Re: [PATCHv2 11/13] x86/acpi: Do not attempt to bring up secondary CPUs in kexec case

[Huang, Kai]

On Fri, 2023-10-20 at 18:12 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> ACPI MADT doesn't allow to offline CPU after it got woke up. It limits
> kexec: the second kernel won't be able to use more than one CPU.
> 
> Now acpi_mp_wake_mailbox_paddr already has the mailbox address.
> The acpi_wakeup_cpu() will use it to bring up secondary cpus.
> 
> Zero out mailbox address in the ACPI MADT wakeup structure to indicate
> that the mailbox is not usable.  This prevents the kexec()-ed kernel
> from reading a vaild mailbox, which in turn makes the kexec()-ed kernel
> only be able to use the boot CPU.
> 
> This is Linux-specific protocol and not reflected in ACPI spec.
> 
> Booting the second kernel with signle CPU is enough to cover the most
> common case for kexec -- kdump.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx>