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  1 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/            1 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/
  2 Date:           pre-git history                     2 Date:           pre-git history
  3 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu      3 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
  4 Description:                                        4 Description:
  5                 A collection of both global an      5                 A collection of both global and individual CPU attributes
  6                                                     6 
  7                 Individual CPU attributes are       7                 Individual CPU attributes are contained in subdirectories
  8                 named by the kernel's logical       8                 named by the kernel's logical CPU number, e.g.:
  9                                                     9 
 10                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/      10                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/
 11                                                    11 
 12 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/kernel     12 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/kernel_max
 13                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/offlin     13                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/offline
 14                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/online     14                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/online
 15                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possib     15                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
 16                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/presen     16                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/present
 17 Date:           December 2008                      17 Date:           December 2008
 18 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu     18 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
 19 Description:    CPU topology files that descri     19 Description:    CPU topology files that describe kernel limits related to
 20                 hotplug. Briefly:                  20                 hotplug. Briefly:
 21                                                    21 
 22                 kernel_max: the maximum cpu in     22                 kernel_max: the maximum cpu index allowed by the kernel
 23                 configuration.                     23                 configuration.
 24                                                    24 
 25                 offline: cpus that are not onl     25                 offline: cpus that are not online because they have been
 26                 HOTPLUGGED off or exceed the l     26                 HOTPLUGGED off or exceed the limit of cpus allowed by the
 27                 kernel configuration (kernel_m     27                 kernel configuration (kernel_max above).
 28                                                    28 
 29                 online: cpus that are online a     29                 online: cpus that are online and being scheduled.
 30                                                    30 
 31                 possible: cpus that have been      31                 possible: cpus that have been allocated resources and can be
 32                 brought online if they are pre     32                 brought online if they are present.
 33                                                    33 
 34                 present: cpus that have been i     34                 present: cpus that have been identified as being present in
 35                 the system.                        35                 the system.
 36                                                    36 
 37                 See Documentation/admin-guide/     37                 See Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst for more information.
 38                                                    38 
 39                                                    39 
 40 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/probe      40 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/probe
 41                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/releas     41                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/release
 42 Date:           November 2009                      42 Date:           November 2009
 43 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu     43 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
 44 Description:    Dynamic addition and removal o     44 Description:    Dynamic addition and removal of CPU's.  This is not hotplug
 45                 removal, this is meant complet     45                 removal, this is meant complete removal/addition of the CPU
 46                 from the system.                   46                 from the system.
 47                                                    47 
 48                 probe: writes to this file wil     48                 probe: writes to this file will dynamically add a CPU to the
 49                 system.  Information written t     49                 system.  Information written to the file to add CPU's is
 50                 architecture specific.             50                 architecture specific.
 51                                                    51 
 52                 release: writes to this file d     52                 release: writes to this file dynamically remove a CPU from
 53                 the system.  Information writt     53                 the system.  Information written to the file to remove CPU's
 54                 is architecture specific.          54                 is architecture specific.
 55                                                    55 
 56 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/n     56 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/node
 57 Date:           October 2009                       57 Date:           October 2009
 58 Contact:        Linux memory management mailin<     58 Contact:        Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
 59 Description:    Discover NUMA node a CPU belon     59 Description:    Discover NUMA node a CPU belongs to
 60                                                    60 
 61                 When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled, a     61                 When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled, a symbolic link that points
 62                 to the corresponding NUMA node     62                 to the corresponding NUMA node directory.
 63                                                    63 
 64                 For example, the following sym     64                 For example, the following symlink is created for cpu42
 65                 in NUMA node 2:                    65                 in NUMA node 2:
 66                                                    66 
 67                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu42/     67                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu42/node2 -> ../../node/node2
 68                                                    68 
 69                                                    69 
 70 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/t     70 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings
 71                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/t     71                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list
 72                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/t     72                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id
 73                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/t     73                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings
 74                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/t     74                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list
 75                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/t     75                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/ppin
 76 Date:           December 2008                      76 Date:           December 2008
 77 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu     77 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
 78 Description:    CPU topology files that descri     78 Description:    CPU topology files that describe a logical CPU's relationship
 79                 to other cores and threads in      79                 to other cores and threads in the same physical package.
 80                                                    80 
 81                 One cpuX directory is created      81                 One cpuX directory is created per logical CPU in the system,
 82                 e.g. /sys/devices/system/cpu/c     82                 e.g. /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu42/.
 83                                                    83 
 84                 Briefly, the files above are:      84                 Briefly, the files above are:
 85                                                    85 
 86                 core_siblings: internal kernel     86                 core_siblings: internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads
 87                 within the same physical_packa     87                 within the same physical_package_id.
 88                                                    88 
 89                 core_siblings_list: human-read     89                 core_siblings_list: human-readable list of the logical CPU
 90                 numbers within the same physic     90                 numbers within the same physical_package_id as cpuX.
 91                                                    91 
 92                 physical_package_id: physical      92                 physical_package_id: physical package id of cpuX. Typically
 93                 corresponds to a physical sock     93                 corresponds to a physical socket number, but the actual value
 94                 is architecture and platform d     94                 is architecture and platform dependent.
 95                                                    95 
 96                 thread_siblings: internal kern     96                 thread_siblings: internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware
 97                 threads within the same core a     97                 threads within the same core as cpuX
 98                                                    98 
 99                 thread_siblings_list: human-re     99                 thread_siblings_list: human-readable list of cpuX's hardware
100                 threads within the same core a    100                 threads within the same core as cpuX
101                                                   101 
102                 ppin: human-readable Protected    102                 ppin: human-readable Protected Processor Identification
103                 Number of the socket the cpu#     103                 Number of the socket the cpu# belongs to. There should be
104                 one per physical_package_id. F    104                 one per physical_package_id. File is readable only to
105                 admin.                            105                 admin.
106                                                   106 
107                 See Documentation/admin-guide/    107                 See Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst for more information.
108                                                   108 
109                                                   109 
110 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidl    110 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/available_governors
111                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidl    111                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver
112                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidl    112                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_governor
113                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidl    113                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_governer_ro
114 Date:           September 2007                    114 Date:           September 2007
115 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    115 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
116 Description:    Discover cpuidle policy and me    116 Description:    Discover cpuidle policy and mechanism
117                                                   117 
118                 Various CPUs today support mul    118                 Various CPUs today support multiple idle levels that are
119                 differentiated by varying exit    119                 differentiated by varying exit latencies and power
120                 consumption during idle.          120                 consumption during idle.
121                                                   121 
122                 Idle policy (governor) is diff    122                 Idle policy (governor) is differentiated from idle mechanism
123                 (driver).                         123                 (driver).
124                                                   124 
125                 available_governors: (RO) disp    125                 available_governors: (RO) displays a space separated list of
126                 available governors.              126                 available governors.
127                                                   127 
128                 current_driver: (RO) displays     128                 current_driver: (RO) displays current idle mechanism.
129                                                   129 
130                 current_governor: (RW) display    130                 current_governor: (RW) displays current idle policy. Users can
131                 switch the governor at runtime    131                 switch the governor at runtime by writing to this file.
132                                                   132 
133                 current_governor_ro: (RO) disp    133                 current_governor_ro: (RO) displays current idle policy.
134                                                   134 
135                 See Documentation/admin-guide/    135                 See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst and
136                 Documentation/driver-api/pm/cp    136                 Documentation/driver-api/pm/cpuidle.rst for more information.
137                                                   137 
138                                                   138 
139 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    139 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/name
140                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    140                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/latency
141                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    141                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/power
142                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    142                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/time
143                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    143                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/usage
144                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    144                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/above
145                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    145                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/below
146 Date:           September 2007                    146 Date:           September 2007
147 KernelVersion:  v2.6.24                           147 KernelVersion:  v2.6.24
148 Contact:        Linux power management list <li    148 Contact:        Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
149 Description:                                      149 Description:
150                 The directory /sys/devices/sys    150                 The directory /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle contains per
151                 logical CPU specific cpuidle i    151                 logical CPU specific cpuidle information for each online cpu X.
152                 The processor idle states whic    152                 The processor idle states which are available for use have the
153                 following attributes:             153                 following attributes:
154                                                   154 
155                 ======== ==== ================    155                 ======== ==== =================================================
156                 name:    (RO) Name of the idle    156                 name:    (RO) Name of the idle state (string).
157                                                   157 
158                 latency: (RO) The latency to e    158                 latency: (RO) The latency to exit out of this idle state (in
159                               microseconds).      159                               microseconds).
160                                                   160 
161                 power:   (RO) The power consum    161                 power:   (RO) The power consumed while in this idle state (in
162                               milliwatts).        162                               milliwatts).
163                                                   163 
164                 time:    (RO) The total time s    164                 time:    (RO) The total time spent in this idle state
165                               (in microseconds    165                               (in microseconds).
166                                                   166 
167                 usage:   (RO) Number of times     167                 usage:   (RO) Number of times this state was entered (a count).
168                                                   168 
169                 above:   (RO) Number of times     169                 above:   (RO) Number of times this state was entered, but the
170                               observed CPU idl    170                               observed CPU idle duration was too short for it
171                               (a count).          171                               (a count).
172                                                   172 
173                 below:   (RO) Number of times     173                 below:   (RO) Number of times this state was entered, but the
174                               observed CPU idl    174                               observed CPU idle duration was too long for it
175                               (a count).          175                               (a count).
176                 ======== ==== ================    176                 ======== ==== =================================================
177                                                   177 
178 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    178 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/desc
179 Date:           February 2008                     179 Date:           February 2008
180 KernelVersion:  v2.6.25                           180 KernelVersion:  v2.6.25
181 Contact:        Linux power management list <li    181 Contact:        Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
182 Description:                                      182 Description:
183                 (RO) A small description about    183                 (RO) A small description about the idle state (string).
184                                                   184 
185                                                   185 
186 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    186 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/disable
187 Date:           March 2012                        187 Date:           March 2012
188 KernelVersion:  v3.10                             188 KernelVersion:  v3.10
189 Contact:        Linux power management list <li    189 Contact:        Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
190 Description:                                      190 Description:
191                 (RW) Option to disable this id    191                 (RW) Option to disable this idle state (bool). The behavior and
192                 the effect of the disable vari    192                 the effect of the disable variable depends on the implementation
193                 of a particular governor. In t    193                 of a particular governor. In the ladder governor, for example,
194                 it is not coherent, i.e. if on    194                 it is not coherent, i.e. if one is disabling a light state, then
195                 all deeper states are disabled    195                 all deeper states are disabled as well, but the disable variable
196                 does not reflect it. Likewise,    196                 does not reflect it. Likewise, if one enables a deep state but a
197                 lighter state still is disable    197                 lighter state still is disabled, then this has no effect.
198                                                   198 
199 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    199 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/default_status
200 Date:           December 2019                     200 Date:           December 2019
201 KernelVersion:  v5.6                              201 KernelVersion:  v5.6
202 Contact:        Linux power management list <li    202 Contact:        Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
203 Description:                                      203 Description:
204                 (RO) The default status of thi    204                 (RO) The default status of this state, "enabled" or "disabled".
205                                                   205 
206 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    206 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/residency
207 Date:           March 2014                        207 Date:           March 2014
208 KernelVersion:  v3.15                             208 KernelVersion:  v3.15
209 Contact:        Linux power management list <li    209 Contact:        Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
210 Description:                                      210 Description:
211                 (RO) Display the target reside    211                 (RO) Display the target residency i.e. the minimum amount of
212                 time (in microseconds) this cp    212                 time (in microseconds) this cpu should spend in this idle state
213                 to make the transition worth t    213                 to make the transition worth the effort.
214                                                   214 
215 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    215 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/s2idle/
216 Date:           March 2018                        216 Date:           March 2018
217 KernelVersion:  v4.17                             217 KernelVersion:  v4.17
218 Contact:        Linux power management list <li    218 Contact:        Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
219 Description:                                      219 Description:
220                 Idle state usage statistics re    220                 Idle state usage statistics related to suspend-to-idle.
221                                                   221 
222                 This attribute group is only p    222                 This attribute group is only present for states that can be
223                 used in suspend-to-idle with s    223                 used in suspend-to-idle with suspended timekeeping.
224                                                   224 
225 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    225 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/s2idle/time
226 Date:           March 2018                        226 Date:           March 2018
227 KernelVersion:  v4.17                             227 KernelVersion:  v4.17
228 Contact:        Linux power management list <li    228 Contact:        Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
229 Description:                                      229 Description:
230                 Total time spent by the CPU in    230                 Total time spent by the CPU in suspend-to-idle (with scheduler
231                 tick suspended) after requesti    231                 tick suspended) after requesting this state.
232                                                   232 
233 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    233 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/s2idle/usage
234 Date:           March 2018                        234 Date:           March 2018
235 KernelVersion:  v4.17                             235 KernelVersion:  v4.17
236 Contact:        Linux power management list <li    236 Contact:        Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
237 Description:                                      237 Description:
238                 Total number of times this sta    238                 Total number of times this state has been requested by the CPU
239                 while entering suspend-to-idle    239                 while entering suspend-to-idle.
240                                                   240 
241 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    241 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/*
242 Date:           pre-git history                   242 Date:           pre-git history
243 Contact:        linux-pm@vger.kernel.org          243 Contact:        linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
244 Description:    Discover and change clock spee    244 Description:    Discover and change clock speed of CPUs
245                                                   245 
246                 Clock scaling allows you to ch    246                 Clock scaling allows you to change the clock speed of the
247                 CPUs on the fly. This is a nic    247                 CPUs on the fly. This is a nice method to save battery
248                 power, because the lower the c    248                 power, because the lower the clock speed, the less power
249                 the CPU consumes.                 249                 the CPU consumes.
250                                                   250 
251                 There are many knobs to tweak     251                 There are many knobs to tweak in this directory.
252                                                   252 
253                 See files in Documentation/cpu    253                 See files in Documentation/cpu-freq/ for more information.
254                                                   254 
255                                                   255 
256 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    256 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/freqdomain_cpus
257 Date:           June 2013                         257 Date:           June 2013
258 Contact:        linux-pm@vger.kernel.org          258 Contact:        linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
259 Description:    Discover CPUs in the same CPU     259 Description:    Discover CPUs in the same CPU frequency coordination domain
260                                                   260 
261                 freqdomain_cpus is the list of    261                 freqdomain_cpus is the list of CPUs (online+offline) that share
262                 the same clock/freq domain (po    262                 the same clock/freq domain (possibly at the hardware level).
263                 That information may be hidden    263                 That information may be hidden from the cpufreq core and the
264                 value of related_cpus may be d    264                 value of related_cpus may be different from freqdomain_cpus. This
265                 attribute is useful for user s    265                 attribute is useful for user space DVFS controllers to get better
266                 power/performance results for     266                 power/performance results for platforms using acpi-cpufreq.
267                                                   267 
268                 This file is only present if t    268                 This file is only present if the acpi-cpufreq or the cppc-cpufreq
269                 drivers are in use.               269                 drivers are in use.
270                                                   270 
271                                                   271 
272 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/c    272 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index3/cache_disable_{0,1}
273 Date:           August 2008                       273 Date:           August 2008
274 KernelVersion:  2.6.27                            274 KernelVersion:  2.6.27
275 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    275 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
276 Description:    Disable L3 cache indices          276 Description:    Disable L3 cache indices
277                                                   277 
278                 These files exist in every CPU    278                 These files exist in every CPU's cache/index3 directory. Each
279                 cache_disable_{0,1} file corre    279                 cache_disable_{0,1} file corresponds to one disable slot which
280                 can be used to disable a cache    280                 can be used to disable a cache index. Reading from these files
281                 on a processor with this funct    281                 on a processor with this functionality will return the currently
282                 disabled index for that node.     282                 disabled index for that node. There is one L3 structure per
283                 node, or per internal node on     283                 node, or per internal node on MCM machines. Writing a valid
284                 index to one of these files wi    284                 index to one of these files will cause the specified cache
285                 index to be disabled.             285                 index to be disabled.
286                                                   286 
287                 All AMD processors with L3 cac    287                 All AMD processors with L3 caches provide this functionality.
288                 For details, see BKDGs at         288                 For details, see BKDGs at
289                 https://www.amd.com/en/support    289                 https://www.amd.com/en/support/tech-docs?keyword=bios+kernel
290                                                   290 
291                                                   291 
292 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufre    292 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost
293 Date:           August 2012                       293 Date:           August 2012
294 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    294 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
295 Description:    Processor frequency boosting c    295 Description:    Processor frequency boosting control
296                                                   296 
297                 This switch controls the boost    297                 This switch controls the boost setting for the whole system.
298                 Boosting allows the CPU and th    298                 Boosting allows the CPU and the firmware to run at a frequency
299                 beyond its nominal limit.         299                 beyond its nominal limit.
300                                                   300 
301                 More details can be found in      301                 More details can be found in
302                 Documentation/admin-guide/pm/c    302                 Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst
303                                                   303 
304                                                   304 
305 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    305 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/crash_notes
306                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    306                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/crash_notes_size
307 Date:           April 2013                        307 Date:           April 2013
308 Contact:        kexec@lists.infradead.org         308 Contact:        kexec@lists.infradead.org
309 Description:    address and size of the percpu    309 Description:    address and size of the percpu note.
310                                                   310 
311                 crash_notes: the physical addr    311                 crash_notes: the physical address of the memory that holds the
312                 note of cpuX.                     312                 note of cpuX.
313                                                   313 
314                 crash_notes_size: size of the     314                 crash_notes_size: size of the note of cpuX.
315                                                   315 
316                                                   316 
317 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_    317 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct
318                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_    318                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
319                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_    319                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo
320 Date:           February 2013                     320 Date:           February 2013
321 Contact:        linux-pm@vger.kernel.org          321 Contact:        linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
322 Description:    Parameters for the Intel P-sta    322 Description:    Parameters for the Intel P-state driver
323                                                   323 
324                 Logic for selecting the curren    324                 Logic for selecting the current P-state in Intel
325                 Sandybridge+ processors. The t    325                 Sandybridge+ processors. The three knobs control
326                 limits for the P-state that wi    326                 limits for the P-state that will be requested by the
327                 driver.                           327                 driver.
328                                                   328 
329                 max_perf_pct: limits the maxim    329                 max_perf_pct: limits the maximum P state that will be requested by
330                 the driver stated as a percent    330                 the driver stated as a percentage of the available performance.
331                                                   331 
332                 min_perf_pct: limits the minim    332                 min_perf_pct: limits the minimum P state that will be requested by
333                 the driver stated as a percent    333                 the driver stated as a percentage of the available performance.
334                                                   334 
335                 no_turbo: limits the driver to    335                 no_turbo: limits the driver to selecting P states below the turbo
336                 frequency range.                  336                 frequency range.
337                                                   337 
338                 More details can be found in      338                 More details can be found in
339                 Documentation/admin-guide/pm/i    339                 Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
340                                                   340 
341 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/c    341 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/<set_of_attributes_mentioned_below>
342 Date:           July 2014(documented, existed     342 Date:           July 2014(documented, existed before August 2008)
343 Contact:        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.    343 Contact:        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
344                 Linux kernel mailing list <linu    344                 Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
345 Description:    Parameters for the CPU cache a    345 Description:    Parameters for the CPU cache attributes
346                                                   346 
347                 allocation_policy:                347                 allocation_policy:
348                         - WriteAllocate:          348                         - WriteAllocate:
349                                         alloca    349                                         allocate a memory location to a cache line
350                                         on a c    350                                         on a cache miss because of a write
351                         - ReadAllocate:           351                         - ReadAllocate:
352                                         alloca    352                                         allocate a memory location to a cache line
353                                         on a c    353                                         on a cache miss because of a read
354                         - ReadWriteAllocate:      354                         - ReadWriteAllocate:
355                                         both w    355                                         both writeallocate and readallocate
356                                                   356 
357                 coherency_line_size:              357                 coherency_line_size:
358                                      the minim    358                                      the minimum amount of data in bytes that gets
359                                      transferr    359                                      transferred from memory to cache
360                                                   360 
361                 level:                            361                 level:
362                         the cache hierarchy in    362                         the cache hierarchy in the multi-level cache configuration
363                                                   363 
364                 number_of_sets:                   364                 number_of_sets:
365                                 total number o    365                                 total number of sets in the cache, a set is a
366                                 collection of     366                                 collection of cache lines with the same cache index
367                                                   367 
368                 physical_line_partition:          368                 physical_line_partition:
369                                 number of phys    369                                 number of physical cache line per cache tag
370                                                   370 
371                 shared_cpu_list:                  371                 shared_cpu_list:
372                                 the list of lo    372                                 the list of logical cpus sharing the cache
373                                                   373 
374                 shared_cpu_map:                   374                 shared_cpu_map:
375                                 logical cpu ma    375                                 logical cpu mask containing the list of cpus sharing
376                                 the cache         376                                 the cache
377                                                   377 
378                 size:                             378                 size:
379                         the total cache size i    379                         the total cache size in kB
380                                                   380 
381                 type:                             381                 type:
382                         - Instruction: cache t    382                         - Instruction: cache that only holds instructions
383                         - Data: cache that onl    383                         - Data: cache that only caches data
384                         - Unified: cache that     384                         - Unified: cache that holds both data and instructions
385                                                   385 
386                 ways_of_associativity:            386                 ways_of_associativity:
387                         degree of freedom in p    387                         degree of freedom in placing a particular block
388                         of memory in the cache    388                         of memory in the cache
389                                                   389 
390                 write_policy:                     390                 write_policy:
391                         - WriteThrough:           391                         - WriteThrough:
392                                         data i    392                                         data is written to both the cache line
393                                         and to    393                                         and to the block in the lower-level memory
394                         - WriteBack:              394                         - WriteBack:
395                                      data is w    395                                      data is written only to the cache line and
396                                      the modif    396                                      the modified cache line is written to main
397                                      memory on    397                                      memory only when it is replaced
398                                                   398 
399                                                   399 
400 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/c    400 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/id
401 Date:           September 2016                    401 Date:           September 2016
402 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    402 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
403 Description:    Cache id                          403 Description:    Cache id
404                                                   404 
405                 The id provides a unique numbe    405                 The id provides a unique number for a specific instance of
406                 a cache of a particular type.     406                 a cache of a particular type. E.g. there may be a level
407                 3 unified cache on each socket    407                 3 unified cache on each socket in a server and we may
408                 assign them ids 0, 1, 2, ...      408                 assign them ids 0, 1, 2, ...
409                                                   409 
410                 Note that id value can be non-    410                 Note that id value can be non-contiguous. E.g. level 1
411                 caches typically exist per cor    411                 caches typically exist per core, but there may not be a
412                 power of two cores on a socket    412                 power of two cores on a socket, so these caches may be
413                 numbered 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8,     413                 numbered 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, ...
414                                                   414 
415 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    415 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats
416                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    416                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/turbo_stat
417                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    417                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/sub_turbo_stat
418                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    418                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/unthrottle
419                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    419                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/powercap
420                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    420                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/overtemp
421                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    421                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/supply_fault
422                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    422                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/overcurrent
423                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    423                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/occ_reset
424 Date:           March 2016                        424 Date:           March 2016
425 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    425 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
426                 Linux for PowerPC mailing list<    426                 Linux for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
427 Description:    POWERNV CPUFreq driver's frequ    427 Description:    POWERNV CPUFreq driver's frequency throttle stats directory and
428                 attributes                        428                 attributes
429                                                   429 
430                 'cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats'     430                 'cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats' directory contains the CPU frequency
431                 throttle stat attributes for t    431                 throttle stat attributes for the chip. The throttle stats of a cpu
432                 is common across all the cpus     432                 is common across all the cpus belonging to a chip. Below are the
433                 throttle attributes exported i    433                 throttle attributes exported in the 'throttle_stats' directory:
434                                                   434 
435                 - turbo_stat : This file gives    435                 - turbo_stat : This file gives the total number of times the max
436                   frequency is throttled to lo    436                   frequency is throttled to lower frequency in turbo (at and above
437                   nominal frequency) range of     437                   nominal frequency) range of frequencies.
438                                                   438 
439                 - sub_turbo_stat : This file g    439                 - sub_turbo_stat : This file gives the total number of times the
440                   max frequency is throttled t    440                   max frequency is throttled to lower frequency in sub-turbo(below
441                   nominal frequency) range of     441                   nominal frequency) range of frequencies.
442                                                   442 
443                 - unthrottle : This file gives    443                 - unthrottle : This file gives the total number of times the max
444                   frequency is unthrottled aft    444                   frequency is unthrottled after being throttled.
445                                                   445 
446                 - powercap : This file gives t    446                 - powercap : This file gives the total number of times the max
447                   frequency is throttled due t    447                   frequency is throttled due to 'Power Capping'.
448                                                   448 
449                 - overtemp : This file gives t    449                 - overtemp : This file gives the total number of times the max
450                   frequency is throttled due t    450                   frequency is throttled due to 'CPU Over Temperature'.
451                                                   451 
452                 - supply_fault : This file giv    452                 - supply_fault : This file gives the total number of times the
453                   max frequency is throttled d    453                   max frequency is throttled due to 'Power Supply Failure'.
454                                                   454 
455                 - overcurrent : This file give    455                 - overcurrent : This file gives the total number of times the
456                   max frequency is throttled d    456                   max frequency is throttled due to 'Overcurrent'.
457                                                   457 
458                 - occ_reset : This file gives     458                 - occ_reset : This file gives the total number of times the max
459                   frequency is throttled due t    459                   frequency is throttled due to 'OCC Reset'.
460                                                   460 
461                 The sysfs attributes represent    461                 The sysfs attributes representing different throttle reasons like
462                 powercap, overtemp, supply_fau    462                 powercap, overtemp, supply_fault, overcurrent and occ_reset map to
463                 the reasons provided by OCC fi    463                 the reasons provided by OCC firmware for throttling the frequency.
464                                                   464 
465 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufre    465 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats
466                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufre    466                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/turbo_stat
467                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufre    467                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/sub_turbo_stat
468                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufre    468                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/unthrottle
469                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufre    469                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/powercap
470                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufre    470                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/overtemp
471                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufre    471                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/supply_fault
472                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufre    472                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/overcurrent
473                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufre    473                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/occ_reset
474 Date:           March 2016                        474 Date:           March 2016
475 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    475 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
476                 Linux for PowerPC mailing list<    476                 Linux for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
477 Description:    POWERNV CPUFreq driver's frequ    477 Description:    POWERNV CPUFreq driver's frequency throttle stats directory and
478                 attributes                        478                 attributes
479                                                   479 
480                 'policyX/throttle_stats' direc    480                 'policyX/throttle_stats' directory and all the attributes are same as
481                 the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cp    481                 the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats directory and
482                 attributes which give the freq    482                 attributes which give the frequency throttle information of the chip.
483                                                   483 
484 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/r    484 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/regs/
485                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/r    485                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/
486                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/r    486                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/midr_el1
487                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/r    487                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/revidr_el1
488                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/r    488                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/smidr_el1
489 Date:           June 2016                         489 Date:           June 2016
490 Contact:        Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <    490 Contact:        Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
491 Description:    AArch64 CPU registers             491 Description:    AArch64 CPU registers
492                                                   492 
493                 'identification' directory exp    493                 'identification' directory exposes the CPU ID registers for
494                 identifying model and revision    494                 identifying model and revision of the CPU and SMCU.
495                                                   495 
496 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch3    496 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
497 Date:           May 2021                          497 Date:           May 2021
498 Contact:        Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <    498 Contact:        Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
499 Description:    Identifies the subset of CPUs     499 Description:    Identifies the subset of CPUs in the system that can execute
500                 AArch32 (32-bit ARM) applicati    500                 AArch32 (32-bit ARM) applications. If present, the same format as
501                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/{offli    501                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/{offline,online,possible,present} is used.
502                 If absent, then all or none of    502                 If absent, then all or none of the CPUs can execute AArch32
503                 applications and execve() will    503                 applications and execve() will behave accordingly.
504                                                   504 
505 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/c    505 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpu_capacity
506 Date:           December 2016                     506 Date:           December 2016
507 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    507 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
508 Description:    information about CPUs heterog    508 Description:    information about CPUs heterogeneity.
509                                                   509 
510                 cpu_capacity: capacity of cpuX    510                 cpu_capacity: capacity of cpuX.
511                                                   511 
512 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    512 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities
513                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    513                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/gather_data_sampling
514                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    514                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit
515                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    515                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf
516                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    516                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds
517                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    517                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown
518                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    518                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mmio_stale_data
519                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    519                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/reg_file_data_sampling
520                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    520                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/retbleed
521                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    521                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass
522                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    522                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1
523                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    523                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2
524                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    524                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds
525                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulner    525                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort
526 Date:           January 2018                      526 Date:           January 2018
527 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    527 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
528 Description:    Information about CPU vulnerab    528 Description:    Information about CPU vulnerabilities
529                                                   529 
530                 The files are named after the     530                 The files are named after the code names of CPU
531                 vulnerabilities. The output of    531                 vulnerabilities. The output of those files reflects the
532                 state of the CPUs in the syste    532                 state of the CPUs in the system. Possible output values:
533                                                   533 
534                 ================  ============    534                 ================  ==============================================
535                 "Not affected"    CPU is not a    535                 "Not affected"    CPU is not affected by the vulnerability
536                 "Vulnerable"      CPU is affec    536                 "Vulnerable"      CPU is affected and no mitigation in effect
537                 "Mitigation: $M"  CPU is affec    537                 "Mitigation: $M"  CPU is affected and mitigation $M is in effect
538                 ================  ============    538                 ================  ==============================================
539                                                   539 
540                 See also: Documentation/admin-    540                 See also: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst
541                                                   541 
542 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt       542 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt
543                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/ac    543                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/active
544                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/co    544                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control
545 Date:           June 2018                         545 Date:           June 2018
546 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    546 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
547 Description:    Control Symmetric Multi Thread    547 Description:    Control Symmetric Multi Threading (SMT)
548                                                   548 
549                 active:  Tells whether SMT is     549                 active:  Tells whether SMT is active (enabled and siblings online)
550                                                   550 
551                 control: Read/write interface     551                 control: Read/write interface to control SMT. Possible
552                          values:                  552                          values:
553                                                   553 
554                          ================ ====    554                          ================ =========================================
555                          "on"             SMT     555                          "on"             SMT is enabled
556                          "off"            SMT     556                          "off"            SMT is disabled
557                          "<N>"            SMT     557                          "<N>"            SMT is enabled with N threads per core.
558                          "forceoff"       SMT     558                          "forceoff"       SMT is force disabled. Cannot be changed.
559                          "notsupported"   SMT     559                          "notsupported"   SMT is not supported by the CPU
560                          "notimplemented" SMT     560                          "notimplemented" SMT runtime toggling is not
561                                           impl    561                                           implemented for the architecture
562                          ================ ====    562                          ================ =========================================
563                                                   563 
564                          If control status is     564                          If control status is "forceoff" or "notsupported" writes
565                          are rejected. Note th    565                          are rejected. Note that enabling SMT on PowerPC skips
566                          offline cores.           566                          offline cores.
567                                                   567 
568 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/p    568 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/power/energy_perf_bias
569 Date:           March 2019                        569 Date:           March 2019
570 Contact:        linux-pm@vger.kernel.org          570 Contact:        linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
571 Description:    Intel Energy and Performance B    571 Description:    Intel Energy and Performance Bias Hint (EPB)
572                                                   572 
573                 EPB for the given CPU in a sli    573                 EPB for the given CPU in a sliding scale 0 - 15, where a value
574                 of 0 corresponds to a hint pre    574                 of 0 corresponds to a hint preference for highest performance
575                 and a value of 15 corresponds     575                 and a value of 15 corresponds to the maximum energy savings.
576                                                   576 
577                 In order to change the EPB val    577                 In order to change the EPB value for the CPU, write either
578                 a number in the 0 - 15 sliding    578                 a number in the 0 - 15 sliding scale above, or one of the
579                 strings: "performance", "balan    579                 strings: "performance", "balance-performance", "normal",
580                 "balance-power", "power" (that    580                 "balance-power", "power" (that represent values reflected by
581                 their meaning), to this attrib    581                 their meaning), to this attribute.
582                                                   582 
583                 This attribute is present for     583                 This attribute is present for all online CPUs supporting the
584                 Intel EPB feature.                584                 Intel EPB feature.
585                                                   585 
586 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/umwait    586 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/umwait_control
587                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/umwait    587                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/umwait_control/enable_c02
588                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/umwait    588                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/umwait_control/max_time
589 Date:           May 2019                          589 Date:           May 2019
590 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    590 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
591 Description:    Umwait control                    591 Description:    Umwait control
592                                                   592 
593                 enable_c02: Read/write interfa    593                 enable_c02: Read/write interface to control umwait C0.2 state
594                         Read returns C0.2 stat    594                         Read returns C0.2 state status:
595                                 0: C0.2 is dis    595                                 0: C0.2 is disabled
596                                 1: C0.2 is ena    596                                 1: C0.2 is enabled
597                                                   597 
598                         Write 'y' or '1'  or '    598                         Write 'y' or '1'  or 'on' to enable C0.2 state.
599                         Write 'n' or '0'  or '    599                         Write 'n' or '0'  or 'off' to disable C0.2 state.
600                                                   600 
601                         The interface is case     601                         The interface is case insensitive.
602                                                   602 
603                 max_time: Read/write interface    603                 max_time: Read/write interface to control umwait maximum time
604                           in TSC-quanta that t    604                           in TSC-quanta that the CPU can reside in either C0.1
605                           or C0.2 state. The t    605                           or C0.2 state. The time is an unsigned 32-bit number.
606                           Note that a value of    606                           Note that a value of zero means there is no limit.
607                           Low order two bits m    607                           Low order two bits must be zero.
608                                                   608 
609 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/sev       609 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/sev
610                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/sev/vm    610                 /sys/devices/system/cpu/sev/vmpl
611 Date:           May 2024                          611 Date:           May 2024
612 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    612 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
613 Description:    Secure Encrypted Virtualizatio    613 Description:    Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) information
614                                                   614 
615                 This directory is only present    615                 This directory is only present when running as an SEV-SNP guest.
616                                                   616 
617                 vmpl: Reports the Virtual Mach    617                 vmpl: Reports the Virtual Machine Privilege Level (VMPL) at which
618                       the SEV-SNP guest is run    618                       the SEV-SNP guest is running.
619                                                   619 
620                                                   620 
621 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/svm       621 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/svm
622 Date:           August 2019                       622 Date:           August 2019
623 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    623 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
624                 Linux for PowerPC mailing list<    624                 Linux for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
625 Description:    Secure Virtual Machine            625 Description:    Secure Virtual Machine
626                                                   626 
627                 If 1, it means the system is u    627                 If 1, it means the system is using the Protected Execution
628                 Facility in POWER9 and newer p    628                 Facility in POWER9 and newer processors. i.e., it is a Secure
629                 Virtual Machine.                  629                 Virtual Machine.
630                                                   630 
631 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/p    631 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/purr
632 Date:           Apr 2005                          632 Date:           Apr 2005
633 Contact:        Linux for PowerPC mailing list<    633 Contact:        Linux for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
634 Description:    PURR ticks for this CPU since     634 Description:    PURR ticks for this CPU since the system boot.
635                                                   635 
636                 The Processor Utilization Reso    636                 The Processor Utilization Resources Register (PURR) is
637                 a 64-bit counter which provide    637                 a 64-bit counter which provides an estimate of the
638                 resources used by the CPU thre    638                 resources used by the CPU thread. The contents of this
639                 register increases monotonical    639                 register increases monotonically. This sysfs interface
640                 exposes the number of PURR tic    640                 exposes the number of PURR ticks for cpuX.
641                                                   641 
642 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/s    642 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/spurr
643 Date:           Dec 2006                          643 Date:           Dec 2006
644 Contact:        Linux for PowerPC mailing list<    644 Contact:        Linux for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
645 Description:    SPURR ticks for this CPU since    645 Description:    SPURR ticks for this CPU since the system boot.
646                                                   646 
647                 The Scaled Processor Utilizati    647                 The Scaled Processor Utilization Resources Register
648                 (SPURR) is a 64-bit counter th    648                 (SPURR) is a 64-bit counter that provides a frequency
649                 invariant estimate of the reso    649                 invariant estimate of the resources used by the CPU
650                 thread. The contents of this r    650                 thread. The contents of this register increases
651                 monotonically. This sysfs inte    651                 monotonically. This sysfs interface exposes the number
652                 of SPURR ticks for cpuX.          652                 of SPURR ticks for cpuX.
653                                                   653 
654 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/i    654 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/idle_purr
655 Date:           Apr 2020                          655 Date:           Apr 2020
656 Contact:        Linux for PowerPC mailing list<    656 Contact:        Linux for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
657 Description:    PURR ticks for cpuX when it wa    657 Description:    PURR ticks for cpuX when it was idle.
658                                                   658 
659                 This sysfs interface exposes t    659                 This sysfs interface exposes the number of PURR ticks
660                 for cpuX when it was idle.        660                 for cpuX when it was idle.
661                                                   661 
662 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/i    662 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/idle_spurr
663 Date:           Apr 2020                          663 Date:           Apr 2020
664 Contact:        Linux for PowerPC mailing list<    664 Contact:        Linux for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
665 Description:    SPURR ticks for cpuX when it w    665 Description:    SPURR ticks for cpuX when it was idle.
666                                                   666 
667                 This sysfs interface exposes t    667                 This sysfs interface exposes the number of SPURR ticks
668                 for cpuX when it was idle.        668                 for cpuX when it was idle.
669                                                   669 
670 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/m    670 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/mte_tcf_preferred
671 Date:           July 2021                         671 Date:           July 2021
672 Contact:        Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <    672 Contact:        Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
673 Description:    Preferred MTE tag checking mod    673 Description:    Preferred MTE tag checking mode
674                                                   674 
675                 When a user program specifies     675                 When a user program specifies more than one MTE tag checking
676                 mode, this sysfs node is used     676                 mode, this sysfs node is used to specify which mode should
677                 be preferred when scheduling a    677                 be preferred when scheduling a task on that CPU. Possible
678                 values:                           678                 values:
679                                                   679 
680                 ================  ============    680                 ================  ==============================================
681                 "sync"            Prefer synch    681                 "sync"            Prefer synchronous mode
682                 "asymm"           Prefer asymm    682                 "asymm"           Prefer asymmetric mode
683                 "async"           Prefer async    683                 "async"           Prefer asynchronous mode
684                 ================  ============    684                 ================  ==============================================
685                                                   685 
686                 See also: Documentation/arch/a    686                 See also: Documentation/arch/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst
687                                                   687 
688 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/nohz_f    688 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/nohz_full
689 Date:           Apr 2015                          689 Date:           Apr 2015
690 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    690 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
691 Description:                                      691 Description:
692                 (RO) the list of CPUs that are    692                 (RO) the list of CPUs that are in nohz_full mode.
693                 These CPUs are set by boot par    693                 These CPUs are set by boot parameter "nohz_full=".
694                                                   694 
695 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/isolat    695 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/isolated
696 Date:           Apr 2015                          696 Date:           Apr 2015
697 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    697 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
698 Description:                                      698 Description:
699                 (RO) the list of CPUs that are    699                 (RO) the list of CPUs that are isolated and don't
700                 participate in load balancing.    700                 participate in load balancing. These CPUs are set by
701                 boot parameter "isolcpus=".       701                 boot parameter "isolcpus=".
702                                                   702 
703 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/crash_    703 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/crash_hotplug
704 Date:           Aug 2023                          704 Date:           Aug 2023
705 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    705 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
706 Description:                                      706 Description:
707                 (RO) indicates whether or not     707                 (RO) indicates whether or not the kernel updates relevant kexec
708                 segments on memory hot un/plug    708                 segments on memory hot un/plug and/or on/offline events, avoiding the
709                 need to reload kdump kernel.      709                 need to reload kdump kernel.
710                                                   710 
711 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/enable    711 What:           /sys/devices/system/cpu/enabled
712 Date:           Nov 2022                          712 Date:           Nov 2022
713 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linu    713 Contact:        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
714 Description:                                      714 Description:
715                 (RO) the list of CPUs that can    715                 (RO) the list of CPUs that can be brought online.
                                                      

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