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.TH HWLOC-DUMP-HWDATA "1" "Nov 10, 2016" "1.11.5" "hwloc"
.SH NAME
hwloc-dump-hwdata \- Dump topology and locality information from hardware tables
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B hwloc-dump-hwdata
[\fIoptions\fR]
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP 10
\fB\-o <dir>\fR
save output files to directory <dir> instead of the default
\fI/var/run/hwloc/\fR that was specified at configure time.

You may want to set the HWLOC_DUMPED_HWDATA_DIR environment variable
as well so that the hwloc library looks for dumped files in that same
directory.
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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hwloc may benefit from some locality and topology information from
SMBIOS or ACPI tables.
They are accessible from raw hardware files under directories such
/sys/firmware/dmi/ or /sys/firmware/acpi/ on Linux.
These files are usually only accessible to root.
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.PP
The hwloc-dump-hwdata tool dumps the useful contents of such files into
human-readable and world-accessible files. The intent is to run the tool
once during boot and have the main (non-privileged) hwloc library gather
information from these human-readable files.
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.PP
\fBhwloc-dump-hwdata is currently only useful on Intel Knights Landing
Xeon Phi platforms\fR.
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.PP
The current list of dumped information is:
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.TP 5
\fBIntel Knights Landing memory, cache and clustering configuration\fR
gathered from specific SMBIOS entries such as
\fI/sys/firmware/dmi/entries/14-*\fR and
\fI/sys/firmware/dmi/entries/160-*\fR,
and saved in file \fIknl_memoryside_cache\fR.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.ft R
hwloc(7), lstopo(1)
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