From: Dima Ruinskiy <dima.ruinskiy@intel.com>
To: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org
Cc: dima.ruinskiy@intel.com, anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-net v3] e1000e: correct TIMINCA on ADP/TGP systems with wrong XTAL frequency
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:34:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260318093412.2628443-1-dima.ruinskiy@intel.com> (raw)
From: Vitaly Lifshits <vitaly.lifshits@intel.com>
On some Tiger Lake (TGP) and Alder Lake (ADP) platforms, the hardware
XTAL clock is incorrectly interpreted as 24 MHz instead of the actual
38.4 MHz. This causes the PHC to run significantly faster than system
time, breaking PTP synchronization.
To mitigate this at runtime, measure PHC vs system time over ~1 ms using
cross-timestamps. If the PHC increment differs from system time beyond
the expected tolerance (currently >100 uSecs), reprogram TIMINCA for the
38.4 MHz profile and reinitialize the timecounter.
Tested on an affected system using phc_ctl:
Without fix:
sudo phc_ctl enp0s31f6 set 0.0 wait 10 get
clock time: 16.000541250 (expected ~10s)
With fix:
sudo phc_ctl enp0s31f6 set 0.0 wait 10 get
clock time: 9.984407212 (expected ~10s)
Fixes: fb776f5d57ee ("e1000e: Add support for Tiger Lake")
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Lifshits <vitaly.lifshits@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Dima Ruinskiy <dima.ruinskiy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dima Ruinskiy <dima.ruinskiy@intel.com>
---
v3: fix cc.shift and wrap TIMINCA write in systim_lock
v2: avoid resetting the systim and rephrase commit message
v1: initial version
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 78 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
index 9befdacd6730..26fdef6075c8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -3902,6 +3902,81 @@ static void e1000_flush_desc_rings(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
e1000_flush_rx_ring(adapter);
}
+/**
+ * e1000e_xtal_tgp_workaround - Adjust XTAL clock based on PHC and system
+ * clock delta.
+ * @adapter: Pointer to the private adapter structure
+ *
+ * Measures the time difference between the PHC (Precision Hardware Clock)
+ * and the system clock over a 1 millisecond interval. If the delta
+ * exceeds 100 microseconds, reconfigure the XTAL clock to 38.4 MHz.
+ */
+static void e1000e_xtal_tgp_workaround(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
+{
+ s64 phc_delta, sys_delta, sys_start_ns, sys_end_ns, delta_ns;
+ struct ptp_system_timestamp sys_start = {}, sys_end = {};
+ struct ptp_clock_info *info = &adapter->ptp_clock_info;
+ struct timespec64 phc_start, phc_end;
+ struct e1000_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
+ struct netlink_ext_ack extack = {};
+ unsigned long flags;
+ u32 timinca;
+ s32 ret_val;
+
+ /* Capture start */
+ if (info->gettimex64(info, &phc_start, &sys_start)) {
+ e_dbg("PHC gettimex(start) failed\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* Small interval to measure increment */
+ usleep_range(1000, 1100);
+
+ /* Capture end */
+ if (info->gettimex64(info, &phc_end, &sys_end)) {
+ e_dbg("PHC gettimex(end) failed\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* Compute deltas */
+ phc_delta = timespec64_to_ns(&phc_end) -
+ timespec64_to_ns(&phc_start);
+
+ sys_start_ns = (timespec64_to_ns(&sys_start.pre_ts) +
+ timespec64_to_ns(&sys_start.post_ts)) >> 1;
+
+ sys_end_ns = (timespec64_to_ns(&sys_end.pre_ts) +
+ timespec64_to_ns(&sys_end.post_ts)) >> 1;
+
+ sys_delta = sys_end_ns - sys_start_ns;
+
+ delta_ns = phc_delta - sys_delta;
+ if (delta_ns > 100000) {
+ e_dbg("Corrected PHC frequency: TIMINCA set for 38.4 MHz\n");
+ /* Program TIMINCA for 38.4 MHz */
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->systim_lock, flags);
+ adapter->cc.shift = INCVALUE_SHIFT_38400KHZ;
+ timinca = (INCPERIOD_38400KHZ <<
+ E1000_TIMINCA_INCPERIOD_SHIFT) |
+ (((INCVALUE_38400KHZ <<
+ adapter->cc.shift) &
+ E1000_TIMINCA_INCVALUE_MASK));
+ ew32(TIMINCA, timinca);
+
+ /* reset the systim ns time counter */
+ timecounter_init(&adapter->tc, &adapter->cc,
+ ktime_to_ns(ktime_get_real()));
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->systim_lock, flags);
+
+ /* restore the previous hwtstamp configuration settings */
+ ret_val = e1000e_config_hwtstamp(adapter,
+ &adapter->hwtstamp_config,
+ &extack);
+ if (ret_val && extack._msg)
+ e_err("%s\n", extack._msg);
+ }
+}
+
/**
* e1000e_systim_reset - reset the timesync registers after a hardware reset
* @adapter: board private structure
@@ -3953,6 +4028,9 @@ static void e1000e_systim_reset(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
if (extack._msg)
e_err("%s\n", extack._msg);
}
+
+ if (hw->mac.type == e1000_pch_adp || hw->mac.type == e1000_pch_tgp)
+ e1000e_xtal_tgp_workaround(adapter);
}
/**
--
2.34.1
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2026-03-18 9:34 Dima Ruinskiy [this message]
2026-03-18 9:50 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-net v3] e1000e: correct TIMINCA on ADP/TGP systems with wrong XTAL frequency Loktionov, Aleksandr
2026-04-09 10:57 ` Dahan, AvigailX
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