commit bebd024e4815b1a170fcd21ead9c2222b23ce9e6 upstream.
The SMT disable 'nosmt' command line argument is not working properly when
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is disabled. The teardown of the sibling CPUs which are
required to be brought up due to the MCE issues, cannot work. The CPUs are
then kept in a half dead state.
As the 'nosmt' functionality has become popular due to the speculative
hardware vulnerabilities, the half torn down state is not a proper solution
to the problem.
Enforce CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y when SMP is enabled so the full operation is
possible.
Reported-by: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Micheal Kelley <michael.h.kelley@microsoft.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190326163811.598166056@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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