cpufreq: User/admin documentation update and consolidation

The user/admin documentation of cpufreq is badly outdated.  It
conains stale and/or inaccurate information along with things
that are not particularly useful.  Also, some of the important
pieces are missing from it.

For this reason, add a new user/admin document for cpufreq
containing current information to admin-guide and drop the old
outdated .txt documents it is replacing.

Since there will be more PM documents in admin-guide going forward,
create a separate directory for them and put the cpufreq document
in there right away.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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-     CPU frequency and voltage scaling code in the Linux(TM) kernel
-
-
-		         L i n u x    C P U F r e q
-
-			     U S E R   G U I D E
-
-
-		    Dominik Brodowski  <linux@brodo.de>
-
-
-
-   Clock scaling allows you to change the clock speed of the CPUs on the
-    fly. This is a nice method to save battery power, because the lower
-            the clock speed, the less power the CPU consumes.
-
-
-Contents:
----------
-1. Supported Architectures and Processors
-1.1 ARM and ARM64
-1.2 x86
-1.3 sparc64
-1.4 ppc
-1.5 SuperH
-1.6 Blackfin
-
-2. "Policy" / "Governor"?
-2.1 Policy
-2.2 Governor
-
-3. How to change the CPU cpufreq policy and/or speed
-3.1 Preferred interface: sysfs
-
-
-
-1. Supported Architectures and Processors
-=========================================
-
-1.1 ARM and ARM64
------------------
-
-Almost all ARM and ARM64 platforms support CPU frequency scaling.
-
-1.2 x86
--------
-
-The following processors for the x86 architecture are supported by cpufreq:
-
-AMD Elan - SC400, SC410
-AMD mobile K6-2+
-AMD mobile K6-3+
-AMD mobile Duron
-AMD mobile Athlon
-AMD Opteron
-AMD Athlon 64
-Cyrix Media GXm
-Intel mobile PIII and Intel mobile PIII-M on certain chipsets
-Intel Pentium 4, Intel Xeon
-Intel Pentium M (Centrino)
-National Semiconductors Geode GX
-Transmeta Crusoe
-Transmeta Efficeon
-VIA Cyrix 3 / C3
-various processors on some ACPI 2.0-compatible systems [*]
-And many more
-
-[*] Only if "ACPI Processor Performance States" are available
-to the ACPI<->BIOS interface.
-
-
-1.3 sparc64
------------
-
-The following processors for the sparc64 architecture are supported by
-cpufreq:
-
-UltraSPARC-III
-
-
-1.4 ppc
--------
-
-Several "PowerBook" and "iBook2" notebooks are supported.
-The following POWER processors are supported in powernv mode:
-POWER8
-POWER9
-
-1.5 SuperH
-----------
-
-All SuperH processors supporting rate rounding through the clock
-framework are supported by cpufreq.
-
-1.6 Blackfin
-------------
-
-The following Blackfin processors are supported by cpufreq:
-
-BF522, BF523, BF524, BF525, BF526, BF527, Rev 0.1 or higher
-BF531, BF532, BF533, Rev 0.3 or higher
-BF534, BF536, BF537, Rev 0.2 or higher
-BF561, Rev 0.3 or higher
-BF542, BF544, BF547, BF548, BF549, Rev 0.1 or higher
-
-
-2. "Policy" / "Governor" ?
-==========================
-
-Some CPU frequency scaling-capable processor switch between various
-frequencies and operating voltages "on the fly" without any kernel or
-user involvement. This guarantees very fast switching to a frequency
-which is high enough to serve the user's needs, but low enough to save
-power.
-
-
-2.1 Policy
-----------
-
-On these systems, all you can do is select the lower and upper
-frequency limit as well as whether you want more aggressive
-power-saving or more instantly available processing power.
-
-
-2.2 Governor
-------------
-
-On all other cpufreq implementations, these boundaries still need to
-be set. Then, a "governor" must be selected. Such a "governor" decides
-what speed the processor shall run within the boundaries. One such
-"governor" is the "userspace" governor. This one allows the user - or
-a yet-to-implement userspace program - to decide what specific speed
-the processor shall run at.
-
-
-3. How to change the CPU cpufreq policy and/or speed
-====================================================
-
-3.1 Preferred Interface: sysfs
-------------------------------
-
-The preferred interface is located in the sysfs filesystem. If you
-mounted it at /sys, the cpufreq interface is located in a subdirectory
-"cpufreq" within the cpu-device directory
-(e.g. /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ for the first CPU).
-
-affected_cpus :			List of Online CPUs that require software
-				coordination of frequency.
-
-cpuinfo_cur_freq :		Current frequency of the CPU as obtained from
-				the hardware, in KHz. This is the frequency
-				the CPU actually runs at.
-
-cpuinfo_min_freq :		this file shows the minimum operating
-				frequency the processor can run at(in kHz) 
-
-cpuinfo_max_freq :		this file shows the maximum operating
-				frequency the processor can run at(in kHz) 
-
-cpuinfo_transition_latency	The time it takes on this CPU to
-				switch between two frequencies in nano
-				seconds. If unknown or known to be
-				that high that the driver does not
-				work with the ondemand governor, -1
-				(CPUFREQ_ETERNAL) will be returned.
-				Using this information can be useful
-				to choose an appropriate polling
-				frequency for a kernel governor or
-				userspace daemon. Make sure to not
-				switch the frequency too often
-				resulting in performance loss.
-
-related_cpus :			List of Online + Offline CPUs that need software
-				coordination of frequency.
-
-scaling_available_frequencies : List of available frequencies, in KHz.
-
-scaling_available_governors :	this file shows the CPUfreq governors
-				available in this kernel. You can see the
-				currently activated governor in
-
-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.
-
-scaling_driver :		this file shows what cpufreq driver is
-				used to set the frequency on this CPU
-
-scaling_governor,		and by "echoing" the name of another
-				governor you can change it. Please note
-				that some governors won't load - they only
-				work on some specific architectures or
-				processors.
-
-scaling_min_freq and
-scaling_max_freq		show the current "policy limits" (in
-				kHz). By echoing new values into these
-				files, you can change these limits.
-				NOTE: when setting a policy you need to
-				first set scaling_max_freq, then
-				scaling_min_freq.
-
-scaling_setspeed		This can be read to get the currently programmed
-				value by the governor. This can be written to
-				change the current frequency for a group of
-				CPUs, represented by a policy. This is supported
-				currently only by the userspace governor.
-
-bios_limit :			If the BIOS tells the OS to limit a CPU to
-				lower frequencies, the user can read out the
-				maximum available frequency from this file.
-				This typically can happen through (often not
-				intended) BIOS settings, restrictions
-				triggered through a service processor or other
-				BIOS/HW based implementations.
-				This does not cover thermal ACPI limitations
-				which can be detected through the generic
-				thermal driver.
-
-If you have selected the "userspace" governor which allows you to
-set the CPU operating frequency to a specific value, you can read out
-the current frequency in
-
-scaling_setspeed.		By "echoing" a new frequency into this
-				you can change the speed of the CPU,
-				but only within the limits of
-				scaling_min_freq and scaling_max_freq.