Re: [RFC 4/4] drm/i915/perf: Send system clock monotonic time in perf samples

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Quoting Sagar Arun Kamble (2017-11-15 12:13:54)
> From: Sourab Gupta <sourab.gupta@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, we have the ability to only forward the GPU timestamps in the
> samples (which are generated via OA reports). This limits the ability to
> correlate these samples with the system events.
> 
> An ability is therefore needed to report timestamps in different clock
> domains, such as CLOCK_MONOTONIC, in the perf samples to be of more
> practical use to the userspace. This ability becomes important
> when we want to correlate/plot GPU events/samples with other system events
> on the same timeline (e.g. vblank events, or timestamps when work was
> submitted to kernel, etc.)
> 
> The patch here proposes a mechanism to achieve this. The correlation
> between gpu time and system time is established using the timestamp clock
> associated with the command stream, abstracted as timecounter/cyclecounter
> to retrieve gpu/system time correlated values.
> 
> v2: Added i915_driver_init_late() function to capture the new late init
> phase for perf (Chris)
> 
> v3: Removed cross-timestamp changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sourab Gupta <sourab.gupta@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sagar Arun Kamble <sagar.a.kamble@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sourab Gupta <sourab.gupta@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h      |  7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c
> index 3b721d7..94ee924 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c
> @@ -336,6 +336,7 @@
>  
>  #define SAMPLE_OA_REPORT       BIT(0)
>  #define SAMPLE_GPU_TS          BIT(1)
> +#define SAMPLE_SYSTEM_TS       BIT(2)
>  
>  /**
>   * struct perf_open_properties - for validated properties given to open a stream
> @@ -622,6 +623,7 @@ static int append_oa_sample(struct i915_perf_stream *stream,
>         struct drm_i915_perf_record_header header;
>         u32 sample_flags = stream->sample_flags;
>         u64 gpu_ts = 0;
> +       u64 system_ts = 0;
>  
>         header.type = DRM_I915_PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE;
>         header.pad = 0;
> @@ -647,6 +649,23 @@ static int append_oa_sample(struct i915_perf_stream *stream,
>  
>                 if (copy_to_user(buf, &gpu_ts, I915_PERF_TS_SAMPLE_SIZE))
>                         return -EFAULT;
> +               buf += I915_PERF_TS_SAMPLE_SIZE;
> +       }
> +
> +       if (sample_flags & SAMPLE_SYSTEM_TS) {
> +               gpu_ts = get_gpu_ts_from_oa_report(stream, report);

Scope your variables. Stops us from being confused as to where else
gpu_ts or sys_ts may be reused. For instance I first thought you were
using SAMPLE_GPU_TS to initialise gpu_ts

> +               /*
> +                * XXX: timecounter_cyc2time considers time backwards if delta
> +                * timestamp is more than half the max ns time covered by
> +                * counter. It will be ~35min for 36 bit counter. If this much
> +                * sampling duration is needed we will have to update tc->nsec
> +                * by explicitly reading the timecounter (timecounter_read)
> +                * before this duration.
> +                */
> +               system_ts = timecounter_cyc2time(&stream->tc, gpu_ts);
> +
> +               if (copy_to_user(buf, &system_ts, I915_PERF_TS_SAMPLE_SIZE))
> +                       return -EFAULT;

Advance buf.
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