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Linus Torvalds
3563f55ce6 Power management updates for 5.14-rc1
- Make intel_pstate support hybrid processors using abstract
    performance units in the HWP interface (Rafael Wysocki).
 
  - Add Icelake servers and Cometlake support in no-HWP mode to
    intel_pstate (Giovanni Gherdovich).
 
  - Make cpufreq_online() error path be consistent with the CPU
    device removal path in cpufreq (Rafael Wysocki).
 
  - Clean up 3 cpufreq drivers and the statistics code (Hailong Liu,
    Randy Dunlap, Shaokun Zhang).
 
  - Make intel_idle use special idle state parameters for C6 when
    package C-states are disabled (Chen Yu).
 
  - Rework the TEO (timer events oriented) cpuidle governor to address
    some theoretical shortcomings in it (Rafael Wysocki).
 
  - Drop unneeded semicolon from the TEO governor (Wan Jiabing).
 
  - Modify the runtime PM framework to accept unassigned suspend
    and resume callback pointers (Ulf Hansson).
 
  - Improve pm_runtime_get_sync() documentation (Krzysztof Kozlowski).
 
  - Improve device performance states support in the generic power
    domains (genpd) framework (Ulf Hansson).
 
  - Fix some documentation issues in genpd (Yang Yingliang).
 
  - Make the operating performance points (OPP) framework use the
    required-opps DT property in use cases that are not related to
    genpd (Hsin-Yi Wang).
 
  - Make lazy_link_required_opp_table() use list_del_init instead of
    list_del/INIT_LIST_HEAD (Yang Yingliang).
 
  - Simplify wake IRQs handling in the core system-wide sleep support
    code and clean up some coding style inconsistencies in it (Tian
    Tao, Zhen Lei).
 
  - Add cooling support to the tegra30 devfreq driver and improve its
    DT bindings (Dmitry Osipenko).
 
  - Fix some assorted issues in the devfreq core and drivers (Chanwoo
    Choi, Dong Aisheng, YueHaibing).
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Merge tag 'pm-5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These add hybrid processors support to the intel_pstate driver and
  make it work with more processor models when HWP is disabled, make the
  intel_idle driver use special C6 idle state paremeters when package
  C-states are disabled, add cooling support to the tegra30 devfreq
  driver, rework the TEO (timer events oriented) cpuidle governor,
  extend the OPP (operating performance points) framework to use the
  required-opps DT property in more cases, fix some issues and clean up
  a number of assorted pieces of code.

  Specifics:

   - Make intel_pstate support hybrid processors using abstract
     performance units in the HWP interface (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Add Icelake servers and Cometlake support in no-HWP mode to
     intel_pstate (Giovanni Gherdovich).

   - Make cpufreq_online() error path be consistent with the CPU device
     removal path in cpufreq (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Clean up 3 cpufreq drivers and the statistics code (Hailong Liu,
     Randy Dunlap, Shaokun Zhang).

   - Make intel_idle use special idle state parameters for C6 when
     package C-states are disabled (Chen Yu).

   - Rework the TEO (timer events oriented) cpuidle governor to address
     some theoretical shortcomings in it (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Drop unneeded semicolon from the TEO governor (Wan Jiabing).

   - Modify the runtime PM framework to accept unassigned suspend and
     resume callback pointers (Ulf Hansson).

   - Improve pm_runtime_get_sync() documentation (Krzysztof Kozlowski).

   - Improve device performance states support in the generic power
     domains (genpd) framework (Ulf Hansson).

   - Fix some documentation issues in genpd (Yang Yingliang).

   - Make the operating performance points (OPP) framework use the
     required-opps DT property in use cases that are not related to
     genpd (Hsin-Yi Wang).

   - Make lazy_link_required_opp_table() use list_del_init instead of
     list_del/INIT_LIST_HEAD (Yang Yingliang).

   - Simplify wake IRQs handling in the core system-wide sleep support
     code and clean up some coding style inconsistencies in it (Tian
     Tao, Zhen Lei).

   - Add cooling support to the tegra30 devfreq driver and improve its
     DT bindings (Dmitry Osipenko).

   - Fix some assorted issues in the devfreq core and drivers (Chanwoo
     Choi, Dong Aisheng, YueHaibing)"

* tag 'pm-5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (39 commits)
  PM / devfreq: passive: Fix get_target_freq when not using required-opp
  cpufreq: Make cpufreq_online() call driver->offline() on errors
  opp: Allow required-opps to be used for non genpd use cases
  cpuidle: teo: remove unneeded semicolon in teo_select()
  dt-bindings: devfreq: tegra30-actmon: Add cooling-cells
  dt-bindings: devfreq: tegra30-actmon: Convert to schema
  PM / devfreq: userspace: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RW macro
  PM: runtime: Clarify documentation when callbacks are unassigned
  PM: runtime: Allow unassigned ->runtime_suspend|resume callbacks
  PM: runtime: Improve path in rpm_idle() when no callback
  PM: hibernate: remove leading spaces before tabs
  PM: sleep: remove trailing spaces and tabs
  PM: domains: Drop/restore performance state votes for devices at runtime PM
  PM: domains: Return early if perf state is already set for the device
  PM: domains: Split code in dev_pm_genpd_set_performance_state()
  cpuidle: teo: Use kerneldoc documentation in admin-guide
  cpuidle: teo: Rework most recent idle duration values treatment
  cpuidle: teo: Change the main idle state selection logic
  cpuidle: teo: Cosmetic modification of teo_select()
  cpuidle: teo: Cosmetic modifications of teo_update()
  ...
2021-06-29 13:36:06 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
17420f3138 docs: admin-guide: pm: avoid using ReST :doc:foo markup
The :doc:`foo` tag is auto-generated via automarkup.py.
So, use the filename at the sources, instead of :doc:`foo`.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/04616d9fc0b4a0d33486fa0018631a2db2eba860.1623824363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-06-17 13:24:36 -06:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
c3d175e485 cpufreq: intel_pstate: hybrid: Avoid exposing two global attributes
The turbo_pct and num_pstates sysfs attributes represent CPU
properties that may be different for differenty types of CPUs in
a hybrid processor, so avoid exposing them in that case.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2021-05-21 18:44:55 +02:00
Andrew Klychkov
751d5b2741 Documentation: fix multiple typos found in the admin-guide subdirectory
Fix thirty five typos in dm-integrity.rst, dm-raid.rst, dm-zoned.rst,
verity.rst, writecache.rst, tsx_async_abort.rst, md.rst, bttv.rst,
dvb_references.rst, frontend-cardlist.rst, gspca-cardlist.rst, ipu3.rst,
remote-controller.rst, mm/index.rst, numaperf.rst, userfaultfd.rst,
module-signing.rst, imx-ddr.rst, intel-speed-select.rst,
intel_pstate.rst, ramoops.rst, abi.rst, kernel.rst, vm.rst

Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201204072848.GA49895@spblnx124.lan
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-08 10:27:56 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
b388eb58ce cpufreq: intel_pstate: Tweak the EPP sysfs interface
Modify the EPP sysfs interface to reject attempts to change the EPP
to values different from 0 ("performance") in the active mode with
the "performance" policy (ie. scaling_governor set to "performance"),
to avoid situations in which the kernel appears to discard data
passed to it via the EPP sysfs attribute.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
2020-09-01 21:14:06 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
1c50282199 Documentation: fix pm/intel_pstate build warning and wording
Fix documentation build warning and sentence wording:

Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst:568: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.

Fixes: f473bf398b ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Allow raw energy performance preference value")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-08-24 12:48:37 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
f3db6de55e Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'
* pm-cpufreq:
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement passive mode with HWP enabled
2020-08-14 19:39:35 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
f6ebbcf08f cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement passive mode with HWP enabled
Allow intel_pstate to work in the passive mode with HWP enabled and
make it set the HWP minimum performance limit (HWP floor) to the
P-state value given by the target frequency supplied by the cpufreq
governor, so as to prevent the HWP algorithm and the CPU scheduler
from working against each other, at least when the schedutil governor
is in use, and update the intel_pstate documentation accordingly.

Among other things, this allows utilization clamps to be taken
into account, at least to a certain extent, when intel_pstate is
in use and makes it more likely that sufficient capacity for
deadline tasks will be provided.

After this change, the resulting behavior of an HWP system with
intel_pstate in the passive mode should be close to the behavior
of the analogous non-HWP system with intel_pstate in the passive
mode, except that the HWP algorithm is generally allowed to make the
CPU run at a frequency above the floor P-state set by intel_pstate in
the entire available range of P-states, while without HWP a CPU can
run in a P-state above the requested one if the latter falls into the
range of turbo P-states (referred to as the turbo range) or if the
P-states of all CPUs in one package are coordinated with each other
at the hardware level.

[Note that in principle the HWP floor may not be taken into account
 by the processor if it falls into the turbo range, in which case the
 processor has a license to choose any P-state, either below or above
 the HWP floor, just like a non-HWP processor in the case when the
 target P-state falls into the turbo range.]

With this change applied, intel_pstate in the passive mode assumes
complete control over the HWP request MSR and concurrent changes of
that MSR (eg. via the direct MSR access interface) are overridden by
it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
2020-08-11 17:29:45 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
2324d50d05 It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come.  Changes include:
 
  - Some new Chinese translations
 
  - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs
 
  - Some block-mq documentation
 
  - More RST conversions from Mauro.  At this point, that task is
    essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a
    while.  Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:)
 
  - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
  while to come. Changes include:

   - Some new Chinese translations

   - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
     URLs

   - Some block-mq documentation

   - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
     essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
     for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
     something...:)

   - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
  docs: ia64: correct typo
  mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
  doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
  Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
  MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
  devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
  PCI: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
  docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
  docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
  docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
  CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
  doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
  doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
  doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
  doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
  futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
  ...
2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
4d7e204f7d Documentation/admin-guide: intel_pstate: drop doubled word
Drop the doubled word "to".

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200704032020.21923-10-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-05 14:01:49 -06:00
Srinivas Pandruvada
f473bf398b cpufreq: intel_pstate: Allow raw energy performance preference value
Currently using attribute "energy_performance_preference", user space can
write one of the four per-defined preference string. These preference
strings gets mapped to a hard-coded Energy-Performance Preference (EPP) or
Energy-Performance Bias (EPB) knob.

These four values are supposed to cover broad spectrum of use cases, but
are not uniformly distributed in the range. There are number of cases,
where this is not enough. For example:

Suppose user wants more performance when connected to AC. Instead of using
default "balance performance", the "performance" setting can be used. This
changes EPP value from 0x80 to 0x00. But setting EPP to 0, results in
electrical and thermal issues on some platforms. This results in
aggressive throttling, which causes a drop in performance. But some value
between 0x80 and 0x00 results in better performance. But that value can't
be fixed as the power curve is not linear. In some cases just changing EPP
from 0x80 to 0x75 is enough to get significant performance gain.

Similarly on battery the default "balance_performance" mode can be
aggressive in power consumption. But picking up the next choice
"balance power" results in too much loss of performance, which results in
bad user experience in use cases like "Google Hangout". It was observed
that some value between these two EPP is optimal.

This change allows fine grain EPP tuning for platform like Chromebook or
for users who wants to fine tune power and performance.
Here based on the product and use cases, different EPP values can be set.
This change is similar to the change done for:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/power/energy_perf_bias
where user has choice to write a predefined string or raw value.

The change itself is trivial. When user preference doesn't match
predefined string preferences and value is an unsigned integer and in
range, use that value for EPP. When the EPP feature is not present
writing raw value is not supported.

Suggested-by: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-07-02 13:02:46 +02:00
Srinivas Pandruvada
ed7bde7a6d cpufreq: intel_pstate: Allow enable/disable energy efficiency
By default intel_pstate the driver disables energy efficiency by setting
MSR_IA32_POWER_CTL bit 19 for Kaby Lake desktop CPU model in HWP mode.
This CPU model is also shared by Coffee Lake desktop CPUs. This allows
these systems to reach maximum possible frequency. But this adds power
penalty, which some customers don't want. They want some way to enable/
disable dynamically.

So, add an additional attribute "energy_efficiency" under
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/ for these CPU models. This allows
to read and write bit 19 ("Disable Energy Efficiency Optimization") in
the MSR IA32_POWER_CTL.

This attribute is present in both HWP and non-HWP mode as this has an
effect in both modes. Refer to Intel Software Developer's manual for
details.

The scope of this bit is package wide. Also these systems are single
package systems. So read/write MSR on the current CPU is enough.

The energy efficiency (EE) bit setting needs to be preserved during
suspend/resume and CPU offline/online operation. To do this:
- Restoring the EE setting from the cpufreq resume() callback, if there
is change from the system default.
- By default, don't disable EE from cpufreq init() callback for matching
CPU models. Since the scope is package wide and is a single package
system, move the disable EE calls from init() callback to
intel_pstate_init() function, which is called only once.

Suggested-by: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-07-02 13:02:46 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
33aa46f252 cpufreq: intel_pstate: Use passive mode by default without HWP
After recent changes allowing scale-invariant utilization to be
used on x86, the schedutil governor on top of intel_pstate in the
passive mode should be on par with (or better than) the active mode
"powersave" algorithm of intel_pstate on systems in which
hardware-managed P-states (HWP) are not used, so it should not be
necessary to use the internal scaling algorithm in those cases.

Accordingly, modify intel_pstate to start in the passive mode by
default if the processor at hand does not support HWP of if the driver
is requested to avoid using HWP through the kernel command line.

Among other things, that will allow utilization clamps and the
support for RT/DL tasks in the schedutil governor to be utilized on
systems in which intel_pstate is used.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-04-17 17:04:38 +02:00
Alex Hung
c1f59a3782 Documentation: intel_pstate: update links for references
URLs for presentation and Intel Software Developer’s Manual are updated
as they were using "http" which are gradually replaced by "https".

Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2020-03-14 11:46:02 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
fc1860d6b1 Documentation: PM: Unify copyright notices
Unify copyright notices in the .rst files under
Documentation/driver-api/pm and Documentation/admin-quide/pm.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
2019-04-08 12:57:47 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
fc7db767b1 Documentation: PM: Add SPDX license tags to multiple files
Add SPDX license tags to .rst files under Documentation/driver-api/pm
and Documentation/admin-quide/pm.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
2019-04-08 12:57:47 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
1120b0f985 cpufreq: intel_pstate: Documentation: Add references sections
Add separate refereces sections to the cpufreq.rst and
intel_pstate.rst documents under admin-quide/pm and list the
references to external documentation in there.

Update the ACPI specification URL while at it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
2019-04-08 12:57:47 +02:00
Srinivas Pandruvada
60935c17e2 Documentation: intel_pstate: Clarify coordination of P-State limits
Explain influence of per-core P-states and hyper threading on the
effective performance.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-11-29 22:31:58 +01:00
Srinivas Pandruvada
4b73d334c5 Documentation: intel_pstate: Add base_frequency information
Updated documentation to explain base_frequency attribute.

Suggested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-10-16 10:33:39 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
649f53a3e4 Documentation: intel_pstate: Describe hwp_dynamic_boost sysfs knob
Document the recently introduced hwp_dynamic_boost sysfs knob
allowing user space to tell intel_pstate to use iowait boosting
in the active mode with HWP enabled (to improve performance).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
2018-06-27 13:02:06 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
9e421b8fff Documentation: admin-guide: intel_pstate: Fix sysfs path
Fix an incorrect sysfs path in the intel_pstate admin-guide
documentation.

Fixes: 33fc30b470 (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Document the current behavior and user interface)
Reported-by: Pawit Pornkitprasan <p.pawit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-06-27 13:02:06 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
7a0f9d1eb5 Documentation: intel_pstate: Fix typo
Fix a typo in the intel_pstate admin-guide documentation.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-06-21 00:35:19 +02:00
Juri Lelli
13610c9348 PM: docs: intel_pstate: fix Active Mode w/o HWP paragraph
P-state selection algorithm (powersave or performance) is selected by
echoing the desired choice to scaling_governor sysfs attribute and not
to scaling_cur_freq (as currently stated).

Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-05-09 12:16:44 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
9d0ef7af1f cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not use PID-based P-state selection
All systems with a defined ACPI preferred profile that are not
"servers" have been using the load-based P-state selection algorithm
in intel_pstate since 4.12-rc1 (mobile systems and laptops have been
using it since 4.10-rc1) and no problems with it have been reported
to date.  In particular, no regressions with respect to the PID-based
P-state selection have been reported.  Also testing indicates that
the P-state selection algorithm based on CPU load is generally on par
with the PID-based algorithm performance-wise, and for some workloads
it turns out to be better than the other one, while being more
straightforward and easier to understand at the same time.

Moreover, the PID-based P-state selection algorithm in intel_pstate
is known to be unstable in some situation and generally problematic,
the issues with it are hard to address and it has become a
significant maintenance burden.

For these reasons, make intel_pstate use the "powersave" P-state
selection algorithm based on CPU load in the active mode on all
systems and drop the PID-based P-state selection code along with
all things related to it from the driver.  Also update the
documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-07-26 20:42:50 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
fab24dcc39 cpufreq: intel_pstate: Clean up after performance governor changes
After commit 82b4e03e01 (intel_pstate: skip scheduler hook when in
"performance" mode) get_target_pstate_use_performance() and
get_target_pstate_use_cpu_load() are never called if scaling_governor
is "performance", so drop the CPUFREQ_POLICY_PERFORMANCE checks from
them as they will never trigger anyway.

Moreover, the documentation needs to be updated to reflect the change
made by the above commit, so do that too.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
2017-06-29 23:25:15 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
33fc30b470 cpufreq: intel_pstate: Document the current behavior and user interface
Add a document describing the current behavior and user space
interface of the intel_pstate driver in the RST format and
drop the existing outdated intel_pstate.txt document.

Also update admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst with proper RST references
to the new intel_pstate.rst document.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-05-14 02:06:03 +02:00