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@@ -5113,6 +5113,17 @@
rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout to be used (after
conversion from seconds to milliseconds).
+ rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime= [KNL]
+ Provide statistics on the cputime and count of
+ interrupts and tasks during the sampling period. For
+ multiple continuous RCU stalls, all sampling periods
+ begin at half of the first RCU stall timeout.
+
+ rcupdate.rcu_exp_stall_task_details= [KNL]
+ Print stack dumps of any tasks blocking the
+ current expedited RCU grace period during an
+ expedited RCU CPU stall warning.
+
rcupdate.rcu_expedited= [KNL]
Use expedited grace-period primitives, for
example, synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead
@@ -5221,7 +5232,7 @@
rdt= [HW,X86,RDT]
Turn on/off individual RDT features. List is:
cmt, mbmtotal, mbmlocal, l3cat, l3cdp, l2cat, l2cdp,
- mba.
+ mba, smba, bmec.
E.g. to turn on cmt and turn off mba use:
rdt=cmt,!mba
@@ -5729,9 +5740,9 @@
retpoline,generic - Retpolines
retpoline,lfence - LFENCE; indirect branch
retpoline,amd - alias for retpoline,lfence
- eibrs - enhanced IBRS
- eibrs,retpoline - enhanced IBRS + Retpolines
- eibrs,lfence - enhanced IBRS + LFENCE
+ eibrs - Enhanced/Auto IBRS
+ eibrs,retpoline - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + Retpolines
+ eibrs,lfence - Enhanced/Auto IBRS + LFENCE
ibrs - use IBRS to protect kernel
Not specifying this option is equivalent to
@@ -6369,6 +6380,16 @@
in situations with strict latency requirements (where
interruptions from clocksource watchdog are not
acceptable).
+ [x86] recalibrate: force recalibration against a HW timer
+ (HPET or PM timer) on systems whose TSC frequency was
+ obtained from HW or FW using either an MSR or CPUID(0x15).
+ Warn if the difference is more than 500 ppm.
+ [x86] watchdog: Use TSC as the watchdog clocksource with
+ which to check other HW timers (HPET or PM timer), but
+ only on systems where TSC has been deemed trustworthy.
+ This will be suppressed by an earlier tsc=nowatchdog and
+ can be overridden by a later tsc=nowatchdog. A console
+ message will flag any such suppression or overriding.
tsc_early_khz= [X86] Skip early TSC calibration and use the given
value instead. Useful when the early TSC frequency discovery
@@ -7020,3 +7041,10 @@
management firmware translates the requests into actual
hardware states (core frequency, data fabric and memory
clocks etc.)
+ active
+ Use amd_pstate_epp driver instance as the scaling driver,
+ driver provides a hint to the hardware if software wants
+ to bias toward performance (0x0) or energy efficiency (0xff)
+ to the CPPC firmware. then CPPC power algorithm will
+ calculate the runtime workload and adjust the realtime cores
+ frequency.