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			This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'S'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
		
			
				
	
	
		
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|      CPU frequency and voltage scaling statistics in the Linux(TM) kernel
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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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|              Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
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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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| cpufreq-stats is a driver that provices 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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| interface (when configured) will appear in a separate directory under cpufreq
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| in /sysfs (<sysfs root>/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/stats/) for each CPU.
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| Various statistics will form read_only files under this directory.
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| This driver is designed to be independent of any particular cpufreq_driver
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| that may be running on your CPU. So, it will work with any cpufreq_driver.
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| 
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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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| -  total_trans
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| -  trans_table
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| 
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| All the statistics will be from the time the stats driver has been inserted 
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| to the time when a read of a particular statistic is done. Obviously, stats 
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| driver will not have any information about the frequency transitions before
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| the stats driver insertion.
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| 
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| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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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| -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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| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 
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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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| is 10mS (similar to other time exported in /proc).
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| 
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| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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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| 
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| 
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| -  total_trans
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| This gives the total number of frequency transitions on this CPU. The cat 
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| output will have a single count which is the total number of frequency
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| transitions.
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| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| <mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat total_trans
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| 20
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| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 
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| -  trans_table
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| This will give a fine grained information about all the CPU frequency
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| transitions. The cat output here is a two dimensional matrix, where an entry
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| <i,j> (row i, column j) represents the count of number of transitions from 
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| Freq_i to Freq_j. Freq_i is in descending order with increasing rows and 
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| Freq_j is in descending order with increasing columns. The output here also 
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| contains the actual freq values for each row and column for better readability.
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| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| <mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat trans_table
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|    From  :    To
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|          :   3600000   3400000   3200000   3000000   2800000 
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|   3600000:         0         5         0         0         0 
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|   3400000:         4         0         2         0         0 
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|   3200000:         0         1         0         2         0 
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|   3000000:         0         0         1         0         3 
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|   2800000:         0         0         0         2         0 
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| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 3. Configuring cpufreq-stats
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| To configure cpufreq-stats in your kernel
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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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| 			<*>   CPU frequency translation statistics 
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| 			[*]     CPU frequency translation statistics details
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| "CPU Frequency scaling" (CONFIG_CPU_FREQ) should be enabled to configure
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| cpufreq-stats.
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| "CPU frequency translation statistics" (CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT) provides the
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| basic statistics which includes time_in_state and total_trans.
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| 
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| "CPU frequency translation statistics details" (CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS)
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| provides fine grained cpufreq stats by trans_table. The reason for having a
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| separate config option for trans_table is:
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| - trans_table goes against the traditional /sysfs rule of one value per
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|   interface. It provides a whole bunch of value in a 2 dimensional matrix
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|   form.
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| 
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| Once these two options are enabled and your CPU supports cpufrequency, you
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| will be able to see the CPU frequency statistics in /sysfs.
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