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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 02:26:50 +0100
From: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
Alexander 'lynxis' Couzens <lynxis@...0.eu>,
Chukun Pan <amadeus@....edu.cn>,
John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Subject: Re: Convention regarding SGMII in-band autonegotiation
Hi Russell,
On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 08:05:32PM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 03:46:41PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 12:56:40PM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > [...]
> > Why do you think it doesn't re-enable in-band AN?
> >
> > gpy_update_interface() does this when called at various speeds:
> >
> > if SPEED_2500, it clears VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL_ANEN
> >
> > if SPEED_1000, SPEED_100, or SPEED_10, it sets VSPEC1_SGMII_ANEN_ANRS
> > and VSPEC1_SGMII_ANEN_ANRS is both the VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL_ANEN and
> > VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL_ANRS bits.
> >
> > So the situation you talk about, when switching to 2500base-X,
> > VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL_ANEN will be cleared, but when switching back to
> > SGMII mode, VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL_ANEN will be set again.
> >
> > To be honest, when I was reviewing the patch adding this support back
> > in June 2021, that also got me, and I was wondering whether
> > VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL_ANEN was being set afterwards... it's just the
> > macro naming makes it look like it doesn't. But VSPEC1_SGMII_ANEN_ANRS
> > contains both ANEN and ANRS bits.
>
> Ok, I see it also now. So at least that works somehow.
>
> Yet switching on Cisco SGMII in-band-status (which is what
> VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL_ANEN means) deliberately in a PHY driver which is
> connected to a MAC looks wrong. As we are inside a PHY driver we
> obviously have access to this PHY via MDIO and could just as well use
> out-of-band status.
>
> And it cannot work in this way with MAC drivers which are expected
> to only use Cisco SGMII in-band-status in case of MLO_AN_INBAND being
> set.
>
> > [...]
> > > I'm afraid we will need some kind of feature flag to indicate that a
> > > MAC driver is known to behave according to convention with regards to
> > > SGMII in-band-status being switched off and only in that case have the
> > > PHY driver do the same, and otherwhise stick with the existing
> > > codepaths and potentially unknown hardware-default behavior
> > > (ie. another mess like the pre_march2020 situation...)
> >
> > Yes. Thankfully, it's something that, provided the PCS implementations
> > are all the same, at least phylink users should be consistent and we
> > don't need another flag in pl->config to indicate anything. We just
> > tell phylib that we're phylink and be done with it.
>
> Ok, so this would work in both realtek and mxl-phy phy driver
> .config_init function (pseudo-code):
>
> if (phydev->phylink &&
> !phylink_autoneg_inband(phydev->phylink->cur_link_an_mode))
> switch_off_inband_status(phydev);
>
Ok, so obviously that was a bit naive.
phydev->phylink has not yet been populated at the time when
.config_init is called. So using !!phydev->phylink as a flag to
indicate that "we're phylink" may work later on, like in .read_status,
.config_aneg or .link_change_notify. But it won't work for .soft_reset
and .config_init because both are called before phydev->phylink has
been set.
Hence going down this path will be sufficient to allow mxl-gpy.c to
switch off SGMII in-band-status in case phylink is being used (see RFC
patch below).
However, it won't be sufficient to decide whether or not to reset an
RTL822x 2.5G PHY or if rate-adaption should be switched off in
.config_init. Unfortunately, without having called genphy_soft_reset
the current .read_status implementation won't work properly in case
vendor bootloader had previously re-programmed the RTL8221B PHY...
Please advise if the patch below would be acceptable:
>From 83f55b669300ca641f5f9397f30578a7013b0d7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 23:36:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH RFC] net: phy: mxl-gpy: don't use SGMII AN if using phylink
MAC drivers using phylink expect SGMII in-band-status to be switched off
when attached to a PHY. Make sure this is the case also for mxl-gpy which
keeps SGMII in-band-status in case of SGMII interface mode is used.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
---
drivers/net/phy/mxl-gpy.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mxl-gpy.c b/drivers/net/phy/mxl-gpy.c
index 8e6bb97b5f85c..0544b0d5b0f75 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mxl-gpy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mxl-gpy.c
@@ -355,8 +355,11 @@ static bool gpy_2500basex_chk(struct phy_device *phydev)
phydev->speed = SPEED_2500;
phydev->interface = PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_2500BASEX;
- phy_modify_mmd(phydev, MDIO_MMD_VEND1, VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL,
- VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL_ANEN, 0);
+
+ if (!phydev->phylink)
+ phy_modify_mmd(phydev, MDIO_MMD_VEND1, VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL,
+ VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL_ANEN, 0);
+
return true;
}
@@ -407,6 +410,14 @@ static int gpy_config_aneg(struct phy_device *phydev)
u32 adv;
int ret;
+ /* Disable SGMII auto-negotiation if using phylink */
+ if (phydev->phylink) {
+ ret = phy_modify_mmd(phydev, MDIO_MMD_VEND1, VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL,
+ VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL_ANEN, 0);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+ }
+
if (phydev->autoneg == AUTONEG_DISABLE) {
/* Configure half duplex with genphy_setup_forced,
* because genphy_c45_pma_setup_forced does not support.
@@ -529,6 +540,8 @@ static int gpy_update_interface(struct phy_device *phydev)
switch (phydev->speed) {
case SPEED_2500:
phydev->interface = PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_2500BASEX;
+ if (phydev->phylink)
+ break;
ret = phy_modify_mmd(phydev, MDIO_MMD_VEND1, VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL,
VSPEC1_SGMII_CTRL_ANEN, 0);
if (ret < 0) {
@@ -542,7 +555,7 @@ static int gpy_update_interface(struct phy_device *phydev)
case SPEED_100:
case SPEED_10:
phydev->interface = PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_SGMII;
- if (gpy_sgmii_aneg_en(phydev))
+ if (phydev->phylink || gpy_sgmii_aneg_en(phydev))
break;
/* Enable and restart SGMII ANEG for 10/100/1000Mbps link speed
* if ANEG is disabled (in 2500-BaseX mode).
--
2.40.0
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