linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net v2] net: dsa: b53: fix ageing time for BCM53101

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Message-ID: <5e97121a-01c2-4a5b-a7bb-0034dc344768@broadcom.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 09:29:16 -0700
From: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
To: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@...il.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
 Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: dsa: b53: fix ageing time for BCM53101

On 9/5/25 05:45, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> For some reason Broadcom decided that BCM53101 uses 0.5s increments for
> the ageing time register, but kept the field width the same [1]. Due to
> this, the actual ageing time was always half of what was configured.
> 
> Fix this by adapting the limits and value calculation for BCM53101.
> 
> So far it looks like this is the only chip with the increased tick
> speed:
> 
> $ grep -l -r "Specifies the aging time in 0.5 seconds" cdk/PKG/chip | sort
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53101/bcm53101_a0_defs.h
> 
> $ grep -l -r "Specifies the aging time in seconds" cdk/PKG/chip | sort
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53010/bcm53010_a0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53020/bcm53020_a0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53084/bcm53084_a0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53115/bcm53115_a0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53118/bcm53118_a0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53125/bcm53125_a0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53128/bcm53128_a0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53134/bcm53134_a0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53242/bcm53242_a0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53262/bcm53262_a0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53280/bcm53280_a0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53280/bcm53280_b0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53600/bcm53600_a0_defs.h
> cdk/PKG/chip/bcm89500/bcm89500_a0_defs.h
> 
> [1] https://github.com/Broadcom/OpenMDK/blob/a5d3fc9b12af3eeb68f2ca0ce7ec4056cd14d6c2/cdk/PKG/chip/bcm53101/bcm53101_a0_defs.h#L28966
> 
> Fixes: e39d14a760c0 ("net: dsa: b53: implement setting ageing time")
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
-- 
Florian