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rename from Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt
rename to Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.rst
@@ -1,21 +1,23 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
- CPU frequency and voltage scaling statistics in the Linux(TM) kernel
+==========================================
+General Description of sysfs CPUFreq Stats
+==========================================
+information for users
- L i n u x c p u f r e q - s t a t s d r i v e r
- - information for users -
+Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
+.. Contents
- Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
-
-Contents
-1. Introduction
-2. Statistics Provided (with example)
-3. Configuring cpufreq-stats
+ 1. Introduction
+ 2. Statistics Provided (with example)
+ 3. Configuring cpufreq-stats
1. Introduction
+===============
cpufreq-stats is a driver that provides CPU frequency statistics for each CPU.
These statistics are provided in /sysfs as a bunch of read_only interfaces. This
@@ -28,8 +30,10 @@ that may be running on your CPU. So, it will work with any cpufreq_driver.
2. Statistics Provided (with example)
+=====================================
cpufreq stats provides following statistics (explained in detail below).
+
- time_in_state
- total_trans
- trans_table
@@ -39,53 +43,57 @@ All the statistics will be from the time the stats driver has been inserted
statistic is done. Obviously, stats driver will not have any information
about the frequency transitions before the stats driver insertion.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-<mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # ls -l
-total 0
-drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 14 16:06 .
-drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 14 15:58 ..
---w------- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 reset
--r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 time_in_state
--r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 total_trans
--r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 trans_table
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+::
+
+ <mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # ls -l
+ total 0
+ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 14 16:06 .
+ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 14 15:58 ..
+ --w------- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 reset
+ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 time_in_state
+ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 total_trans
+ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 trans_table
+
+- **reset**
-- reset
Write-only attribute that can be used to reset the stat counters. This can be
useful for evaluating system behaviour under different governors without the
need for a reboot.
-- time_in_state
+- **time_in_state**
+
This gives the amount of time spent in each of the frequencies supported by
this CPU. The cat output will have "<frequency> <time>" pair in each line, which
will mean this CPU spent <time> usertime units of time at <frequency>. Output
-will have one line for each of the supported frequencies. usertime units here
+will have one line for each of the supported frequencies. usertime units here
is 10mS (similar to other time exported in /proc).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-<mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat time_in_state
-3600000 2089
-3400000 136
-3200000 34
-3000000 67
-2800000 172488
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-- total_trans
-This gives the total number of frequency transitions on this CPU. The cat
+::
+
+ <mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat time_in_state
+ 3600000 2089
+ 3400000 136
+ 3200000 34
+ 3000000 67
+ 2800000 172488
+
+
+- **total_trans**
+
+This gives the total number of frequency transitions on this CPU. The cat
output will have a single count which is the total number of frequency
transitions.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-<mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat total_trans
-20
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+::
+
+ <mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat total_trans
+ 20
+
+- **trans_table**
-- trans_table
This will give a fine grained information about all the CPU frequency
transitions. The cat output here is a two dimensional matrix, where an entry
-<i,j> (row i, column j) represents the count of number of transitions from
+<i,j> (row i, column j) represents the count of number of transitions from
Freq_i to Freq_j. Freq_i rows and Freq_j columns follow the sorting order in
which the driver has provided the frequency table initially to the cpufreq core
and so can be sorted (ascending or descending) or unsorted. The output here
@@ -95,26 +103,27 @@ readability.
If the transition table is bigger than PAGE_SIZE, reading this will
return an -EFBIG error.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-<mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat trans_table
- From : To
- : 3600000 3400000 3200000 3000000 2800000
- 3600000: 0 5 0 0 0
- 3400000: 4 0 2 0 0
- 3200000: 0 1 0 2 0
- 3000000: 0 0 1 0 3
- 2800000: 0 0 0 2 0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+::
+ <mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat trans_table
+ From : To
+ : 3600000 3400000 3200000 3000000 2800000
+ 3600000: 0 5 0 0 0
+ 3400000: 4 0 2 0 0
+ 3200000: 0 1 0 2 0
+ 3000000: 0 0 1 0 3
+ 2800000: 0 0 0 2 0
3. Configuring cpufreq-stats
+============================
-To configure cpufreq-stats in your kernel
-Config Main Menu
- Power management options (ACPI, APM) --->
- CPU Frequency scaling --->
- [*] CPU Frequency scaling
- [*] CPU frequency translation statistics
+To configure cpufreq-stats in your kernel::
+
+ Config Main Menu
+ Power management options (ACPI, APM) --->
+ CPU Frequency scaling --->
+ [*] CPU Frequency scaling
+ [*] CPU frequency translation statistics
"CPU Frequency scaling" (CONFIG_CPU_FREQ) should be enabled to configure
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Author: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
core
cpu-drivers
cpufreq-nforce2
+ cpufreq-stats
Mailing List
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- Add a SPDX header; - Add a document title, based on the original contents of cpu-freq/index.txt; - Use lists where needed; - Comment out the existing text-only index; - Adjust some title marks; - Use bold on some places; - Mark literal blocks as such; - Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks; - Add it to cpu-freq/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> --- .../{cpufreq-stats.txt => cpufreq-stats.rst} | 121 ++++++++++-------- Documentation/cpu-freq/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-) rename Documentation/cpu-freq/{cpufreq-stats.txt => cpufreq-stats.rst} (53%)