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ptp: vmclock: Use hw_cycles from snapshot for precise TSC pairing
authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Thu, 4 Jun 2026 09:35:18 +0000 (10:35 +0100)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Fri, 5 Jun 2026 12:25:03 +0000 (14:25 +0200)
commitbc484a5096732cd858771cccd3164ec985bdc03d
treecdb7872103b2dd686abc8548ca6fc63913f19fee
parent19fa3e50644d2d47fca713b0df640f67dcd26634
ptp: vmclock: Use hw_cycles from snapshot for precise TSC pairing

When the system clocksource is kvmclock or Hyper-V (not the TSC directly),
vmclock_get_crosststamp() falls through to a separate get_cycles() call,
losing the atomic pairing between the system time snapshot and the TSC
reading.

Now that ktime_get_snapshot_id() populates hw_cycles with the underlying
TSC value for derived clocksources, use it when available.  This gives a
perfect (system_time, tsc) pairing for the device time calculation.

The SUPPORT_KVMCLOCK wrapper is still needed to convert the TSC into
kvmclock nanoseconds for system_counter->cycles, because otherwise
get_device_system_crosststamp() can't interpret the result against the
system clock.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.6-1m
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604095755.64849-4-dwmw2@infradead.org
drivers/ptp/ptp_vmclock.c