netdev - [PATCH RFC net-next 3/7] net: phy: move call to start aneg

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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:20:55 +0100
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc: Jijie Shao <shaojijie@...wei.com>,
	 shaojijie@...wei.com,
	 shenjian15@...wei.com,
	 liuyonglong@...wei.com,
	 wangjie125@...wei.com,
	 chenhao418@...wei.com,
	 lanhao@...wei.com,
	 wangpeiyang1@...wei.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC net-next 3/7] net: phy: move call to start aneg

Move the call to start auto-negotiation inside the lock in the PHYLIB
state machine, calling the locked variant _phy_start_aneg(). This
avoids unnecessarily releasing and re-acquiring the lock.

Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
index 990d387b31bd..5bb33af2a4cb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
@@ -1489,14 +1489,15 @@ void phy_state_machine(struct work_struct *work)
 		break;
 	}
 
+	if (needs_aneg) {
+		err = _phy_start_aneg(phydev);
+		func = &_phy_start_aneg;
+	}
+
 	mutex_unlock(&phydev->lock);
 
-	if (needs_aneg) {
-		err = phy_start_aneg(phydev);
-		func = &phy_start_aneg;
-	} else if (do_suspend) {
+	if (do_suspend)
 		phy_suspend(phydev);
-	}
 
 	if (err == -ENODEV)
 		return;
-- 
2.30.2