From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [103.22.144.67]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3tTyK74sslzDvyl for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 00:08:43 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from mail-pf0-x242.google.com (mail-pf0-x242.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::242]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3tTyK66rJCz9t9b for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 00:08:42 +1100 (AEDT) Received: by mail-pf0-x242.google.com with SMTP id 144so11960459pfv.0 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:08:42 -0800 (PST) To: Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH][DOC] ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off Cc: linuxppc-dev From: Balbir Singh Message-ID: <9d2bef9b-1df5-fb84-870e-14572ef0ea40@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 00:08:26 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Update kernel-parameters.txt to add Documentation for powersave=off. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh --- Applies of top of linux-next 20161201 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 0a178fc..be2d6d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3051,6 +3051,12 @@ may be specified. Format: ,.... + powersave=off [PPC] This option disables power saving features. + It specifically disables cpuidle and sets the + platform machine description specific power_save + function to NULL. On Idle the CPU just reduces + execution priority. + ppc_strict_facility_enable [PPC] This option catches any kernel floating point, Altivec, VSX and SPE outside of regions specifically -- 2.9.3