cik_get_gpu_clock_counter(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 cik_get_gpu_clock_counter — the kernel API manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so you're in the <pink>Kernel API Manual</pink> and you clicked on cik_get_gpu_clock_counter(9). slay, welcome, let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

cik_get_gpu_clock_counter — returns a GPU clock counter snapshot 🕐💫

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

uint64_t cik_get_gpu_clock_counter (struct radeon_device *rdev );

like, that's the whole vibe. it hands you back a uint64_t, no cap 👑

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • rdev — a radeon_device pointer 🫶 literally just a pointer to the radeon device, that's it, that's the whole argument

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what it does is it fetches a GPU clock counter snapshot, and it's doing that for SI 🧚 and then it returns that 64-bit clock counter snapshot. iconic. honestly it's giving "one job, done perfectly" and we love that for it 💅

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

the kernel file where this whole thing lives is ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cik.c 📁 — and here's the entire extended friend group, everybody say hi 🫶

🫶 yes bestie, that's all of them, i counted, we don't skip the boring parts in this house

and that's the page!! ✨ it came from ./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon (that's the source, mwah 💋) and it's dated October 2026 — so like, future iconic. cik_get_gpu_clock_counter(9) forever, periodt 👑💖🦋

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