x86/cpu/common: Provide detect_ht_early()
To support force disabling of SMT it's required to know the number of
thread siblings early. detect_ht() cannot be called before the APIC driver
is selected, so split out the part which initializes smp_num_siblings.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Orabug:
28220674
CVE: CVE-2018-3620
(cherry picked from commit
545401f4448a807b963ff17b575e0a393e68b523)
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:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
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