When we boot on a machine that can hotplug CPUs and we
are using 'dom0_max_vcpus=X' on the Xen hypervisor line
to clip the amount of CPUs available to the initial domain,
we get this:
(XEN) Command line: com1=115200,8n1 dom0_mem=8G noreboot dom0_max_vcpus=8 sync_console mce_verbosity=verbose console=com1,vga loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all
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DMI: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS SE5C600.86B.99.99.x032.072520111118 07/25/2011
.. snip.
SMP: Allowing 64 CPUs, 32 hotplug CPUs
installing Xen timer for CPU 7
cpu 7 spinlock event irq 361
NMI watchdog: disabled (cpu7): hardware events not enabled
Brought up 8 CPUs
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[acpi processor finds the CPUs are not initialized and starts calling
arch_register_cpu, which creates /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/online]
CPU 8 got hotplugged
CPU 9 got hotplugged
CPU 10 got hotplugged
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initcall 1_acpi_battery_init_async+0x0/0x1b returned 0 after 406 usecs
calling erst_init+0x0/0x2bb @ 1
[and the scheduler sticks newly started tasks on the new CPUs, but
said CPUs cannot be initialized b/c the hypervisor has limited the
amount of vCPUS to 8 - as per the dom0_max_vcpus=8 flag.
The spinlock tries to kick the other CPU, but the structure for that
is not initialized and we crash.]
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffed8
IP: [<ffffffff81035289>] xen_spin_lock+0x29/0x60
PGD 180d067 PUD 180e067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
CPU 7
Modules linked in:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.4.0-rc2upstream-00001-gf5154e8 #1 Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP
RIP: e030:[<ffffffff81035289>] [<ffffffff81035289>] xen_spin_lock+0x29/0x60
RSP: e02b:ffff8801fb9b3a70 EFLAGS: 00010282
With this patch, we cap the amount of vCPUS that the initial domain
can run, to exactly what dom0_max_vcpus=X has specified.
In the future, if there is a hypercall that will allow a running
domain to expand past its initial set of vCPUS, this patch should
be re-evaluated.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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