linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] x86/power: Fix 'nosmt' vs. hibernation triple fault during resume

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Message-ID: <20190530104741.GA12800@amd>
Date:   Thu, 30 May 2019 12:47:42 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] x86/power: Fix 'nosmt' vs. hibernation triple fault
 during resume

On Thu 2019-05-30 00:09:39, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> 
> As explained in
> 
> 	0cc3cd21657b ("cpu/hotplug: Boot HT siblings at least once")
> 
> we always, no matter what, have to bring up x86 HT siblings during boot at
> least once in order to avoid first MCE bringing the system to its knees.
> 
> That means that whenever 'nosmt' is supplied on the kernel command-line,
> all the HT siblings are as a result sitting in mwait or cpudile after
> going through the online-offline cycle at least once.
> 
> This causes a serious issue though when a kernel, which saw 'nosmt' on its
> commandline, is going to perform resume from hibernation: if the resume
> from the hibernated image is successful, cr3 is flipped in order to point
> to the address space of the kernel that is being resumed, which in turn
> means that all the HT siblings are all of a sudden mwaiting on address
> which is no longer valid.
> 
> That results in triple fault shortly after cr3 is switched, and machine
> reboots.
> 
> Fix this by always waking up all the SMT siblings before initiating the
> 'restore from hibernation' process; this guarantees that all the HT
> siblings will be properly carried over to the resumed kernel waiting in
> resume_play_dead(), and acted upon accordingly afterwards, based on the
> target kernel configuration.
> Symmetricaly, the resumed kernel has to push the SMT siblings to mwait
> again in case it has SMT disabled; this means it has to online all
> the siblings when resuming (so that they come out of hlt) and offline
> them again to let them reach mwait.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v4.19+
> Debugged-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Fixes: 0cc3cd21657b ("cpu/hotplug: Boot HT siblings at least once")
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>

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