From f06572ef476d368a239f0238ecf7b00b9cdbf5bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 02:08:31 +0100 Subject: cpuidle: Documentation: Clean up PM QoS description Clean up the language in one paragraph in the PM QoS description in Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki --- Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst index 311cd7cc2b75..6a06dc473dd6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst @@ -632,16 +632,16 @@ class priority list and destroyed. If that happens, the priority list mechanism will be used, again, to determine the new effective value for the whole list and that value will become the new real constraint. -In turn, for each CPU there is only one resume latency PM QoS request -associated with the :file:`power/pm_qos_resume_latency_us` file under +In turn, for each CPU there is one resume latency PM QoS request associated with +the :file:`power/pm_qos_resume_latency_us` file under :file:`/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu/` in ``sysfs`` and writing to it causes this single PM QoS request to be updated regardless of which user space process does that. In other words, this PM QoS request is shared by the entire user space, so access to the file associated with it needs to be arbitrated to avoid confusion. [Arguably, the only legitimate use of this mechanism in practice is to pin a process to the CPU in question and let it use the -``sysfs`` interface to control the resume latency constraint for it.] It -still only is a request, however. It is a member of a priority list used to +``sysfs`` interface to control the resume latency constraint for it.] It is +still only a request, however. It is an entry in a priority list used to determine the effective value to be set as the resume latency constraint for the CPU in question every time the list of requests is updated this way or another (there may be other requests coming from kernel code in that list). -- cgit