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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-monitor.1 b/tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-monitor.1 index 1141c2073719..e01c35d13b6e 100644 --- a/tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-monitor.1 +++ b/tools/power/cpupower/man/cpupower-monitor.1 @@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ cpupower\-monitor \- Report processor frequency and idle statistics .RB "\-l" .B cpupower monitor -.RB [ "\-m <mon1>," [ "<mon2>,..." ] ] +.RB [ -c ] [ "\-m <mon1>," [ "<mon2>,..." ] ] .RB [ "\-i seconds" ] .br .B cpupower monitor -.RB [ "\-m <mon1>," [ "<mon2>,..." ] ] +.RB [ -c ][ "\-m <mon1>," [ "<mon2>,..." ] ] .RB command .br .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -64,6 +64,17 @@ Only display specific monitors. Use the monitor string(s) provided by \-l option Measure intervall. .RE .PP +\-c +.RS 4 +Schedule the process on every core before starting and ending measuring. +This could be needed for the Idle_Stats monitor when no other MSR based +monitor (has to be run on the core that is measured) is run in parallel. +This is to wake up the processors from deeper sleep states and let the +kernel re +-account its cpuidle (C-state) information before reading the +cpuidle timings from sysfs. +.RE +.PP command .RS 4 Measure idle and frequency characteristics of an arbitrary command/workload. |