Re: [PATCH] reboot: disable nonboot CPUs

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Jun 14 2012 - 17:41:45 EST


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Per Forlin <per.forlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Disable the nonboot CPUs to safely migrate tasks and interrupts
> to the boot CPU. This will prevent the nonboot CPUs to
> interfer or block the boot CPU from being able to reboot
> the system successfully.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

This seems reasonable to me, though I haven't looked too deeply at the
reboot path.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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