linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] reboot: disable nonboot CPUs

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:57:04 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Per Forlin <per.forlin@...ricsson.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, serge.hallyn@...onical.com,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Per Forlin <per.lkml@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reboot: disable nonboot CPUs

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:48:34 +0400
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 02:41:48PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Per Forlin <per.forlin@...ricsson.com> wrote:
> > > Disable the nonboot CPUs to safely migrate tasks and interrupts
> > > to the boot CPU. This will prevent the nonboot CPUs to
> > > interfer or block the boot CPU from being able to reboot
> > > the system successfully.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> > 
> > This seems reasonable to me, though I haven't looked too deeply at the
> > reboot path.
> 
> Looks reasonable to me as well, but better to add some more CC,

That worked well :(

> since syscore_shutdown seems to call for generic irqs to shutdown
> when cpu get turned off already, not sure if this have any side
> effect and/or I've missed something (Thomas CC'ed).

Let's use the scientific method: stick it in the tree and see what
happens.  If it breaks, we fix or revert it.
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