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Message-Id: <20190122140644.25535-1-tiny.windzz@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:06:44 -0500
From: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@...il.com>
To: rjw@...ysocki.net, daniel.lezcano@...aro.org, corbet@....net
Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] cpuidle: fix description of exit latency in cpuidle.rst
Exit latency is the time from exiting the idle state to execute
the first instruction. This place may be a typo , so fix it.
Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@...il.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst
index 106379e2619f..3ca2ca60ff91 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ substantial), in order to save more energy than it would save by entering one of
the shallower idle states instead. [The "depth" of an idle state roughly
corresponds to the power drawn by the processor in that state.] The exit
latency, in turn, is the maximum time it will take a CPU asking the processor
-hardware to enter an idle state to start executing the first instruction after a
+hardware to exit an idle state to start executing the first instruction after a
wakeup from that state. Note that in general the exit latency also must cover
the time needed to enter the given state in case the wakeup occurs when the
hardware is entering it and it must be entered completely to be exited in an
--
2.17.0
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