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From: Kiryl Shutsemau <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
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	"Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: escalate smp_send_stop() to an SDEI NMI as a last resort
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:35:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <167493d30ef6c99a44291de14cddd41ced8149c4.1781490440.git.kas@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1781490440.git.kas@kernel.org>

From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>

A CPU wedged with interrupts masked ignores the stop IPI, and without
pseudo-NMI there is no NMI IPI to escalate to: a reboot proceeds with
the CPU still running, and a kdump misses its registers.

Add a third rung to smp_send_stop(): once the IPI (and pseudo-NMI IPI,
if enabled) rungs have run, signal SDEI event 0 at whatever stayed
online. Firmware delivers it regardless of the target's DAIF, so it
reaches a CPU a plain IPI cannot; the target acks by going offline,
which the caller already polls for.

Fold the stop bookkeeping into one arm64_nmi_cpu_stop(regs,
die_on_crash), shared by the stop IPI handlers, panic_smp_self_stop()
and the SDEI handler, replacing the near-duplicate local_cpu_stop() and
ipi_cpu_crash_stop(). @die_on_crash is the only difference: the IPI
handlers pass true and PSCI CPU_OFF the CPU on a crash stop so a capture
kernel can reclaim it; the SDEI handler and self-stop pass false and
park. The SDEI park is required, not conservative -- its handler runs
inside an SDEI event that is never completed (completing it resumes the
wedged context), and a CPU_OFF from that unfinished-event context wedges
EL3 on some firmware (left as a follow-up). The dump is unaffected; only
re-onlining the CPU in an SMP capture kernel is lost.

Suggested-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/nmi.h    |  24 +++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c         | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 drivers/firmware/Kconfig        |   2 +
 drivers/firmware/arm_sdei_nmi.c |  75 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/nmi.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/nmi.h
index 9366be419d18..2e8974ff8d63 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/nmi.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/nmi.h
@@ -4,21 +4,45 @@
 
 #include <linux/cpumask.h>
 
+struct pt_regs;
+
 /*
  * Cross-CPU NMI provider hooks, consulted by the arm64 arch code before
  * its regular-IRQ / pseudo-NMI IPI paths. The SDEI provider in
  * drivers/firmware/arm_sdei_nmi.c implements them when active; a future
  * FEAT_NMI provider could slot in here too. The stubs let callers stay
  * unconditional when ARM_SDEI_NMI is off.
+ *
+ * sdei_nmi_active() lets a caller test for the service before committing
+ * to (and waiting on) the SDEI stop rung; sdei_nmi_stop_cpus() then signals
+ * the targets, which ack by going offline.
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_SDEI_NMI
 bool sdei_nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(const cpumask_t *mask, int exclude_cpu);
+bool sdei_nmi_active(void);
+void sdei_nmi_stop_cpus(const cpumask_t *mask);
 #else
 static inline bool sdei_nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(const cpumask_t *mask,
 						      int exclude_cpu)
 {
 	return false;
 }
+
+static inline bool sdei_nmi_active(void)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+
+static inline void sdei_nmi_stop_cpus(const cpumask_t *mask) { }
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * The common "stop this CPU" entry every arm64 stop path funnels through:
+ * the regular/pseudo-NMI stop IPI handlers, panic_smp_self_stop(), and the
+ * SDEI cross-CPU NMI handler. @die_on_crash powers the CPU off on the kdump
+ * crash path (IPI handlers) instead of parking it (SDEI / self-stop).
+ * Defined in arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c.
+ */
+void __noreturn arm64_nmi_cpu_stop(struct pt_regs *regs, bool die_on_crash);
+
 #endif /* __ASM_NMI_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index a670434a8cae..e85a4ba18d5c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
 #include <linux/kexec.h>
 #include <linux/kgdb.h>
+#include <linux/kprobes.h>
 #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
 #include <linux/nmi.h>
 
@@ -862,14 +863,58 @@ void arch_irq_work_raise(void)
 }
 #endif
 
-static void __noreturn local_cpu_stop(unsigned int cpu)
+/*
+ * Bring the local CPU to a stop, saving its register state into the vmcore
+ * on the kdump crash path first. The single point every arm64 stop path
+ * funnels through, so the bookkeeping (mask interrupts, mark offline, mask
+ * SDEI, optionally power off) lives in one place:
+ *
+ *   - the regular IPI_CPU_STOP and pseudo-NMI IPI_CPU_STOP_NMI handlers;
+ *   - panic_smp_self_stop(), a CPU parking itself on a parallel panic();
+ *   - the SDEI cross-CPU NMI handler (drivers/firmware/arm_sdei_nmi.c),
+ *     which reaches CPUs the stop IPIs could not.
+ *
+ * @regs is the register state to record in the vmcore on a crash stop; NULL
+ * means "capture the current context". @die_on_crash decides the kdump crash
+ * path: the IPI stop handlers pass true and power the CPU off (PSCI CPU_OFF,
+ * via __cpu_try_die()) so a capture kernel can reclaim it. The SDEI handler
+ * and panic_smp_self_stop() pass false and only park. For SDEI that is
+ * required, not just conservative: it runs inside an SDEI event that is
+ * deliberately never completed (completing it has firmware resume the wedged
+ * context), and a CPU_OFF from that not-yet-completed context wedges EL3 on
+ * some firmware -- a documented follow-up. Parking also matches this path's
+ * own fallback when CPU_OFF is unavailable.
+ */
+void __noreturn arm64_nmi_cpu_stop(struct pt_regs *regs, bool die_on_crash)
 {
+	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+	bool crash = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) && crash_stop;
+
+	/*
+	 * Use local_daif_mask() instead of local_irq_disable() to make sure
+	 * that pseudo-NMIs are disabled. The "stop" code starts with an IRQ
+	 * and falls back to NMI (which might be pseudo). If the IRQ finally
+	 * goes through right as we're timing out then the NMI could interrupt
+	 * us. It's better to prevent the NMI and let the IRQ finish since the
+	 * pt_regs will be better.
+	 */
+	local_daif_mask();
+
+	if (crash)
+		crash_save_cpu(regs, cpu);
+
+	/* the ack a stop requester (e.g. smp_send_stop()) polls for */
 	set_cpu_online(cpu, false);
 
-	local_daif_mask();
 	sdei_mask_local_cpu();
+
+	if (crash && die_on_crash)
+		__cpu_try_die(cpu);
+
+	/* just in case */
 	cpu_park_loop();
 }
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(arm64_nmi_cpu_stop);
 
 /*
  * We need to implement panic_smp_self_stop() for parallel panic() calls, so
@@ -878,36 +923,7 @@ static void __noreturn local_cpu_stop(unsigned int cpu)
  */
 void __noreturn panic_smp_self_stop(void)
 {
-	local_cpu_stop(smp_processor_id());
-}
-
-static void __noreturn ipi_cpu_crash_stop(unsigned int cpu, struct pt_regs *regs)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
-	/*
-	 * Use local_daif_mask() instead of local_irq_disable() to make sure
-	 * that pseudo-NMIs are disabled. The "crash stop" code starts with
-	 * an IRQ and falls back to NMI (which might be pseudo). If the IRQ
-	 * finally goes through right as we're timing out then the NMI could
-	 * interrupt us. It's better to prevent the NMI and let the IRQ
-	 * finish since the pt_regs will be better.
-	 */
-	local_daif_mask();
-
-	crash_save_cpu(regs, cpu);
-
-	set_cpu_online(cpu, false);
-
-	sdei_mask_local_cpu();
-
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU))
-		__cpu_try_die(cpu);
-
-	/* just in case */
-	cpu_park_loop();
-#else
-	BUG();
-#endif
+	arm64_nmi_cpu_stop(NULL, false);
 }
 
 static void arm64_send_ipi(const cpumask_t *mask, unsigned int nr)
@@ -984,12 +1000,7 @@ static void do_handle_IPI(int ipinr)
 
 	case IPI_CPU_STOP:
 	case IPI_CPU_STOP_NMI:
-		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) && crash_stop) {
-			ipi_cpu_crash_stop(cpu, get_irq_regs());
-			unreachable();
-		} else {
-			local_cpu_stop(cpu);
-		}
+		arm64_nmi_cpu_stop(get_irq_regs(), true);
 		break;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
@@ -1263,6 +1274,28 @@ void smp_send_stop(void)
 			udelay(1);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * If CPUs are *still* online, try the SDEI cross-CPU NMI. Firmware
+	 * delivers it regardless of the target's DAIF state, so it reaches
+	 * a CPU spinning with interrupts masked, which neither rung above
+	 * could (without pseudo-NMI there is no NMI rung at all). Allow
+	 * 100ms: a firmware round-trip per CPU, with headroom.
+	 */
+	if (num_other_online_cpus() && sdei_nmi_active()) {
+		/* re-snapshot after the rungs above took CPUs offline */
+		smp_rmb();
+		cpumask_copy(&mask, cpu_online_mask);
+		cpumask_clear_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &mask);
+
+		pr_info("SMP: retry stop with SDEI NMI for CPUs %*pbl\n",
+			cpumask_pr_args(&mask));
+
+		sdei_nmi_stop_cpus(&mask);
+		timeout = USEC_PER_MSEC * 100;
+		while (num_other_online_cpus() && timeout--)
+			udelay(1);
+	}
+
 	if (num_other_online_cpus()) {
 		smp_rmb();
 		cpumask_copy(&mask, cpu_online_mask);
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
index 6501087ff90d..ab0ee36d46e7 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ config ARM_SDEI_NMI
 	    - arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace()  (sysrq-l, RCU stalls,
 	      hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace, soft-lockup secondary dumps,
 	      hung-task auxiliary dumps)
+	    - smp_send_stop() escalation         (reboot/halt and the
+	      panic / kdump crash stop)
 
 	  The driver registers a handler for the SDEI software-signalled
 	  event (event 0) and reaches a target CPU by signalling it with
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_sdei_nmi.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_sdei_nmi.c
index a82776e7b55a..b2a69be6008f 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_sdei_nmi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_sdei_nmi.c
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@
  *     hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace, soft-lockup/hung-task secondary
  *     dumps all reach interrupt-masked CPUs.
  *
+ *   - sdei_nmi_stop_cpus() — the last rung of smp_send_stop()'s
+ *     escalation (reboot/halt and the panic/kdump crash stop alike),
+ *     reaching CPUs that ignored the stop IPIs; on the kdump path the
+ *     wedged context is captured into the vmcore before the CPU parks.
+ *
  * Delivery uses the standard SDEI software-signalled event (event 0) and
  * SDEI_EVENT_SIGNAL. We register a handler for event 0, enable it, and
  * poke a target CPU with sdei_event_signal(0, mpidr): firmware makes
@@ -59,8 +64,51 @@ static bool sdei_nmi_available;
 
 #define SDEI_NMI_EVENT			0
 
+/*
+ * Backtrace and stop both ride SDEI event 0. That is not a chosen economy:
+ * event 0 is the only architecturally software-signalled event -- the sole
+ * event SDEI_EVENT_SIGNAL can target at an arbitrary PE. Every other event
+ * number is a firmware/platform interrupt-bound event, not something the
+ * kernel can raise cross-CPU, so a dedicated "stop" event would need
+ * firmware to define and bind it -- exactly the firmware dependency this
+ * driver sets out to avoid.
+ *
+ * Sharing one event means the handler must tell a stop apart from a
+ * backtrace. A stop is terminal and system-wide -- sdei_nmi_stop_cpus() is
+ * only reached from smp_send_stop() (reboot/halt/panic/kdump), which never
+ * returns -- so once a stop is requested, every later event-0 fire is a
+ * stop too. A single write-once flag therefore carries as much as a
+ * per-CPU mask would: sdei_nmi_stop_cpus() sets it before signalling, and
+ * the handler reads a set flag as "stop this CPU" and a clear flag as
+ * "backtrace" (handled by nmi_cpu_backtrace(), which self-gates on the
+ * framework's backtrace mask). A backtrace fire that races in after a stop
+ * has begun just stops that CPU instead -- harmless, it is going down.
+ */
+static bool sdei_nmi_stopping;
+
 static int sdei_nmi_handler(u32 event, struct pt_regs *regs, void *arg)
 {
+	if (READ_ONCE(sdei_nmi_stopping)) {
+		/*
+		 * Never returns, and deliberately never completes the SDEI
+		 * event: SDEI_EVENT_COMPLETE has firmware restore the
+		 * interrupted context, which would land the CPU back in
+		 * the wedged loop (or in do_idle, which BUGs at
+		 * cpuhp_report_idle_dead once it sees itself offline).
+		 * Returning a modified pt_regs doesn't help --
+		 * arch/arm64/kernel/sdei.c::do_sdei_event only honours a PC
+		 * override via its IRQ-state heuristic and otherwise hands
+		 * EL3 its own saved-context slot back.
+		 *
+		 * Trade-off: EL3 retains ~one saved-context slot per parked
+		 * CPU until the next hardware reset (~hundreds of bytes per
+		 * CPU). Recoverability is unchanged versus an IPI-stopped
+		 * CPU: neither comes back without a reset.
+		 */
+		arm64_nmi_cpu_stop(regs, false);
+		/* unreachable */
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * nmi_cpu_backtrace() no-ops unless this CPU's bit is set in the
 	 * global backtrace mask (driven by nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace()),
@@ -115,6 +163,33 @@ bool sdei_nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(const cpumask_t *mask, int exclude_cpu)
 	return true;
 }
 
+bool sdei_nmi_active(void)
+{
+	return sdei_nmi_available;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Last rung of the stop escalation in smp_send_stop() (see
+ * arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c). The caller runs the regular stop IPI (and
+ * the pseudo-NMI stop IPI, where available) first; @mask holds whatever
+ * stayed online through those -- typically CPUs wedged with interrupts
+ * masked, unreachable by an IPI. Mark the stop in progress and signal
+ * event 0 at each target; a target acks by marking itself offline, which
+ * the caller polls for. The caller has already confirmed sdei_nmi_active().
+ */
+void sdei_nmi_stop_cpus(const cpumask_t *mask)
+{
+	unsigned int cpu;
+
+	WRITE_ONCE(sdei_nmi_stopping, true);
+
+	/* Publish the flag before the SMCs make targets read it */
+	smp_wmb();
+
+	for_each_cpu(cpu, mask)
+		sdei_nmi_fire(cpu);
+}
+
 /*
  * device_initcall (after arch_initcall(sdei_init), so the SDEI subsystem
  * is up): probe the firmware, register the event, and turn on the
-- 
2.54.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-15  2:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-15  2:35 [PATCH v3 0/3] arm64: cross-CPU NMI via SDEI Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-06-15  2:35 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] firmware: arm_sdei: add SDEI_EVENT_SIGNAL support Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-06-15  2:35 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] drivers/firmware: add SDEI cross-CPU NMI service for arm64 Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-06-15 10:18   ` Puranjay Mohan
2026-06-15  2:35 ` Kiryl Shutsemau [this message]
2026-06-15 10:25   ` [PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: escalate smp_send_stop() to an SDEI NMI as a last resort Puranjay Mohan

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