Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec enabling in TDX guest

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2023-02-14 at 02:48 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> The patch brings basic enabling of kexec in TDX guests.
> 
> By "basic enabling" I mean, kexec in the guests with a single CPU.
> TDX guests use ACPI MADT MPWK to bring up secondary CPUs. The mechanism
> doesn't allow to put a CPU back offline if it has woken up.
> 
> We are looking into this, but it might take time.

Can't we park the secondary CPUs in a purgatory-like thing of their own
and wake them from there when we want them?

Patches for that were floating around once, although the primary reason
then was latency, and we decided to address that differently by doing
the bringup in parallel instead.

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