Re: [PATCH 4.18 00/79] 4.18.1-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 01:24:25PM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote:
> Hi Greg & Thomas,
> 
> I'd like to report a regression in Linux 4.18.1 regarding the L1TF patches.
> 
> The kernel no longer thinks I have SMT enabled in the BIOS. This works fine in
> 4.18.0.
> 
> Not sure if this matters, but in my particular 4-core system, my third core is
> broken (core #2). So I must boot using "maxcpus=2" and then online the other
> cores & SMT threads at startup using:
> 
> echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
> echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/online
> echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/online
> echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/online
> 
> In 4.18.0, dmesg shows:
> 
> smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 3 APIC 0x6
> smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 4 APIC 0x1
> smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 5 APIC 0x3
> smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 7 APIC 0x7
> 
> In 4.18.1, dmesg shows:
> 
> smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 3 APIC 0x6
> smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 4 APIC 0x1
> smpboot: CPU 4 is now offline
> smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 5 APIC 0x3
> smpboot: CPU 5 is now offline
> smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 7 APIC 0x7
> smpboot: CPU 7 is now offline
> 
> and I get an "Operation cancelled" error in the shell when trying to online 4,
> 5, and 7.
> 
> In 4.18.1, /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control says "notsupported".
> 
>  - - -
> 
> A possible second regression is the following:
> 
> My CPU normally runs at 3600 MHz. I usually run my CPU at 2800 MHz to keep from
> overheating under full load (it is a fanless system). I do this by running
> "echo 1 > /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device5/cur_state", and confirm with "cat
> /proc/cpuinfo" (shows 2800).
> 
> This works in 4.18.0 but not in 4.18.1. I get no error from the "echo" command
> (and the state reads back as "1"), but the CPU remains running at 3600 MHz.

How about Linus's tree at the moment, is it ok there?

thanks,

greg k-h