Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Don't disable irqs on shutdown if WoL is enabled

Russell King (Oracle)
2023-08-09T16:01:30Z

On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 06:44:18PM +0300, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 03:29:17PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 05:21:55PM +0300, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> > > That's a perfect summary of the problem that I was trying to fix.
> > >
> > > The board in question is a LS1021ATSN which has two AR8031 PHYs that
> > > share an interrupt line. In case only one of the PHYs is probed and
> > > there are pending interrupts on the PHY#2 an IRQ storm will happen
> > > since there is no entity to clear the interrupt from PHY#2's registers.
> > > PHY#1's driver will get stuck in .handle_interrupt() indefinitely.
> >
> > So I have two further questions:
> > 1. Is WoL able to be supported on this hardware?
>
> I don't know if anyone cares about WoL on the AR8031 PHYs from this
> board.
>
> Both of the PHYs are used in conjuction with 2 eTSEC controllers - which
> use the driver in drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c.
>
> The Ethernet controller does have WoL support, which means that WoL could
> still be supported on the board even though we would forbid WoL on the
> AR8031 PHYs.
>
> > 2. AR8031 has a seperate WOL_INT signal that can be used to wake up the
> > system. Is this used in the hardware design?
>
> No, WOL_INT is not connected.

Okay, so we don't need to care about WoL for your hardware setup.

Thinking about this, I wonder whether we could solve your issue by
disabling interrupts when the PHY is probed, rather than disabling
them on shutdown - something like this? (not build tested)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 3e9909b30938..4d1a37487923 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -3216,6 +3216,8 @@ static int phy_probe(struct device *dev)
goto out;
}

+ phy_disable_interrupts(phydev);
+
/* Start out supporting everything. Eventually,
* a controller will attach, and may modify one
* or both of these values
@@ -3333,16 +3335,6 @@ static int phy_remove(struct device *dev)
return 0;
}

-static void phy_shutdown(struct device *dev)
-{
- struct phy_device *phydev = to_phy_device(dev);
-
- if (phydev->state == PHY_READY || !phydev->attached_dev)
- return;
-
- phy_disable_interrupts(phydev);
-}
-
/**
* phy_driver_register - register a phy_driver with the PHY layer
* @new_driver: new phy_driver to register
@@ -3376,7 +3368,6 @@ int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, struct module *owner)
new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.bus = &mdio_bus_type;
new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe = phy_probe;
new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.remove = phy_remove;
- new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.shutdown = phy_shutdown;
new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.owner = owner;
new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS;

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