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@@ -269,16 +269,16 @@ are the following:
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``scaling_cur_freq``
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Current frequency of all of the CPUs belonging to this policy (in kHz).
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- For the majority of scaling drivers, this is the frequency of the last
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- P-state requested by the driver from the hardware using the scaling
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+ In the majority of cases, this is the frequency of the last P-state
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+ requested by the scaling driver from the hardware using the scaling
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interface provided by it, which may or may not reflect the frequency
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the CPU is actually running at (due to hardware design and other
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limitations).
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- Some scaling drivers (e.g. |intel_pstate|) attempt to provide
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- information more precisely reflecting the current CPU frequency through
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- this attribute, but that still may not be the exact current CPU
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- frequency as seen by the hardware at the moment.
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+ Some architectures (e.g. ``x86``) may attempt to provide information
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+ more precisely reflecting the current CPU frequency through this
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+ attribute, but that still may not be the exact current CPU frequency as
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+ seen by the hardware at the moment.
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``scaling_driver``
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The scaling driver currently in use.
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