Merge branch 'davinci-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...

[cascardo/linux.git] / Documentation / cpu-freq / user-guide.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt
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--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt
@@ -176,7 +176,9 @@ scaling_governor,           and by "echoing" the name of another
                                work on some specific architectures or
                                processors.
 
-cpuinfo_cur_freq :             Current speed of the CPU, in KHz.
+cpuinfo_cur_freq :             Current frequency of the CPU as obtained from
+                               the hardware, in KHz. This is the frequency
+                               the CPU actually runs at.
 
 scaling_available_frequencies : List of available frequencies, in KHz.
 
@@ -196,7 +198,10 @@ related_cpus :                     List of CPUs that need some sort of frequency
 
 scaling_driver :               Hardware driver for cpufreq.
 
-scaling_cur_freq :             Current frequency of the CPU, in KHz.
+scaling_cur_freq :             Current frequency of the CPU as determined by
+                               the governor and cpufreq core, in KHz. This is
+                               the frequency the kernel thinks the CPU runs
+                               at.
 
 If you have selected the "userspace" governor which allows you to
 set the CPU operating frequency to a specific value, you can read out