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From: liuyonglong <liuyonglong@huawei.com>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>, <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	<davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linuxarm@huawei.com>, <salil.mehta@huawei.com>,
	<yisen.zhuang@huawei.com>, <shiju.jose@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] net: phy: read link status twice when phy_check_link_status()
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:33:33 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6add4874-fd2b-9b21-cd78-80b6dde4dd53@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a0a8094-42ee-0a18-0e9a-d3ca783d6d4b@gmail.com>



On 2019/7/31 3:04, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 30.07.2019 08:35, liuyonglong wrote:
>> :/sys/kernel/debug/tracing$ cat trace
>> # tracer: nop
>> #
>> # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 45/45   #P:128
>> #
>> #                              _-----=> irqs-off
>> #                             / _----=> need-resched
>> #                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
>> #                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
>> #                            ||| /     delay
>> #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
>> #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.295687: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.0 read  phy:0x01 reg:0x02 val:0x001c
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.295726: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.0 read  phy:0x01 reg:0x03 val:0xc916
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.296902: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.0 read  phy:0x01 reg:0x01 val:0x79ad
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.296938: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.0 read  phy:0x01 reg:0x0f val:0x2000
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.321213: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.0 read  phy:0x01 reg:0x00 val:0x1040
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.343209: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 read  phy:0x03 reg:0x02 val:0x001c
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.343245: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 read  phy:0x03 reg:0x03 val:0xc916
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.343882: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 read  phy:0x03 reg:0x01 val:0x79ad
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.343918: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 read  phy:0x03 reg:0x0f val:0x2000
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.362658: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 read  phy:0x03 reg:0x00 val:0x1040
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.385961: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.2 read  phy:0x05 reg:0x02 val:0x001c
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.385996: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.2 read  phy:0x05 reg:0x03 val:0xc916
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.386646: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.2 read  phy:0x05 reg:0x01 val:0x79ad
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.386681: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.2 read  phy:0x05 reg:0x0f val:0x2000
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.411286: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.2 read  phy:0x05 reg:0x00 val:0x1040
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.433225: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.3 read  phy:0x07 reg:0x02 val:0x001c
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.433260: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.3 read  phy:0x07 reg:0x03 val:0xc916
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.433887: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.3 read  phy:0x07 reg:0x01 val:0x79ad
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.433922: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.3 read  phy:0x07 reg:0x0f val:0x2000
>>     kworker/64:2-1028  [064] ....   172.452862: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.3 read  phy:0x07 reg:0x00 val:0x1040
>>         ifconfig-1324  [011] ....   177.325585: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 read  phy:0x03 reg:0x00 val:0x1040
>>   kworker/u257:0-8     [012] ....   177.325642: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 read  phy:0x03 reg:0x04 val:0x01e1
>>   kworker/u257:0-8     [012] ....   177.325654: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 write phy:0x03 reg:0x04 val:0x05e1
>>   kworker/u257:0-8     [012] ....   177.325708: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 read  phy:0x03 reg:0x01 val:0x79ad
>>   kworker/u257:0-8     [012] ....   177.325744: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 read  phy:0x03 reg:0x09 val:0x0200
>>   kworker/u257:0-8     [012] ....   177.325779: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 read  phy:0x03 reg:0x00 val:0x1040
>>   kworker/u257:0-8     [012] ....   177.325788: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 write phy:0x03 reg:0x00 val:0x1240
>>   kworker/u257:0-8     [012] ....   177.325843: mdio_access: mii-0000:bd:00.1 read  phy:0x03 reg:0x01 val:0x798d
> 
> What I think that happens here:
> Writing 0x1240 to BMCR starts aneg. When reading BMSR immediately after that then the PHY seems to have cleared
> the "aneg complete" bit already, but not yet the "link up" bit. This results in the false "link up" notification.
> The following patch is based on the fact that in case of enabled aneg we can't have a valid link if aneg isn't
> finished. Could you please test whether this works for you?
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> index 6b5cb87f3..7ddd91df9 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> @@ -1774,6 +1774,12 @@ int genphy_update_link(struct phy_device *phydev)
>  	phydev->link = status & BMSR_LSTATUS ? 1 : 0;
>  	phydev->autoneg_complete = status & BMSR_ANEGCOMPLETE ? 1 : 0;
>  
> +	/* Consider the case that autoneg was started and "aneg complete"
> +	 * bit has been reset, but "link up" bit not yet.
> +	 */
> +	if (phydev->autoneg == AUTONEG_ENABLE && !phydev->autoneg_complete)
> +		phydev->link = 0;
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(genphy_update_link);
> 

This patch can solve the issue! Will it be upstream?

So it's nothing to do with the bios, and just the PHY's own behavior,
the "link up" bit can not reset immediately,right?

ps: It will take 1 second more to make the link up for RTL8211F when 0x798d happend.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-31  3:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-26  9:53 [RFC] net: phy: read link status twice when phy_check_link_status() Yonglong Liu
2019-07-26 18:14 ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-07-29  3:59   ` liuyonglong
2019-07-29 20:57     ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-07-30  4:03       ` liuyonglong
2019-07-30  6:08         ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-07-30  6:35           ` liuyonglong
2019-07-30  6:39             ` liuyonglong
2019-07-30 19:04             ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-07-31  3:33               ` liuyonglong [this message]
2019-07-31  5:44                 ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-07-31  5:58                   ` liuyonglong

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