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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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