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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt index 4bc7287806de..978463a7c81e 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> David Kimdon <dwhedon@debian.org> + Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> + Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> @@ -36,10 +38,11 @@ speed limits (like LCD drivers on ARM architecture). Additionally, the kernel "constant" loops_per_jiffy is updated on frequency changes here. -Reference counting is done by cpufreq_get_cpu and cpufreq_put_cpu, -which make sure that the cpufreq processor driver is correctly -registered with the core, and will not be unloaded until -cpufreq_put_cpu is called. +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 ==================== @@ -69,18 +72,16 @@ CPUFreq policy notifier is called twice for a policy transition: The phase is specified in the second argument to the notifier. The third argument, a void *pointer, points to a struct cpufreq_policy -consisting of five values: cpu, min, max, policy and max_cpu_freq. min -and max are the lower and upper frequencies (in kHz) of the new -policy, policy the new policy, cpu the number of the affected CPU; and -max_cpu_freq the maximum supported CPU frequency. This value is given -for informational purposes only. +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 when the CPUfreq driver switches the CPU core -frequency and this change has any external implications. +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. @@ -90,6 +91,7 @@ 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) ================================================================== |