Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] x68: acpi: trigger SMI before sending hotplug Notify event to OSPM

[Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 19:25:48 +0200
Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 08/18/20 14:22, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > In case firmware has negotiated CPU hotplug SMI feature, generate
> > AML to describe SMI IO port region and send SMI to firmware
> > on each CPU hotplug SCI in case new CPUs were hotplugged.
> >
> > Since new CPUs can be hotplugged while CPU_SCAN_METHOD is running
> > we can't send SMI before new CPUs are fetched from QEMU as it
> > could cause sending Notify to a CPU that firmware hasn't seen yet.
> > So fetch new CPUs into local cache first and then send SMI and
> > after that sends Notify events to cached CPUs. This should ensure
> > that Notify is sent only to CPUs which were processed by firmware
> > first.
> > Any CPUs that were hotplugged after caching will be processed
> > by the next CPU_SCAN_METHOD, when pending SCI is handled.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > v2:
> >  - clear insert event after firmware has returned
> >    control from SMI. (Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>)

Laszlo,
Thanks a lot for such detailed review
I'll respin series with your feed back incorporated.

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