Re: [patch 00/53] x86/topology: The final installment

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Aug 08 2023 - 15:27:49 EST


On Tue, Aug 08 2023 at 12:20, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 08/08/2023 8:40 am, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> Tested on an Intel system with Xen:
>>
>> - PV dom0 is working fine. I couldn't test physical cpu hotplug, but
>> removing
>>   and then re-adding vcpus to dom0 worked.
>
> It turns out that physical CPU hotplug with XenPV is broken in at least
> two ways.
>
> It's dom0 (not Xen) that gets the hot-unplug event, after which the Xen
> code in Linux succumbs to a preempt-check failure while trying to
> offline the vCPU that aliases the pCPU wanting to go offline.

That should be gone by now :)