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docs: admin-guide: Add information about intel_pstate active mode
Information about intel_pstate active mode is added in the doc. This operation mode could be used to set on the hardware when it's not activated. Status of the mode could be checked from sysfs file i.e., /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/status. The information is already available in cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt documentation. Signed-off-by: Natesh Sharma <nsharma@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> [jc: reformatted for width ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230427083706.49882-1-nsharma@redhat.com
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Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

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disable
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Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
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scaling driver for the supported processors
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active
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Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
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governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
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algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
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P-state selection algorithms provided by
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intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
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performance. The way they both operate depends
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on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
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(HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
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and possibly on the processor model.
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passive
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Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
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to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of

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