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authorHanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>2020-05-19 14:25:24 +0800
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2020-05-19 17:41:17 +0200
commit7395683a2498c7000120cdee8e4fb0c632e5561b (patch)
treed164e8a488304d0240bcb65ee9fe42869346b573 /Documentation/ABI
parentcce55cc902baa3e6b6bab5f72f3ce826cb8dc9a9 (diff)
Documentation: cpuidle: update the document
Update the document after the remove of cpuidle_sysfs_switch. Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu24
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
index 2e0e3b45d02a..6b5dafab950c 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
@@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ Description: CPU topology files that describe a logical CPU's relationship
See Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst for more information.
-What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver
- /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_governer_ro
- /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/available_governors
+What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/available_governors
+ /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_governor
+ /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_governer_ro
Date: September 2007
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description: Discover cpuidle policy and mechanism
@@ -119,24 +119,18 @@ Description: Discover cpuidle policy and mechanism
consumption during idle.
Idle policy (governor) is differentiated from idle mechanism
- (driver)
-
- current_driver: (RO) displays current idle mechanism
-
- current_governor_ro: (RO) displays current idle policy
-
- With the cpuidle_sysfs_switch boot option enabled (meant for
- developer testing), the following three attributes are visible
- instead:
-
- current_driver: same as described above
+ (driver).
available_governors: (RO) displays a space separated list of
- available governors
+ available governors.
+
+ current_driver: (RO) displays current idle mechanism.
current_governor: (RW) displays current idle policy. Users can
switch the governor at runtime by writing to this file.
+ current_governor_ro: (RO) displays current idle policy.
+
See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst and
Documentation/driver-api/pm/cpuidle.rst for more information.