Re: [PATCHv2 02/13] kernel/cpu: Add support for declaring CPU offlining not supported
From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sat Oct 28 2023 - 10:12:16 EST
On Fri, Oct 20 2023 at 18:12, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
Subject: cpu/hotplug: ...
> ACPI MADT doesn't allow to offline CPU after it got woke up.
ACPI MADT is a table ...
This is about the MADT mailbox wakeup method, right?
> Currently offlining hotplug prevented based on the confidential
is prevented
> computing attribute which is set for Intel TDX. But TDX is not
> the only possible user of the wake up method.
>
> Introduce cpu_hotplug_not_supported() that can be called to indicate
> that CPU offlining should be disabled.
Otherwise the changes look good!