linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 63/67] cpu/hotplug: Document that TDX also depends on booting CPUs once

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Date:   Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:26:48 -0800
From:   isaku.yamahata@...el.com
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     isaku.yamahata@...el.com, isaku.yamahata@...il.com,
        Kai Huang <kai.huang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 63/67] cpu/hotplug: Document that TDX also depends on booting CPUs once

From: Kai Huang <kai.huang@...ux.intel.com>

Add a comment to explain that TDX also depends on booting logical CPUs
at least once.

TDSYSINITLP must be run on all CPUs, even software disabled CPUs in the
-nosmt case.  Fortunately, current SMT handling for #MC already supports
booting all CPUs once; the to-be-disabled sibling is booted once (and
later put into deep C-state to honor SMT=off) to allow the init code to
set CR4.MCE and avoid an unwanted shutdown on a broadcasted MCE.

Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@...ux.intel.com>
---
 kernel/cpu.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 6ff2578ecf17..17a8d7db99b2 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -435,6 +435,10 @@ static inline bool cpu_smt_allowed(unsigned int cpu)
 	 * that the init code can get a chance to set CR4.MCE on each
 	 * CPU. Otherwise, a broadcasted MCE observing CR4.MCE=0b on any
 	 * core will shutdown the machine.
+	 *
+	 * Intel TDX also requires running TDSYSINITLP on all logical CPUs
+	 * during boot, booting all CPUs once allows TDX to play nice with
+	 * 'nosmt'.
 	 */
 	return !cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &cpus_booted_once_mask);
 }
-- 
2.17.1