Commit b9e6a2d4 authored by Perry Yuan's avatar Perry Yuan Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki

Documentation: amd-pstate: introduce new global sysfs attributes

The amd-pstate driver supports switching working modes at runtime.
Users can view and change modes by interacting with the "status" sysfs
attribute.

1) check driver mode:
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd-pstate/status

2) switch mode:
`# echo "passive" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd-pstate/status`
or
`# echo "active" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd-pstate/status`
Acked-by: default avatarHuang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com>
Tested-by: default avatarWyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPerry Yuan <perry.yuan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
parent 3ec32b6d
......@@ -339,6 +339,35 @@ processor must provide at least nominal performance requested and go higher if c
operating conditions allow.
User Space Interface in ``sysfs``
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Global Attributes
-----------------
``amd-pstate`` exposes several global attributes (files) in ``sysfs`` to
control its functionality at the system level. They are located in the
``/sys/devices/system/cpu/amd-pstate/`` directory and affect all CPUs.
``status``
Operation mode of the driver: "active", "passive" or "disable".
"active"
The driver is functional and in the ``active mode``
"passive"
The driver is functional and in the ``passive mode``
"disable"
The driver is unregistered and not functional now.
This attribute can be written to in order to change the driver's
operation mode or to unregister it. The string written to it must be
one of the possible values of it and, if successful, writing one of
these values to the sysfs file will cause the driver to switch over
to the operation mode represented by that string - or to be
unregistered in the "disable" case.
``cpupower`` tool support for ``amd-pstate``
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