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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2017-07-17 11:17:36 -0300 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2017-07-17 11:17:36 -0300 |
commit | a3db9d60a118571e696b684a6e8c692a2b064941 (patch) | |
tree | ff7bae0f79b7a2ee0bce03de4f883550200c52a9 /Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst | |
parent | media: staging: cxd2099: Activate cxd2099 buffer mode (diff) | |
parent | Linux v4.13-rc1 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v4.13-rc1' into patchwork
Linux v4.13-rc1
* tag 'v4.13-rc1': (11136 commits)
Linux v4.13-rc1
random: reorder READ_ONCE() in get_random_uXX
random: suppress spammy warnings about unseeded randomness
replace incorrect strscpy use in FORTIFY_SOURCE
kmod: throttle kmod thread limit
kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader
MAINTAINERS: give kmod some maintainer love
xtensa: use generic fb.h
fault-inject: add /proc/<pid>/fail-nth
fault-inject: simplify access check for fail-nth
fault-inject: make fail-nth read/write interface symmetric
fault-inject: parse as natural 1-based value for fail-nth write interface
fault-inject: automatically detect the number base for fail-nth write interface
kernel/watchdog.c: use better pr_fmt prefix
MAINTAINERS: move the befs tree to kernel.org
lib/atomic64_test.c: add a test that atomic64_inc_not_zero() returns an int
mm: fix overflow check in expand_upwards()
ubifs: Set double hash cookie also for RENAME_EXCHANGE
ubifs: Massage assert in ubifs_xattr_set() wrt. init_xattrs
ubifs: Don't leak kernel memory to the MTD
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst index 09aa2e949787..463cf7e73db8 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst @@ -269,16 +269,16 @@ are the following: ``scaling_cur_freq`` Current frequency of all of the CPUs belonging to this policy (in kHz). - For the majority of scaling drivers, this is the frequency of the last - P-state requested by the driver from the hardware using the scaling + In the majority of cases, this is the frequency of the last P-state + requested by the scaling driver from the hardware using the scaling interface provided by it, which may or may not reflect the frequency the CPU is actually running at (due to hardware design and other limitations). - Some scaling drivers (e.g. |intel_pstate|) attempt to provide - information more precisely reflecting the current CPU frequency through - this attribute, but that still may not be the exact current CPU - frequency as seen by the hardware at the moment. + Some architectures (e.g. ``x86``) may attempt to provide information + more precisely reflecting the current CPU frequency through this + attribute, but that still may not be the exact current CPU frequency as + seen by the hardware at the moment. ``scaling_driver`` The scaling driver currently in use. |