linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 7/9] net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: add hardware time stamping support

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sun, 1 Nov 2020 13:10:08 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Christian Eggers <ceggers@...i.de>
Cc:     Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Helmut Grohne <helmut.grohne@...enta.de>,
        Paul Barker <pbarker@...sulko.com>,
        Codrin Ciubotariu <codrin.ciubotariu@...rochip.com>,
        George McCollister <george.mccollister@...il.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>,
        Tristram Ha <Tristram.Ha@...rochip.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@...rochip.com>,
        Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 7/9] net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: add
 hardware time stamping support

On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 10:35:01AM +0100, Christian Eggers wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> On Friday, 30 October 2020, 19:24:47 CET, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 12:17:48PM +0200, Christian Eggers wrote:
> > > I tried to study the effect of setting the ocmode bit on the KSZ either to
> > > master or to slave. The main visible change is, that some PTP message
> > > types
> > > are be filtered out on RX:
> > > - in "master" mode, "Sync" messages from other nodes will not be received
> > > (but everything else like "Announce" seem to work)
> > > - in "slave" mode, "Delay_Req" messages from other nodes will not be
> > > received
> > Could you dump the contents of your REG_PTP_MSG_CONF2 register?
> runtime register value is 0x1004 (matches default value from the data sheet).
> The Linux driver doesn't touch this register. Below is a dump of all PTP
> related (global) registers.

So the bit 5 ("Enable Dropping of Sync/Follow_Up and Delay_Req PTP
Messages") is not set. When the PTP messages are dropped, do you know
which error counter in ethtool -S is increasing?