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Re-enable CPU mitigations #372

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samcday opened this issue Apr 26, 2024 · 1 comment
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Re-enable CPU mitigations #372

samcday opened this issue Apr 26, 2024 · 1 comment

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samcday commented Apr 26, 2024

I completely switched off CPU mitigations during initial CoreOS bring-up because I realized that half the CPU cores were being forced offline.

I should figure out if there's a way to enable mitigations and have the extra CPU cores.

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samcday commented Apr 27, 2024

Mmmph, well ....

Turns out re-enabling SMT is typical enough that it's an example in the page that documents modifying kernel arguments :) https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/kernel-args/#_removing_existing_kernel_arguments

The discussion in upstream coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker#181 explains it well enough. I agree with the FCOS choice to default insecure SMT to disabled. It's a pretty significant thing to do, though. I wish they'd surfaced it better in documentation. Maybe even notify the operator of it in /etc/motd on first few boots or something.

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