The current implementation fetches a transmit time stamp by polling on the
socket with pollfd.events set to zero, and then checking if POLLERR has
been returned by the kernel in pollfd.revents. This has the unfortunate
side effect of sleeping in poll() for the entire time out duration,
regardless of when the error queue becomes readable.
Linux kernel version 3.10 introduced a new socket option that allows
polling for transmit time stamps explicitly, waking the process as soon as
a time stamp becomes available. This patch enables the socket option,
falling back to the old behavior if necessary.
Suggested-by: Joe Schaack <jschaack@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Copy the address directly to struct sockaddr_in or sockaddr_in6 instead
of sockaddr as Coverity doesn't seem to understand the union and reports
a buffer overflow.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
This was broken in commit e804e6, ifa_addr is a pointer to sockaddr,
it shouldn't be referenced for the memcpy call.
Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
This modifies all transports to use a new common address type, struct
address. This address is stored in a ptp_message for all received messages.
For sending, the "default" address is used with the default sending
functions, transport_send and transport_peer. The default address depends on
the transport; it's supposed to be the multicast address assigned by the
transport specification.
Later, a new transport_sendto function will be implemented that sends to the
address contained in the passed ptp_message.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
This patch cleans up the error message for the Tx timestamp polling, and adds a
line which indicates where the bug might have originated. This should help a
user more easily diagnose what went wrong.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Because of packet reordering that can occur in the network, in the
hardware, or in the networking stack, a follow up message can appear
to arrive in the application before the matching sync message. As this
is a normal occurrence, and the sequenceID message field ensures
proper matching, the ptp4l program accepts out of order packets.
This patch adds an additional check using the software time stamps
from the networking stack to verify that the sync message did arrive
first. This check is only useful if the sequence IDs generated by
the master might possibly be incorrect.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
This patch modifies sk_receive in order to use poll() on POLLERR instead of the
tryagain loop as this resolves issues with drivers who do not return timestamps
quickly enough. It also resolves the issue of wasting time repeating every
microsecond. It lets the kernel sleep our application until the data or timeout arrives.
This change also replaces the old tx_timestamp_retries config value with
tx_timestamp_timeout specified in milliseconds (the smallest length of time poll
accepts). This does have the side effect of increasing the minimum delay before
missing a timestamp by up to 1ms, but the poll should return sooner in the
normal case where a packet timestamp was not dropped.
This change vastly improves some devices and cleans the code up by simplifying a
race condition window due to drivers returning tx timestamp on the error queue.
[ RC - removed the unused 'try_again' variable. ]
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
The Linux kernel supports a hardware time stamping mode that allows
sending a one step sync message. This commit adds support for this mode
by expanding the time stamp type enumeration. In order to enable this
mode, the configuration must specify both hardware time stamping and set
the twoStepFlag to false.
We still do not support the one step peer delay request mechanism since
there is neither kernel nor hardware support for it at this time.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
this patch changes sk_interface_phc to sk_get_ts_info, by allowing the function
to store all the data returned by Ethtool's get_ts_info IOCTL in a struct. A new
struct "sk_ts_info" contains the same data as well as a field for specifying the
structure as valid (in order to support old kernels without the IOCTL). The
valid field should be set only when the IOCTL successfully populates the fields.
A follow-on patch will add new functionality possible because of these
changes. This patch only updates the programs which use the call to perform the
minimum they already do, using the new interface.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
It seems with some cards the current default of 2 is too small, increase
the number to prevent users from having to investigate the EAGAIN error
messages.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Now that the code automatically falls back to transport-specific time
stamping, this option is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Start with the most general HWTSTAMP option. If that fails, fall back
to the option that best fits the interface's transport.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
If the kernel supports the ioctl, but the driver does not (like igb in
kernel version 3.5), then ptp4l will incorrectly choose the system clock.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Some of the time stamping hardware out there only recognizes layer 2
packets, and these do not work without changing the receive filter in
the SIOCSHWTSTAMP request.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
If the new ethtool operation is supported, then use it to verify that the PHC
selected by the user is correct. If the user doesn't specify a PHC and ethtool
is supported then automatically select the PHC device.
If the user specifies a PHC device, and the ethtool operation is suppported,
automatically confirm that the PHC device requested is correct. This check is
performed for all ports, in order to verify that a boundary clock setup is
valid.
The check for PHC device validity is not done in the transport because the
only thing necessary for performing the check is the port name. Handled this
in the port_open code instead.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
In some error cases, no message is logged. Now we always complain loudly
when an error occurs.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Richard Cochran
Miroslav Lichvar
Jiri Benc
Stephan Gatzka
Jacob Keller
Jiri Bohac
Geoff Salmon