Patch "net/mlx5e: Change 1PPS out scheme" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net/mlx5e: Change 1PPS out scheme

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
net-mlx5e-change-1pps-out-scheme.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Eugenia Emantayev <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 14:06:01 +0300
Subject: net/mlx5e: Change 1PPS out scheme

From: Eugenia Emantayev <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 4272f9b88db9223216cdf87314f570f6d81295b4 ]

In order to fix the drift in 1PPS out need to adjust the next pulse. On each 1PPS out falling edge driver gets the event, then the event handler adjusts the next pulse starting time.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h       |    9 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_clock.c |  116 ++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

@@ -261,6 +261,13 @@ struct mlx5e_dcbx {
 };
 #endif
 
+#define MAX_PIN_NUM	8
+struct mlx5e_pps {
+	u8                         pin_caps[MAX_PIN_NUM];
+	struct work_struct         out_work;
+	u64                        start[MAX_PIN_NUM];
+};
+
 struct mlx5e_tstamp {
 	rwlock_t                   lock;
 	struct cyclecounter        cycles;

@@ -272,7 +279,7 @@ struct mlx5e_tstamp {
 	struct mlx5_core_dev      *mdev;
 	struct ptp_clock          *ptp;
 	struct ptp_clock_info      ptp_info;
-	u8                        *pps_pin_caps;
+	struct mlx5e_pps           pps_info;
 };
 
 enum {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.12/net-mlx5e-change-1pps-out-scheme.patch queue-4.12/net-mlx5e-schedule-overflow-check-work-to-mlx5e-workqueue.patch queue-4.12/net-mlx5e-fix-wrong-delay-calculation-for-overflow-check-scheduling.patch queue-4.12/net-mlx5e-add-missing-support-for-ptp_clk_req_pps-request.patch queue-4.12/net-mlx5e-fix-broken-disable-1pps-flow.patch queue-4.12/net-mlx5-fix-mlx5_ifc_mtpps_reg_bits-structure-size.patch queue-4.12/net-mlx5e-add-field-select-to-mtpps-register.patch