS_ADDR_T_32
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>  config NR_CPUS
>>>>>>>>        int "Maximum number of CPUs"
>>>>>>>> +      range 1 1 if ARM && MPU
>>>>>>>>        range 1 16383
>>>>>>>>        default "256" if X86
>>>>>>>>        default "8" if ARM && RCAR3
>>>>>>>>        default "4" if ARM && QEMU
>>>>>>>>        default "4" if ARM && MPSOC
>>>>>>>> +      default "1" if ARM && MPU
>>>>>>>>        default "128" if ARM
>>>>>>>>        help
>>>>>>>>          Controls the build-time size of various arrays and bitmaps
>>>>>>> I'm afraid I can't easily tell whether MPU can be used together with 
>>>>>>> any of
>>>>>>> RCAR3, QEMU, or MPSOC. If it can, the new default line would need to 
>>>>>>> move
>>>>>>> up, as it's the first one that has a match on its condition which is 
>>>>>>> being
>>>>>>> used.
>>>>>> MPU cannot be used with any of the existing platforms.
>>>>> That is - qemu can't emulate such an environment, i.e. even QEMU and MPU
>>>>> don't go together?
>>>> 
>>>> Qemu has support for Aarch32 MPU at EL2 and EL1 (ie R52). As far as I am 
>>>> aware, there is no support for Aarch64 MPU in Qemu (ie R82).
>>>> 
>>>> Even for R52, I could not get the upstream Qemu working (emulating some 
>>>> Arm reference platform).
>>>> 
>>>> I could get the Xilinx fork of Qemu (https://github.com/Xilinx/qemu) 
>>>> working which emulates AMD's SoC using R52.
>>>> 
>>>> However, this should not impact the current patch. There is no Qemu in 
>>>> xen/arch/arm/platforms/*.
>>> 
>>> Aiui that's not relevant. There is a QEMU item in 
>>> xen/arch/arm/platforms/Kconfig.
>>> I continue to fail to see why that couldn't be selected together with MPU. 
>>> Yet if
>>> it can be, you'd end up with a default of 4, not 1, if it actually _is_ 
>>> selected.
>>> Alternatively QEMU (and maybe also RCAR3 and MPSOC) need to be mutually 
>>> exclusive
>>> with MPU. Hmm, looks like that's already the case, by patch 2 suppressing 
>>> the
>>> "Platform Support" prompt. While that looks fragile to me, I'm sorry for the
>>> noise then.
>> 
>> Are you suggesting to move "default "1" if ARM && MPU” right after “default 
>> "256" if X86”?
> 
> Yes.

Makes sense! 

With that:

Reviewed-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fance...@arm.com>

> 
> Jan

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