From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-coco@lists.linux.dev,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec enabling in TDX guest
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:26:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b09a3505bf3deaa11906a2ecb9d15c4ec427ea2.camel@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230213234836.3683-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
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On Tue, 2023-02-14 at 02:48 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> The patch brings basic enabling of kexec in TDX guests.
>
> By "basic enabling" I mean, kexec in the guests with a single CPU.
> TDX guests use ACPI MADT MPWK to bring up secondary CPUs. The mechanism
> doesn't allow to put a CPU back offline if it has woken up.
>
> We are looking into this, but it might take time.
Can't we park the secondary CPUs in a purgatory-like thing of their own
and wake them from there when we want them?
Patches for that were floating around once, although the primary reason
then was latency, and we decided to address that differently by doing
the bringup in parallel instead.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-22 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-13 23:48 [PATCH 0/2] Kexec enabling in TDX guest Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-13 23:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/kexec: Preserve CR4.MCE during kexec Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-16 1:49 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2023-02-16 9:43 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-16 17:33 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2023-02-16 19:46 ` Andrew Cooper
2023-02-13 23:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/tdx: Convert shared memory back to private on kexec Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-15 1:53 ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-16 17:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] Kexec enabling in TDX guest Dave Hansen
2023-02-16 18:12 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-16 18:32 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-22 10:26 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2023-02-24 14:30 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-02-24 15:22 ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-24 16:12 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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