Re: [PATCH] ARM: kexec: validate CPU hotplug support

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Sat Jul 20 2013 - 21:41:11 EST


Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Architectures should fully validate whether kexec is possible as part of
> machine_kexec_prepare(), so that user-space's kexec_load() operation can
> report any problems. Performing validation in machine_kexec() itself is
> too late, since it is not allowed to return.
>
> Prior to this patch, ARM's machine_kexec() was testing after-the-fact
> whether machine_kexec_prepare() was able to disable all but one CPU.
> Instead, modify machine_kexec_prepare() to validate all conditions
> necessary for machine_kexec_prepare()'s to succeed. BUG if the validation
> succeeded, yet disabling the CPUs didn't actually work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>

At a quick skim this looks good to me.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Russell, does it make sense for this to be cc: stable as a follow-up to
> 19ab428 "ARM: 7759/1: decouple CPU offlining from reboot/shutdown"?
>
> arch/arm/include/asm/smp_plat.h | 3 +++
> arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
> arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 8 ++++++++
> 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/smp_plat.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/smp_plat.h
> index 6462a72..a252c0b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/smp_plat.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/smp_plat.h
> @@ -88,4 +88,7 @@ static inline u32 mpidr_hash_size(void)
> {
> return 1 << mpidr_hash.bits;
> }
> +
> +extern int platform_can_cpu_hotplug(void);
> +
> #endif
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> index 4fb074c..d7c82df 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
> #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
> #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
> #include <asm/mach-types.h>
> +#include <asm/smp_plat.h>
> #include <asm/system_misc.h>
>
> extern const unsigned char relocate_new_kernel[];
> @@ -39,6 +40,14 @@ int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *image)
> int i, err;
>
> /*
> + * Validate that if the current HW supports SMP, then the SW supports
> + * and implements CPU hotplug for the current HW. If not, we won't be
> + * able to kexec reliably, so fail the prepare operation.
> + */
> + if (num_possible_cpus() > 1 && !platform_can_cpu_hotplug())
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + /*
> * No segment at default ATAGs address. try to locate
> * a dtb using magic.
> */
> @@ -134,10 +143,13 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
> unsigned long reboot_code_buffer_phys;
> void *reboot_code_buffer;
>
> - if (num_online_cpus() > 1) {
> - pr_err("kexec: error: multiple CPUs still online\n");
> - return;
> - }
> + /*
> + * This can only happen if machine_shutdown() failed to disable some
> + * CPU, and that can only happen if the checks in
> + * machine_kexec_prepare() were not correct. If this fails, we can't
> + * reliably kexec anyway, so BUG_ON is appropriate.
> + */
> + BUG_ON(num_online_cpus() > 1);
>
> page_list = image->head & PAGE_MASK;
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
> index c2b4f8f..5b9e501 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -145,6 +145,14 @@ int boot_secondary(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
> return -ENOSYS;
> }
>
> +int platform_can_cpu_hotplug(void)
> +{
> + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || !smp_ops.cpu_kill)
> + return 0;
> +
> + return 1;
> +}
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
> static void percpu_timer_stop(void);
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