ixgbe_ptp_overflow_check(9)

💅 ixgbe_ptp_overflow_check(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is literally the page for ixgbe_ptp_overflow_check, and it’s giving “tiny watchdog task with main character energy.” no cap. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_ptp_overflow_check — watchdog task to detect SYSTIME overflow 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ixgbe_ptp_overflow_check (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• adapter — the private adapter struct. that’s the whole argument, bestie, and yes it’s that struct ixgbe_adapter * from the synopsis. 🦋

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here’s the vibe: this watchdog task periodically reads the timecounter 👀 it does that so you don’t miss when the system time registers wrap around — literally preventing the missed-wrap situation, iykyk.

it needs to be run approximately twice a minute. approximately. twice. a minute. that’s the assignment, periodt. ⏰💅

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ptp.c 🧚

• ixgbe_ptp_setup_sdp_X540(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_setup_sdp_X550(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_read_X550(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_read_82599(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_convert_to_hwtstamp(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_adjfine_82599(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_adjfine_X550(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_adjtime(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_gettimex(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_settime(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_feature_enable(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_check_pps_event(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_rx_hang(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_clear_tx_timestamp(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_tx_hang(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_tx_hwtstamp(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_tx_hwtstamp_work(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_rx_pktstamp(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_rx_rgtstamp(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_hwtstamp_get(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_set_timestamp_mode(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_hwtstamp_set(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_start_cyclecounter(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_init_systime(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_reset(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_create_clock(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_init(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_suspend(9)
• ixgbe_ptp_stop(9)

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later, bestie 🫶✨ this was the Kernel API Manual page ixgbe_ptp_overflow_check(9), source ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i..., dated October 2026. 💖🎀