From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> kernel/smp.c has a fancy counter that keeps track of the number of CPUs it marked as not-present and left in cpu_park_loop(). If there are any CPUs spinning in here, features like kexec or hibernate may release them by overwriting this memory. This problem also occurs on machines using spin-tables to release secondary cores. After commit 44dbcc93ab67 ("arm64: Fix behavior of maxcpus=N") we bring all known cpus into the secondary holding pen, meaning this memory can't be re-used by kexec or hibernate. Add a function cpus_are_stuck_in_kernel() to determine if either of these cases have occurred. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h | 12 ++++++++++++ arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h index 433e504..0226447 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h @@ -124,6 +124,18 @@ static inline void cpu_panic_kernel(void) cpu_park_loop(); } +/* + * If a secondary CPU enters the kernel but fails to come online, + * (e.g. due to mismatched features), and cannot exit the kernel, + * we increment cpus_stuck_in_kernel and leave the CPU in a + * quiesecent loop within the kernel text. The memory containing + * this loop must not be re-used for anything else as the 'stuck' + * core is executing it. + * + * This function is used to inhibit features like kexec and hibernate. + */ +bool cpus_are_stuck_in_kernel(void); + #endif /* ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ */ #endif /* ifndef __ASM_SMP_H */ diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c index 678e084..62ff3c0 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c @@ -909,3 +909,21 @@ int setup_profiling_timer(unsigned int multiplier) { return -EINVAL; } + +static bool have_cpu_die(void) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU + int any_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id(); + + if (cpu_ops[any_cpu]->cpu_die) + return true; +#endif + return false; +} + +bool cpus_are_stuck_in_kernel(void) +{ + bool smp_spin_tables = (num_possible_cpus() > 1 && !have_cpu_die()); + + return !!cpus_stuck_in_kernel || smp_spin_tables; +} -- 2.5.0