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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 11/22] s390x: allow only 1 CPU with TCG


From: David Hildenbrand
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 11/22] s390x: allow only 1 CPU with TCG
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 18:25:10 +0200
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On 13.09.2017 18:13, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> David Hildenbrand <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Specifying more than 1 CPU (e.g. -smp 5) leads to SIGP errors (the
>> guest tries to bring these CPUs up but fails), because we don't support
>> multiple CPUs on s390x under TCG.
>>
>> Let's bail out if more than 1 is specified, so we don't raise people's
>> hope.
> 
> Why does this restriction exist? Without MTTCG enabled -smp > 1 should
> be safe from any races.

Because the actual SIGP code (instruction to start/stop ... CPUs) is not
implemented yet.


-- 

Thanks,

David



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