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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2015-02-10 16:10:44 +0100
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2015-02-10 16:10:44 +0100
commit7bc95d4ef1033af808cb0714081cb45cd4ee5669 (patch)
treed43620fa7ff300ec8422c8eddc38014e902312bb /Documentation
parentf52386892fb17b4a70a7a73240c0f04a0a6011a6 (diff)
parentc488ea461359483976ff7d4838cce5c0138c6b3e (diff)
Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'
* pm-cpufreq: (46 commits) intel_pstate: provide option to only use intel_pstate with HWP cpufreq-dt: Drop unnecessary check before cpufreq_cooling_unregister() invocation cpufreq: Create for_each_governor() cpufreq: Create for_each_policy() cpufreq: Drop cpufreq_disabled() check from cpufreq_cpu_{get|put}() cpufreq: Set cpufreq_cpu_data to NULL before putting kobject intel_pstate: honor user space min_perf_pct override on resume intel_pstate: respect cpufreq policy request intel_pstate: Add num_pstates to sysfs intel_pstate: expose turbo range to sysfs intel_pstate: Add support for SkyLake cpufreq: stats: drop unnecessary locking cpufreq: stats: don't update stats on false notifiers cpufreq: stats: don't update stats from show_trans_table() cpufreq: stats: time_in_state can't be NULL in cpufreq_stats_update() cpufreq: stats: create sysfs group once we are ready cpufreq: remove CPUFREQ_UPDATE_POLICY_CPU notifications cpufreq: stats: drop 'cpu' field of struct cpufreq_stats cpufreq: Remove (now) unused 'last_cpu' from struct cpufreq_policy cpufreq: stats: rename 'struct cpufreq_stats' objects as 'stats' ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt3
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt
index 765d7fc0e692..655750743fb0 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ controlling P state selection. These files have been added to
no_turbo: limits the driver to selecting P states below the turbo
frequency range.
+ turbo_pct: displays the percentage of the total performance that
+ is supported by hardware that is in the turbo range. This number
+ is independent of whether turbo has been disabled or not.
+
+ num_pstates: displays the number of pstates that are supported
+ by hardware. This number is independent of whether turbo has
+ been disabled or not.
+
For contemporary Intel processors, the frequency is controlled by the
processor itself and the P-states exposed to software are related to
performance levels. The idea that frequency can be set to a single
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 176d4fe4f076..f06f1f609cb7 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1470,6 +1470,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
no_hwp
Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
if available.
+ hwp_only
+ Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
+ hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)