[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v1] e1000e: allow non-monotonic SYSTIM readings

[Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>]

It seems with some NICs supported by the e1000e driver a SYSTIM reading
may occasionally be few microseconds before the previous reading and if
enabled also pass e1000e_sanitize_systim() without reaching the maximum
number of rereads, even if the function is modified to check three
consecutive readings (i.e. it doesn't look like a double read error).
This causes an underflow in the timecounter and the PHC time jumps hours
ahead.

This was observed on 82574, I217 and I219. The fastest way to reproduce
it is to run a program that continuously calls the PTP_SYS_OFFSET ioctl
on the PHC.

Modify e1000e_phc_gettime() to use timecounter_cyc2time() instead of
timecounter_read() in order to allow non-monotonic SYSTIM readings and
prevent the PHC from jumping.

Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
---

Notes:
    RFC->v1:
    - Removed unnecessary call of PTP gettime64() in
      e1000e_systim_overflow_work()

 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ptp.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ptp.c
index 37c76945ad9b..e1f821edbc21 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ptp.c
@@ -173,10 +173,14 @@ static int e1000e_phc_gettime(struct ptp_clock_info *ptp, struct timespec64 *ts)
 	struct e1000_adapter *adapter = container_of(ptp, struct e1000_adapter,
 						     ptp_clock_info);
 	unsigned long flags;
-	u64 ns;
+	u64 cycles, ns;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->systim_lock, flags);
-	ns = timecounter_read(&adapter->tc);
+
+	/* Use timecounter_cyc2time() to allow non-monotonic SYSTIM readings */
+	cycles = adapter->cc.read(&adapter->cc);
+	ns = timecounter_cyc2time(&adapter->tc, cycles);
+
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->systim_lock, flags);
 
 	*ts = ns_to_timespec64(ns);
@@ -232,9 +236,12 @@ static void e1000e_systim_overflow_work(struct work_struct *work)
 						     systim_overflow_work.work);
 	struct e1000_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
 	struct timespec64 ts;
+	u64 ns;
 
-	adapter->ptp_clock_info.gettime64(&adapter->ptp_clock_info, &ts);
+	/* Update the timecounter */
+	ns = timecounter_read(&adapter->tc);
 
+	ts = ns_to_timespec64(ns);
 	e_dbg("SYSTIM overflow check at %lld.%09lu\n",
 	      (long long) ts.tv_sec, ts.tv_nsec);
 
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