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| author |   Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@amd.com> | 2020-09-29 16:23:22 +0530 |
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| committer |   Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> | 2020-10-04 08:40:10 -0700 |
| commit | 045ad73397e68e6afefe7df0af804df5fc783fcb (patch) | |
| tree | 1c25209d65e1a14c7f6894588b622d1eb9a82a75 /Documentation/hwmon | |
| parent | hwmon: (amd_energy) Improve the accumulation logic (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-045ad73397e68e6afefe7df0af804df5fc783fcb.tar.xz linux-dev-045ad73397e68e6afefe7df0af804df5fc783fcb.zip | |
hwmon: (amd_energy) Update driver documentation
Update the documentation with the newly added features
* Set the accumulation interval based on resolution
Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200929105322.8919-5-nchatrad@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/hwmon')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/amd_energy.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/amd_energy.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/amd_energy.rst index f8288edff664..86e4ebc5cbc2 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/amd_energy.rst +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/amd_energy.rst @@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ per run to a respective 64-bit counter. The kernel thread starts running during probe, wakes up every 100secs and stops running when driver is removed. +Frequency of the accumulator thread is set during the probe +based on the chosen energy unit resolution. For example +A. fine grain (1.625 micro J) +B. course grain (0.125 milli J) + A socket and core energy read would return the current register value added to the respective energy accumulator. |