netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 4/6] net: ravb: Move the update of ndev->features to ravb_set

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 07:45:54 +0200
From: claudiu beznea <claudiu.beznea@...on.dev>
To: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>, davem@...emloft.net,
 edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
 biju.das.jz@...renesas.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@...renesas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 4/6] net: ravb: Move the update of
 ndev->features to ravb_set_features()



On 13.02.2024 21:52, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:
> On 2/13/24 12:41 PM, Claudiu wrote:
> 
>> From: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@...renesas.com>
>>
>> Commit c2da9408579d ("ravb: Add Rx checksum offload support for GbEth")
>> introduced support for setting GbEth features. With this the IP-specific
>> features update functions update the ndev->features individually.
>>
>> Next commits add runtime PM support for the ravb driver. The runtime PM
>> implementation will enable/disable the IP clocks on
>> the ravb_open()/ravb_close() functions. Accessing the IP registers with
>> clocks disabled blocks the system.
>>
>> The ravb_set_features() function could be executed when the Ethernet
>> interface is closed so we need to ensure we don't access IP registers while
>> the interface is down when runtime PM support will be in place.
>>
>> For these, move the update of ndev->features to ravb_set_features() and
>> make the IP-specific features set function return int. In this way we
>> update the ndev->features only when the IP-specific features set function
>> returns success and we can avoid code duplication when introducing
>> runtime PM registers protection.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@...renesas.com>
> [...]
> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
>> index 7a7f743a1fef..b3b91783bb7a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c
>> @@ -2475,7 +2475,7 @@ static int ravb_change_mtu(struct net_device *ndev, int new_mtu)
>>  	return 0;
>>  }
>>  
>> -static void ravb_set_rx_csum(struct net_device *ndev, bool enable)
>> +static int ravb_set_rx_csum(struct net_device *ndev, bool enable)
>>  {
>>  	struct ravb_private *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
>>  	unsigned long flags;
>> @@ -2492,6 +2492,8 @@ static void ravb_set_rx_csum(struct net_device *ndev, bool enable)
>>  	ravb_rcv_snd_enable(ndev);
>>  
>>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
>> +
>> +	return 0;
>>  }
>>  
>>  static int ravb_endisable_csum_gbeth(struct net_device *ndev, enum ravb_reg reg,
> 
>    Wait! You're not updating the call site of ravb_set_rx_csum(), are you?
> It looks like the above 2 hunks aren't needed...

A, you're right. I'll update it in the next version.

Thank you,
Claudiu Beznea

> 
> [...]
> 
> MBR, Sergey