[PATCH net v2] net: sparx5: start the TOD counters on non-PTP lan969x variants

From: Quentin Freimanis

Date: Mon Oct 05 2026 - 01:29:36 EST


Currently the base non-PTP-capable lan969x variants don't forward any
Ethernet frames:

$ ip link set eth10 up

$ ip addr add 10.0.0.54/24 dev eth10

$ ping 10.0.0.1
PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes

--- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep fdma
20: 0 GIC-0 120 Level sparx5-fdma

$ ip -s link show dev eth10
RX: bytes packets errors dropped missed mcast
20828 102 0 0 0 72
TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns
0 0 0 0 0 0

Testing showed that starting the domain 0 TOD counter gets networking
working again, but start all three for consistency with the PTP variants.

Fixes: 207966787b71 ("net: sparx5: add feature support")
Suggested-by: Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Freimanis <quentin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Drop the TOD start helper and start all three counters (Daniel)
- Fix capitalization in comment explaining why non-PTP parts
need the TOD counters running (Daniel)
- Add test log showing user impact

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260928044955.29647-1-quentin@xxxxxxxxx/

.../ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_ptp.c | 28 +++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_ptp.c
index 5953e04ef14e..2826e48af103 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_ptp.c
@@ -622,18 +622,9 @@ int sparx5_ptp_init(struct sparx5 *sparx5)
sparx5->ptp = 1;
}

- if (!sparx5->ptp)
- return 0;
-
- for (i = 0; i < SPARX5_PHC_COUNT; ++i) {
- err = sparx5_ptp_phc_init(sparx5, i, &sparx5_ptp_clock_info);
- if (err)
- return err;
- }
-
- spin_lock_init(&sparx5->ptp_clock_lock);
- spin_lock_init(&sparx5->ptp_ts_id_lock);
- mutex_init(&sparx5->ptp_lock);
+ /* The base, non-PTP-capable lan969x variants need the
+ * first TOD counter running to forward frames.
+ */

/* Disable master counters */
spx5_wr(PTP_PTP_DOM_CFG_PTP_ENA_SET(0), sparx5, PTP_PTP_DOM_CFG);
@@ -657,6 +648,19 @@ int sparx5_ptp_init(struct sparx5 *sparx5)
/* Enable master counters */
spx5_wr(PTP_PTP_DOM_CFG_PTP_ENA_SET(0x7), sparx5, PTP_PTP_DOM_CFG);

+ if (!sparx5->ptp)
+ return 0;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < SPARX5_PHC_COUNT; ++i) {
+ err = sparx5_ptp_phc_init(sparx5, i, &sparx5_ptp_clock_info);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ }
+
+ spin_lock_init(&sparx5->ptp_clock_lock);
+ spin_lock_init(&sparx5->ptp_ts_id_lock);
+ mutex_init(&sparx5->ptp_lock);
+
for (i = 0; i < sparx5->data->consts->n_ports; i++) {
port = sparx5->ports[i];
if (!port)
--
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