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The SMT control mechanism got added as speculation attack vector
mitigation. The implemented logic relies on the primary thread mask to
be set up properly.
This turns out to be an issue with XEN/PV guests because their CPU hotplug
mechanics do not enumerate APICs and therefore the mask is never correctly
populated.
This went unnoticed so far because by chance XEN/PV ends up with
smp_num_siblings == 2. So cpu_smt_control stays at its default value
CPU_SMT_ENABLED and the primary thread mask is never evaluated in the
context of CPU hotplug.
This stopped "working" with the upcoming overhaul of the topology
evaluation which legitimately provides a fake topology for XEN/PV. That
sets smp_num_siblings to 1, which causes the core CPU hot-plug core to
refuse to bring up the APs.
This happens because cpu_smt_control is set to CPU_SMT_NOT_SUPPORTED which
causes cpu_bootable() to evaluate the unpopulated primary thread mask with
the conclusion that all non-boot CPUs are not valid to be plugged.
The core code has already been made more robust against this kind of fail,
but the primary thread mask really wants to be populated to avoid other
issues all over the place.
Just fake the mask by pretending that all XEN/PV vCPUs are primary threads,
which is consistent because all of XEN/PVs topology is fake or non-existent.
Fixes: 6a4d2657e048 ("x86/smp: Provide topology_is_primary_thread()")
Fixes: f54d4434c281 ("x86/apic: Provide cpu_primary_thread mask")
Reported-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Tested-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814085112.210011520@linutronix.de
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.