Hi Leif,

I think I got it. Thank you very much.


-----Original Message-----
From: Leif Lindholm [mailto:leif.lindh...@linaro.org]
Sent: 2014-5-1 (星期四) 19:32
To: Kelvin K. Li
Cc: linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: 答复: why is the the smp_mb() in arm64's barrier.h "dmb ish"?
 
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 06:49:44PM +0800, kelvin...@via-alliance.com wrote:
> Another questions:
> 
> In Arm V8 Architecture Reference Manual,there is an example (see beblow) to 
> explain the shareability attribute of clusters. It is easy to know: each 
> cluster is corresponding to a Inner shareable domain; the two cluster 
> comprise a Outer shareable domain. 

The ARM ARM describes the architectural requirements for a system to
be able to work correctly. Specific implementations can add further
abilities within the scope of this. And Linux can then have additional
requirements for how to enable SMP/HMP..
 
> So, how does the big.LITTLE HMP system treat two clusters as a Inner 
> shareable domain?

Example for Cortex-A53:
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0500d/ch07s02s02.html

Regards,

Leif

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