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docs: cpu-freq: convert cpufreq-stats.txt to ReST
- 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
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Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt renamed to Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.rst

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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CPU frequency and voltage scaling statistics in the Linux(TM) kernel
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General Description of sysfs CPUFreq Stats
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information for users
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L i n u x c p u f r e q - s t a t s d r i v e r
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- information for users -
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Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <[email protected]>
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.. Contents
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Venkatesh Pallipadi <[email protected]>
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Contents
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1. Introduction
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2. Statistics Provided (with example)
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3. Configuring cpufreq-stats
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1. Introduction
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2. Statistics Provided (with example)
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3. Configuring cpufreq-stats
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1. Introduction
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cpufreq-stats is a driver that provides CPU frequency statistics for each CPU.
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These statistics are provided in /sysfs as a bunch of read_only interfaces. This
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2. Statistics Provided (with example)
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cpufreq stats provides following statistics (explained in detail below).
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- time_in_state
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statistic is done. Obviously, stats driver will not have any information
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<mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # ls -l
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total 0
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 14 16:06 .
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 14 15:58 ..
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--w------- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 reset
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-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 time_in_state
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-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 total_trans
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-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 trans_table
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- reset
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<mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # ls -l
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total 0
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 14 16:06 .
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 14 15:58 ..
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--w------- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 reset
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-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 time_in_state
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-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 total_trans
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-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 May 14 16:06 trans_table
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- **reset**
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Write-only attribute that can be used to reset the stat counters. This can be
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- time_in_state
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This gives the amount of time spent in each of the frequencies supported by
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this CPU. The cat output will have "<frequency> <time>" pair in each line, which
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will mean this CPU spent <time> usertime units of time at <frequency>. Output
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will have one line for each of the supported frequencies. usertime units here
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will have one line for each of the supported frequencies. usertime units here
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<mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat time_in_state
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3600000 2089
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3400000 136
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3200000 34
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3000000 67
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2800000 172488
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<mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat time_in_state
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3600000 2089
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3400000 136
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3200000 34
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3000000 67
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This gives the total number of frequency transitions on this CPU. The cat
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This gives the total number of frequency transitions on this CPU. The cat
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<mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat trans_table
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: 3600000 3400000 3200000 3000000 2800000
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3600000: 0 5 0 0 0
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3200000: 0 1 0 2 0
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Power management options (ACPI, APM) --->
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Config Main Menu
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Power management options (ACPI, APM) --->
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CPU Frequency scaling --->
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[*] CPU Frequency scaling
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Documentation/cpu-freq/index.rst

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