architecture specific.
release: writes to this file dynamically remove a CPU from
- the system. Information writtento the file to remove CPU's
+ the system. Information written to the file to remove CPU's
is architecture specific.
What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node
corresponds to a physical socket number, but the actual value
is architecture and platform dependent.
- thread_siblings: internel kernel map of cpu#'s hardware
+ thread_siblings: internal kernel map of cpu#'s hardware
threads within the same core as cpu#
thread_siblings_list: human-readable list of cpu#'s hardware
on a processor with this functionality will return the currently
disabled index for that node. There is one L3 structure per
node, or per internal node on MCM machines. Writing a valid
- index to one of these files will cause the specificed cache
+ index to one of these files will cause the specified cache
index to be disabled.
All AMD processors with L3 caches provide this functionality.
This switch controls the boost setting for the whole system.
Boosting allows the CPU and the firmware to run at a frequency
- beyound it's nominal limit.
+ beyond it's nominal limit.
More details can be found in
Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst
'identification' directory exposes the CPU ID registers for
identifying model and revision of the CPU.
+What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
+Date: May 2021
+Contact: Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
+Description: Identifies the subset of CPUs in the system that can execute
+ AArch32 (32-bit ARM) applications. If present, the same format as
+ /sys/devices/system/cpu/{offline,online,possible,present} is used.
+ If absent, then all or none of the CPUs can execute AArch32
+ applications and execve() will behave accordingly.
+
What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/cpu_capacity
Date: December 2016
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control
Date: June 2018
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
-Description: Control Symetric Multi Threading (SMT)
+Description: Control Symmetric Multi Threading (SMT)
active: Tells whether SMT is active (enabled and siblings online)
This sysfs interface exposes the number of SPURR ticks
for cpuX when it was idle.
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/mte_tcf_preferred
+Date: July 2021
+Contact: Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
+Description: Preferred MTE tag checking mode
+
+ When a user program specifies more than one MTE tag checking
+ mode, this sysfs node is used to specify which mode should
+ be preferred when scheduling a task on that CPU. Possible
+ values:
+
+ ================ ==============================================
+ "sync" Prefer synchronous mode
+ "async" Prefer asynchronous mode
+ ================ ==============================================
+
+ See also: Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst