On Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 11:24:57 AM UTC+5:30, Jayen Desai wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 8:57:42 AM UTC+5:30, Jayen Desai wrote:
> > On Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 5:21:23 AM UTC+5:30, unman wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 02:00:24PM -0700, CooSee wrote:
> > > > snip !
> > > > 
> > > > change the default entry to smp=on in xen.cfg or BOOTX64.CFG if using 
> > > > UEFI.
> > > > 
> > > > greetings
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't that be "smt=on"?
> > > 
> > > You should probably look at QSB#43 before doing this in any case.
> > > The relevant Xen advisory (273) said that for HVM and PVH guests,
> > > leakage can only be prevented entirely by disabling SMT/Hyper-threading.
> > > I don't think that advice has changed, despite the provision of patches
> > > now incorporated in to Qubes.
> > 
> > It appears that "smt=on" is default. However I passed that as a parameter 
> > to the kernel command line. However the problem still remains. It brings up 
> > only 4 CPUs instead of 8 CPUs. Please help.
> 
> I have gone through QSB#43 and Xen advisory 273 and I understand that only 
> Intel core CPUs are affected by them. My laptop is Lenovo Ideapad 330 15ARR 
> model. It is AMD Ryzen 5 2500 quadcore system. I believe it should not be 
> impacted by the above advisories. This is to further clarify the issue.

Now all 8 CPUs are brought up. Thanks for your advice. Earlier I was have both 
smt=on and smt=off on the kernel commandline. It was my mistake that I did not 
notice smt=off towards the end of the command line.

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