scsi: mpt3sas: Sync time periodically between driver and firmware
The controller time currently gets updated with host time during driver load or when a controller reset is issued. I.e. when host issues the IOCInit request message to the HBA firmware. This IOCInit message has a field named 'TimeStamp' with which the host updates the controller time. Sometimes controller time drifts with respect to the host and it is difficult to correlate host logs with controller logs. Issuing a controller reset to sync the time would impact in-flight I/O and is not a viable option. Instead the driver now sends an IO_UNIT_CONTROL Request to sync the time periodically. This is done from the watchdog thread which gets invoked every second. The time synchronization interval is specified in the 'TimeSyncInterval' field in Manufacturing Page11 by the controller: TimeSyncInterval - 8 bits bits 0-6: Time stamp Synchronization interval value bit 7: Time stamp Synchronization interval unit, (if this bit is one then Timestamp Synchronization interval value is specified in terms of hours else Timestamp Synchronization interval value is specified in terms of minutes). The driver keeps track of the timer using IOC's timestamp_update_count field. This field value gets incremented whenever the watchdog thread gets invoked. And whenever this field value is greater than or equal to the Time Stamp Synchronization interval value, the driver sends the IO_UNIT_CONTROL Request message to controller to update the time and then it resets the timestamp_update_count field to zero. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126094311.8686-2-suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.comReported-by: Nkernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuganath Prabu S <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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