[PATCH net 1/4] ice: fall back to SBQ when LL PHY timer interface times out
From: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Date: 2026-08-12 00:09:27
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: Przemyslaw Korba <redacted>
The low-latency (LL) PHY timer interface relies on a tight, atomic poll
of the PF_SB_ATQBAL register with a 2ms timeout. After an NVM update /
EMPR, FW may need significantly longer than 2ms to start responding to
ATQBAL commands. The first PHY adjust or incval write issued by
ice_ptp_rebuild_owner() fails with -ETIMEDOUT.
Fix this by falling back to the existing SBQ-based PHY register write
path when LL times out. This makes sure PTP is initialized when FW takes
longer than expected to come back online.
Steps to reproduce:
./nvmupdate64e -if devlink -f
Update E810 card with nvmupdate64e, and observe dmesg errors:
Failed to write PHC increment value, status -110
PTP reset failed, error: -110 (-ETIMEDOUT)
Fixes: ef9a64c07294 ("ice: implement low latency PHY timer updates")
Signed-off-by: Przemyslaw Korba <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Rinitha S <redacted> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp_hw.c | 38 +++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp_hw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp_hw.c
index 8e5f97835954..3a41c711e751 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp_hw.c@@ -4808,15 +4808,12 @@ static int ice_ptp_prep_phy_adj_ll_e810(struct ice_hw *hw, s32 adj) !FIELD_GET(REG_LL_PROXY_H_EXEC, val), 10, REG_LL_PROXY_H_TIMEOUT_US, false, hw, REG_LL_PROXY_H); - if (err) { - ice_debug(hw, ICE_DBG_PTP, "Failed to prepare PHY timer adjustment using low latency interface\n"); - spin_unlock_irq(¶ms->atqbal_wq.lock); - return err; - } - spin_unlock_irq(¶ms->atqbal_wq.lock); - return 0; + if (err) + ice_debug(hw, ICE_DBG_PTP, "Failed to prepare PHY timer adjustment using low latency interface\n"); + + return err; } /**
@@ -4837,8 +4834,12 @@ static int ice_ptp_prep_phy_adj_e810(struct ice_hw *hw, s32 adj) u8 tmr_idx; int err; - if (hw->dev_caps.ts_dev_info.ll_phy_tmr_update) - return ice_ptp_prep_phy_adj_ll_e810(hw, adj); + if (hw->dev_caps.ts_dev_info.ll_phy_tmr_update) { + err = ice_ptp_prep_phy_adj_ll_e810(hw, adj); + if (err != -ETIMEDOUT) + return err; + ice_debug(hw, ICE_DBG_PTP, "LL adj timed out, falling back to SBQ\n"); + } tmr_idx = hw->func_caps.ts_func_info.tmr_index_owned;
@@ -4901,15 +4902,12 @@ static int ice_ptp_prep_phy_incval_ll_e810(struct ice_hw *hw, u64 incval) !FIELD_GET(REG_LL_PROXY_H_EXEC, val), 10, REG_LL_PROXY_H_TIMEOUT_US, false, hw, REG_LL_PROXY_H); - if (err) { - ice_debug(hw, ICE_DBG_PTP, "Failed to prepare PHY timer increment using low latency interface\n"); - spin_unlock_irq(¶ms->atqbal_wq.lock); - return err; - } - spin_unlock_irq(¶ms->atqbal_wq.lock); - return 0; + if (err) + ice_debug(hw, ICE_DBG_PTP, "Failed to prepare PHY timer increment using low latency interface\n"); + + return err; } /**
@@ -4927,8 +4925,12 @@ static int ice_ptp_prep_phy_incval_e810(struct ice_hw *hw, u64 incval) u8 tmr_idx; int err; - if (hw->dev_caps.ts_dev_info.ll_phy_tmr_update) - return ice_ptp_prep_phy_incval_ll_e810(hw, incval); + if (hw->dev_caps.ts_dev_info.ll_phy_tmr_update) { + err = ice_ptp_prep_phy_incval_ll_e810(hw, incval); + if (err != -ETIMEDOUT) + return err; + ice_debug(hw, ICE_DBG_PTP, "LL incval timed out, falling back to SBQ\n"); + } tmr_idx = hw->func_caps.ts_func_info.tmr_index_owned; low = lower_32_bits(incval);
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