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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:22:48 +0100
From: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Michel Stam <m.stam@...ro.nl>,
Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@...aro.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [STABLE] Please backport asix (USB Ethernet) fixes
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:09:36PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Hi David + stable@,
>
> Please could these two be backported:
> 3cc81d85ee01 "asix: Don't reset PHY on if_up for ASIX 88772"
> 436c2a5036b6 "asix: Do full reset during ax88772_bind"
>
> 3cc81d85ee01 was in v3.18-rc1 while 436c2a5036b6 was in v3.18-rc5 so both
> should be backported to anything older which still has active longterm
> support, please.
>
> Our automated test is occasionally tripping over a failure to achieve link
> on the arndale board with 3.16 (both the Debian Jessie kernel used at host
> install time and the 3.16 kernel under test), reporting lots of this:
> Oct 4 02:01:17.077037 [ 411.069293] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link down
> Oct 4 02:01:21.037081 [ 414.525294] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link down
> Oct 4 02:01:24.493057 [ 419.773293] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link down
> Oct 4 02:01:29.741083 [ 423.229292] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link down
> Oct 4 02:01:33.197066 [ 426.685292] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link down
> Oct 4 02:01:36.653128 [ 430.141291] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link down
> Oct 4 02:01:40.109050 [ 440.765293] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link down
> Oct 4 02:01:50.733034 [ 446.141292] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link down
> Oct 4 02:01:56.109092 [ 471.614170] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC1E1
> Oct 4 02:02:21.581182 [ 486.973293] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link down
> Oct 4 02:02:36.941033 [ 803.390169] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC1E1
> Oct 4 02:07:53.353184 [ 805.182045] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC1E1
> Oct 4 02:07:55.145152 [ 818.109291] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link down
> Oct 4 02:08:08.073064 [ 825.149291] asix 2-3.2.4:1.0 eth0: link down
>
> It appears that we no longer see this in 3.18 (although they still use
> Debian's 3.16 at install time, which obscures things a little in the data
> mining). These are the only commits to this driver between 3.16 and 3.18
> and they sound like they might plausibly fix this.
>
Thanks Ian, I'm queuing these 2 commits for the 3.16 kernel.
Cheers,
--
Luís
> Thanks,
>
> Ian.
>
> commit 3cc81d85ee01e5a0b7ea2f4190e2ed1165f53c31
> Author: Michel Stam <m.stam@...ro.nl>
> Date: Thu Oct 2 10:22:02 2014 +0200
>
> asix: Don't reset PHY on if_up for ASIX 88772
>
> I've noticed every time the interface is set to 'up,', the kernel
> reports that the link speed is set to 100 Mbps/Full Duplex, even
> when ethtool is used to set autonegotiation to 'off', half
> duplex, 10 Mbps.
> It can be tested by:
> ifconfig eth0 down
> ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 10 duplex half
> ifconfig eth0 up
>
> Then checking 'dmesg' for the link speed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michel Stam <m.stam@...ro.nl>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c b/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c
> index 5d19409..2c05f6c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c
> @@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ static const struct driver_info ax88772_info = {
> .unbind = ax88772_unbind,
> .status = asix_status,
> .link_reset = ax88772_link_reset,
> - .reset = ax88772_reset,
> + .reset = ax88772_link_reset,
> .flags = FLAG_ETHER | FLAG_FRAMING_AX | FLAG_LINK_INTR | FLAG_MULTI_PACKET,
> .rx_fixup = asix_rx_fixup_common,
> .tx_fixup = asix_tx_fixup,
>
> commit 436c2a5036b6ffe813310df2cf327d3b69be0734
> Author: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> Date: Thu Nov 6 15:49:41 2014 +0000
>
> asix: Do full reset during ax88772_bind
>
> commit 3cc81d85ee01 ("asix: Don't reset PHY on if_up for ASIX 88772")
> causes the ethernet on Arndale to no longer function. This appears to
> be because the Arndale ethernet requires a full reset before it will
> function correctly, however simply reverting the above patch causes
> problems with ethtool settings getting reset.
>
> It seems the problem is that the ethernet is not properly reset during
> bind, and indeed the code in ax88772_bind that resets the device is a
> very small subset of the actual ax88772_reset function. This patch uses
> ax88772_reset in place of the existing reset code in ax88772_bind which
> removes some code duplication and fixes the ethernet on Arndale.
>
> It is still possible that the original patch causes some issues with
> suspend and resume but that seems like a separate issue and I haven't
> had a chance to test that yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> Tested-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c b/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c
> index 2c05f6c..816d511 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c
> @@ -465,19 +465,7 @@ static int ax88772_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
> return ret;
> }
>
> - ret = asix_sw_reset(dev, AX_SWRESET_IPPD | AX_SWRESET_PRL);
> - if (ret < 0)
> - return ret;
> -
> - msleep(150);
> -
> - ret = asix_sw_reset(dev, AX_SWRESET_CLEAR);
> - if (ret < 0)
> - return ret;
> -
> - msleep(150);
> -
> - ret = asix_sw_reset(dev, embd_phy ? AX_SWRESET_IPRL : AX_SWRESET_PRTE);
> + ax88772_reset(dev);
>
> /* Read PHYID register *AFTER* the PHY was reset properly */
> phyid = asix_get_phyid(dev);
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