Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Enable RX HW timestamp only for PTP packets

From: Roger Quadros
Date: Mon Feb 26 2024 - 07:18:34 EST




On 24/02/2024 10:59, Siddharth Vadapalli wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 12:59:55PM +0200, Roger Quadros wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 15/02/2024 13:09, Chintan Vankar wrote:
>>> The CPSW peripherals on J7AHP, J7VCL, J7AEP, J7ES, AM64 SoCs have
>>> an errata i2401 "CPSW: Host Timestamps Cause CPSW Port to Lock up".
>>
> ...
>
>>>
>>> @@ -856,6 +852,9 @@ static int am65_cpsw_nuss_rx_packets(struct am65_cpsw_common *common,
>>> ndev_priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
>>> am65_cpsw_nuss_set_offload_fwd_mark(skb, ndev_priv->offload_fwd_mark);
>>> skb_put(skb, pkt_len);
>>> + skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
>>
>> Why do you need to add skb_reset_mac_header here?
>>
>>> + if (port->rx_ts_enabled)
>>> + am65_cpts_rx_timestamp(common->cpts, skb);
>>
>> The timestamp should be added before you do skb_put().
>
> Roger,
>
> Could you please clarify why the timestamp should be added before
> skb_put()?

My bad. hwtimestamps lies after skb->end so it doesn't matter.

--
cheers,
-roger