hwmon: (coretemp) Let the user force TjMax

On old CPUs (and even some recent Atom CPUs) TjMax can't be read from
the CPU registers, so it is guessed by the driver using a complex
heuristic which isn't reliable. So let users who know their CPU's
TjMax pass it as a module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "R, Durgadoss" <durgadoss.r@intel.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Cc: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/coretemp b/Documentation/hwmon/coretemp
index fa8776ab9b1..49c0d42dde8 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/coretemp
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/coretemp
@@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ tempX_label	 - Contains string "Core X", where X is processor
                    number. For Package temp, this will be "Physical id Y",
                    where Y is the package number.
 
-The TjMax temperature is set to 85 degrees C if undocumented model specific
-register (UMSR) 0xee has bit 30 set. If not the TjMax is 100 degrees C as
-(sometimes) documented in processor datasheet.
+On CPU models which support it, TjMax is read from a model-specific register.
+On other models, it is set to an arbitrary value based on weak heuristics.
+If these heuristics don't work for you, you can pass the correct TjMax value
+as a module parameter (tjmax).
 
 Appendix A. Known TjMax lists (TBD):
 Some information comes from ark.intel.com