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Parking CPUs in a HLT loop is not completely safe vs. kexec() as HLT can resume execution due to NMI, SMI and MCE, which has the same issue as the MWAIT loop. Kicking the secondary CPUs into INIT makes this safe against NMI and SMI. A broadcast MCE will take the machine down, but a broadcast MCE which makes HLT resume and execute overwritten text, pagetables or data will end up in a disaster too. So chose the lesser of two evils and kick the secondary CPUs into INIT unless the system has installed special wakeup mechanisms which are not using INIT. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230615193330.608657211@linutronix.de
Linux kernel
============
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.