linux/arch/i386
Venkatesh Pallipadi 95235ca2c2 [CPUFREQ] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo
What is the value shown in "cpu MHz" of /proc/cpuinfo when CPUs are capable of
changing frequency?

Today the answer is: It depends.
On i386:
SMP kernel - It is always the boot frequency
UP kernel - Scales with the frequency change and shows that was last set.

On x86_64:
There is one single variable cpu_khz that gets written by all the CPUs. So,
the frequency set by last CPU will be seen on /proc/cpuinfo of all the
CPUs in the system. What you see also depends on whether you have constant_tsc
capable CPU or not.

On ia64:
It is always boot time frequency of a particular CPU that gets displayed.

The patch below changes this to:
Show the last known frequency of the particular CPU, when cpufreq is present. If
cpu doesnot support changing of frequency through cpufreq, then boot frequency
will be shown. The patch affects i386, x86_64 and ia64 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi<venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-12-06 19:35:11 -08:00
..
boot [PATCH] fbdev: Resurrect hooks to get EDID from firmware 2005-09-09 13:57:59 -07:00
crypto [PATCH] arch/i386/crypto/aes.c: fix sparse warnings 2005-06-25 16:24:59 -07:00
kernel [CPUFREQ] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo 2005-12-06 19:35:11 -08:00
lib [LIB]: Consolidate _atomic_dec_and_lock() 2005-09-14 21:47:01 -07:00
mach-default [PATCH] useless includes of linux/irq.h in arch/i386 2005-09-26 18:29:50 -07:00
mach-es7000 [PATCH] ES7000 platform update 2005-10-30 17:37:12 -08:00
mach-generic [PATCH] x86: sutomatically enable bigsmp when we have more than 8 CPUs 2005-09-05 00:06:10 -07:00
mach-visws [PATCH] useless includes of linux/irq.h in arch/i386 2005-09-26 18:29:50 -07:00
mach-voyager [PATCH] useless includes of linux/irq.h in arch/i386 2005-09-26 18:29:50 -07:00
math-emu [PATCH] i386: inline assembler: cleanup and encapsulate descriptor and task register management 2005-09-05 00:06:11 -07:00
mm [PATCH] arch/i386/mm/init.c: small cleanups 2005-11-13 18:14:13 -08:00
oprofile [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
pci [PATCH] PCI: direct.c: DBG 2005-11-23 23:04:27 -08:00
power [PATCH] x86: add MCE resume 2005-11-07 07:53:30 -08:00
defconfig [ACPI] delete CONFIG_ACPI_PCI 2005-08-25 12:40:44 -04:00
Kconfig [PATCH] move pm_register/etc. to CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, pm_legacy.h 2005-11-13 18:14:10 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu [PATCH] uml: reuse i386 cpu-specific tuning 2005-10-30 17:37:16 -08:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] uml: reuse i386 cpu-specific tuning 2005-10-30 17:37:16 -08:00
Makefile.cpu [PATCH] i386: use -mcpu, not -mtune, for GCCs older than 3.4 2005-10-30 17:37:16 -08:00