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Date:   Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:20:15 +0200
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@....net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Daniel Wagner <dwagner@...e.de>,
        Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
        linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lan78xx and phy_state_machine

On 14.10.2019 21:51, Stefan Wahren wrote:
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> Am 14.10.19 um 21:25 schrieb Daniel Wagner:
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 05:30:04PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 04:06:04PM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've trying to boot a RPi 3 Model B+ in 64 bit mode. While I can get
>>>> my configuratin booting with v5.2.20, the current kernel v5.3.6 hangs
>>>> when initializing the eth interface.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a know issue? Some configuration issues?
>>> I don't see any successfully probed ethernet devices in the boot log, so
>>> I've no idea which of the multitude of ethernet drivers to look at.  I
>>> thought maybe I could look at the DT, but I've no idea where
>>> "arm/bcm2837-rpi-3-b-plus.dts" is located, included by
>>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2837-rpi-3-b-plus.dts.
>> Sorry about being so terse. I thought, the RPi devices are well known. My bad.
>> Anyway, the kernel reports that is the lan78xx driver.
>>
>> ls -1 /sys/class/net/ | grep -v lo | xargs -n1 -I{} bash -c 'echo -n {} :" " ; basename `readlink -f /sys/class/net/{}/device/driver`'
>> eth0 : lan78xx
>>
>>> The oops is because the PHY state machine has been started, but there
>>> is no phydev->adjust_link set.  Can't say much more than that without
>>> knowing what the driver is doing.
>> This was a good tip! After a few printks I figured out what is happening.
>>
>> phy_connect_direct()
>>    phy_attach_direct()
>>      workqueue
>>        phy_check_link_status()
>>          phy_link_change
>>

Interesting is just what is special with your config that this issue
didn't occur yet on other systems.

>>
>> Moving the phy_prepare_link() up in phy_connect_direct() ensures that
>> phydev->adjust_link is set when the phy_check_link_status() is called.
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
>> b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c index 9d2bbb13293e..2a61812bcb0d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
>> @@ -951,11 +951,12 @@ int phy_connect_direct(struct net_device *dev,
>> struct phy_device *phydev, if (!dev) return -EINVAL;
>>
>> +       phy_prepare_link(phydev, handler);
>> +
>>         rc = phy_attach_direct(dev, phydev, phydev->dev_flags, interface);
>>         if (rc)

If phy_attach_direct() fails we may have to reset phydev->adjust_link to NULL,
as we do in phy_disconnect(). Apart from that change looks good to me.

>>                 return rc;
>>
>> -       phy_prepare_link(phydev, handler);
>>         if (phy_interrupt_is_valid(phydev))
>>                 phy_request_interrupt(phydev);
>>
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Heiner

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