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x86/fred: Enable FRED by default
authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:01:47 +0000 (16:01 -0700)
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:04:47 +0000 (16:04 +0100)
commitac66a73be03a0a72aeeb33d3610cfc43cb101a0b
tree0e4e0f4248a0336f5e5ca7d95ec97e996f512ad6
parentc369299895a591d96745d6492d4888259b004a9e
x86/fred: Enable FRED by default

When FRED was added to the mainline kernel, it was set up as an explicit
opt-in due to the risk of regressions before hardware was available publicly.

Now, Panther Lake (Core Ultra 300 series) has been released, and benchmarking
by Phoronix has shown that it provides a significant performance benefit on
most workloads:

  https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-fred-panther-lake

Accordingly, enable FRED by default if the CPU supports it. FRED can of
course still be disabled via the fred=off command line option.

Touch up Kconfig help too.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260325230151.1898287-2-hpa@zytor.com
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/Kconfig
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c