netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] net: phy: bcm7xxx: Add support for downshift/Wirespeed

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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2016 12:07:05 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, allan.nielsen@...rosemi.com,
        raju.lakkaraju@...rosemi.com, vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] net: phy: bcm7xxx: Add support for
 downshift/Wirespeed

On 11/22/2016 12:02 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> +static int bcm7xxx_28nm_set_tunable(struct phy_device *phydev,
>> +				    struct ethtool_tunable *tuna,
>> +				    const void *data)
>> +{
>> +	u8 count = *(u8 *)data;
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	switch (tuna->id) {
>> +	case ETHTOOL_PHY_DOWNSHIFT:
>> +		ret = bcm_phy_downshift_set(phydev, count);
>> +		break;
>> +	default:
>> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	if (ret)
>> +		return ret;
>> +
>> +	/* Disable EEE advertisment since this prevents the PHY
>> +	 * from successfully linking up, trigger auto-negotiation restart
>> +	 * to let the MAC decide what to do.
>> +	 */
>> +	ret = bcm_phy_set_eee(phydev, count == DOWNSHIFT_DEV_DISABLE);
>> +	if (ret)
>> +		return ret;
>> +
>> +	return genphy_restart_aneg(phydev);
>> +}
> 
> Hi Florian
> 
> Is the locking O.K. here? The core code does not take the phy lock.
> But i think your shadow register accesses at least need to be
> protected by the lock?

There should be some kind of protection, but I was expecting it to be
done at the caller level, so that when {get,set}_tunable run, they are
serialized with respect to each other, clearly, by looking at the code,
this is not the case.

> 
> Maybe we should think about this locking a bit. It is normal for the
> lock to be held when using ops in the phy driver structure. The
> exception is suspend/resume. Maybe we should also take the lock before
> calling the phydev->drv->get_tunable() and phydev->drv->set_tunable()?

Yes, that certainly seems like a good approach to me, let me cook a
patch doing that.
-- 
Florian