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-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt8
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longrun.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c15
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c5
4 files changed, 19 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
index 6a9c55bd556b..dcec0564d040 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
@@ -129,14 +129,6 @@ to its default value of '80' it means that between the checking
intervals the CPU needs to be on average more than 80% in use to then
decide that the CPU frequency needs to be increased.
-sampling_down_factor: this parameter controls the rate that the CPU
-makes a decision on when to decrease the frequency. When set to its
-default value of '5' it means that at 1/5 the sampling_rate the kernel
-makes a decision to lower the frequency. Five "lower rate" decisions
-have to be made in a row before the CPU frequency is actually lower.
-If set to '1' then the frequency decreases as quickly as it increases,
-if set to '2' it decreases at half the rate of the increase.
-
ignore_nice_load: this parameter takes a value of '0' or '1'. When
set to '0' (its default), all processes are counted towards the
'cpu utilisation' value. When set to '1', the processes that are
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longrun.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longrun.c
index af4a867a097c..777a7ff075de 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longrun.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longrun.c
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static unsigned int __init longrun_determine_freqs(unsigned int *low_freq,
if ((ecx > 95) || (ecx == 0) || (eax < ebx))
return -EIO;
- edx = (eax - ebx) / (100 - ecx);
+ edx = ((eax - ebx) * 100) / (100 - ecx);
*low_freq = edx * 1000; /* back to kHz */
dprintk("low frequency is %u kHz\n", *low_freq);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
index 46d4034d9f37..206791eb46e3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
@@ -1127,12 +1127,23 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *pol)
* an UP version, and is deprecated by AMD.
*/
if (num_online_cpus() != 1) {
- printk(KERN_ERR PFX "MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS structure\n");
+#ifndef CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR
+ printk(KERN_ERR PFX "ACPI Processor support is required "
+ "for SMP systems but is absent. Please load the "
+ "ACPI Processor module before starting this "
+ "driver.\n");
+#else
+ printk(KERN_ERR PFX "Your BIOS does not provide ACPI "
+ "_PSS objects in a way that Linux understands. "
+ "Please report this to the Linux ACPI maintainers"
+ " and complain to your BIOS vendor.\n");
+#endif
kfree(data);
return -ENODEV;
}
if (pol->cpu != 0) {
- printk(KERN_ERR PFX "No _PSS objects for CPU other than CPU0\n");
+ printk(KERN_ERR PFX "No ACPI _PSS objects for CPU other than "
+ "CPU0. Complain to your BIOS vendor.\n");
kfree(data);
return -ENODEV;
}
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c b/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c
index ae6cd60d5c14..b64c6bc445e3 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
* linux/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c
*
* Copyright (C) 2002 - 2003 Dominik Brodowski
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>