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    net: dsa: sja1105: Implement the .gettimex64 system call for PTP · 34d76e9f
    Vladimir Oltean authored
    Through the PTP_SYS_OFFSET_EXTENDED ioctl, it is possible for userspace
    applications (i.e. phc2sys) to compensate for the delays incurred while
    reading the PHC's time.
    
    The task itself of taking the software timestamp is delegated to the SPI
    subsystem, through the newly introduced API in struct spi_transfer. The
    goal is to cross-timestamp I/O operations on the switch's PTP clock with
    values in the local system clock (CLOCK_REALTIME). For that we need to
    understand a bit of the hardware internals.
    
    The 'read PTP time' message is a 12 byte structure, first 4 bytes of
    which represent the SPI header, and the last 8 bytes represent the
    64-bit PTP time. The switch itself starts processing the command
    immediately after receiving the last bit of the address, i.e. at the
    middle of byte 3 (last byte of header). The PTP time is shadowed to a
    buffer register in the switch, and retrieved atomically during the
    subsequent SPI frames.
    
    A similar thing goes on for the 'write PTP time' message, although in
    that case the switch waits until the 64-bit PTP time becomes fully
    available before taking any action. So the byte that needs to be
    software-timestamped is byte 11 (last) of the transfer.
    
    The patch creates a common (and local) sja1105_xfer implementation for
    the SPI I/O, and offers 3 front-ends:
    
    - sja1105_xfer_u32 and sja1105_xfer_u64: these are capable of optionally
      requesting a PTP timestamp
    
    - sja1105_xfer_buf: this is for large transfers (e.g. the static config
      buffer) and other misc data, and there is no point in giving
      timestamping capabilities to this.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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