Commit 8d72ee32 authored by Viresh Kumar's avatar Viresh Kumar Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki

Documentation: cpu-freq: Frequencies aren't always sorted

The order in which the frequencies are displayed in cpufreq stats
depends on the order in which the frequencies were sorted in the
frequency table provided to cpufreq core by the cpufreq driver. They can
be completely unsorted as well.

The documentation's claim that the stats will be sorted in descending
order is hence incorrect and here is an attempt to fix it.
Reported-by: default avatarPavel <pavel2000@ngs.ru>
Signed-off-by: default avatarViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
parent 65102238
......@@ -86,9 +86,11 @@ transitions.
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
Freq_i to Freq_j. Freq_i is in descending order with increasing rows and
Freq_j is in descending order with increasing columns. The output here also
contains the actual freq values for each row and column for better readability.
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
also contains the actual freq values for each row and column for better
readability.
If the transition table is bigger than PAGE_SIZE, reading this will
return an -EFBIG error.
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