Fix: record the device clock domain's semantics in the swimlane schema - #2423
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR updates profiling documentation with device and host timing metadata, display-origin terminology, and cross-Rank alignment constraints. It also clarifies that timing markers overwrite the previous recorded timestamp for each run. ChangesProfiling timing documentation
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A capture's `device_clock_domain` is the constant "device_syscnt_cycles", which names the kind of clock rather than the instance that stamped it, while the neighbouring `host_clock_domain_id` is a Linux boot ID that a merge compares and refuses Ranks over. Neither semantics was recorded, so two adjacent fields with opposite meanings read as a matched pair and a reader concludes that device timestamps from two Ranks are comparable when they share no origin at all. Subtracting them yields a per-device offset shaped exactly like a receive-side latency asymmetry. - Document the Host-orchestration metadata block, including the eight fields the collector has emitted without documentation since hw-native-sys#1846 - State in both the on-disk schema and the cross-Rank merge section that a device timestamp is that device's own uptime, and that the merge is the only supported way to place two Ranks on one axis - Drop the `clock_correlation.cpp` citation from the boundary-marker comment, whose file hw-native-sys#2218 removed, and state the re-record-without-reset contract those markers rely on directly - Rename the display-origin pseudo-variable off the retired `host_timeline_origin_ns` field name
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In `@docs/dfx/chip-swimlane-profiling.md`:
- Around line 724-725: Update the statement about quantities built from two
timestamps on the same device to qualify that both timestamps must be within the
same counter epoch; preserve the no-correction claim only for that case.
- Line 291: Update the host_clock_domain_id schema-field comment to document
that when the boot ID is unreadable, the field is omitted, the merge emits a
warning, and it assumes all Ranks use one Host clock; do not describe the
missing ID as rejected.
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A device reset restarts the counter, so two timestamps on one device are only free of a per-device-origin offset within a single epoch — the same bound `host-trace.md` already states for `dev_start_cycle`. Also record what a merge does when `host_clock_domain_id` is absent: it warns and assumes one Host clock. Only a conflicting ID is refused, and the schema comment previously named neither outcome.
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A capture's
device_clock_domainis the constant"device_syscnt_cycles"— it names the kind of clock, not the instance that stamped it. The neighbouringhost_clock_domain_idis a Linux boot ID thatswimlane_convertercompares and refuses Ranks over (swimlane_converter.py:4738). Neither semantics was documented anywhere, so two adjacent, similarly-named fields with opposite meanings read as a matched pair.A reader therefore concludes that device timestamps from two Ranks are comparable when they in fact share no origin at all — each is a cycle count on that device's own counter, rooted at that device's power-on instant. Subtracting across Ranks yields a stable per-device offset that enters as a sender row plus a receiver column, which is the same shape a receive-side latency asymmetry would have and is indistinguishable from one in the result alone. This was reported externally in #2397 after a considerable falsification effort that a single documented sentence would have made unnecessary.
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orchestrator_source,orchestrator_clock_domain,device_clock_domain,host_timestamp_resolution_ns,host_timestamp_quantization_ns,host_orchestration_origin_ns,timeline_relation,host_capture. The block states which of the clock-domain fields identifies an instance and which does not, and that device counters have no instance field at all — so cross-device comparison is unsupported rather than merely unchecked.clock_freq_hz, and as a named paragraph in the cross-Rank merge section, where it also records that the merge is the only supported way to place two Ranks on one axis and that a quantity built from two timestamps on the same device needs no correction.device_runner_base.cppjustified its re-record-without-reset dependency by pointing atclock_correlation.cpp, which Update: remove host and device clock anchors #2218 removed. The comment now states that contract directly instead of citing a file a reader cannot find.chosen_host_timeline_origin_nsin the alignment formula collided with the retiredhost_timeline_origin_nsmetadata key; the runtime emitshost_orchestration_origin_nstoday and the converter keeps the old name only as a legacy fallback.Testing
check-headers,check-english-only,check-retired-names,check-kernel-wire-isolation,clang-format,clang-tidy,cpplint,markdownlint-cli2.chip_swimlane_collector.cpp:2097-2132, and the mismatch refusal inswimlane_converter.py:4738.Related: #2397, #2218, #1846