What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/
Date: pre-git history
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
A collection of both global
and individual
CPU attributes
Individual
CPU attributes are contained in subdirectories
named by the kernel
's logical CPU number, e.g.:
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/kernel_max
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/offline
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/online
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/possible
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/present
Date: December
2008
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
CPU topology files that describe kernel limits related to
hotplug. Briefly:
kernel_max: the maximum
cpu index allowed by the kernel
configuration.
offline: cpus that are not online because they have been
HOTPLUGGED off
or exceed the limit of cpus allowed by the
kernel configuration (kernel_max above).
online: cpus that are online
and being scheduled.
possible: cpus that have been allocated resources
and can be
brought online
if they are present.
present: cpus that have been identified as being present in
the system.
See Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst
for more information.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/probe
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/release
Date: November
2009
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description: Dynamic addition
and removal of
CPU's. This is not hotplug
removal,
this is meant complete removal/addition of the
CPU
from the system.
probe: writes to
this file will dynamically
add a
CPU to the
system. Information written to the file to
add CPU's is
architecture specific.
release: writes to
this file dynamically remove a
CPU from
the system. Information written to the file to remove
CPU's
is architecture specific.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/node
Date: October
2009
Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.
org>
Description: Discover NUMA node a
CPU belongs to
When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled, a symbolic link that points
to the corresponding NUMA node directory.
For example, the following symlink is created
for cpu42
in NUMA node
2:
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpu42/node2 -> ../../node/node2
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/topology/ppin
Date: December
2008
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
CPU topology files that describe a logical
CPU's relationship
to other cores
and threads in the same physical package.
One cpuX directory is created per logical
CPU in the system,
e.g. /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpu42/.
Briefly, the files above are:
core_siblings: internal kernel map of cpuX
's hardware threads
within the same physical_package_id.
core_siblings_list: human-readable list of the logical
CPU
numbers within the same physical_package_id as cpuX.
physical_package_id: physical package id of cpuX. Typically
corresponds to a physical socket number, but the actual value
is architecture
and platform dependent.
thread_siblings: internal kernel map of cpuX
's hardware
threads within the same core as cpuX
thread_siblings_list: human-readable list of cpuX
's hardware
threads within the same core as cpuX
ppin: human-readable Protected Processor Identification
Number of the socket the
cpu# belongs to. There should be
one per physical_package_id. File is readable only to
admin.
See Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst
for more information.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuidle/available_governors
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuidle/current_driver
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuidle/current_governor
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuidle/current_governer_ro
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuidle/intel_c1_demotion
Date: September
2007
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description: Discover cpuidle policy
and mechanism
Various CPUs today support multiple idle levels that are
differentiated by varying exit latencies
and power
consumption during idle.
Idle policy (governor) is differentiated from idle mechanism
(driver).
available_governors: (RO) displays a space separated list of
available governors.
current_driver: (RO) displays current idle mechanism.
current_governor: (RW) displays current idle policy. Users can
switch the governor at runtime by writing to
this file.
current_governor_ro: (RO) displays current idle policy.
intel_c1_demotion: (RW) enables/disables the C1 demotion
feature on Intel CPUs.
See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst,
Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_idle.rst,
and
Documentation/driver-api/pm/cpuidle.rst
for more information.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/name
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/latency
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/power
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/
time
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/usage
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/above
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/stateN/below
Date: September
2007
KernelVersion: v2.
6.
24
Contact: Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
The directory /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle contains per
logical
CPU specific cpuidle information
for each online
cpu X.
The processor idle states which are available
for use have the
following attributes:
======== ==== =================================================
name: (RO) Name of the idle state (
string).
latency: (RO) The latency to exit out of
this idle state (in
microseconds).
power: (RO) The power consumed
while in
this idle state (in
milliwatts).
time: (RO) The total
time spent in
this idle state
(in microseconds).
usage: (RO) Number of times
this state was entered (a count).
above: (RO) Number of times
this state was entered, but the
observed
CPU idle duration was too
short for it
(a count).
below: (RO) Number of times
this state was entered, but the
observed
CPU idle duration was too long
for it
(a count).
======== ==== =================================================
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/desc
Date: February
2008
KernelVersion: v2.
6.
25
Contact: Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
(RO) A small description about the idle state (
string).
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/disable
Date: March
2012
KernelVersion: v3.
10
Contact: Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
(RW)
Option to disable
this idle state (bool). The behavior
and
the effect of the disable variable depends on the implementation
of a particular governor. In the ladder governor,
for example,
it is not coherent, i.e.
if one is disabling a light state, then
all deeper states are disabled as well, but the disable variable
does not reflect it. Likewise,
if one enables a deep state but a
lighter state still is disabled, then
this has no effect.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/default_status
Date: December
2019
KernelVersion: v5.
6
Contact: Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
(RO) The default status of
this state,
"enabled" or "disabled".
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/residency
Date: March
2014
KernelVersion: v3.
15
Contact: Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
(RO) Display the target residency i.e. the minimum amount of
time (in microseconds)
this cpu should spend in
this idle state
to make the transition worth the effort.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/s2idle/
Date: March
2018
KernelVersion: v4.
17
Contact: Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
Idle state usage statistics related to suspend-to-idle.
This attribute group is only present
for states that can be
used in suspend-to-idle with suspended timekeeping.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/s2idle/
time
Date: March
2018
KernelVersion: v4.
17
Contact: Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
Total
time spent by the
CPU in suspend-to-idle (with scheduler
tick suspended) after requesting
this state.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpuidle/state<N>/s2idle/usage
Date: March
2018
KernelVersion: v4.
17
Contact: Linux power management list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
Total number of times
this state has been requested by the
CPU
while entering suspend-to-idle.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/*
Date: pre-git history
Contact: linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org
Description: Discover
and change clock speed of CPUs
Clock scaling allows you to change the clock speed of the
CPUs on the fly.
This is a nice method to save battery
power, because the lower the clock speed, the less power
the
CPU consumes.
There are many knobs to tweak in
this directory.
See files in Documentation/
cpu-freq/
for more information.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/freqdomain_cpus
Date: June
2013
Contact: linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org
Description: Discover CPUs in the same
CPU frequency coordination domain
freqdomain_cpus is the list of CPUs (online+offline) that share
the same clock/freq domain (possibly at the hardware level).
That information may be hidden from the cpufreq core
and the
value of related_cpus may be different from freqdomain_cpus.
This
attribute is useful
for user space DVFS controllers to get better
power/performance results
for platforms using acpi-cpufreq.
This file is only present
if the acpi-cpufreq
or the cppc-cpufreq
drivers are in use.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/auto_select
Date: May
2025
Contact: linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org
Description: Autonomous selection enable
Read/write
interface to control autonomous selection enable
Read returns autonomous selection status:
0: autonomous selection is disabled
1: autonomous selection is enabled
Write
'y' or '1' or 'on' to enable autonomous selection.
Write
'n' or '0' or 'off' to disable autonomous selection.
This file is only present
if the cppc-cpufreq driver is in use.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/auto_act_window
Date: May
2025
Contact: linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org
Description: Autonomous activity window
This file indicates a moving utilization sensitivity window to
the platform
's autonomous selection policy.
Read/write an integer represents autonomous activity window (in
microseconds) from/to
this file. The max value to write is
1270000000 but the max significand is
127.
This means that
if 128
is written to
this file,
127 will be stored.
If the value is
greater than
130, only the first two digits will be saved as
significand.
Writing a
zero value to
this file enable the platform to
determine an appropriate Activity Window depending on the workload.
Writing to
this file only has meaning when Autonomous Selection is
enabled.
This file is only present
if the cppc-cpufreq driver is in use.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/energy_performance_preference_val
Date: May
2025
Contact: linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org
Description: Energy performance preference
Read/write an
8-bit integer from/to
this file.
This file
represents a range of values from
0 (performance preference) to
0xFF (energy efficiency preference) that influences the rate of
performance increase/decrease
and the result of the hardware
's
energy efficiency
and performance optimization policies.
Writing to
this file only has meaning when Autonomous Selection is
enabled.
This file is only present
if the cppc-cpufreq driver is in use.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/
cpu*/cache/index3/cache_disable_{
0,
1}
Date: August
2008
KernelVersion:
2.
6.
27
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description: Disable L3 cache indices
These files exist in every
CPU's cache/index3 directory. Each
cache_disable_{
0,
1} file corresponds to one disable slot which
can be used to disable a cache index. Reading from these files
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 specified cache
index to be disabled.
All AMD processors with L3 caches provide
this functionality.
For details, see BKDGs at
https://www.amd.com/en/support/tech-docs?keyword=bios+kernel
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpufreq/boost
Date: August
2012
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description: Processor frequency boosting control
This switch controls the boost setting
for the whole system.
Boosting allows the
CPU and the firmware to run at a frequency
beyond its nominal limit.
More details can be found in
Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/crash_notes
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/crash_notes_size
Date: April
2013
Contact: kexec@lists.infradead.
org
Description: address
and size of the percpu note.
crash_notes: the physical address of the memory that holds the
note of cpuX.
crash_notes_size: size of the note of cpuX.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo
Date: February
2013
Contact: linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org
Description: Parameters
for the Intel P-state driver
Logic
for selecting the current P-state in Intel
Sandybridge+ processors. The three knobs control
limits
for the P-state that will be requested by the
driver.
max_perf_pct: limits the maximum P state that will be requested by
the driver stated as a percentage of the available performance.
min_perf_pct: limits the minimum P state that will be requested by
the driver stated as a percentage of the available performance.
no_turbo: limits the driver to selecting P states below the turbo
frequency range.
More details can be found in
Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/
cpu*/cache/index*/<set_of_attributes_mentioned_below>
Date: July
2014(documented, existed before August
2008)
Contact: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description: Parameters
for the
CPU cache attributes
allocation_policy:
- WriteAllocate:
allocate a memory location to a cache
line
on a cache miss because of a write
- ReadAllocate:
allocate a memory location to a cache
line
on a cache miss because of a read
- ReadWriteAllocate:
both writeallocate
and readallocate
coherency_line_size:
the minimum amount of
data in bytes that gets
transferred from memory to cache
level:
the cache hierarchy in the multi-level cache configuration
number_of_sets:
total number of sets in the cache, a set is a
collection of cache lines with the same cache index
physical_line_partition:
number of physical cache
line per cache tag
shared_cpu_list:
the list of logical cpus sharing the cache
shared_cpu_map:
logical
cpu mask containing the list of cpus sharing
the cache
size:
the total cache size in kB
type:
- Instruction: cache that only holds instructions
-
Data: cache that only caches
data
- Unified: cache that holds both
data and instructions
ways_of_associativity:
degree of freedom in placing a particular block
of memory in the cache
write_policy:
- WriteThrough:
data is written to both the cache
line
and to the block in the lower-level memory
- WriteBack:
data is written only to the cache
line and
the modified cache
line is written to main
memory only when it is replaced
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/
cpu*/cache/index*/id
Date: September
2016
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description: Cache id
The id provides a unique number
for a specific instance of
a cache of a particular type. E.g. there may be a level
3 unified cache on each socket in a server
and we may
assign them ids
0,
1,
2, ...
Note that id value can be non-contiguous. E.g. level
1
caches typically exist per core, but there may not be a
power of two cores on a socket, so these caches may be
numbered
0,
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
8,
9,
10, ...
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/turbo_stat
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/sub_turbo_stat
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/unthrottle
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/powercap
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/overtemp
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/supply_fault
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/overcurrent
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats/occ_reset
Date: March
2016
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Linux
for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.
org>
Description: POWERNV CPUFreq driver
's frequency throttle stats directory and
attributes
'cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats' directory contains the
CPU frequency
throttle stat attributes
for the chip. The throttle stats of a
cpu
is common across all the cpus belonging to a chip. Below are the
throttle attributes exported in the
'throttle_stats' directory:
- turbo_stat :
This file gives the total number of times the max
frequency is throttled to lower frequency in turbo (at
and above
nominal frequency) range of frequencies.
- sub_turbo_stat :
This file gives the total number of times the
max frequency is throttled to lower frequency in
sub-turbo(below
nominal frequency) range of frequencies.
- unthrottle :
This file gives the total number of times the max
frequency is unthrottled after being throttled.
- powercap :
This file gives the total number of times the max
frequency is throttled due to
'Power Capping'.
- overtemp :
This file gives the total number of times the max
frequency is throttled due to
'CPU Over Temperature'.
- supply_fault :
This file gives the total number of times the
max frequency is throttled due to
'Power Supply Failure'.
- overcurrent :
This file gives the total number of times the
max frequency is throttled due to
'Overcurrent'.
- occ_reset :
This file gives the total number of times the max
frequency is throttled due to
'OCC Reset'.
The sysfs attributes representing different throttle reasons like
powercap, overtemp, supply_fault, overcurrent
and occ_reset map to
the reasons provided by OCC firmware
for throttling the frequency.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/turbo_stat
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/sub_turbo_stat
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/unthrottle
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/powercap
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/overtemp
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/supply_fault
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/overcurrent
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpufreq/policyX/throttle_stats/occ_reset
Date: March
2016
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Linux
for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.
org>
Description: POWERNV CPUFreq driver
's frequency throttle stats directory and
attributes
'policyX/throttle_stats' directory
and all the attributes are same as
the /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/throttle_stats directory
and
attributes which give the frequency throttle information of the chip.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/regs/
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/midr_el1
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/revidr_el1
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/aidr_el1
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/smidr_el1
Date: June
2016
Contact: Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.
org>
Description: AArch64
CPU registers
'identification' directory exposes the
CPU ID registers
for
identifying
model and revision of the
CPU and SMCU.
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/cpuX/cpu_capacity
Date: December
2016
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description: information about CPUs heterogeneity.
cpu_capacity: capacity of cpuX.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/gather_data_sampling
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/indirect_target_selection
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/mds
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/mmio_stale_data
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/old_microcode
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/reg_file_data_sampling
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/retbleed
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/tsa
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/vulnerabilities/vmscape
Date: January
2018
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description: Information about
CPU vulnerabilities
The files are named after the
code names of
CPU
vulnerabilities. The output of those files reflects the
state of the CPUs in the system. Possible output values:
================ ==============================================
"Not affected" CPU is not affected by the vulnerability
"Vulnerable" CPU is affected
and no mitigation in effect
"Mitigation: $M" CPU is affected
and mitigation $M is in effect
================ ==============================================
See also: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/smt
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/smt/active
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/smt/control
Date: June
2018
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description: Control Symmetric Multi Threading (SMT)
active: Tells whether SMT is active (enabled
and siblings online)
control: Read/write
interface to control SMT. Possible
values:
================ =========================================
"on" SMT is enabled
"off" SMT is disabled
"<N>" SMT is enabled with N threads per core.
"forceoff" SMT is force disabled. Cannot be changed.
"notsupported" SMT is not supported by the
CPU
"notimplemented" SMT runtime toggling is not
implemented
for the architecture
================ =========================================
If control status is
"forceoff" or "notsupported" writes
are rejected. Note that enabling SMT on PowerPC skips
offline cores.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/power/energy_perf_bias
Date: March
2019
Contact: linux-pm@vger.kernel.
org
Description: Intel Energy
and Performance Bias Hint (EPB)
EPB
for the given
CPU in a sliding scale
0 -
15, where a value
of
0 corresponds to a hint preference
for highest performance
and a value of
15 corresponds to the maximum energy savings.
In order to change the EPB value
for the
CPU, write either
a number in the
0 -
15 sliding scale above,
or one of the
strings:
"performance",
"balance-performance",
"normal",
"balance-power",
"power" (that represent values reflected by
their meaning), to
this attribute.
This attribute is present
for all online CPUs supporting the
Intel EPB feature.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/umwait_control
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/umwait_control/enable_c02
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/umwait_control/max_time
Date: May
2019
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description: Umwait control
enable_c02: Read/write
interface to control umwait C0.
2 state
Read returns C0.
2 state status:
0: C0.
2 is disabled
1: C0.
2 is enabled
Write
'y' or '1' or 'on' to enable C0.
2 state.
Write
'n' or '0' or 'off' to disable C0.
2 state.
The
interface is case insensitive.
max_time: Read/write
interface to control umwait maximum
time
in TSC-quanta that the
CPU can reside in either C0.
1
or C0.
2 state. The
time is an unsigned
32-bit number.
Note that a value of
zero means there is no limit.
Low order two bits must be
zero.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/sev
/sys/devices/system/
cpu/sev/vmpl
Date: May
2024
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description: Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) information
This directory is only present when running as an SEV-SNP guest.
vmpl: Reports the Virtual Machine Privilege Level (VMPL) at which
the SEV-SNP guest is running.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/svm
Date: August
2019
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Linux
for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.
org>
Description: Secure Virtual Machine
If 1, it means the system is using the Protected Execution
Facility in POWER9
and newer processors. i.e., it is a Secure
Virtual Machine.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/purr
Date: Apr
2005
Contact: Linux
for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.
org>
Description: PURR ticks
for this CPU since the system boot.
The Processor Utilization Resources Register (PURR) is
a
64-bit counter which provides an estimate of the
resources used by the
CPU thread. The contents of
this
register increases monotonically.
This sysfs
interface
exposes the number of PURR ticks
for cpuX.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/spurr
Date:
Dec 2006
Contact: Linux
for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.
org>
Description: SPURR ticks
for this CPU since the system boot.
The Scaled Processor Utilization Resources Register
(SPURR) is a
64-bit counter that provides a frequency
invariant estimate of the resources used by the
CPU
thread. The contents of
this register increases
monotonically.
This sysfs
interface exposes the number
of SPURR ticks
for cpuX.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/idle_purr
Date: Apr
2020
Contact: Linux
for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.
org>
Description: PURR ticks
for cpuX when it was idle.
This sysfs
interface exposes the number of PURR ticks
for cpuX when it was idle.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/cpuX/idle_spurr
Date: Apr
2020
Contact: Linux
for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.
org>
Description: SPURR ticks
for cpuX when it was idle.
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
"asymm" Prefer asymmetric mode
"async" Prefer asynchronous mode
================ ==============================================
See also: Documentation/arch/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/nohz_full
Date: Apr
2015
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
(RO) the list of CPUs that are in nohz_full mode.
These CPUs are set by boot parameter
"nohz_full=".
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/isolated
Date: Apr
2015
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
(RO) the list of CPUs that are isolated
and don
't
participate in load balancing. These CPUs are set by
boot parameter
"isolcpus=".
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/crash_hotplug
Date: Aug
2023
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
(RO) indicates whether
or not the kernel updates relevant kexec
segments on memory hot un/plug
and/
or on/offline events, avoiding the
need to reload kdump kernel.
What: /sys/devices/system/
cpu/enabled
Date: Nov
2022
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.
org>
Description:
(RO) the list of CPUs that can be brought online.