netdev - Re: r8169 take too long to complete driver initialization

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Message-ID: <CAB4CAwdRgjT+rk9WJbZzu7Ltw8CL3oAM1VeWvNz_uWYvY1Pmrg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:07:33 +0800
From:   Chris Chiu <chiu@...lessm.com>
To:     Hau <hau@...ltek.com>
Cc:     nic_swsd <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Upstreaming Team <linux@...lessm.com>
Subject: Re: r8169 take too long to complete driver initialization

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Hau <hau@...ltek.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Could you test following patch?
>
>  DECLARE_RTL_COND(rtl_ocp_tx_cond)
>  {
>         void __iomem *ioaddr = tp->mmio_addr;
>
> -       return RTL_R8(IBISR0) & 0x02;
> +       return RTL_R8(IBISR0) & 0x20;
>  }
>
>  static void rtl8168ep_stop_cmac(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
>  {
>         void __iomem *ioaddr = tp->mmio_addr;
>
>         RTL_W8(IBCR2, RTL_R8(IBCR2) & ~0x01);
> -       rtl_msleep_loop_wait_low(tp, &rtl_ocp_tx_cond, 50, 2000);
> +       rtl_msleep_loop_wait_high(tp, &rtl_ocp_tx_cond, 50, 2000);
>         RTL_W8(IBISR0, RTL_R8(IBISR0) | 0x20);
>         RTL_W8(IBCR0, RTL_R8(IBCR0) & ~0x01);
>  }
>
> Thanks.
>

Yes. It completes the initialization in 70 ms. So it means the rtl_ocp_tx_cond
are waiting for incorrect register bit? Can you help work out a patch for this?

Chris


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Chiu [mailto:chiu@...lessm.com]
>> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 6:12 PM
>> To: nic_swsd <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>; netdev@...r.kernel.org; Linux
>> Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>; Linux Upstreaming Team
>> <linux@...lessm.com>
>> Subject: Re: r8169 take too long to complete driver initialization
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Chris Chiu <chiu@...lessm.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Chris Chiu <chiu@...lessm.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>     We've hit a suspend/resume issue on a Acer desktop caused by
>> >> r8169 driver. The dmseg
>> >> https://gist.github.com/mschiu77/b741849b5070281daaead8dfee312d1a
>> >> shows it's still in msleep() within a mutex lock.
>> >>     After looking into the code, it's caused by the
>> >> rtl8168ep_stop_cmac() which is waiting 100 seconds for
>> >> rtl_ocp_tx_cond. The following dmesg states that the r8169 driver is
>> >> loaded.
>> >>
>> >> [   20.270526] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
>> >>
>> >> But it takes > 100 seconds to get the following messages
>> >>
>> >> [  140.400223] r8169 0000:02:00.0 (unnamed net_device)
>> >> (uninitialized): rtl_ocp_tx_cond == 1 (loop: 2000, delay: 50).
>> >> [  140.413294] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: RTL8168ep/8111ep at
>> >> 0xffffb16c80db1000, f8:0f:41:ea:74:0d, XID 10200800 IRQ 46 [
>> >> 140.413297] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200
>> >> bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
>> >>
>> >> So any trial to suspend the machine during this period would always
>> >> get device/resource busy message then abort. Is this  rtl_ocp_tx_cond
>> >> necessary? Because the ethernet is still working and I don't see any
>> >> problem. I don't know it should be considered normal or not. Please
>> >> let me know if any more information required. Thanks
>> >>
>> >> Chris
>> >
>> > gentle ping,
>> >
>> > cheers.
>>
>> Hi,
>>     Just found a r8168 driver which seems to be authrized by realtek for cross
>> comparison. I tried applying the patch to latest 4.15 kernel and the driver
>> done it's initialization in faily short time. The patch file is here
>>     https://gist.github.com/mschiu77/fcf406e64a1a437f46cf2be643f1057d.
>>
>>     In mainline r8169.c, the IBISR0 register need to be polled in the
>> rtl8168ep_stop_cmac().
>> In the patch file, there's also the same IBISR0 polling code in
>> Dash2DisableTx(), but it's been bypassed since the chipset maches
>> HW_DASH_SUPPORT_TYPE_2.
>> Per the rtl_chip_info[] in r8168_n.c, CFG_METHOD_23/27/28 are
>> HW_DASH_SUPPORT_TYPE_2, and they happens to be the only 3 named
>> RTL8168EP/8111EP in the rtl_chip_info[].
>>
>>     To find the same matches in r8169.c, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_49/50/51
>> seems share the same config. Can anyone clarify if the rtl_ocp_tx_cond()
>> really necessary for 8168EP/8111EP?
>> Or we can just ignore the condition check for RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_49/50/51?
>>
>> Chris
>>
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