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From:   John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jul 2022 22:29:02 -0700
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] drm: drm_syncobj: Add note in DOC about absolute
 timeout values
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 9:23 PM John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> wrote:
>
> After having to debug down through the kernel to figure out
> why my _WAIT calls were always timing out, I realized its
> an absolute timeout value instead of the more common relative
> timeouts.
>
> This detail should be called out in the documentation, as while
> the absolute value makes sense here, its not as common for timeout
> values.
>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> Cc: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
> Cc: Christian K=C3=B6nig <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> Cc: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com>
> Cc: Chunming Zhou <david1.zhou@amd.com>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_syncobj.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_syncobj.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_syncobj.=
c
> index 7e48dcd1bee4..b84d842a1c21 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_syncobj.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_syncobj.c
> @@ -136,6 +136,10 @@
>   * requirement is inherited from the wait-before-signal behavior require=
d by
>   * the Vulkan timeline semaphore API.
>   *
> + * It should be noted, that both &DRM_IOCTL_SYNCOBJ_WAIT and
> + * &DRM_SYNCOBJ_WAIT_FLAGS_WAIT_FOR_SUBMIT takes an *absolute* CLOCK_MON=
OTONIC

Gah. That should be &DRM_IOCTL_SYNCOBJ_TIMELINE_WAIT. I must have
pasted in the wrong symbol.

Fixed in my tree and I'll share v2 in a few days so I can get
additional feedback.

thanks
-john