Merge: docs: admin-guide: Add information about intel_pstate active mode

MR: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_requests/2725

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2216955
Tested: doc only change

commit f02c20d
Author: Natesh Sharma <nsharma@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Apr 27 14:07:06 2023 +0530

    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

Signed-off-by: David Arcari <darcari@redhat.com>

Approved-by: Tony Camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com>
Approved-by: Steve Best <sbest@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>

Author: jstancek

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -2022,6 +2022,16 @@
 			disable
 			  Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
 			  scaling driver for the supported processors
+                        active
+                          Use intel_pstate driver to bypass the scaling
+                          governors layer of cpufreq and provides it own
+                          algorithms for p-state selection. There are two
+                          P-state selection algorithms provided by
+                          intel_pstate in the active mode: powersave and
+                          performance.  The way they both operate depends
+                          on whether or not the hardware managed P-states
+                          (HWP) feature has been enabled in the processor
+                          and possibly on the processor model.
 			passive
 			  Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
 			  to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of