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cpu/hotplug: Expose SMT control init function
authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:23:23 +0000 (16:23 +0200)
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:44:44 +0000 (20:44 -0400)
commit4d366d35c7c13171ca3a508f26efcf1a57093f1d
tree482277f446d651b8ebf66876a9a0a0f158f0414b
parentcdb718ca84f6aed76d718f7084b59f155b0af8a9
cpu/hotplug: Expose SMT control init function

The L1TF mitigation will gain a commend line parameter which allows to set
a combination of hypervisor mitigation and SMT control.

Expose cpu_smt_disable() so the command line parser can tweak SMT settings.

[ tglx: Split out of larger patch and made it preserve an already existing
   force off state ]

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.039715135@linutronix.de
Orabug: 28220674
CVE: CVE-2018-3620

(cherry picked from commit 8e1b706b6e819bed215c0db16345568864660393)

Signed-off-by: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Conflicts:
kernel/cpu.c
Contextual: different content
include/linux/cpu.h
kernel/cpu.c