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| author |   Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-09-24 21:22:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-09-24 21:22:33 +0100 |
| commit | baea7b946f00a291b166ccae7fcfed6c01530cc6 (patch) | |
| tree | 4aa275fbdbec9c7b9b4629e8bee2bbecd3c6a6af /Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt | |
| parent | Merge branch 'master' into for-linus (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt index 5d5f5fadd1c2..2a5b850847c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt @@ -176,7 +176,9 @@ scaling_governor, and by "echoing" the name of another work on some specific architectures or processors. -cpuinfo_cur_freq : Current speed of the CPU, in KHz. +cpuinfo_cur_freq : Current frequency of the CPU as obtained from + the hardware, in KHz. This is the frequency + the CPU actually runs at. scaling_available_frequencies : List of available frequencies, in KHz. @@ -196,7 +198,10 @@ related_cpus : List of CPUs that need some sort of frequency scaling_driver : Hardware driver for cpufreq. -scaling_cur_freq : Current frequency of the CPU, in KHz. +scaling_cur_freq : Current frequency of the CPU as determined by + the governor and cpufreq core, in KHz. This is + the frequency the kernel thinks the CPU runs + at. If you have selected the "userspace" governor which allows you to set the CPU operating frequency to a specific value, you can read out |