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[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 166/237] igb: shorten maximum PHC timecounter update interval

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-11-16 15:45:59
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Miroslav Lichvar <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 094bf4d0e9657f6ea1ee3d7e07ce3970796949ce ]

The timecounter needs to be updated at least once per ~550 seconds in
order to avoid a 40-bit SYSTIM timestamp to be misinterpreted as an old
timestamp.

Since commit 500462a9d ("timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel"),
scheduling of delayed work seems to be less accurate and a requested
delay of 540 seconds may actually be longer than 550 seconds. Shorten
the delay to 480 seconds to be sure the timecounter is updated in time.

This fixes an issue with HW timestamps on 82580/I350/I354 being off by
~1100 seconds for few seconds every ~9 minutes.

Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <redacted>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c
index 9f4d700e09df3..29ced6b74d364 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c
@@ -51,9 +51,15 @@
  *
  * The 40 bit 82580 SYSTIM overflows every
  *   2^40 * 10^-9 /  60  = 18.3 minutes.
+ *
+ * SYSTIM is converted to real time using a timecounter. As
+ * timecounter_cyc2time() allows old timestamps, the timecounter
+ * needs to be updated at least once per half of the SYSTIM interval.
+ * Scheduling of delayed work is not very accurate, so we aim for 8
+ * minutes to be sure the actual interval is shorter than 9.16 minutes.
  */
 
-#define IGB_SYSTIM_OVERFLOW_PERIOD	(HZ * 60 * 9)
+#define IGB_SYSTIM_OVERFLOW_PERIOD	(HZ * 60 * 8)
 #define IGB_PTP_TX_TIMEOUT		(HZ * 15)
 #define INCPERIOD_82576			BIT(E1000_TIMINCA_16NS_SHIFT)
 #define INCVALUE_82576_MASK		GENMASK(E1000_TIMINCA_16NS_SHIFT - 1, 0)
-- 
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