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Memory used by the LPI tables have to be made persistent for kexec to have a chance to work, as explained in [1]. If they have been made persistent and we are booting into a kexec'd kernel, we also need to free the pages that were preemptively allocated by the new kernel for those tables. Both of those operations currently happen during its_cpu_init(), which happens in a _STARTING (IOW atomic) cpuhp callback for secondary CPUs. efi_mem_reserve_iomem() issues a GFP_ATOMIC allocation, which unfortunately doesn't work under PREEMPT_RT (this ends up grabbing a non-raw spinlock, which can sleep under PREEMPT_RT). Similarly, freeing the pages ends up grabbing a sleepable spinlock. Since the memreserve is only required by kexec, it doesn't have to be done so early in the secondary boot process. Issue the reservation in a new CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN cpuhp callback, and piggy-back the page freeing on top of it. A CPU gets to run the body of this new callback exactly once. As kexec issues a machine_shutdown() prior to machine_kexec(), it will be serialized vs a CPU being plugged to life by the hotplug machinery - either the CPU will have been brought up and have had its redistributor's pending table memreserved, or it never went online and will have its table allocated by the new kernel. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180921195954.21574-1-marc.zyngier@arm.com/ Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211027151506.2085066-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.