hw/acpi: Make CPUs ACPI `presence` conditional during vCPU hot-unplug
authorSalil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
Sun, 3 Nov 2024 10:24:15 +0000 (10:24 +0000)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Mon, 4 Nov 2024 21:03:25 +0000 (16:03 -0500)
commit2d6cfbaf174b91dfa9a50065f7494634afb39c23
tree94d2b73464530fbde0d01d96a110a99f585977a5
parent26f2660bf7a3f0b6e9a939657ba656f4891ff46d
hw/acpi: Make CPUs ACPI `presence` conditional during vCPU hot-unplug

On most architectures, during vCPU hot-plug and hot-unplug actions, the
firmware or VMM/QEMU can update the OS on vCPU status by toggling the
ACPI method `_STA.Present` bit. However, certain CPU architectures
prohibit [1] modifications to a CPU’s `presence` status after the kernel
has booted.

This limitation [2][3] exists because many per-CPU components, such as
interrupt controllers and various per-CPU features tightly integrated
with CPUs, may not support reconfiguration once the kernel is
initialized. Often, these components cannot be powered down, as they may
belong to an `always-on` power domain. As a result, some architectures
require all CPUs to remain `_STA.Present` after system initialization.

Therefore, it is essential to mirror the exact QOM vCPU status through
ACPI for the Guest kernel. For this, we should determine—via
architecture-specific code[4]—whether vCPUs must always remain present
and whether the associated `AcpiCpuStatus::cpu` object should remain
valid, even following a vCPU hot-unplug operation.

References:
[1] Check comment 5 in the bugzilla entry
Link: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4481#c5
[2] KVMForum 2023 Presentation: Challenges Revisited in Supporting Virt CPU Hotplug on
    architectures that don’t Support CPU Hotplug (like ARM64)
Link: https://kvm-forum.qemu.org/2023/KVM-forum-cpu-hotplug_7OJ1YyJ.pdf
    b. Qemu Link:  https://kvm-forum.qemu.org/2023/Challenges_Revisited_in_Supporting_Virt_CPU_Hotplug_-__ii0iNb3.pdf
[3] KVMForum 2020 Presentation: Challenges in Supporting Virtual CPU Hotplug on
    SoC Based Systems (like ARM64)
Link: https://kvmforum2020.sched.com/event/eE4m
[4] Example implementation of architecture-specific CPU persistence hook
Link: https://github.com/salil-mehta/qemu/commit/c0b416b11e5af6505e558866f0eb6c9f3709173e
Signed-off-by: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <20241103102419.202225-2-salil.mehta@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
hw/acpi/cpu.c
include/hw/core/cpu.h