linux/arch/x86
Thomas Gleixner 05736e4ac1 cpu/hotplug: Provide knobs to control SMT
Provide a command line and a sysfs knob to control SMT.

The command line options are:

 'nosmt':	Enumerate secondary threads, but do not online them
 		
 'nosmt=force': Ignore secondary threads completely during enumeration
 		via MP table and ACPI/MADT.

The sysfs control file has the following states (read/write):

 'on':		 SMT is enabled. Secondary threads can be freely onlined
 'off':		 SMT is disabled. Secondary threads, even if enumerated
 		 cannot be onlined
 'forceoff':	 SMT is permanentely disabled. Writes to the control
 		 file are rejected.
 'notsupported': SMT is not supported by the CPU

The command line option 'nosmt' sets the sysfs control to 'off'. This
can be changed to 'on' to reenable SMT during runtime.

The command line option 'nosmt=force' sets the sysfs control to
'forceoff'. This cannot be changed during runtime.

When SMT is 'on' and the control file is changed to 'off' then all online
secondary threads are offlined and attempts to online a secondary thread
later on are rejected.

When SMT is 'off' and the control file is changed to 'on' then secondary
threads can be onlined again. The 'off' -> 'on' transition does not
automatically online the secondary threads.

When the control file is set to 'forceoff', the behaviour is the same as
setting it to 'off', but the operation is irreversible and later writes to
the control file are rejected.

When the control status is 'notsupported' then writes to the control file
are rejected.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-06-21 14:20:58 +02:00
..
boot Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-10 09:44:53 -07:00
configs x86/unwind: Rename unwinder config options to 'CONFIG_UNWINDER_*' 2017-10-14 10:12:12 +02:00
crypto crypto: x86/salsa20 - remove x86 salsa20 implementations 2018-05-31 00:13:57 +08:00
entry docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
events treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
hyperv x86/hyper-v: move struct hv_flush_pcpu{,ex} definitions to common header 2018-05-26 14:14:33 +02:00
ia32 syscalls/x86: auto-create compat_sys_*() prototypes 2018-04-02 20:16:18 +02:00
include x86/topology: Provide topology_smt_supported() 2018-06-21 14:20:57 +02:00
kernel x86/topology: Provide topology_smt_supported() 2018-06-21 14:20:57 +02:00
kvm KVM: x86: VMX: redo fix for link error without CONFIG_HYPERV 2018-06-14 18:53:14 +02:00
lib libnvdimm for 4.18 2018-06-08 17:21:52 -07:00
math-emu License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mm x86/speculation/l1tf: Limit swap file size to MAX_PA/2 2018-06-20 19:10:01 +02:00
net treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
oprofile x86/oprofile: Fix bogus GCC-8 warning in nmi_setup() 2018-02-21 09:54:17 +01:00
pci treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
platform treewide: kzalloc() -> kcalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
power x86/mm: Stop pretending pgtable_l5_enabled is a variable 2018-05-19 11:56:57 +02:00
purgatory kernel/kexec_file.c: move purgatories sha256 to common code 2018-04-13 17:10:28 -07:00
ras License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
realmode x86-64/realmode: Add instruction suffix 2018-02-20 09:33:41 +01:00
tools x86: Treat R_X86_64_PLT32 as R_X86_64_PC32 2018-02-22 09:01:10 -08:00
um Kconfig updates for v4.18 2018-06-06 11:31:45 -07:00
video
xen xen: fixes and features for v4-18-rc1 2018-06-08 09:24:54 -07:00
.gitignore x86/build: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test to .gitignore 2018-02-13 14:10:29 +01:00
Kbuild
Kconfig cpu/hotplug: Provide knobs to control SMT 2018-06-21 14:20:58 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-25 07:36:02 -10:00
Kconfig.debug x86, nfit_test: Add unit test for memcpy_mcsafe() 2018-05-22 23:18:31 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: add machine size to CHECKFLAGS 2018-06-01 11:36:58 +09:00
Makefile_32.cpu License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Makefile.um License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00