From: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
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Subject: [PATCH] docs: Update nosmt support for arm64
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:25:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260417032540.3720627-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com> (raw)
commit eed4583bcf9a6 ("arm64: Kconfig: Enable HOTPLUG_SMT") enable
HOTPLUG_SMT for SMT control for arm64, but the documentation was
not updated accordingly to reflect that ARM64 now supports control SMT
via boot parameter and sysfs knobs:
1. Boot parameters:
nosmt: Disable SMT, can be enabled via sysfs knobs.
nosmt=force: Disable SMT, cannot be enabled via sysfs knobs.
2. Runtime sysfs controls:
Write "on", "off", "forceoff" or the number of SMT threads (1, 2, ...)
to /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control.
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index cb850e5290c2..6a73eb5abae9 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4661,7 +4661,7 @@ Kernel parameters
nosmt [KNL,MIPS,PPC,EARLY] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
Equivalent to smt=1.
- [KNL,LOONGARCH,X86,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
+ [KNL,LOONGARCH,X86,ARM64,PPC,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
via the sysfs control file.
--
2.34.1
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