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Re: [RFC 0/3] x86: fix cpu hotplug with secure boot
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Laszlo Ersek |
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Re: [RFC 0/3] x86: fix cpu hotplug with secure boot |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:10:45 +0200 |
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On 07/14/20 11:58, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 07/10/20 18:17, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>> CPU hotplug with Secure Boot was not really supported and firmware wasn't
>> aware
>> of hotplugged CPUs (which might lead to guest crashes). During 4.2 we
>> introduced
>> locked SMI handler RAM arrea to make sure that guest OS wasn't able to inject
>> its own SMI handler and OVMF added initial CPU hotplug support.
>>
>> This series is QEMU part of that support [1] which lets QMVF tell QEMU that
>> CPU hotplug with SMI broadcast enabled is supported so that QEMU would be
>> able
>> to prevent hotplug in case it's not supported and trigger SMI on hotplug when
>> it's necessary.
>>
>> 1) CPU hotplug negotiation part was introduced later so it might not be
>> in upstream OVMF yet or I might have missed the patch on edk2-devel
>> (Laszlo will point out to it/post formal patch)
>
> I'll post it later, after testing it with this patch series.
(For the time being I had only attached it to
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1849177#c1>.)
>
> Thanks!
> Laszlo
>
>>
>> Igor Mammedov (3):
>> x86: lpc9: let firmware negotiate CPU hotplug SMI feature
>> x86: cphp: prevent guest crash on CPU hotplug when broadcast SMI is in
>> use
>> x68: acpi: trigger SMI before scanning for hotplugged CPUs
>>
>> include/hw/acpi/cpu.h | 1 +
>> include/hw/i386/ich9.h | 1 +
>> hw/acpi/cpu.c | 6 ++++++
>> hw/acpi/ich9.c | 12 +++++++++++-
>> hw/i386/acpi-build.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>> hw/i386/pc.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>> hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c | 10 ++++++++++
>> 7 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
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