On 15/04/2016 at 15:23:39 -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote :
> On 15/04/16 15:17, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > On 16/04/2016 at 00:05:08 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote :
> >>> Trace without my patch:
> >>> libphy: MACB_mii_bus: probed
> >>> macb f8020000.ethernet eth0: Cadence GEM rev 0x00020120 at 0xf8020000 irq
> >>> 27 (fc:c2:3d:0c:6e:05)
> >>> Micrel KSZ8081 or KSZ8091 f8020000.etherne:01: attached PHY driver
> >>> [Micrel KSZ8081 or KSZ8091] (mii_bus:phy_addr=f8020000.etherne:01,
> >>> irq=171)
> >>> Micrel KSZ8081 or KSZ8091 f8020000.etherne:01: PHY state change READY ->
> >>> READY
> >>> [...]
> >>> Micrel KSZ8081 or KSZ8091 f8020000.etherne:01: PHY state change READY ->
> >>> READY
> >>
> >> Are there some state changes before this? How is it getting to state
> >> READY? It would expect it to start in DOWN, from when the phy device
> >> was created in phy_device_create().
> >>
> >
> > No other changes. I forgot to mention that this is when booting with a
> > cable plugged in. Unplugging and replugging the cable makes the link
> > detection work fine even without the patch.
>
> OK, so the last hunk of the change in d5c3d84657db ("net: phy: Avoid
> polling PHY with PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPTS"):
>
> - queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &phydev->state_queue,
> - PHY_STATE_TIME * HZ);
> + /* Only re-schedule a PHY state machine change if we are polling the
> + * PHY, if PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT is set, then we will be moving
> + * between states from phy_mac_interrupt()
> + */
> + if (phydev->irq == PHY_POLL)
> + queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq,
> &phydev->state_queue,
> + PHY_STATE_TIME * HZ);
>
>
> is presumably what broke for you, right?
>
> Could you also give this patch a spin and see if it works better with
> it? The macb driver does something racy with how the MDIO and PHY are
> probe wrt. registering the netdev, that needs fixing too.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
> index eec3200ade4a..98b99149ce0b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
> @@ -3005,28 +3005,36 @@ static int macb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> if (err)
> goto err_out_free_netdev;
>
> + err = macb_mii_init(bp);
> + if (err)
> + goto err_out_free_netdev;
> +
> + phydev = bp->phy_dev;
> + phy_attached_info(phydev);
> +
> + netif_carrier_off(dev);
> +
> err = register_netdev(dev);
> if (err) {
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Cannot register net device,
> aborting.\n");
> goto err_out_unregister_netdev;
> }
>
> - err = macb_mii_init(bp);
> - if (err)
> - goto err_out_unregister_netdev;
> -
> - netif_carrier_off(dev);
> -
> netdev_info(dev, "Cadence %s rev 0x%08x at 0x%08lx irq %d (%pM)\n",
> macb_is_gem(bp) ? "GEM" : "MACB", macb_readl(bp, MID),
> dev->base_addr, dev->irq, dev->dev_addr);
>
> - phydev = bp->phy_dev;
> - phy_attached_info(phydev);
> -
> return 0;
>
> err_out_unregister_netdev:
> + phy_disconnect(bp->phy_dev);
> + mdiobus_unregister(bp->mii_bus);
> + mdiobus_free(bp->mii_bus);
> +
> + /* Shutdown the PHY if there is a GPIO reset */
> + if (bp->reset_gpio)
> + gpiod_set_value(bp->reset_gpio, 0);
> +
> unregister_netdev(dev);
>
> err_out_free_netdev:
>
Well, this fails with:
[ 2.780000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 2.780000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at lib/kobject.c:597 kobject_get+0x6c/0xa0
[ 2.790000] kobject: '(null)' (df532280): is not initialized, yet
kobject_get() is being called.
[ 2.800000] Modules linked in:
[ 2.800000] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.6.0-rc1+ #46
[ 2.810000] Hardware name: Atmel SAMA5
[ 2.810000] [<c010cc44>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010a76c>]
(show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[ 2.820000] [<c010a76c>] (show_stack) from [<c0115a70>] (__warn+0xe4/0xfc)
[ 2.830000] [<c0115a70>] (__warn) from [<c0115ac0>]
(warn_slowpath_fmt+0x38/0x48)
[ 2.840000] [<c0115ac0>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c02d5524>]
(kobject_get+0x6c/0xa0)
[ 2.840000] [<c02d5524>] (kobject_get) from [<c0343b24>]
(device_add+0xac/0x56c)
[ 2.850000] [<c0343b24>] (device_add) from [<c03aa900>]
(__mdiobus_register+0x8c/0x198)
[ 2.860000] [<c03aa900>] (__mdiobus_register) from [<c045ed0c>]
(of_mdiobus_register+0x20/0x184)
[ 2.870000] [<c045ed0c>] (of_mdiobus_register) from [<c03b18f0>]
(macb_probe+0x488/0x898)
[ 2.880000] [<c03b18f0>] (macb_probe) from [<c0347ff0>]
(platform_drv_probe+0x4c/0xb0)
[ 2.880000] [<c0347ff0>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c0346838>]
(driver_probe_device+0x214/0x2c0)
[ 2.890000] [<c0346838>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c034699c>]
(__driver_attach+0xb8/0xbc)
[ 2.900000] [<c034699c>] (__driver_attach) from [<c0344b8c>]
(bus_for_each_dev+0x68/0x9c)
[ 2.910000] [<c0344b8c>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c0345cd0>]
(bus_add_driver+0x1a0/0x218)
[ 2.920000] [<c0345cd0>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c0347084>]
(driver_register+0x78/0xf8)
[ 2.930000] [<c0347084>] (driver_register) from [<c010166c>]
(do_one_initcall+0x90/0x1dc)
[ 2.930000] [<c010166c>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c0800d78>]
(kernel_init_freeable+0x134/0x1d4)
[ 2.940000] [<c0800d78>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c05e7bd0>]
(kernel_init+0x8/0x110)
[ 2.950000] [<c05e7bd0>] (kernel_init) from [<c0107598>]
(ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
[ 2.960000] ---[ end trace 81bf87ef8c18d052 ]---
I'm not completely clear why but I think one of the parent is not initialized
until register_netdev() is called.
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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
