When accessing the timecounter register on an i.MX8MQ the kernel hangs. This is only the case when the interface is down. This can be reproduced by reading with 'phc_ctrl eth0 get'.
Like described in the change in 91c0d987a9788dcc5fe26baafd73bf9242b68900 the igp clock is disabled when the interface is down and leads to a system hang. So we check if the ptp clock status before reading the timecounter register. Signed-off-by: Heiko Thiery <heiko.thi...@gmail.com> --- v2: - add mutex (thanks to Richard) drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_ptp.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_ptp.c index 2e344aada4c6..22f5e800c2d7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_ptp.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_ptp.c @@ -377,9 +377,15 @@ static int fec_ptp_gettime(struct ptp_clock_info *ptp, struct timespec64 *ts) u64 ns; unsigned long flags; + mutex_lock(&fep->ptp_clk_mutex); + /* Check the ptp clock */ + if (!adapter->ptp_clk_on) + mutex_unlock(&fep->ptp_clk_mutex); + return -EINVAL; spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->tmreg_lock, flags); ns = timecounter_read(&adapter->tc); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->tmreg_lock, flags); + mutex_unlock(&fep->ptp_clk_mutex); *ts = ns_to_timespec64(ns); -- 2.30.0