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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index 9605dbd4b5b5..fc20cde63d1e 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Description: CPU topology files that describe kernel limits related to present: cpus that have been identified as being present in the system. - See Documentation/cputopology.txt for more information. + See Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst for more information. What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/probe @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Description: CPU topology files that describe a logical CPU's relationship thread_siblings_list: human-readable list of cpu#'s hardware threads within the same core as cpu# - See Documentation/cputopology.txt for more information. + See Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst for more information. What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver @@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ Description: Discover cpuidle policy and mechanism current_governor: (RW) displays current idle policy. Users can switch the governor at runtime by writing to this file. - See files in Documentation/cpuidle/ for more information. + See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst and + Documentation/driver-api/pm/cpuidle.rst for more information. What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/name @@ -484,6 +485,9 @@ What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf + /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds + /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort + /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit Date: January 2018 Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <[email protected]> Description: Information about CPU vulnerabilities @@ -496,8 +500,7 @@ Description: Information about CPU vulnerabilities "Vulnerable" CPU is affected and no mitigation in effect "Mitigation: $M" CPU is affected and mitigation $M is in effect - Details about the l1tf file can be found in - Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst + See also: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/active @@ -511,10 +514,63 @@ Description: Control Symetric Multi Threading (SMT) control: Read/write interface to control SMT. Possible values: - "on" SMT is enabled - "off" SMT is disabled - "forceoff" SMT is force disabled. Cannot be changed. - "notsupported" SMT is not supported by the CPU + "on" SMT is enabled + "off" SMT is disabled + "forceoff" SMT is force disabled. Cannot be changed. + "notsupported" SMT is not supported by the CPU + "notimplemented" SMT runtime toggling is not + implemented for the architecture If control status is "forceoff" or "notsupported" writes are rejected. + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/power/energy_perf_bias +Date: March 2019 +Contact: [email protected] +Description: Intel Energy and Performance Bias Hint (EPB) + + EPB for the given CPU in a sliding scale 0 - 15, where a value + of 0 corresponds to a hint preference for highest performance + and a value of 15 corresponds to the maximum energy savings. + + In order to change the EPB value for the CPU, write either + a number in the 0 - 15 sliding scale above, or one of the + strings: "performance", "balance-performance", "normal", + "balance-power", "power" (that represent values reflected by + their meaning), to this attribute. + + This attribute is present for all online CPUs supporting the + Intel EPB feature. + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/umwait_control + /sys/devices/system/cpu/umwait_control/enable_c02 + /sys/devices/system/cpu/umwait_control/max_time +Date: May 2019 +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <[email protected]> +Description: Umwait control + + enable_c02: Read/write interface to control umwait C0.2 state + Read returns C0.2 state status: + 0: C0.2 is disabled + 1: C0.2 is enabled + + Write 'y' or '1' or 'on' to enable C0.2 state. + Write 'n' or '0' or 'off' to disable C0.2 state. + + The interface is case insensitive. + + max_time: Read/write interface to control umwait maximum time + in TSC-quanta that the CPU can reside in either C0.1 + or C0.2 state. The time is an unsigned 32-bit number. + Note that a value of zero means there is no limit. + Low order two bits must be zero. + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/svm +Date: August 2019 +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <[email protected]> + Linux for PowerPC mailing list <[email protected]> +Description: Secure Virtual Machine + + If 1, it means the system is using the Protected Execution + Facility in POWER9 and newer processors. i.e., it is a Secure + Virtual Machine. |