From ee7930ee27fe5240398cc302fa8eb4454725f188 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Mayer Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:02:23 -0800 Subject: cpufreq: stats: New sysfs attribute for clearing statistics Allow CPUfreq statistics to be cleared by writing anything to /sys/.../cpufreq/stats/reset. Signed-off-by: Markus Mayer Acked-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki --- Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/cpu-freq') diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt index 8d9773f23550..3c355f6ad834 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt @@ -44,11 +44,17 @@ the stats driver insertion. total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 14 16:06 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 14 15:58 .. +--w------- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 reset -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 time_in_state -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 total_trans -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 trans_table -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +- reset +Write-only attribute that can be used to reset the stat counters. This can be +useful for evaluating system behaviour under different governors without the +need for a reboot. + - time_in_state This gives the amount of time spent in each of the frequencies supported by this CPU. The cat output will have "