@@ -1446,6 +1446,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
disable
Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
scaling driver for the supported processors
+ onora
+ Enable loading intel_pstate on Oracle Sun Servers(X86).
+ only for those who be aware of the risk.
intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
@@ -866,6 +866,7 @@ static struct cpufreq_driver intel_pstate_driver = {
};
static int __initdata no_load;
+static unsigned int load_on_sun;
static int intel_pstate_msrs_not_valid(void)
{
@@ -987,7 +988,8 @@ static bool intel_pstate_platform_pwr_mgmt_exists(void)
return true;
}
if (!strncmp(hdr.oem_id, vendor_info[1].oem_id, ACPI_OEM_ID_SIZE) &&
- intel_pstate_has_acpi_ppc())
+ intel_pstate_has_acpi_ppc() &&
+ !load_on_sun)
return true;
return false;
@@ -1061,6 +1063,8 @@ static int __init intel_pstate_setup(char *str)
if (!strcmp(str, "disable"))
no_load = 1;
+ if (!strcmp(str, "onora"))
+ load_on_sun = 1;
return 0;
}
early_param("intel_pstate", intel_pstate_setup);
To force loading on Oracle Sun X86 servers, provide one kernel command line parameter intel_pstate = onora For those who be aware of the risk doing so. Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com> v2: change the command line parameter naming to specific to Oracle Sun servers. --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++ drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)