Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: marvell10g: fix 88x3310 power up

["Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 07:30:17PM +0800, Jiawen Wu wrote:
> On Thursday, July 13, 2023 6:54 PM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 11:45:59AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 11:35:05AM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 11:26:40AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 02:26:34PM +0800, Jiawen Wu wrote:
> > > > > > Clear MV_V2_PORT_CTRL_PWRDOWN bit to set power up for 88x3310 PHY,
> > > > > > it sometimes does not take effect immediately. This will cause
> > > > > > mv3310_reset() to time out, which will fail the config initialization.
> > > > > > So add to poll PHY power up.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu@trustnetic.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Jiawen Wu,
> > > > >
> > > > > should this have the following?
> > > > >
> > > > > Fixes: 0a5550b1165c ("bpftool: Use "fallthrough;" keyword instead of comments")
> > > >
> > > > What is that commit? It doesn't appear to be in Linus' tree, it doesn't
> > > > appear to be in the net tree, nor the net-next tree.
> > >
> > > Hi Russell,
> > >
> > > Sorry, it is bogus. Some sort of cut and paste error on my side
> > > that pulled in the local commit of an unrelated patch.
> > >
> > > What I should have said is:
> > >
> > > Fixes: 8f48c2ac85ed ("net: marvell10g: soft-reset the PHY when coming out of low power")
> > 
> > Thanks, but I don't think that's appropriate either.
> > 
> > The commit adds a software reset after clearing the power down bit, but
> > that doesn't have anything to do with mv3310_reset().
> > 
> > There are two places that mv3310_reset() is called, mv3310_config_mdix()
> > and mv3310_set_edpd(). One of them is in the probe function, after we
> > have powered up the PHY.
> > 
> > I think we need much more information from the reporter before we can
> > guess which commit is a problem, if any.
> > 
> > When does the reset time out?
> > What is the code path that we see mv3310_reset() timing out?
> > Does the problem happen while resuming or probing?
> > How soon after clearing the power down bit is mv3310_reset() called?
> 
> I need to test it more times for more information.
> 
> As far as I know, reset timeout appears in mv3310_set_edpd(), after mv3310_power_up()
> in mv3310_config_init().
> 
> Now what I'm confused about is, sometimes there was weird values while probing, just
> to read out a weird firmware version, that caused the test to fail.
> 
> And for this phy_read_mmd_poll_timeout(), it only succeeds when sleep_before_read = true.
> Otherwise, it would never succeed to clear the power down bit. Currently it looks like clearing
> the bit takes about 1ms.

So, reading the bit before the first delay period results in the bit not
clearing, despite having written it to be zero?

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