[PATCH] Revert "intel_idle: Rescan "dead" SMT siblings during, initialization"

From: Christian Loehle
Date: Thu Aug 28 2025 - 10:27:07 EST


This reverts commit a430c11f401589a0f4f57fd398271a5d85142c7a.

Calling arch_cpu_rescan_dead_smt_siblings() in intel_idle_init with
boot parameter nosmt and maxcpus active hotplugged boot-offline CPUs
in (and leave them online) which weren't supposed to be online.

With the revert and nosmt and maxcpus=12 on a raptor lake:
cpu online capacity
cpu0 1 1009
cpu1 0 -
cpu2 1 1009
cpu3 0 -
cpu4 1 1009
cpu5 0 -
cpu6 1 1009
cpu7 0 -
cpu8 1 1024
cpu9 0 -
cpu10 1 1024
cpu11 0 -
cpu12 1 1009
cpu13 0 -
cpu14 1 1009
cpu15 0 -
cpu16 1 623
cpu17 1 623
cpu18 1 623
cpu19 1 623
cpu20 0 -
cpu21 0 -
cpu22 0 -
cpu23 0 -

Previously:
cpu online capacity
cpu0 1 1009
cpu1 0 -
cpu2 1 1009
cpu3 0 -
cpu4 1 1009
cpu5 0 -
cpu6 1 1009
cpu7 0 -
cpu8 1 1024
cpu9 0 -
cpu10 1 1024
cpu11 0 -
cpu12 1 1009
cpu13 0 -
cpu14 1 1009
cpu15 0 -
cpu16 1 623
cpu17 1 623
cpu18 1 623
cpu19 1 623
cpu20 1 623
cpu21 1 623
cpu22 1 623
cpu23 1 623

Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@xxxxxxx>
---
Rafael, I don't immediately see how to fix this properly so I won't
try to, feel free to treat this as a bug report.


drivers/idle/intel_idle.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
index 91a7b7e7c0c8..a9c58395a425 100644
--- a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
@@ -2507,8 +2507,6 @@ static int __init intel_idle_init(void)
pr_debug("Local APIC timer is reliable in %s\n",
boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARAT) ? "all C-states" : "C1");

- arch_cpu_rescan_dead_smt_siblings();
-
return 0;

hp_setup_fail:
--
2.34.1