netdev - RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 net 2/2] net: stmmac: dwmac-imx: pause the TXC clock in fixed-link

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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:09:29 +0000
From: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@....com>
To: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, "Russell King (Oracle)"
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Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 net 2/2] net: stmmac: dwmac-imx: pause the
 TXC clock in fixed-link



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2023 10:36 AM
> To: Russell King (Oracle) <linux@...linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@...hat.com>; Shenwei Wang
> <shenwei.wang@....com>; David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>; Eric
> Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>; Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>; Paolo
> Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>; Maxime Coquelin
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> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 net 2/2] net: stmmac: dwmac-imx: pause the TXC
> clock in fixed-link
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> On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 04:22:19PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 01:36:45PM -0500, Andrew Halaney wrote:
> > > I don't have any documentation for the registers here, and as you
> > > can see I'm an amateur with respect to memory ordering based on my
> > > prior comment.
> > >
> > > But you:
> > >
> > >     1. Read intf_reg_off into variable iface
> > >     2. Write the RESET_SPEED for the appropriate mode to MAC_CTRL_REG
> > >     3. wmb() to ensure that write goes through
> >
> > I wonder about whether that wmb() is required. If the mapping is
> > device-like rather than memory-like, the write should be committed
> > before the read that regmap_update_bits() does according to the ARM
> > memory model. Maybe a bit of information about where this barrier has
> > come from would be good, and maybe getting it reviewed by the
> > arm64 barrier specialist, Will Deacon. :)
> >
> > wmb() is normally required to be paired with a rmb(), but we're not
> > talking about system memory here, so I also wonder whether wmb() is
> > the correct barrier to use.
>
> Yes, I don't think wmb() is the right thing here. If you need to ensure that the
> write to MAC_CTRL_REG has taken effect, then you'll need to go through some
> device-specific sequence which probably involves reading something back. If you
> just need things to arrive in order eventually, the memory type already gives you
> that.
>
> It's also worth pointing out that udelay() isn't necessarily ordered wrt MMIO
> writes, so that usleep_range() might need some help as well.
> Non-relaxed MMIO reads, however, _are_ ordered against a subsequent
> udelay(), so if you add the readback then this might all work out.
>

    1. Write RESET_SPEED
    2. Write 0 to MX93_GPR_ENET_QOS_INTF_MODE_MASK
    3. usleep_range()
    4. Restore MX93_GPR_ENET_QOS_CLK_GEN_EN | iface

In the above example, if a readback after step #2 could ensure sufficient time has passed
before step #4, the wmb() here should be abandoned.

Thanks,
Shenwei

> I gave a (slightly dated) talk about some of this at ELC a while back:
>
> https://www.yo/
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> which might help.
>
> Will