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    x86/smp: Enforce CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU when SMP=y · bebd024e
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    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: default avatarTianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@microsoft.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarGreg 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
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