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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/thermal/intel_powerclamp.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/thermal/intel_powerclamp.rst index 3f6dfb0b3ea6..2d9d2d739f02 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/thermal/intel_powerclamp.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/thermal/intel_powerclamp.rst @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ By: - Generic Thermal Layer (sysfs) - Kernel APIs (TBD) + (*) Module Parameters + INTRODUCTION ============ @@ -318,3 +320,23 @@ device, a PID based userspace thermal controller can manage to control CPU temperature effectively, when no other thermal influence is added. For example, a UltraBook user can compile the kernel under certain temperature (below most active trip points). + +Module Parameters +================= + +``cpumask`` (RW) + A bit mask of CPUs to inject idle. The format of the bitmask is same as + used in other subsystems like in /proc/irq/*/smp_affinity. The mask is + comma separated 32 bit groups. Each CPU is one bit. For example for a 256 + CPU system the full mask is: + ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff,ffffffff + + The rightmost mask is for CPU 0-32. + +``max_idle`` (RW) + Maximum injected idle time to the total CPU time ratio in percent range + from 1 to 100. Even if the cooling device max_state is always 100 (100%), + this parameter allows to add a max idle percent limit. The default is 50, + to match the current implementation of powerclamp driver. Also doesn't + allow value more than 75, if the cpumask includes every CPU present in + the system. |