Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v1 4/4] target-arm: Compute page size based on ARM target cpu type

[Richard Henderson]

On 06/14/2016 04:36 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> It would be better to delay the point at which we allocate
> the data structures which care about page size, rather than
> moving init of the CPU earlier.

It would be *best* if we could re-initialize and re-allocate these data
structures so that we can follow the current page size as it changes.

Yes, this might require flushing just about everything, but it's the kind of
thing that's likely to happen only at system startup.  After that, everything
benefits from having the correct (larger) page size.

> Also we should consider what happens if we have decided
> the page size is X, and then a CPU is hotplugged which
> requires a page size Y where Y < X.

Is that a real possibility?  Or trivially true because the new cpu has yet to
be initialized by the OS to use the regular OS page size.


r~