Patch "net: phy: Trigger state machine on state change and not polling." has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    net: phy: Trigger state machine on state change and not polling.

to the 4.8-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-phy-trigger-state-machine-on-state-change-and-not-polling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Nov 10 16:43:03 CET 2016
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 22:14:53 +0200
Subject: net: phy: Trigger state machine on state change and not polling.

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>


[ Upstream commit 3c293f4e08b58ad5b78f78d89ca1fd41f87f8729 ]

The phy_start() is used to indicate the PHY is now ready to do its
work. The state is changed, normally to PHY_UP which means that both
the MAC and the PHY are ready.

If the phy driver is using polling, when the next poll happens, the
state machine notices the PHY is now in PHY_UP, and kicks off
auto-negotiation, if needed.

If however, the PHY is using interrupts, there is no polling. The phy
is stuck in PHY_UP until the next interrupt comes along. And there is
no reason for the PHY to interrupt.

Have phy_start() schedule the state machine to run, which both speeds
up the polling use case, and makes the interrupt use case actually
work.

This problems exists whenever there is a state change which will not
cause an interrupt. Trigger the state machine in these cases,
e.g. phy_error().

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Kyle Roeschley <kyle.roeschley@ni.com>
Tested-by: Kyle Roeschley <kyle.roeschley@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy.c |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
@@ -608,6 +608,21 @@ void phy_start_machine(struct phy_device
 }
 
 /**
+ * phy_trigger_machine - trigger the state machine to run
+ *
+ * @phydev: the phy_device struct
+ *
+ * Description: There has been a change in state which requires that the
+ *   state machine runs.
+ */
+
+static void phy_trigger_machine(struct phy_device *phydev)
+{
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&phydev->state_queue);
+	queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &phydev->state_queue, 0);
+}
+
+/**
  * phy_stop_machine - stop the PHY state machine tracking
  * @phydev: target phy_device struct
  *
@@ -639,6 +654,8 @@ static void phy_error(struct phy_device
 	mutex_lock(&phydev->lock);
 	phydev->state = PHY_HALTED;
 	mutex_unlock(&phydev->lock);
+
+	phy_trigger_machine(phydev);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -800,8 +817,7 @@ void phy_change(struct work_struct *work
 	}
 
 	/* reschedule state queue work to run as soon as possible */
-	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&phydev->state_queue);
-	queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &phydev->state_queue, 0);
+	phy_trigger_machine(phydev);
 	return;
 
 ignore:
@@ -890,6 +906,8 @@ void phy_start(struct phy_device *phydev
 	/* if phy was suspended, bring the physical link up again */
 	if (do_resume)
 		phy_resume(phydev);
+
+	phy_trigger_machine(phydev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_start);
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from andrew@lunn.ch are

queue-4.8/net-phy-trigger-state-machine-on-state-change-and-not-polling.patch