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RMPOPT >> is simply a performance optimization for RMP checks and leaving the >> offline cores (that will never exit idle) unoptimized should be >> acceptable. > > What happens if you boot with a subset of cores, the boot flow enables RMPOPT > and then you online the rest? > > Have we tried that? > It can't happen here. snp_prepare() does the following, in order: 1. cpu_hotplug_disable() — freeze the CPU set. 2. fail SNP init (-EOPNOTSUPP) unless every present CPU is online (cpumask_equal(cpu_online_mask, cpu_present_mask). 3. enable SNP. snp_setup_rmpopt() runs only after snp_prepare() succeeds, so all present CPUs are online and stay online (hotplug is disabled). No core's primary thread can be offline at this point. (The kexec path is the one exception — snp_prepare() returns early there — which I'm handling in the other thread.) Thanks, Ashish