Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/7] usbnet: smsc95xx: Forward PHY interrupts to PHY driver to avoid polling

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

On 9/18/2022 12:13 PM, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> [cc += Florian]
> 
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 01:40:05PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> I've finally traced what has happened. I've double checked and indeed
>> the 1758bde2e4aa commit fixed the issue on next-20220516 kernel and as
>> such it has been merged to linus tree. Then the commit 744d23c71af3
>> ("net: phy: Warn about incorrect mdio_bus_phy_resume() state") has been
>> merged to linus tree, which triggers a new warning during the
>> suspend/resume cycle with smsc95xx driver. Please note, that the
>> smsc95xx still works fine regardless that warning. However it look that
>> the commit 1758bde2e4aa only hide a real problem, which the commit
>> 744d23c71af3 warns about.
>>
>> Probably a proper fix for smsc95xx driver is to call phy_stop/start
>> during suspend/resume cycle, like in similar patches for other drivers:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220825023951.3220-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com/
> 
> No, smsc95xx.c relies on mdio_bus_phy_{suspend,resume}() and there's
> no need to call phy_{stop,start}() >
> 744d23c71af3 was flawed and 6dbe852c379f has already fixed a portion
> of the fallout.
> 
> However the WARN() condition still seems too broad and causes false
> positives such as in your case.  In particular, mdio_bus_phy_suspend()
> may leave the device in PHY_UP state, so that's a legal state that
> needs to be exempted from the WARN().

How is that a legal state when the PHY should be suspended? Even if we 
are interrupt driven, the state machine should be stopped, does not mean 
that Wake-on-LAN or other activity interrupts should be disabled.

> 
> Does the issue still appear even after 6dbe852c379f?
> 
> If it does, could you test whether exempting PHY_UP silences the
> gratuitous WARN splat?  I.e.:

If you allow PHY_UP, then the warning becomes effectively useless, so I 
don't believe this is quite what you want to do here.
-- 
Florian