kernel/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/pm, branch v7.1-rc5

Merge tag 'amd-pstate-v7.1-2026-05-14' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/superm1/linux into pm-cpufreq-fixes

2026-05-20T20:03:41+00:00

Merge amd-pstate fixes for 7.1 (05/14/2026) from Mario Limonciello: "A number of fixes to the dynamic epp feature which was new to kernel 7.1, including making it opt in only." * tag 'amd-pstate-v7.1-2026-05-14' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/superm1/linux: cpufreq/amd-pstate: Drop Kconfig option for dynamic EPP cpufreq/amd-pstate-ut: Drop policy reference before driver switch cpufreq/amd-pstate: Use "epp_default_dc" as default when dynamic_epp is disabled cpufreq/amd-pstate: Reorder notifier unregistration and floor perf reset cpufreq/amd-pstate: Allow writes to dynamic_epp when state isn't modified cpufreq/amd-pstate: Return -ENOMEM on failure to allocate profile_name cpufreq/amd-pstate: Grab "amd_pstate_driver_lock" when toggling dynamic_epp

cpufreq/amd-pstate: Drop Kconfig option for dynamic EPP

2026-05-14T13:47:48+00:00

There are some performance issues being identified by dynamic EPP and we don't want to have distributions turning it on by default exposing them to users at this time. Drop the kconfig option, and require an explicit opt in from kernel command line or runtime sysfs option to turn it on. Reported-by: Viktor Jägersküpper Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/14a87c99-785c-4b16-bfce-35ecbf053448@freenet.de/ Reported-by: Stuart Meckle Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221473 Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260512221947.1652988-1-mario.limonciello@amd.com (fix sysfs file path) Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD)

Documentation: intel_pstate: Fix description of asymmetric packing with SMT

2026-05-13T19:39:38+00:00

Patchset [1], including commits 046a5a95c3b0 ("x86/sched/itmt: Give all SMT siblings of a core the same priority") 995998ebdebd ("x86/sched: Remove SD_ASYM_PACKING from the SMT domain flags") overhauled asym_packing handling in the scheduler on x86 hybrid processors with SMT. It removed SD_ASYM_PACKING from the x86 SMT scheduling domain and made all SMT siblings of a core share the same priority. As a result, asym_packing operates only across physical cores, spreading tasks among them and only using idle SMT siblings once all physical cores are busy. Fix the documentation to reflect this behavior. Fixes: f20af84c29b2 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Document hybrid processor support") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230406203148.19182-1-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com [1] Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri [ rjw: Changelog edits ] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424-rneri-fix-intel-pstate-doc-smt-asym-packing-v1-1-317bf7d5c362@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

Merge tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

2026-04-14T15:47:08+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A busier cycle than I had expected for docs, including: - Translations: some overdue updates to the Japanese translations, Chinese translations for some of the Rust documentation, and the beginnings of a Portuguese translation. - New documents covering CPU isolation, managed interrupts, debugging Python gbb scripts, and more. - More tooling work from Mauro, reducing docs-build warnings, adding self tests, improving man-page output, bringing in a proper C tokenizer to replace (some of) the mess of kernel-doc regexes, and more. - Update and synchronize changes.rst and scripts/ver_linux, and put both into alphabetical order. ... and a long list of documentation updates, typo fixes, and general improvements" * tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (162 commits) Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spelling doc: Add CPU Isolation documentation Documentation: Add managed interrupts Documentation: seq_file: drop 2.6 reference docs/zh_CN: update rust/index.rst translation docs/zh_CN: update rust/quick-start.rst translation docs/zh_CN: update rust/coding-guidelines.rst translation docs/zh_CN: update rust/arch-support.rst translation docs/zh_CN: sync process/2.Process.rst with English version docs/zh_CN: fix an inconsistent statement in dev-tools/testing-overview tracing: Documentation: Update histogram-design.rst for fn() handling docs: sysctl: Add documentation for /proc/sys/xen/ Docs: hid: intel-ish-hid: make long URL usable Documentation/kernel-parameters: fix architecture alignment for pt, nopt, and nobypass sched/doc: Update yield_task description in sched-design-CFS Documentation/rtla: Convert links to RST format docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentation docs: fix typo in zoran driver documentation docs: add an Assisted-by mention to submitting-patches.rst Revert "scripts/checkpatch: add Assisted-by: tag validation" ...

docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentation

2026-04-09T14:21:32+00:00

Fix the following typos and duplicated words: - admin-guide/pm/intel-speed-select.rst: "weather" -> "whether" - core-api/real-time/differences.rst: "the the" -> "the" - admin-guide/bcache.rst: "to to" -> "to" Signed-off-by: Manuel Cortez Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260406030323.1196-1-mdjesuscv@gmail.com>

cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add support for raw EPP writes

2026-04-02T16:29:25+00:00

The energy performance preference field of the CPPC request MSR supports values from 0 to 255, but the strings only offer 4 values. The other values are useful for tuning the performance of some workloads. Add support for writing the raw energy performance preference value to the sysfs file. If the last value written was an integer then an integer will be returned. If the last value written was a string then a string will be returned. Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD)

cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add support for platform profile class

2026-04-02T16:29:15+00:00

The platform profile core allows multiple drivers and devices to register platform profile support. When the legacy platform profile interface is used all drivers will adjust the platform profile as well. Add support for registering every CPU with the platform profile handler when dynamic EPP is enabled. The end result will be that changing the platform profile will modify EPP accordingly. Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD)

cpufreq/amd-pstate: add kernel command line to override dynamic epp

2026-04-02T16:29:11+00:00

Add `amd_dynamic_epp=enable` and `amd_dynamic_epp=disable` to override the kernel configuration option `CONFIG_X86_AMD_PSTATE_DYNAMIC_EPP` locally. Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD)

cpufreq/amd-pstate: Add dynamic energy performance preference

2026-04-02T16:29:02+00:00

Dynamic energy performance preference changes the EPP profile based on whether the machine is running on AC or DC power. A notification chain from the power supply core is used to adjust EPP values on plug in or plug out events. When enabled, the driver exposes a sysfs toggle for dynamic EPP, blocks manual writes to energy_performance_preference while it "owns" the EPP updates. For non-server systems: * the default EPP for AC mode is `performance`. * the default EPP for DC mode is `balance_performance`. For server systems dynamic EPP is mostly a no-op. Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD)

Documentation: amd-pstate: fix dead links in the reference section

2026-04-02T16:28:58+00:00

The links for AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual and PPR for AMD Family 19h Model 51h, Revision A1 Processors redirect to a generic page. Update the links to the working ones. Signed-off-by: Ninad Naik Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260330190855.1115304-1-ninadnaik07@gmail.com Acked-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD)