kernel/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/pm, branch v7.2-rc1

Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86

2026-06-23T15:31:33+00:00

Pull x86 platform driver updates from Ilpo Järvinen: - amd/hfi: Add support for dynamic ranking tables (version 3) - amd/pmc: - Add PMC driver support for AMD 1Ah M80H SoC - Delay suspend for some Lenovo Laptops to avoid keyboard and lid switch problems after s2idle - arm64: qcom-hamoa-ec: Add Hamoa/Purwa/Glymur EC driver - asus-armoury: add support for G614PR, GA402NJ, GA403UM, and FX608JPR - asus-wmi: add keystone dongle support - dell-dw5826e: Add reset driver for DW5826e - dell-laptop: Fix rollback path - hp-wmi: - Add support for Omen 16-ap0xxx (board ID 8D26) and board ID 8B2F - intel-hid: - Add HP ProBook x360 440 G1 5 button array support - Prevent racing ACPI notify handlers - intel/pmc: - Add Nova Lake support - Rate-limit LTR scale-factor warning - intel-uncore-freq: - Expose instance ID in the sysfs - Fix current_freq_khz after CPU hotplug - intel/vsec: Restore BAR fallback for header walk - ISST: Restore SST-PP control to all domains - lenovo-wmi-*: - Add more CPU tunable attributes - Add GPU tunable attributes - Add WMI battery charge limiting - oxpec: add support for OneXPlayer Super X - sel3350-platform: Retain LED state on load and unload - surface: SAM: Add support for Surface Pro 12in - uniwill-laptop: Add support for battery charge modes - tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Harden daemon pidfile open - Major refactoring efforts: - ACPI driver to platform driver conversion - Converting drivers to use the improved WMI API - Miscellaneous cleanups / refactoring / improvements * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (115 commits) platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add NVL PCI IDs for SSRAM telemetry discovery platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Make PMT registration optional platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Add ACPI discovery scaffolding platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Switch to static array with per-index probe state platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Refactor DEVID/PWRMBASE extraction into helper platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Add PCI platform data platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Rename probe and PCI ID table for consistency platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add ACPI PWRM telemetry driver for Nova Lake S platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add PMC SSRAM Kconfig description platform/x86/intel/pmt: Unify header fetch and add ACPI source platform/x86/intel/pmt: Cache the telemetry discovery header platform/x86/intel/pmt: Pass discovery index instead of resource platform/x86/intel/pmt/telemetry: Move overlap check to post-decode hook platform/x86/intel/pmt/crashlog: Split init into pre-decode platform/x86/intel/pmt: Add pre/post decode hooks around header parsing modpost: Handle malformed WMI GUID strings platform/wmi: Make sysfs attributes const platform/wmi: Make wmi_bus_class const hwmon: (dell-smm) Use new buffer-based WMI API platform/x86: dell-ddv: Use new buffer-based WMI API ...

cpufreq: Documentation: fix conservative governor freq_step description

2026-06-08T13:32:19+00:00

The conservative governor documentation incorrectly states that setting freq_step to 0 will use the default 5% frequency step. In reality, since at least commit 8e677ce83bf4 ("[CPUFREQ] conservative: fixup governor to function more like ondemand logic"), freq_step=0 has always caused the governor to skip frequency updates entirely. Correct the documentation to reflect the actual behavior: freq_step=0 disables frequency changes by the governor entirely. Fixes: 2a0e49279850 ("cpufreq: User/admin documentation update and consolidation") Signed-off-by: Pengjie Zhang Reviewed-by: Zhongqiu Han [ rjw: Subject adjustment ] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603055635.1549943-1-zhangpengjie2@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

cpufreq: Documentation: fix sampling_down_factor range

2026-05-22T15:32:11+00:00

The ondemand governor implementation accepts sampling_down_factor values from 1 to 100000 via MAX_SAMPLING_DOWN_FACTOR, but the documentation in admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst still says the valid range is 1 to 100. Update the documentation to match the actual code. Fixes: 2a0e49279850 ("cpufreq: User/admin documentation update and consolidation") Reviewed-by: Zhongqiu Han Signed-off-by: Pengjie Zhang Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260518133457.2408463-1-zhangpengjie2@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

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

platform/x86/intel-uncore-freq: Expose instance ID in the sysfs

2026-05-06T10:36:50+00:00

Insufficient data is exported to allow direct access to TPMI registers through MMIO. On non-partitioned systems domain_id can be used both for mapping CPUs to their compute die IDs and for mapping die indices to their MMIO memory blocks presented to userspace via TPMI debugfs. However on partitioned systems the debugfs association doesn't work anymore. This is due to how TPMI partitioning influences domain_id calculation. The previous association is lost on partitioned systems in order to keep using domain_id for mapping CPUs to compute dies. Expose the instance ID in sysfs that's unique in the scope of one TPMI partition (and hence one TPMI device). It's a physical index into mapped MMIO blocks and can be used by userspace to figure out how to directly access TPMI registers. Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b9ae8d5f1ab86bcdb1a8636fa48865a9e49e2e21.1775665057.git.m.wieczorretman@pm.me Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen

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)