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diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt deleted file mode 100644 index ed577d9c154b..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,112 +0,0 @@ - CPU frequency and voltage scaling code in the Linux(TM) kernel - - - L i n u x C P U F r e q - - C P U F r e q C o r e - - - Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> - David Kimdon <dwhedon@debian.org> - Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> - Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - - - - Clock scaling allows you to change the clock speed of the CPUs on the - fly. This is a nice method to save battery power, because the lower - the clock speed, the less power the CPU consumes. - - -Contents: ---------- -1. CPUFreq core and interfaces -2. CPUFreq notifiers -3. CPUFreq Table Generation with Operating Performance Point (OPP) - -1. General Information -======================= - -The CPUFreq core code is located in drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c. This -cpufreq code offers a standardized interface for the CPUFreq -architecture drivers (those pieces of code that do actual -frequency transitions), as well as to "notifiers". These are device -drivers or other part of the kernel that need to be informed of -policy changes (ex. thermal modules like ACPI) or of all -frequency changes (ex. timing code) or even need to force certain -speed limits (like LCD drivers on ARM architecture). Additionally, the -kernel "constant" loops_per_jiffy is updated on frequency changes -here. - -Reference counting of the cpufreq policies is done by cpufreq_cpu_get -and cpufreq_cpu_put, which make sure that the cpufreq driver is -correctly registered with the core, and will not be unloaded until -cpufreq_put_cpu is called. That also ensures that the respective cpufreq -policy doesn't get freed while being used. - -2. CPUFreq notifiers -==================== - -CPUFreq notifiers conform to the standard kernel notifier interface. -See linux/include/linux/notifier.h for details on notifiers. - -There are two different CPUFreq notifiers - policy notifiers and -transition notifiers. - - -2.1 CPUFreq policy notifiers ----------------------------- - -These are notified when a new policy is created or removed. - -The phase is specified in the second argument to the notifier. The phase is -CPUFREQ_CREATE_POLICY when the policy is first created and it is -CPUFREQ_REMOVE_POLICY when the policy is removed. - -The third argument, a void *pointer, points to a struct cpufreq_policy -consisting of several values, including min, max (the lower and upper -frequencies (in kHz) of the new policy). - - -2.2 CPUFreq transition notifiers --------------------------------- - -These are notified twice for each online CPU in the policy, when the -CPUfreq driver switches the CPU core frequency and this change has no -any external implications. - -The second argument specifies the phase - CPUFREQ_PRECHANGE or -CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE. - -The third argument is a struct cpufreq_freqs with the following -values: -cpu - number of the affected CPU -old - old frequency -new - new frequency -flags - flags of the cpufreq driver - -3. CPUFreq Table Generation with Operating Performance Point (OPP) -================================================================== -For details about OPP, see Documentation/power/opp.rst - -dev_pm_opp_init_cpufreq_table - - This function provides a ready to use conversion routine to translate - the OPP layer's internal information about the available frequencies - into a format readily providable to cpufreq. - - WARNING: Do not use this function in interrupt context. - - Example: - soc_pm_init() - { - /* Do things */ - r = dev_pm_opp_init_cpufreq_table(dev, &freq_table); - if (!r) - policy->freq_table = freq_table; - /* Do other things */ - } - - NOTE: This function is available only if CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is enabled in - addition to CONFIG_PM_OPP. - -dev_pm_opp_free_cpufreq_table - Free up the table allocated by dev_pm_opp_init_cpufreq_table |