[PATCHv6 13/16] x86/acpi: Do not attempt to bring up secondary CPUs in kexec case

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Wed Jan 24 2024 - 07:59:20 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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);

--
2.43.0