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Commit 6d3b2e0a authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86/smp: Use dedicated cache-line for mwait_play_dead()

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 upstream.

Monitoring idletask::thread_info::flags in mwait_play_dead() has been an
obvious choice as all what is needed is a cache line which is not written
by other CPUs.

But there is a use case where a "dead" CPU needs to be brought out of
MWAIT: kexec().

This is required as kexec() can overwrite text, pagetables, stacks and the
monitored cacheline of the original kernel. The latter causes MWAIT to
resume execution which obviously causes havoc on the kexec kernel which
results usually in triple faults.

Use a dedicated per CPU storage to prepare for that.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230615193330.434553750@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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