[PATCH 7/7] sched/isolation: Update nohz documentation to explain tick offload

[Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>]

Update the documentation to reflect the 1Hz tick offload changes.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1d1d53f..50b9837 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1766,6 +1766,17 @@
 
 			nohz
 			  Disable the tick when a single task runs.
+
+			  A residual 1Hz tick is offloaded to workqueues, which you
+			  need to affine to housekeeping through the global
+			  workqueue's affinity configured via the
+			  /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask sysfs file, or
+			  by using the 'domain' flag described below.
+
+			  NOTE: by default the global workqueue runs on all CPUs,
+			  so to protect individual CPUs the 'cpumask' file has to
+			  be configured manually after bootup.
+
 			domain
 			  Isolate from the general SMP balancing and scheduling
 			  algorithms. Note that performing domain isolation this way
-- 
2.7.4