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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt index 073f128af5a7..ed577d9c154b 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/core.txt @@ -57,19 +57,11 @@ transition notifiers. 2.1 CPUFreq policy notifiers ---------------------------- -These are notified when a new policy is intended to be set. Each -CPUFreq policy notifier is called twice for a policy transition: +These are notified when a new policy is created or removed. -1.) During CPUFREQ_ADJUST all CPUFreq notifiers may change the limit if - they see a need for this - may it be thermal considerations or - hardware limitations. - -2.) And during CPUFREQ_NOTIFY all notifiers are informed of the new policy - - if two hardware drivers failed to agree on a new policy before this - stage, the incompatible hardware shall be shut down, and the user - informed of this. - -The phase is specified in the second argument to the notifier. +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 @@ -95,7 +87,7 @@ flags - flags of the cpufreq driver 3. CPUFreq Table Generation with Operating Performance Point (OPP) ================================================================== -For details about OPP, see Documentation/power/opp.txt +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 |