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Date:   Wed, 17 May 2023 21:08:59 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Freedreno] [PATCH 5/6] drm/msm/a6xx: Use GMU_ALWAYS_ON_COUNTER
 for GMU-equipped GPUs in timestamp
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To:     Jonathan Marek <jonathan@marek.ca>,
        Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>,
        Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@quicinc.com>,
        Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>,
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        Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
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        dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
        Marijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@somainline.org>,
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From:   Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>
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On 17.05.2023 20:09, Jonathan Marek wrote:
> AFAIK GMU_ALWAYS_ON_COUNTER does not have the same value as CP_ALWAYS_ON_COUNTER (only the same frequency), so changing this would break userspace expecting to be able to compare the value returned by MSM_PARAM_TIMESTAMP with CP timestamp values.
FWIW A630 and A730 seem to work fine with this patch. Anything
in particular I should look out for?

Konrad
> 
> On 5/17/23 12:50 PM, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> Use the always-on counter provided by the GMU to skip having to
>> keep the GPU online.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c | 9 +++------
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c
>> index 8707e8b6ac7e..d2a999b90589 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gpu.c
>> @@ -1664,12 +1664,9 @@ static int a6xx_get_timestamp(struct msm_gpu *gpu, uint64_t *value)
>>         mutex_lock(&a6xx_gpu->gmu.lock);
>>   -    /* Force the GPU power on so we can read this register */
>> -    a6xx_gmu_set_oob(&a6xx_gpu->gmu, GMU_OOB_PERFCOUNTER_SET);
>> -
>> -    *value = gpu_read64(gpu, REG_A6XX_CP_ALWAYS_ON_COUNTER);
>> -
>> -    a6xx_gmu_clear_oob(&a6xx_gpu->gmu, GMU_OOB_PERFCOUNTER_SET);
>> +    *value = gmu_read64(&a6xx_gpu->gmu,
>> +                REG_A6XX_GMU_ALWAYS_ON_COUNTER_L,
>> +                REG_A6XX_GMU_ALWAYS_ON_COUNTER_H);
>>         mutex_unlock(&a6xx_gpu->gmu.lock);
>>