Hi Leif,

I think I got it. Thank you very much.


-----Original Message-----
From: Leif Lindholm [mailto:leif.lindholm@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, KelvinKLi@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