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x86/cpu/common: Provide detect_ht_early()
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 5 Jun 2018 22:53:57 +0000 (00:53 +0200)
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 22:56:36 +0000 (18:56 -0400)
commit7b32a4c42e9f8346bf5802edd2257134b5ff1b2e
treec8e0ed5876957f2f69aa4056bc3b50f979031950
parentd74fd020ce8dc72d27b89de51febc34fcfda9120
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
Contextual
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h