[PATCHv5 13/16] x86/acpi: Do not attempt to bring up secondary CPUs in kexec case

Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com
Fri Dec 22 15:52:05 PST 2023


ACPI MADT doesn't allow to offline a CPU after it was onlined. This
limits kexec: the second kernel won't be able to use more than one CPU.

To prevent a kexec kernel from onlining secondary CPUs invalidate the
mailbox address in the ACPI MADT wakeup structure which prevents a
kexec kernel to use it.

This is safe as the booting kernel has the mailbox address cached
already and acpi_wakeup_cpu() uses the cached value to bring up the
secondary CPUs.

Note: This is a Linux specific convention and not covered by the
      ACPI specification.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy at linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/acpi/madt_wakeup.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/madt_wakeup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/madt_wakeup.c
index 004801b9b151..30820f9de5af 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/madt_wakeup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/madt_wakeup.c
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ static struct acpi_madt_multiproc_wakeup_mailbox *acpi_mp_wake_mailbox __ro_afte
 
 static int acpi_wakeup_cpu(u32 apicid, unsigned long start_ip)
 {
+	if (!acpi_mp_wake_mailbox_paddr) {
+		pr_warn_once("No MADT mailbox: cannot bringup secondary CPUs. Booting with kexec?\n");
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Remap mailbox memory only for the first call to acpi_wakeup_cpu().
 	 *
@@ -64,6 +69,28 @@ static int acpi_wakeup_cpu(u32 apicid, unsigned long start_ip)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void acpi_mp_disable_offlining(struct acpi_madt_multiproc_wakeup *mp_wake)
+{
+	cpu_hotplug_disable_offlining();
+
+	/*
+	 * ACPI MADT doesn't allow to offline a CPU after it was onlined. This
+	 * limits kexec: the second kernel won't be able to use more than one CPU.
+	 *
+	 * To prevent a kexec kernel from onlining secondary CPUs invalidate the
+	 * mailbox address in the ACPI MADT wakeup structure which prevents a
+	 * kexec kernel to use it.
+	 *
+	 * This is safe as the booting kernel has the mailbox address cached
+	 * already and acpi_wakeup_cpu() uses the cached value to bring up the
+	 * secondary CPUs.
+	 *
+	 * Note: This is a Linux specific convention and not covered by the
+	 *       ACPI specification.
+	 */
+	mp_wake->mailbox_address = 0;
+}
+
 int __init acpi_parse_mp_wake(union acpi_subtable_headers *header,
 			      const unsigned long end)
 {
@@ -77,7 +104,7 @@ int __init acpi_parse_mp_wake(union acpi_subtable_headers *header,
 
 	acpi_mp_wake_mailbox_paddr = mp_wake->mailbox_address;
 
-	cpu_hotplug_disable_offlining();
+	acpi_mp_disable_offlining(mp_wake);
 
 	apic_update_callback(wakeup_secondary_cpu_64, acpi_wakeup_cpu);
 
-- 
2.41.0




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