diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 8fe810bc236cd..e34e75cbd5574 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2695,12 +2695,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			Equivalent to smt=1.
 
 			[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
-			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, similar to disabling
-				     it in the BIOS except that some of the
-				     resource partitioning effects which are
-				     caused by having SMT enabled in the BIOS
-				     cannot be undone. Depending on the CPU
-				     type this might have a performance impact.
+			nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
+				     via the sysfs control file.
 
 	nospectre_v2	[X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
 			(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
index 050003f2735eb..20eed46c58275 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h
@@ -636,10 +636,8 @@ extern int default_check_phys_apicid_present(int phys_apicid);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 bool apic_id_is_primary_thread(unsigned int id);
-bool apic_id_disabled(unsigned int id);
 #else
 static inline bool apic_id_is_primary_thread(unsigned int id) { return false; }
-static inline bool apic_id_disabled(unsigned int id) { return false; }
 #endif
 
 extern void irq_enter(void);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
index 6a4c06c2e4cef..0a1e8a67cc998 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
@@ -177,8 +177,7 @@ static int acpi_register_lapic(int id, u32 acpiid, u8 enabled)
 	}
 
 	if (!enabled) {
-		if (!apic_id_disabled(id))
-			++disabled_cpus;
+		++disabled_cpus;
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index 2d5f67a24d007..28a1531a3d74e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -2056,16 +2056,6 @@ bool apic_id_is_primary_thread(unsigned int apicid)
 	return !(apicid & mask);
 }
 
-/**
- * apic_id_disabled - Check whether APIC ID is disabled via SMT control
- * @id:	APIC ID to check
- */
-bool apic_id_disabled(unsigned int id)
-{
-	return (cpu_smt_control == CPU_SMT_FORCE_DISABLED &&
-		!apic_id_is_primary_thread(id));
-}
-
 /*
  * Should use this API to allocate logical CPU IDs to keep nr_logical_cpuids
  * and cpuid_to_apicid[] synchronized.
@@ -2161,15 +2151,6 @@ int generic_processor_info(int apicid, int version)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * If SMT is force disabled and the APIC ID belongs to
-	 * a secondary thread, ignore it.
-	 */
-	if (apic_id_disabled(apicid)) {
-		pr_info_once("Ignoring secondary SMT threads\n");
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
-
 	if (apicid == boot_cpu_physical_apicid) {
 		/*
 		 * x86_bios_cpu_apicid is required to have processors listed