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Message-ID: <72bfc00f-7c60-f027-61cb-03084021c218@linux.dev>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:55:21 +0800
From: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@...ux.dev>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com,
davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
pabeni@...hat.com, richardcochran@...il.com
Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i40e: fix the wrong PTP frequency calculation
On 2023/6/28 04:20, Jacob Keller wrote:
>
> On 6/26/2023 7:26 PM, Yajun Deng wrote:
>> The new adjustment should be based on the base frequency, not the
>> I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL in i40e_ptp_adjfine().
>>
>> This issue was introduced in commit 3626a690b717 ("i40e: use
>> mul_u64_u64_div_u64 for PTP frequency calculation"), and was fixed in
>> commit 1060707e3809 ("ptp: introduce helpers to adjust by scaled
>> parts per million"). However the latter is a new feature and hasn't been
>> backported to the stable releases.
>>
>> This issue affects both v6.0 and v6.1 versions, and the v6.1 version is
>> an LTS version.
>>
>> Fixes: 3626a690b717 ("i40e: use mul_u64_u64_div_u64 for PTP frequency calculation")
>> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 6.1
>> Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@...ux.dev>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c
>> index ffea0c9c82f1..97a9efe7b713 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ptp.c
>> @@ -361,9 +361,9 @@ static int i40e_ptp_adjfine(struct ptp_clock_info *ptp, long scaled_ppm)
>> 1000000ULL << 16);
>>
>> if (neg_adj)
>> - adj = I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL - diff;
>> + adj = freq - diff;
>> else
>> - adj = I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL + diff;
>> + adj = freq + diff;
>>
>> wr32(hw, I40E_PRTTSYN_INC_L, adj & 0xFFFFFFFF);
>> wr32(hw, I40E_PRTTSYN_INC_H, adj >> 32);
> This straight forward fix makes sense. However, it wasn't obvious to me
> without context why the 3626a690b717 ("i40e: use mul_u64_u64_div_u64 for
> PTP frequency calculation") was where the fault got introduced. Thus,
> here is that context for anyone else who failed to spot it just looking
> at shrunk patch diffs.
>
> --> code before that commit <---
>> /**
>> * i40e_ptp_adjfreq - Adjust the PHC frequency
>> * @ptp: The PTP clock structure
>> * @ppb: Parts per billion adjustment from the base
>> *
>> * Adjust the frequency of the PHC by the indicated parts per billion from the
>> * base frequency.
>> **/
>> static int i40e_ptp_adjfreq(struct ptp_clock_info *ptp, s32 ppb)
>> {
>> struct i40e_pf *pf = container_of(ptp, struct i40e_pf, ptp_caps);
>> struct i40e_hw *hw = &pf->hw;
>> u64 adj, freq, diff;
>> int neg_adj = 0;
>>
>> if (ppb < 0) {
>> neg_adj = 1;
>> ppb = -ppb;
>> }
>>
>> freq = I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL;
> frequency is left just as base I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL.
>
>> freq *= ppb;
>> diff = div_u64(freq, 1000000000ULL);
>>
>> if (neg_adj)
>> adj = I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL - diff;
>> else
>> adj = I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL + diff;
>>
> So the base here can't be freq since we modify freq above using *=, but
> using I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL is consistent.
>
>> /* At some link speeds, the base incval is so large that directly
>> * multiplying by ppb would result in arithmetic overflow even when
>> * using a u64. Avoid this by instead calculating the new incval
>> * always in terms of the 40GbE clock rate and then multiplying by the
>> * link speed factor afterwards. This does result in slightly lower
>> * precision at lower link speeds, but it is fairly minor.
>> */
>> smp_mb(); /* Force any pending update before accessing. */
>> adj *= READ_ONCE(pf->ptp_adj_mult);
>>
> Finally, the multiply is applied last. This affects the combined base +
> difference, and is done in order to avoid overflowing the *= used in the
> original implementation.
>
>> wr32(hw, I40E_PRTTSYN_INC_L, adj & 0xFFFFFFFF);
>> wr32(hw, I40E_PRTTSYN_INC_H, adj >> 32);
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>
> ---> code after that commit <---
>> /**
>> * i40e_ptp_adjfreq - Adjust the PHC frequency
>> * @ptp: The PTP clock structure
>> * @ppb: Parts per billion adjustment from the base
>> *
>> * Adjust the frequency of the PHC by the indicated parts per billion from the
>> * base frequency.
>> **/
>> static int i40e_ptp_adjfreq(struct ptp_clock_info *ptp, s32 ppb)
>> {
>> struct i40e_pf *pf = container_of(ptp, struct i40e_pf, ptp_caps);
>> struct i40e_hw *hw = &pf->hw;
>> u64 adj, freq, diff;
>> int neg_adj = 0;
>>
>> if (ppb < 0) {
>> neg_adj = 1;
>> ppb = -ppb;
>> }
>>
>> smp_mb(); /* Force any pending update before accessing. */
>> freq = I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL * READ_ONCE(pf->ptp_adj_mult);
>> diff = mul_u64_u64_div_u64(freq, (u64)ppb,
>> 1000000000ULL);
>>
> Here, we assign freq to be the I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL times the
> ptp_adj_mult value, and then we don't modify it, instead using
> mul_u64_u64_div_u64.
>
>> if (neg_adj)
>> adj = I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL - diff;
>> else
>> adj = I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL + diff;
>>
> But then the diff is applied on the wrong value, and no multiplication
> is done afterwards.
>
>> wr32(hw, I40E_PRTTSYN_INC_L, adj & 0xFFFFFFFF);
>> wr32(hw, I40E_PRTTSYN_INC_H, adj >> 32);
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
> ---> current version with adjust_by_scaled_ppm <---
>> /**
>> * i40e_ptp_adjfine - Adjust the PHC frequency
>> * @ptp: The PTP clock structure
>> * @scaled_ppm: Scaled parts per million adjustment from base
>> *
>> * Adjust the frequency of the PHC by the indicated delta from the base
>> * frequency.
>> *
>> * Scaled parts per million is ppm with a 16 bit binary fractional field.
>> **/
>> static int i40e_ptp_adjfine(struct ptp_clock_info *ptp, long scaled_ppm)
>> {
>> struct i40e_pf *pf = container_of(ptp, struct i40e_pf, ptp_caps);
>> struct i40e_hw *hw = &pf->hw;
>> u64 adj, base_adj;
>>
>> smp_mb(); /* Force any pending update before accessing. */
>> base_adj = I40E_PTP_40GB_INCVAL * READ_ONCE(pf->ptp_adj_mult);
>>
>> adj = adjust_by_scaled_ppm(base_adj, scaled_ppm);
>>
> Using adjust_by_scaled_ppm correctly performs the calculation and uses
> the base adjustment, so there's no error here.
>
>> wr32(hw, I40E_PRTTSYN_INC_L, adj & 0xFFFFFFFF);
>> wr32(hw, I40E_PRTTSYN_INC_H, adj >> 32);
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>
> Thanks for finding and fixing this mistake. I think its the simplest fix
> to get into the stable kernel that are broken, since taking the
> adjust_by_scaled_ppm version would require additional patches.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
>
Kindly ping...
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