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-rw-r--r--include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h b/include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h
index d7893ccbbf8c..d759e04e00ee 100644
--- a/include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/drm/xe_drm.h
@@ -467,9 +467,15 @@ struct drm_xe_query_topology_mask {
* struct drm_xe_device_query - Input of &DRM_IOCTL_XE_DEVICE_QUERY - main
* structure to query device information
*
- * If size is set to 0, the driver fills it with the required size for the
- * requested type of data to query. If size is equal to the required size,
- * the queried information is copied into data.
+ * The user selects the type of data to query among DRM_XE_DEVICE_QUERY_*
+ * and sets the value in the query member. This determines the type of
+ * the structure provided by the driver in data, among struct drm_xe_query_*.
+ *
+ * If size is set to 0, the driver fills it with the required size for
+ * the requested type of data to query. If size is equal to the required
+ * size, the queried information is copied into data. If size is set to
+ * a value different from 0 and different from the required size, the
+ * IOCTL call returns -EINVAL.
*
* For example the following code snippet allows retrieving and printing
* information about the device engines with DRM_XE_DEVICE_QUERY_ENGINES: