From 51eb7492af276b5b4d27cfa4474d40bdac7b9cf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerhard Engleder Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 22:01:38 +0200 Subject: ptp: Request cycles for TX timestamp The free running cycle counter of physical clocks called cycles shall be used for hardware timestamps to enable synchronisation. Introduce new flag SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP_USE_CYCLES, which signals driver to provide a TX timestamp based on cycles if cycles are supported. Signed-off-by: Gerhard Engleder Acked-by: Richard Cochran Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni --- net/socket.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/socket.c') diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index f0c39c874665..5c1c5e6100e1 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -683,9 +683,18 @@ void __sock_tx_timestamp(__u16 tsflags, __u8 *tx_flags) { u8 flags = *tx_flags; - if (tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_HARDWARE) + if (tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_HARDWARE) { flags |= SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP; + /* PTP hardware clocks can provide a free running cycle counter + * as a time base for virtual clocks. Tell driver to use the + * free running cycle counter for timestamp if socket is bound + * to virtual clock. + */ + if (tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_BIND_PHC) + flags |= SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP_USE_CYCLES; + } + if (tsflags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE) flags |= SKBTX_SW_TSTAMP; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2