[PATCH] cpufreq: Documentation: fix freq_step description
From: Pengjie Zhang
Date: Fri May 29 2026 - 07:15:22 EST
The conservative governor documentation incorrectly states that setting
freq_step to 0 will use the default 5% frequency step. In reality, since
the governor's initial implementation
commit b9170836d1aa ("[CPUFREQ] Conservative cpufreq governer"),
freq_step=0 has always caused the governor to skip frequency updates
entirely.
Correct the documentation to reflect the actual behavior: freq_step=0
disables frequency changes by the governor entirely.
Fixes: 2a0e49279850 ("cpufreq: User/admin documentation update and consolidation")
Signed-off-by: Pengjie Zhang <zhangpengjie2@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst
index dbe6d23a5d67..98c724d49047 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst
@@ -586,8 +586,8 @@ This governor exposes the following tunables:
100 (5 by default).
This is how much the frequency is allowed to change in one go. Setting
- it to 0 will cause the default frequency step (5 percent) to be used
- and setting it to 100 effectively causes the governor to periodically
+ it to 0 disables frequency changes by the governor entirely and setting
+ it to 100 effectively causes the governor to periodically
switch the frequency between the ``scaling_min_freq`` and
``scaling_max_freq`` policy limits.
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2.33.0