From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: Document the currently undocumented parts of the sysfs interface
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:56:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080321235631.GS5529@tree.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080321154124.668969a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:41:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I was going to ding you for not updating the kernel->userspace API
> documentation. But it seems that none of this interface is documented
> anyway :(
Actually, I deserve the ding, for there _is_ a description of some of
the sysfs files. However, there are some that are not mentioned in the
documentation, so add them to the user's guide.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
---
Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt
index af3b925..6c442d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt
@@ -154,6 +154,11 @@ scaling_governor, and by "echoing" the name of another
that some governors won't load - they only
work on some specific architectures or
processors.
+
+cpuinfo_cur_freq : Current speed of the CPU, in KHz.
+
+scaling_available_frequencies : List of available frequencies, in KHz.
+
scaling_min_freq and
scaling_max_freq show the current "policy limits" (in
kHz). By echoing new values into these
@@ -162,6 +167,15 @@ scaling_max_freq show the current "policy limits" (in
first set scaling_max_freq, then
scaling_min_freq.
+affected_cpus : List of CPUs that require software coordination
+ of frequency.
+
+related_cpus : List of CPUs that need some sort of frequency
+ coordination, whether software or hardware.
+
+scaling_driver : Hardware driver for cpufreq.
+
+scaling_cur_freq : Current frequency of the CPU, in KHz.
If you have selected the "userspace" governor which allows you to
set the CPU operating frequency to a specific value, you can read out
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-21 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 0:43 [PATCH] cpufreq: Expose cpufreq coordination requirements regardless of coordination mechanism Darrick J. Wong
2008-03-21 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-21 23:56 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
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