diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_idle.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_idle.rst
index 8998598746a4..89309e1b0e48 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_idle.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_idle.rst
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ and ``idle=nomwait``.  If any of them is present in the kernel command line, the
 ``MWAIT`` instruction is not allowed to be used, so the initialization of
 ``intel_idle`` will fail.
 
-Apart from that there are three module parameters recognized by ``intel_idle``
+Apart from that there are four module parameters recognized by ``intel_idle``
 itself that can be set via the kernel command line (they cannot be updated via
 sysfs, so that is the only way to change their values).
 
@@ -195,6 +195,23 @@ driver ignore the system's ACPI tables entirely or use them for all of the
 recognized processor models, respectively (they both are unset by default and
 ``use_acpi`` has no effect if ``no_acpi`` is set).
 
+The value of the ``states_off`` module parameter (0 by default) represents a
+list of idle states to be disabled by default in the form of a bitmask.
+
+Namely, the positions of the bits that are set in the ``states_off`` value are
+the indices of idle states to be disabled by default (as reflected by the names
+of the corresponding idle state directories in ``sysfs``, :file:`state0`,
+:file:`state1` ... :file:`state<i>` ..., where ``<i>`` is the index of the given
+idle state; see :ref:`idle-states-representation` in :doc:`cpuidle`).
+
+For example, if ``states_off`` is equal to 3, the driver will disable idle
+states 0 and 1 by default, and if it is equal to 8, idle state 3 will be
+disabled by default and so on (bit positions beyond the maximum idle state index
+are ignored).
+
+The idle states disabled this way can be enabled (on a per-CPU basis) from user
+space via ``sysfs``.
+
 
 .. _intel-idle-core-and-package-idle-states:
 
diff --git a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
index 6fbd94f85fa5..d55606608ac8 100644
--- a/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ static struct cpuidle_driver intel_idle_driver = {
 };
 /* intel_idle.max_cstate=0 disables driver */
 static int max_cstate = CPUIDLE_STATE_MAX - 1;
+static unsigned int disabled_states_mask;
 
 static unsigned int mwait_substates;
 
@@ -1234,6 +1235,9 @@ static void __init intel_idle_init_cstates_acpi(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
 		if (cx->type > ACPI_STATE_C2)
 			state->flags |= CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED;
 
+		if (disabled_states_mask & BIT(cstate))
+			state->flags |= CPUIDLE_FLAG_OFF;
+
 		state->enter = intel_idle;
 		state->enter_s2idle = intel_idle_s2idle;
 	}
@@ -1466,9 +1470,10 @@ static void __init intel_idle_init_cstates_icpu(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
 		/* Structure copy. */
 		drv->states[drv->state_count] = cpuidle_state_table[cstate];
 
-		if ((icpu->use_acpi || force_use_acpi) &&
-		    intel_idle_off_by_default(mwait_hint) &&
-		    !(cpuidle_state_table[cstate].flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_ALWAYS_ENABLE))
+		if ((disabled_states_mask & BIT(drv->state_count)) ||
+		    ((icpu->use_acpi || force_use_acpi) &&
+		     intel_idle_off_by_default(mwait_hint) &&
+		     !(cpuidle_state_table[cstate].flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_ALWAYS_ENABLE)))
 			drv->states[drv->state_count].flags |= CPUIDLE_FLAG_OFF;
 
 		drv->state_count++;
@@ -1487,6 +1492,10 @@ static void __init intel_idle_init_cstates_icpu(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
 static void __init intel_idle_cpuidle_driver_init(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
 {
 	cpuidle_poll_state_init(drv);
+
+	if (disabled_states_mask & BIT(0))
+		drv->states[0].flags |= CPUIDLE_FLAG_OFF;
+
 	drv->state_count = 1;
 
 	if (icpu)
@@ -1667,3 +1676,11 @@ device_initcall(intel_idle_init);
  * is the easiest way (currently) to continue doing that.
  */
 module_param(max_cstate, int, 0444);
+/*
+ * The positions of the bits that are set in this number are the indices of the
+ * idle states to be disabled by default (as reflected by the names of the
+ * corresponding idle state directories in sysfs, "state0", "state1" ...
+ * "state<i>" ..., where <i> is the index of the given state).
+ */
+module_param_named(states_off, disabled_states_mask, uint, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(states_off, "Mask of disabled idle states");