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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-07-30 11:08:09 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-07-30 11:08:09 +0300
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Merge 4.18-rc7 into driver-core-next
We need the driver core changes in here as well for testing. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst14
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index e83ef4648ea4..d037a06728a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4855,3 +4855,8 @@
xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Format:
<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
+
+ xhci-hcd.quirks [USB,KNL]
+ A hex value specifying bitmask with supplemental xhci
+ host controller quirks. Meaning of each bit can be
+ consulted in header drivers/usb/host/xhci.h.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
index 8b9164990956..8f1d3de449b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
@@ -324,8 +324,7 @@ Global Attributes
``intel_pstate`` exposes several global attributes (files) in ``sysfs`` to
control its functionality at the system level. They are located in the
-``/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/intel_pstate/`` directory and affect all
-CPUs.
+``/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/`` directory and affect all CPUs.
Some of them are not present if the ``intel_pstate=per_cpu_perf_limits``
argument is passed to the kernel in the command line.
@@ -379,6 +378,17 @@ argument is passed to the kernel in the command line.
but it affects the maximum possible value of per-policy P-state limits
(see `Interpretation of Policy Attributes`_ below for details).
+``hwp_dynamic_boost``
+ This attribute is only present if ``intel_pstate`` works in the
+ `active mode with the HWP feature enabled <Active Mode With HWP_>`_ in
+ the processor. If set (equal to 1), it causes the minimum P-state limit
+ to be increased dynamically for a short time whenever a task previously
+ waiting on I/O is selected to run on a given logical CPU (the purpose
+ of this mechanism is to improve performance).
+
+ This setting has no effect on logical CPUs whose minimum P-state limit
+ is directly set to the highest non-turbo P-state or above it.
+
.. _status_attr:
``status``