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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_idle.rst | 30 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst index 311cd7cc2b75..6a06dc473dd6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst @@ -632,16 +632,16 @@ class priority list and destroyed. If that happens, the priority list mechanism will be used, again, to determine the new effective value for the whole list and that value will become the new real constraint. -In turn, for each CPU there is only one resume latency PM QoS request -associated with the :file:`power/pm_qos_resume_latency_us` file under +In turn, for each CPU there is one resume latency PM QoS request associated with +the :file:`power/pm_qos_resume_latency_us` file under :file:`/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu<N>/` in ``sysfs`` and writing to it causes this single PM QoS request to be updated regardless of which user space process does that. In other words, this PM QoS request is shared by the entire user space, so access to the file associated with it needs to be arbitrated to avoid confusion. [Arguably, the only legitimate use of this mechanism in practice is to pin a process to the CPU in question and let it use the -``sysfs`` interface to control the resume latency constraint for it.] It -still only is a request, however. It is a member of a priority list used to +``sysfs`` interface to control the resume latency constraint for it.] It is +still only a request, however. It is an entry in a priority list used to determine the effective value to be set as the resume latency constraint for the CPU in question every time the list of requests is updated this way or another (there may be other requests coming from kernel code in that list). diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_idle.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_idle.rst index afbf778035f8..89309e1b0e48 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_idle.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_idle.rst @@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ of the system. The former are always used if the processor model at hand is recognized by ``intel_idle`` and the latter are used if that is required for the given processor model (which is the case for all server processor models recognized by ``intel_idle``) or if the processor model is not recognized. +[There is a module parameter that can be used to make the driver use the ACPI +tables with any processor model recognized by it; see +`below <intel-idle-parameters_>`_.] If the ACPI tables are going to be used for building the list of available idle states, ``intel_idle`` first looks for a ``_CST`` object under one of the ACPI @@ -165,7 +168,7 @@ and ``idle=nomwait``. If any of them is present in the kernel command line, the ``MWAIT`` instruction is not allowed to be used, so the initialization of ``intel_idle`` will fail. -Apart from that there are two module parameters recognized by ``intel_idle`` +Apart from that there are four module parameters recognized by ``intel_idle`` itself that can be set via the kernel command line (they cannot be updated via sysfs, so that is the only way to change their values). @@ -186,9 +189,28 @@ QoS) feature can be used to prevent ``CPUIdle`` from touching those idle states even if they have been enumerated (see :ref:`cpu-pm-qos` in :doc:`cpuidle`). Setting ``max_cstate`` to 0 causes the ``intel_idle`` initialization to fail. -The ``noacpi`` module parameter (which is recognized by ``intel_idle`` if the -kernel has been configured with ACPI support), can be set to make the driver -ignore the system's ACPI tables entirely (it is unset by default). +The ``no_acpi`` and ``use_acpi`` module parameters (recognized by ``intel_idle`` +if the kernel has been configured with ACPI support) can be set to make the +driver ignore the system's ACPI tables entirely or use them for all of the +recognized processor models, respectively (they both are unset by default and +``use_acpi`` has no effect if ``no_acpi`` is set). + +The value of the ``states_off`` module parameter (0 by default) represents a +list of idle states to be disabled by default in the form of a bitmask. + +Namely, the positions of the bits that are set in the ``states_off`` value are +the indices of idle states to be disabled by default (as reflected by the names +of the corresponding idle state directories in ``sysfs``, :file:`state0`, +:file:`state1` ... :file:`state<i>` ..., where ``<i>`` is the index of the given +idle state; see :ref:`idle-states-representation` in :doc:`cpuidle`). + +For example, if ``states_off`` is equal to 3, the driver will disable idle +states 0 and 1 by default, and if it is equal to 8, idle state 3 will be +disabled by default and so on (bit positions beyond the maximum idle state index +are ignored). + +The idle states disabled this way can be enabled (on a per-CPU basis) from user +space via ``sysfs``. .. _intel-idle-core-and-package-idle-states: |