[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v3] e1000e: don't modify SYSTIM registers during SIOCSHWTSTAMP ioctl

[Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 02:52 -0400, Brian Walsh wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 03:41:27PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> > 
> > The e1000e_config_hwtstamp function was incorrectly resetting the
> > SYSTIM
> > registers every time the ioctl was being run. If you happened to be
> > running ptp4l and lost the PTP connect (removing cable, or blocking
> > the
> > UDP traffic for example), then ptp4l will eventually perform a
> > restart
> > which involves re-requesting timestamp settings. In e1000e this has
> > the
> > unfortunate and incorrect result of resetting SYSTIME to the kernel
> > time. Since kernel time is usually in UTC, and PTP time is in TAI,
> > this
> > results in the leap second being re-applied.
> > 
> > Fix this by extracting the SYSTIME reset out into its own function,
> > e1000e_ptp_reset, which we call during reset to restore the
> > hardware
> > registers. This function will (a) restart the timecounter based on
> > the
> > new system time, (b) restore the previous PPB setting, and (c)
> > restore
> > the previous hwtstamp settings.
> > 
> > In order to perform (b), I had to modify the adjfreq ptp function
> > pointer to store the old delta each time it is called. This also
> > has the
> > side effect of restoring the correct base timinca register
> > correctly.
> > The driver does not need to explicitly zero the ptp_delta variable
> > since
> > the entire adapter structure comes zero-initialized.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Brian Walsh <brian@walsh.ws>
> > Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > 3rd time's a charm? This time I verified it should compile and run
> > now,
> > without crashes, and without compilation errors.
> > 
> > Notes:
> > ????This patch conflicts with Brian's "e1000e fix ptp time reset on
> > newtork
> > ????interruption", and that patch MUST be removed from the queue
> > before applying
> > ????this one.
> > ????
> > ????- Changes since v1
> > ????* move e1000e_init_ptp prior to reset so that PTP clock is
> > created first
> > ????* handle NULL ptp_clock_info gracefully.
> > ????
> > ????- Changes since v2
> > ????* fix stupid compilation error
> > ????* fix stupid null pointer check (who WROTE THIS CODE?!?!??!! ;)
> > 
> > ?drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000.h??|??1 +
> > ?drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 65
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> > ?drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ptp.c????|??2 +
> > ?3 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> > 
> Fixes the leapsecond time jump I was trying to fix.
> 
> Tested-by: Brian Walsh <brian@walsh.ws>


Thanks for testing this Brian, and sorry for the version thrash. I'm
glad it resolves the issue for you.

Regards,
Jake