Re: [BUG]smt sysfs dir missing on 4.4.148 and 4.14.63

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Aug 20 2018 - 10:47:18 EST


On Mon, 20 Aug 2018, Jinpu Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 3:02 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > That works, but we might as well force 'select HOTPLUG_CPU if SMP' so the
> > L1TF mitigations are functional. Sigh....
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > tglx
> right, sth like?
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index b0312f8..5852948 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ config X86
> select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
> select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
> select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
> - select HOTPLUG_SMT if SMP
> + select HOTPLUG_CPU if SMP
> + select HOTPLUG_SMT if SMP && HOTPLUG_CPU

The && HOTPLUG is pretty pointless now.