net: phy: introduce optional polling interface for PHY statistics

Add an optional polling interface for PHY statistics to simplify driver
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/phy.h b/include/linux/phy.h
index 81d1612e7d35..afaae74d0949 100644
--- a/include/linux/phy.h
+++ b/include/linux/phy.h
@@ -1173,6 +1173,24 @@ struct phy_driver {
 	 */
 	void (*get_link_stats)(struct phy_device *dev,
 			       struct ethtool_link_ext_stats *link_stats);
+
+	/**
+	 * @update_stats: Trigger periodic statistics updates.
+	 * @dev: The PHY device for which statistics updates are triggered.
+	 *
+	 * Periodically gathers statistics from the PHY device to update locally
+	 * maintained 64-bit counters. This is necessary for PHYs that implement
+	 * reduced-width counters (e.g., 16-bit or 32-bit) which can overflow
+	 * more frequently compared to 64-bit counters. By invoking this
+	 * callback, drivers can fetch the current counter values, handle
+	 * overflow detection, and accumulate the results into local 64-bit
+	 * counters for accurate reporting through the `get_phy_stats` and
+	 * `get_link_stats` interfaces.
+	 *
+	 * Return: 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.
+	 */
+	int (*update_stats)(struct phy_device *dev);
+
 	/** @get_sset_count: Number of statistic counters */
 	int (*get_sset_count)(struct phy_device *dev);
 	/** @get_strings: Names of the statistic counters */
@@ -1663,6 +1681,9 @@ static inline bool phy_polling_mode(struct phy_device *phydev)
 		if (phydev->drv->flags & PHY_POLL_CABLE_TEST)
 			return true;
 
+	if (phydev->drv->update_stats)
+		return true;
+
 	return phydev->irq == PHY_POLL;
 }