linux-kernel - [PATCH] acpi_idle: use raw_safe_halt() from acpi_idle_play

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Message-ID: <a079bba5a0e47d6534b307553fc3772d26ce911b.camel@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:36:51 +0100
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     linux-acpi <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] acpi_idle: use raw_safe_halt() from acpi_idle_play_dead()

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>

Xen HVM guests were observed taking triple-faults when attempting to
online a previously offlined vCPU.

Investigation showed that the fault was coming from a failing call
to lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled(), in load_current_idt() which was
too early in the CPU bringup to actually catch the exception and
report the failure cleanly.

This was a false positive, caused by acpi_idle_play_dead() setting
the per-cpu hardirqs_enabled flag by calling safe_halt(). Switch it
to use raw_safe_halt() instead, which doesn't do so.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>
---
We might {also,instead} explicitly set the hardirqs_enabled flag to
zero when bringing up an AP?

 drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
index 3a34a8c425fe..55437f5e0c3a 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ static int acpi_idle_play_dead(struct cpuidle_device *dev, int index)
 	while (1) {
 
 		if (cx->entry_method == ACPI_CSTATE_HALT)
-			safe_halt();
+			raw_safe_halt();
 		else if (cx->entry_method == ACPI_CSTATE_SYSTEMIO) {
 			io_idle(cx->address);
 		} else
-- 
2.41.0



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