[PATCH] ice/ptp: fix crosstimestamp reporting
From: Markus Blöchl
Date: Fri Jul 25 2025 - 16:34:00 EST
From: Anton Nadezhdin <anton.nadezhdin@xxxxxxxxx>
commit a5a441ae283d upstream.
Set use_nsecs=true as timestamp is reported in ns. Lack of this result
in smaller timestamp error window which cause error during phc2sys
execution on E825 NICs:
phc2sys[1768.256]: ioctl PTP_SYS_OFFSET_PRECISE: Invalid argument
This problem was introduced in the cited commit which omitted setting
use_nsecs to true when converting the ice driver to use
convert_base_to_cs().
Testing hints (ethX is PF netdev):
phc2sys -s ethX -c CLOCK_REALTIME -O 37 -m
phc2sys[1769.256]: CLOCK_REALTIME phc offset -5 s0 freq -0 delay 0
Fixes: d4bea547ebb57 ("ice/ptp: Remove convert_art_to_tsc()")
Signed-off-by: Anton Nadezhdin <anton.nadezhdin@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Arkadiusz Kubalewski <arkadiusz.kubalewski@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Rinitha S <sx.rinitha@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Markus Blöchl <markus@xxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Greg,
please consider this backport for linux-6.12.y
It fixes a regression from the series around
d4bea547ebb57 ("ice/ptp: Remove convert_art_to_tsc()")
which affected multiple drivers and occasionally
caused phc2sys to fail on ioctl(fd, PTP_SYS_OFFSET_PRECISE, ...).
This was the initial fix for ice but apparently tagging it
for stable was forgotten during submission.
The hunk was moved around slightly in the upstream commit
92456e795ac6 ("ice: Add unified ice_capture_crosststamp")
from ice_ptp_get_syncdevicetime() into another helper function
ice_capture_crosststamp() so its indentation and context have changed.
I adapted it to apply cleanly.
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c
index 7c6f81beaee4602050b4cf366441a2584507d949..369c968a0117d0f7012241fd3e2c0a45a059bfa4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c
@@ -2226,6 +2226,7 @@ ice_ptp_get_syncdevicetime(ktime_t *device,
hh_ts = ((u64)hh_ts_hi << 32) | hh_ts_lo;
system->cycles = hh_ts;
system->cs_id = CSID_X86_ART;
+ system->use_nsecs = true;
/* Read Device source clock time */
hh_ts_lo = rd32(hw, GLTSYN_HHTIME_L(tmr_idx));
hh_ts_hi = rd32(hw, GLTSYN_HHTIME_H(tmr_idx));
---
base-commit: d90ecb2b1308b3e362ec4c21ff7cf0a051b445df
change-id: 20250716-ice_crosstimestamp_reporting-b6236a246c48
Best regards,
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Markus Blöchl <markus@xxxxxxxxx>
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