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From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner•de>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail•com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung•com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-usb@vger•kernel.org,
	Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell•net>,
	UNGLinuxDriver@microchip•com, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse•com>,
	Andre Edich <andre.edich@microchip•com>,
	Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat•de>,
	Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@collabora•com>,
	Gabriel Hojda <ghojda@yo2urs•ro>,
	Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail•com>,
	Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx•de>,
	Philipp Rosenberger <p.rosenberger@kunbus•com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail•com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux•org.uk>,
	Ferry Toth <fntoth@gmail•com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel•org>,
	'Linux Samsung SOC' <linux-samsung-soc@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/7] usbnet: smsc95xx: Forward PHY interrupts to PHY driver to avoid polling
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 22:55:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220918205516.GA13914@wunner.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d963b1a3-e18d-25d5-f07c-42d17d382174@gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 01:41:13PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 9/18/2022 12:13 PM, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > 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.

mdio_bus_phy_suspend()
  phy_stop_machine()
    phydev->state = PHY_UP  #  if (phydev->state >= PHY_UP)

So apparently PHY_UP is a legal state for a suspended PHY.


> > 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.

Hm, maybe the WARN() should be dropped altogether?

Thanks,

Lukas

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-18 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-12  8:42 [PATCH net-next v3 0/7] Polling be gone on LAN95xx Lukas Wunner
2022-05-12  8:42 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/7] usbnet: Run unregister_netdev() before unbind() again Lukas Wunner
2022-05-12  8:42 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/7] usbnet: smsc95xx: Don't clear read-only PHY interrupt Lukas Wunner
2022-05-12 11:57   ` Lukas Wunner
2022-05-12  8:42 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/7] usbnet: smsc95xx: Don't reset PHY behind PHY driver's back Lukas Wunner
2022-05-12 12:12   ` Lukas Wunner
2022-05-12  8:42 ` [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] usbnet: smsc95xx: Avoid link settings race on interrupt reception Lukas Wunner
2022-05-12 12:15   ` Lukas Wunner
2022-05-12  8:42 ` [PATCH net-next v3 5/7] usbnet: smsc95xx: Forward PHY interrupts to PHY driver to avoid polling Lukas Wunner
2022-05-17 10:18   ` Marek Szyprowski
2022-05-19 19:08     ` Lukas Wunner
2022-05-19 21:22       ` Marek Szyprowski
2022-05-23  9:43         ` Lukas Wunner
2022-05-23 11:38           ` Marek Szyprowski
2022-05-23 12:34           ` Andrew Lunn
2022-05-23 13:47             ` Lukas Wunner
2022-05-24  0:52               ` Andrew Lunn
2022-05-24  1:08           ` Andrew Lunn
2022-05-24  6:16             ` Marek Szyprowski
2022-05-24 12:03               ` Andrew Lunn
2022-05-26 13:55                 ` Lukas Wunner
2022-05-24 12:13             ` Lukas Wunner
2022-06-06  1:28               ` Andrew Lunn
2022-08-26  6:51         ` Marek Szyprowski
2022-08-26  7:19           ` Lukas Wunner
2022-08-26  7:41             ` Marek Szyprowski
2022-08-26  7:53               ` Lukas Wunner
2022-08-26  8:29                 ` Marek Szyprowski
2022-08-29 11:40                   ` Marek Szyprowski
2022-09-18 19:13                     ` Lukas Wunner
2022-09-18 20:41                       ` Florian Fainelli
2022-09-18 20:55                         ` Lukas Wunner [this message]
2022-09-18 22:11                           ` Florian Fainelli
2022-09-23  4:20                             ` Lukas Wunner
2022-09-22 13:21                       ` Marek Szyprowski
2022-05-12  8:42 ` [PATCH net-next v3 6/7] net: phy: smsc: Cache interrupt mask Lukas Wunner
2022-05-12 12:17   ` Lukas Wunner
2022-05-12  8:42 ` [PATCH net-next v3 7/7] net: phy: smsc: Cope with hot-removal in interrupt handler Lukas Wunner
2022-05-12 12:19   ` Lukas Wunner
2022-05-13 10:40 ` [PATCH net-next v3 0/7] Polling be gone on LAN95xx patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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