Commit f6aa37c
powerpc/pseries: unregister VPA when hot unplugging a CPU
The VPA should unregister when offlining a CPU. Otherwise there could be
a short window where 2 CPUs could share the same VPA.
This happens because the hypervisor is still keeping the VPA attached to
the vCPU even if it became offline.
Here is a potential situation:
1. remove proc A,
2. add proc B. If proc B gets proc A's place in cpu_present_mask, then
it registers proc A's VPAs.
3. If proc B is then re-added to the LP, its threads are sharing VPAs
with proc A briefly as they come online.
As the hypervisor may check for the VPA's yield_count field oddity, it
may detect an unexpected value and kill the LPAR.
Suggested-by: Nathan Lynch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Lynch <[email protected]>
[mpe: s/cpu_present_map/cpu_present_mask/ in change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]1 parent 9b574cf commit f6aa37c
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