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Message-ID: <ZNO4RwYzZYUTu1uk@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 9 Aug 2023 17:01:11 +0100
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-K├Ânig 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        Ioana Ciornei <ciorneiioana@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@...log.com>,
        Andre Edich <andre.edich@...rochip.com>,
        Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org>,
        Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Divya Koppera <Divya.Koppera@...rochip.com>,
        Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>,
        Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>,
        Kavya Sree Kotagiri <kavyasree.kotagiri@...rochip.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Marco Felsch <m.felsch@...gutronix.de>,
        Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>,
        Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>,
        Mathias Kresin <dev@...sin.me>,
        Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max@...ox.ru>,
        Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>,
        Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        Nisar Sayed <Nisar.Sayed@...rochip.com>,
        Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>,
        Philippe Schenker <philippe.schenker@...adex.com>,
        Willy Liu <willy.liu@...ltek.com>,
        Yuiko Oshino <yuiko.oshino@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Don't disable irqs on shutdown if WoL is
 enabled

On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 06:44:18PM +0300, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 03:29:17PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 05:21:55PM +0300, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> > > That's a perfect summary of the problem that I was trying to fix.
> > > 
> > > The board in question is a LS1021ATSN which has two AR8031 PHYs that
> > > share an interrupt line. In case only one of the PHYs is probed and
> > > there are pending interrupts on the PHY#2 an IRQ storm will happen
> > > since there is no entity to clear the interrupt from PHY#2's registers.
> > > PHY#1's driver will get stuck in .handle_interrupt() indefinitely.
> > 
> > So I have two further questions:
> > 1. Is WoL able to be supported on this hardware?
> 
> I don't know if anyone cares about WoL on the AR8031 PHYs from this
> board.
> 
> Both of the PHYs are used in conjuction with 2 eTSEC controllers - which
> use the driver in drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c.
> 
> The Ethernet controller does have WoL support, which means that WoL could
> still be supported on the board even though we would forbid WoL on the
> AR8031 PHYs.
> 
> > 2. AR8031 has a seperate WOL_INT signal that can be used to wake up the
> >    system. Is this used in the hardware design?
> 
> No, WOL_INT is not connected.

Okay, so we don't need to care about WoL for your hardware setup.

Thinking about this, I wonder whether we could solve your issue by
disabling interrupts when the PHY is probed, rather than disabling
them on shutdown - something like this? (not build tested)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 3e9909b30938..4d1a37487923 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -3216,6 +3216,8 @@ static int phy_probe(struct device *dev)
 			goto out;
 	}
 
+        phy_disable_interrupts(phydev);
+
 	/* Start out supporting everything. Eventually,
 	 * a controller will attach, and may modify one
 	 * or both of these values
@@ -3333,16 +3335,6 @@ static int phy_remove(struct device *dev)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void phy_shutdown(struct device *dev)
-{
-	struct phy_device *phydev = to_phy_device(dev);
-
-	if (phydev->state == PHY_READY || !phydev->attached_dev)
-		return;
-
-	phy_disable_interrupts(phydev);
-}
-
 /**
  * phy_driver_register - register a phy_driver with the PHY layer
  * @new_driver: new phy_driver to register
@@ -3376,7 +3368,6 @@ int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, struct module *owner)
 	new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.bus = &mdio_bus_type;
 	new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe = phy_probe;
 	new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.remove = phy_remove;
-	new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.shutdown = phy_shutdown;
 	new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.owner = owner;
 	new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS;
 
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