Re: [Intel-xe] [PATCH v2 19/20] drm/xe/uapi: Crystal Reference Clock updates

[Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 07:56:16PM +0000, Souza, Jose wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-09-20 at 15:29 -0400, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > First of all, let's remove the duplication.
> > But also, let's rename it to remove the word 'frequency'
> > out of it. In general, the first thing people think of frequency
> > is the frequency in which the GTs are operating to execute the
> > GPU instructions.
> > 
> > While this frequency here is a crystal reference clock frequency
> > which is the base of everything else, and in this case of this
> > uAPI it is used to calculate a better and precise timestamp.
> > 
> > Cc: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com>
> > Umesh Nerlige Ramappa <umesh.nerlige.ramappa@intel.com>
> > Cc: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_query.c |  5 ++---
> >  include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h     | 10 ++++------
> >  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_query.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_query.c
> > index a27b10583f5a..8184df4abde1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_query.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_query.c
> > @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ query_cs_cycles(struct xe_device *xe,
> >  	if (!hwe)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  
> > -	resp.cs_frequency = gt->info.clock_freq;
> > +	resp.cs_reference_clock = gt->info.clock_freq;
> >  
> >  	xe_device_mem_access_get(xe);
> >  	xe_force_wake_get(gt_to_fw(gt), XE_FORCEWAKE_ALL);
> > @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ query_cs_cycles(struct xe_device *xe,
> >  	resp.width = 36;
> >  
> >  	/* Only write to the output fields of user query */
> > -	if (put_user(resp.cs_frequency, &query_ptr->cs_frequency))
> > +	if (put_user(resp.cs_reference_clock, &query_ptr->cs_reference_clock))
> >  		return -EFAULT;
> 
> In my opinion the renames around drm_xe_query_cs_cycles should be done in the patch that implements it.

I honestly agree with it. But I didn't want to disturb the force there
and since we are doing a big modification and that we need to remove the
duplication anyway, I decided to propose it separately.

> 
> >  
> >  	if (put_user(resp.cpu_timestamp, &query_ptr->cpu_timestamp))
> > @@ -380,7 +380,6 @@ static int query_gt_list(struct xe_device *xe, struct drm_xe_device_query *query
> >  		else
> >  			gt_list->gt_list[id].type = XE_QUERY_GT_TYPE_MAIN;
> >  		gt_list->gt_list[id].gt_id = gt->info.id;
> > -		gt_list->gt_list[id].clock_freq = gt->info.clock_freq;
> >  		if (!IS_DGFX(xe))
> >  			gt_list->gt_list[id].native_mem_regions = 0x1;
> >  		else
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h b/include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h
> > index 45ec20c2765d..5156bac84f20 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h
> > @@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ struct drm_xe_query_mem_region {
> >   * relevant GPU timestamp. clockid is used to return the specific CPU
> >   * timestamp.
> >   *
> > - * The query returns the command streamer cycles and the frequency that can
> > - * be used to calculate the command streamer timestamp. In addition the
> > + * The query returns the command streamer cycles and the reference clock that
> > + * can be used to calculate the command streamer timestamp. In addition the
> >   * query returns a set of cpu timestamps that indicate when the command
> >   * streamer cycle count was captured.
> >   */
> > @@ -266,8 +266,8 @@ struct drm_xe_query_cs_cycles {
> >  	 */
> >  	__u64 cs_cycles;
> >  
> > -	/** Frequency of the cs cycles in Hz. */
> > -	__u64 cs_frequency;
> > +	/** Reference Clock of the cs cycles in Hz. */
> > +	__u64 cs_reference_clock;
> >  
> >  	/**
> >  	 * CPU timestamp in ns. The timestamp is captured before reading the
> > @@ -381,8 +381,6 @@ struct drm_xe_query_gt {
> >  	__u16 type;
> >  	/** @gt_id: Unique ID of this GT within the PCI Device */
> >  	__u16 gt_id;
> > -	/** @clock_freq: A clock frequency for timestamp */
> > -	__u32 clock_freq;
> >  	/**
> >  	 * @native_mem_regions: Bit mask of instances from
> >  	 * drm_xe_query_mem_usage that lives on the same GPU/Tile and have
>