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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 24 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt index 343781b9f24..4ce82d045a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt @@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Required properties: "arm,arm1176-pmu" "arm,arm1136-pmu" - interrupts : 1 combined interrupt or 1 per core. +- cluster : a phandle to the cluster to which it belongs + If there are more than one cluster with same CPU type + then there should be separate PMU nodes per cluster. Example: diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 2fe6e767b3d..ba7daaa688f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1240,6 +1240,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. See comment before ip2_setup() in drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c. + irqaffinity= [SMP] Set the default irq affinity mask + Format: + <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> + or + <cpu number>-<cpu number> + (must be a positive range in ascending order) + or a mixture + <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number> + irqfixup [HW] When an interrupt is not handled search all handlers for it. Intended to get systems with badly broken @@ -3341,6 +3350,21 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/. + workqueue.power_efficient + Per-cpu workqueues are generally preferred because + they show better performance thanks to cache + locality; unfortunately, per-cpu workqueues tend to + be more power hungry than unbound workqueues. + + Enabling this makes the per-cpu workqueues which + were observed to contribute significantly to power + consumption unbound, leading to measurably lower + power usage at the cost of small performance + overhead. + + The default value of this parameter is determined by + the config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT. + x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of default x2apic cluster mode on platforms supporting x2apic. |