Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 5/8] net: phy: Immediately call adjust_link if only tx_lpi_enabled changes

From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:19:34 +0000

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 03:07:57PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> +static void phy_ethtool_set_eee_noneg(struct phy_device *phydev,
> +				      struct ethtool_keee *data)
> +{
> +	if (phydev->eee_cfg.tx_lpi_enabled != data->tx_lpi_enabled ||
> +	    phydev->eee_cfg.tx_lpi_timer != data->tx_lpi_timer) {
> +		eee_to_eeecfg(data, &phydev->eee_cfg);
> +		phydev->enable_tx_lpi = eeecfg_mac_can_tx_lpi(&phydev->eee_cfg);
> +		if (phydev->link) {
> +			phy_link_down(phydev);
> +			phy_link_up(phydev);

Unfortunately, this isn't sufficient in all cases. Phylink will be fine
with this though.

If we take a look at fec_enet_adjust_link(), then we can see it tests
phydev->link directly (which it has to, because there's nothing else
to determine whether the link is up or down. FEC will cope with its
fec_enet_adjust_link() being called with no changes however.

In order to properly resolve this, I think we need:

		if (phydev->link) {
			phydev->link = false;
			phy_link_down(phydev);
			phydev->link = true;
			phy_link_up(phydev);

to properly avoid the issue I've referred to.

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