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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2026-09-14 22:12:34 -1000 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2026-09-15 06:57:20 -1000 |
| commit | a9e3760b0838299649c0d57cca44daaf40ba3c33 (patch) | |
| tree | 95807ff0e511c05602ef34808cfc660303309057 /Documentation/driver-api/ptp.rst | |
| download | linux-stable-a9e3760b0838299649c0d57cca44daaf40ba3c33.tar.gz linux-stable-a9e3760b0838299649c0d57cca44daaf40ba3c33.zip | |
sched_ext: Maintain an online cid mask in the scheduler arenagrafted
Schedulers on the default cid mapping treat [0, nr_online_cids) as the
online set and restart on hotplug. Schedulers that install their own mapping
with scx_bpf_cid_override() have no way to learn which cids are online: the
count no longer identifies members and the CPU-form cpumask is unusable from
cid programs. This is an obvious hole in the cid API.
Add scx_bpf_online_cmask(), a kernel-maintained cmask in the scheduler's
arena, allocated alongside the per-CPU scratch masks and populated after the
cid mapping is finalized and before ops.init(), for child schedulers too.
The pointer stays valid through ops.exit() with no reference to take. It is
the arena offset as a void pointer, the same form struct_ops arena arguments
arrive in. The verifier types the void return as a scalar for the program's
arena cast.
The mask follows the SCX hotplug notifications: seeded from cpu_active_mask
and updated before ops.cid_online/offline() runs, so it lags cpu_online_mask
only inside a hotplug transition. Updates walk the scheduler list under the
lock that also serializes unlinking. Reads are live, not atomic snapshots.
Root initialization excludes hotplug.
v2: Reworded the getter kerneldoc (Andrea Righi).
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/ptp.rst')
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/ptp.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/ptp.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5e033c3b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/ptp.rst @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=========================================== +PTP hardware clock infrastructure for Linux +=========================================== + + This patch set introduces support for IEEE 1588 PTP clocks in + Linux. Together with the SO_TIMESTAMPING socket options, this + presents a standardized method for developing PTP user space + programs, synchronizing Linux with external clocks, and using the + ancillary features of PTP hardware clocks. + + A new class driver exports a kernel interface for specific clock + drivers and a user space interface. The infrastructure supports a + complete set of PTP hardware clock functionality. + + + Basic clock operations + - Set time + - Get time + - Shift the clock by a given offset atomically + - Adjust clock frequency + + + Ancillary clock features + - Time stamp external events + - Period output signals configurable from user space + - Low Pass Filter (LPF) access from user space + - Synchronization of the Linux system time via the PPS subsystem + +PTP hardware clock kernel API +============================= + + A PTP clock driver registers itself with the class driver. The + class driver handles all of the dealings with user space. The + author of a clock driver need only implement the details of + programming the clock hardware. The clock driver notifies the class + driver of asynchronous events (alarms and external time stamps) via + a simple message passing interface. + + The class driver supports multiple PTP clock drivers. In normal use + cases, only one PTP clock is needed. However, for testing and + development, it can be useful to have more than one clock in a + single system, in order to allow performance comparisons. + +PTP hardware clock user space API +================================= + + The class driver also creates a character device for each + registered clock. User space can use an open file descriptor from + the character device as a POSIX clock id and may call + clock_gettime, clock_settime, and clock_adjtime. These calls + implement the basic clock operations. + + User space programs may control the clock using standardized + ioctls. A program may query, enable, configure, and disable the + ancillary clock features. User space can receive time stamped + events via blocking read() and poll(). + +Writing clock drivers +===================== + + Clock drivers include include/linux/ptp_clock_kernel.h and register + themselves by presenting a 'struct ptp_clock_info' to the + registration method. Clock drivers must implement all of the + functions in the interface. If a clock does not offer a particular + ancillary feature, then the driver should just return -EOPNOTSUPP + from those functions. + + Drivers must ensure that all of the methods in interface are + reentrant. Since most hardware implementations treat the time value + as a 64 bit integer accessed as two 32 bit registers, drivers + should use spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore to protect + against concurrent access. This locking cannot be accomplished in + class driver, since the lock may also be needed by the clock + driver's interrupt service routine. + +PTP hardware clock requirements for '.adjphase' +----------------------------------------------- + + The 'struct ptp_clock_info' interface has a '.adjphase' function. + This function has a set of requirements from the PHC in order to be + implemented. + + * The PHC implements a servo algorithm internally that is used to + correct the offset passed in the '.adjphase' call. + * When other PTP adjustment functions are called, the PHC servo + algorithm is disabled. + + **NOTE:** '.adjphase' is not a simple time adjustment functionality + that 'jumps' the PHC clock time based on the provided offset. It + should correct the offset provided using an internal algorithm. + +Supported hardware +================== + + * Freescale eTSEC gianfar + + - 2 Time stamp external triggers, programmable polarity (opt. interrupt) + - 2 Alarm registers (optional interrupt) + - 3 Periodic signals (optional interrupt) + + * National DP83640 + + - 6 GPIOs programmable as inputs or outputs + - 6 GPIOs with dedicated functions (LED/JTAG/clock) can also be + used as general inputs or outputs + - GPIO inputs can time stamp external triggers + - GPIO outputs can produce periodic signals + - 1 interrupt pin + + * Intel IXP465 + + - Auxiliary Slave/Master Mode Snapshot (optional interrupt) + - Target Time (optional interrupt) + + * Renesas (IDT) ClockMatrix™ + + - Up to 4 independent PHC channels + - Integrated low pass filter (LPF), access via .adjPhase (compliant to ITU-T G.8273.2) + - Programmable output periodic signals + - Programmable inputs can time stamp external triggers + - Driver and/or hardware configuration through firmware (idtcm.bin) + - LPF settings (bandwidth, phase limiting, automatic holdover, physical layer assist (per ITU-T G.8273.2)) + - Programmable output PTP clocks, any frequency up to 1GHz (to other PHY/MAC time stampers, refclk to ASSPs/SoCs/FPGAs) + - Lock to GNSS input, automatic switching between GNSS and user-space PHC control (optional) + + * NVIDIA Mellanox + + - GPIO + - Certain variants of ConnectX-6 Dx and later products support one + GPIO which can time stamp external triggers and one GPIO to produce + periodic signals. + - Certain variants of ConnectX-5 and older products support one GPIO, + configured to either time stamp external triggers or produce + periodic signals. + - PHC instances + - All ConnectX devices have a free-running counter + - ConnectX-6 Dx and later devices have a UTC format counter |
