_PERFPOLICY can also be set to "high"; it's "auto" not "automatic"; and the variable

itself has bearing on _SETPERF;

many thanks to theo buehler who both supplied a diff and corrected various
issues with my diff;

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
index 74892d31ea4..89f1b060b81 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.248 2015/03/11 19:42:38 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.249 2015/03/12 12:40:11 jmc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 11 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 12 2015 $
 .Dt SYSCTL 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -332,9 +332,10 @@ The software page size.
 .It Dv HW_PERFPOLICY
 The performance policy for power management.
 Can be one of
-.Qq manual
+.Dq manual ,
+.Dq auto ,
 or
-.Qq automatic .
+.Dq high .
 .It Dv HW_PHYSMEM
 The total physical memory, in bytes.
 This variable is deprecated; use
@@ -377,6 +378,10 @@ The serial number of the machine.
 .It Dv HW_SETPERF
 Current CPU performance
 .Pq percentage .
+It is only modifiable if
+.Dv HW_PERFPOLICY
+is set to
+.Dq manual .
 .It Dv HW_USERMEM
 The amount of available non-kernel memory in bytes.
 This variable is deprecated; use