From bebd024e4815b1a170fcd21ead9c2222b23ce9e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:36:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86/smp: Enforce CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU when SMP=y 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 Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Konrad Wilk Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Mukesh Ojha Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Micheal Kelley Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190326163811.598166056@linutronix.de --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index c1f9b3cf437c..5ad92419be19 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -2217,14 +2217,8 @@ config RANDOMIZE_MEMORY_PHYSICAL_PADDING If unsure, leave at the default value. config HOTPLUG_CPU - bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs" + def_bool y depends on SMP - ---help--- - Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be - controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu. - ( Note: power management support will enable this option - automatically on SMP systems. ) - Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug. config BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 bool "Set default setting of cpu0_hotpluggable"