[lm-sensors] [PATCH 5/5] Package Level Thermal Control and Power

[Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>]

Document for package level thermal hwmon driver.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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+Kernel driver pkgtemp
+===========
+
+Supported chips:
+  * Intel family
+    Prefix: 'pkgtemp'
+    CPUID:
+    Datasheet: Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual
+               Volume 3A: System Programming Guide
+
+Author: Fenghua Yu
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This driver permits reading package level temperature sensor embedded inside
+Intel CPU package. The sensors can be in core, uncore, memroy controller, or
+other componenets in a package. The feature is first implemented in Intel Sandy
+Bridge platform.
+
+Temperature is measured in degrees Celsius and measurement resolution is
+1 degree C. Valid temperatures are from 0 to TjMax degrees C, because the actual
+value of temperature register is in fact a delta from TjMax.
+
+Temperature known as TjMax is the maximum junction temperature of package.
+Intel defines this temperature as 125C. At this temperature, protection
+mechanism will perform actions to forcibly cool down the processor. Alarm
+may be raised, if the temperature grows enough (more than TjMax) to trigger
+the Out-Of-Spec bit. Following table summarizes the exported sysfs files:
+
+temp1_input	 - Package temperature (in millidegrees Celsius).
+temp1_crit	 - Maximum junction temperature (in millidegrees Celsius).
+temp1_crit_alarm - Set when Out-of-spec bit is set, never clears.
+		   Correct CPU operation is no longer guaranteed.
+temp1_label	 - Contains string "Pysical package id X", where X is physical
+		   package id.

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