Thread (18 messages) 18 messages, 5 authors, 2021-08-29

Re: [net-next, v4, 05/11] ethtool: add a new command for getting PHC virtual clocks

From: Michal Kubecek <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-29 17:04:21
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 05:35:07PM +0800, Yangbo Lu wrote:
Add an interface for getting PHC (PTP Hardware Clock)
virtual clocks, which are based on PHC physical clock
providing hardware timestamp to network packets.

Signed-off-by: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@nxp.com>
Hello,

do you plan to submit also an ethtool (userspace utility) patch using
this interface?

Michal
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
Changes for v3:
	- Added this patch.
Changes for v4:
	- Updated doc.
	- Removed ioctl command.
	- Replied only the number of vclock index.
---
 Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst | 22 +++++
 include/linux/ethtool.h                      | 10 +++
 include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink.h         | 15 ++++
 net/ethtool/Makefile                         |  2 +-
 net/ethtool/common.c                         | 13 +++
 net/ethtool/netlink.c                        | 10 +++
 net/ethtool/netlink.h                        |  2 +
 net/ethtool/phc_vclocks.c                    | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++
 8 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 net/ethtool/phc_vclocks.c
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
index 6ea91e41593f..c86628e6a235 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ethtool-netlink.rst
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ Userspace to kernel:
   ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEC_SET``               set FEC settings
   ``ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_EEPROM_GET``     read SFP module EEPROM
   ``ETHTOOL_MSG_STATS_GET``             get standard statistics
+  ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PHC_VCLOCKS_GET``       get PHC virtual clocks info
   ===================================== ================================
 
 Kernel to userspace:
@@ -250,6 +251,7 @@ Kernel to userspace:
   ``ETHTOOL_MSG_FEC_NTF``                  FEC settings
   ``ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_EEPROM_GET_REPLY``  read SFP module EEPROM
   ``ETHTOOL_MSG_STATS_GET_REPLY``          standard statistics
+  ``ETHTOOL_MSG_PHC_VCLOCKS_GET_REPLY``    PHC virtual clocks info
   ======================================== =================================
 
 ``GET`` requests are sent by userspace applications to retrieve device
@@ -1477,6 +1479,25 @@ Low and high bounds are inclusive, for example:
  etherStatsPkts512to1023Octets 512  1023
  ============================= ==== ====
 
+PHC_VCLOCKS_GET
+===============
+
+Query device PHC virtual clocks information.
+
+Request contents:
+
+  ====================================  ======  ==========================
+  ``ETHTOOL_A_PHC_VCLOCKS_HEADER``      nested  request header
+  ====================================  ======  ==========================
+
+Kernel response contents:
+
+  ====================================  ======  ==========================
+  ``ETHTOOL_A_PHC_VCLOCKS_HEADER``      nested  reply header
+  ``ETHTOOL_A_PHC_VCLOCKS_NUM``         u32     PHC virtual clocks number
+  ``ETHTOOL_A_PHC_VCLOCKS_INDEX``       s32     PHC index array
+  ====================================  ======  ==========================
[...]

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