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MADT Multiprocessor Wakeup structure version 1 brings support for CPU offlining: BIOS provides a reset vector where the CPU has to jump to for offlining itself. The new TEST mailbox command can be used to test whether the CPU offlined itself which means the BIOS has control over the CPU and can online it again via the ACPI MADT wakeup method. Add CPU offlining support for the ACPI MADT wakeup method by implementing custom cpu_die(), play_dead() and stop_this_cpu() SMP operations. CPU offlining makes it possible to hand over secondary CPUs over kexec, not limiting the second kernel to a single CPU. The change conforms to the approved ACPI spec change proposal. See the Link. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Tested-by: Tao Liu <ltao@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/13356251.uLZWGnKmhe@kreacher Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240614095904.1345461-19-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
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 reStructuredText 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.