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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cpu-freq')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.txt | 29 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.txt index b045fe54986..14f4e6336d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.txt @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Contents: 1.4 target/target_index or setpolicy? 1.5 target/target_index 1.6 setpolicy +1.7 get_intermediate and target_intermediate 2. Frequency Table Helpers @@ -79,6 +80,10 @@ cpufreq_driver.attr - A pointer to a NULL-terminated list of "struct freq_attr" which allow to export values to sysfs. +cpufreq_driver.get_intermediate +and target_intermediate Used to switch to stable frequency while + changing CPU frequency. + 1.2 Per-CPU Initialization -------------------------- @@ -151,7 +156,7 @@ Some cpufreq-capable processors switch the frequency between certain limits on their own. These shall use the ->setpolicy call -1.4. target/target_index +1.5. target/target_index ------------- The target_index call has two arguments: struct cpufreq_policy *policy, @@ -160,6 +165,9 @@ and unsigned int index (into the exposed frequency table). The CPUfreq driver must set the new frequency when called here. The actual frequency must be determined by freq_table[index].frequency. +It should always restore to earlier frequency (i.e. policy->restore_freq) in +case of errors, even if we switched to intermediate frequency earlier. + Deprecated: ---------- The target call has three arguments: struct cpufreq_policy *policy, @@ -179,7 +187,7 @@ Here again the frequency table helper might assist you - see section 2 for details. -1.5 setpolicy +1.6 setpolicy --------------- The setpolicy call only takes a struct cpufreq_policy *policy as @@ -190,6 +198,23 @@ setting when policy->policy is CPUFREQ_POLICY_PERFORMANCE, and a powersaving-oriented setting when CPUFREQ_POLICY_POWERSAVE. Also check the reference implementation in drivers/cpufreq/longrun.c +1.7 get_intermediate and target_intermediate +-------------------------------------------- + +Only for drivers with target_index() and CPUFREQ_ASYNC_NOTIFICATION unset. + +get_intermediate should return a stable intermediate frequency platform wants to +switch to, and target_intermediate() should set CPU to to that frequency, before +jumping to the frequency corresponding to 'index'. Core will take care of +sending notifications and driver doesn't have to handle them in +target_intermediate() or target_index(). + +Drivers can return '0' from get_intermediate() in case they don't wish to switch +to intermediate frequency for some target frequency. In that case core will +directly call ->target_index(). + +NOTE: ->target_index() should restore to policy->restore_freq in case of +failures as core would send notifications for that. 2. Frequency Table Helpers |