drivers/firmware: add SDEI cross-CPU NMI service for arm64

Deliver an NMI-like event to an interrupt-masked arm64 CPU via the
standard SDEI software-signalled event (event 0), without the pseudo-NMI
hot-path cost: register a handler for event 0 and poke a target with
sdei_event_signal(0, mpidr).

First user is arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace() (sysrq-l, RCU stalls,
hung-task/soft-lockup dumps), which otherwise rides an IPI that can't
reach a masked CPU. Falls back to the IPI path when SDEI is absent; no
watchdog backend yet, so the stock detector is untouched.

Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei_yin@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
index 12dc70254842..07ab3090d219 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
@@ -36,6 +36,25 @@ config ARM_SDE_INTERFACE
 	  standard for registering callbacks from the platform firmware
 	  into the OS. This is typically used to implement RAS notifications.
 
+config ARM_SDEI_NMI
+	bool "SDEI-based cross-CPU NMI service (arm64)"
+	depends on ARM_SDE_INTERFACE
+	help
+	  Provides SDEI-based cross-CPU NMI delivery for hooks that need
+	  to reach interrupt-masked CPUs on silicon that lacks FEAT_NMI:
+
+	    - arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace()  (sysrq-l, RCU stalls,
+	      hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace, soft-lockup secondary dumps,
+	      hung-task auxiliary dumps)
+
+	  The driver registers a handler for the SDEI software-signalled
+	  event (event 0) and reaches a target CPU by signalling it with
+	  SDEI_EVENT_SIGNAL. Firmware delivers the event out of EL3
+	  regardless of the target's PSTATE.DAIF -- forced delivery into a
+	  CPU wedged with interrupts locally masked.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config EDD
 	tristate "BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls determine boot disk"
 	depends on X86