From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bert Lindner Subject: Re: 4.5.0 on sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2: libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found (regression from rc7) Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 17:47:05 +0200 Message-ID: <574082F9.7010702@a20.net> References: <56E9413D.9010902@a20.net> <56E945FF.6080005@arm.com> <56E94CF4.2060607@arm.com> <56E95B57.1090100@suse.de> <56E9776F.3070102@a20.net> <56E99B0C.2070609@arm.com> <56E9F2B8.1030605@a20.net> <20160317075202.16b14ed6@arm.com> <573EC33D.2010209@arm.com> <573EC77A.2000800@st.com> <573EE8B4.1050701@arm.com> Reply-To: bert-phGP8mJ4Mqk@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Alexandre Torgue , Maxime Ripard , Robin Murphy , =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_F=c3=a4rber?= , linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, "netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , linux-sunxi-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To: Marc Zyngier , Andre Heider , Giuseppe CAVALLARO Return-path: Sender: linux-sunxi-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org In-Reply-To: <573EE8B4.1050701-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org> List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi, On 2016-05-20 12:36, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 20/05/16 11:30, Andre Heider wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Giuseppe CAVALLARO >> wrote: >>> On 5/20/2016 9:56 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>>> >>>> On 20/05/16 06:44, Andre Heider wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Giuseppe, Alexandre, et al., >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Marc Zyngier >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:56:40 +0100 >>>>>> Bert Lindner wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 2016-03-16 18:42, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 16/03/16 15:10, Bert Lindner wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 2016-03-16 14:10, Andreas F=C3=A4rber wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Am 16.03.2016 um 13:09 schrieb Robin Murphy: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On 16/03/16 11:39, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> On 16/03/16 11:19, Bert Lindner wrote: >>>>> >>>>> ... >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> For the board sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2, there seems to be a >>>>>>>>>>>>> problem >>>>>>>>>>>>> with the eth0 PHY in mainline kernel 4.5.0 that developed sin= ce >>>>>>>>>>>>> 4.5.0-rc7. Ethernet does not work, although eth0 is reported: >>>>> >>>>> ... >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> [ 9.767125] NET: Registered protocol family 10 >>>>>>>>>>>>> [ 10.357405] libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found >>>>>>>>>>>>> [ 10.362382] eth0: Could not attach to PHY >>>>>>>>>>>>> [ 10.366557] stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19) >>>>> >>>>> ... >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> v4 fixes for 4.5 are here: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598195/ (revert) >>>>>>>>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598196/ >>>>> >>>>> ... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Good to know, thanks. Could you also give the potential fix a go (= as >>>>>>>> mentioned by Andreas)? Just to make sure that whatever gets merged >>>>>>>> next >>>>>>>> will actually fix the issue. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yes sure, it took a while because I had to travel. Confirmed, the >>>>>>> v4-for-4.5 fix works well for me, on sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> root@lime2-079f:~# cat /proc/version >>>>>>> Linux version 4.5.0-598195-598196-v4 (root@lime2-079f) (gcc version >>>>>>> 4.9.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) ) #1 SMP Wed Mar 16 16:44:22 = UTC >>>>>>> 2016 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> dmesg: >>>>>>> [ 8.245273] NET: Registered protocol family 10 >>>>>>> [ 9.297406] RX IPC Checksum Offload disabled >>>>>>> [ 9.297460] No MAC Management Counters available >>>>>>> [ 9.297951] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready >>>>>>> [ 16.285658] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - >>>>>>> 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx >>>>>>> [ 16.285798] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes re= ady >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The board is connected to my laptop rather than to a switch, so tha= t >>>>>>> might be where the flow control message comes from (not sure). Anyw= ay >>>>>>> ethernet works. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Cool, many thanks for taking the time to test and report. >>>>>> >>>>>> Hopefully Giuseppe will get this merged quickly enough in mainline, = and >>>>>> it should then trickle into a 4.5-stable release (cc-ing stable on >>>>>> these patches would probably be a good idea, BTW). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> stmmac is broken on at least Lime2, BananaPi and Cubieboard2 since >>>>> v4.5 [0], including all five stable releases :( >>>> >>>> >>>> All the A20 platforms are dead, actually. >>>> >>>>> The v4.5 patches quoted above are already +4 weeks old, could we >>>>> please get them into stable? >>>> >>>> >>>> For that, the maintainer would have needed to CC stable, which he >>>> didn't. I'd expect someone who cares to send these patches to stable. >>>> It'd be better if the maintainer would do it himself though. >>> >>> >>> sure, I can send the patches to stable (sorry if I missed to add >>> stable ML on CC). >>> >>> Andre, I have not clear if the train of patches actually fix the >>> issue or if you need my support to fix something else. In that case >>> I need some input for debugging (e.g. kernel log). >> >> Bert already confirmed that those two patches fixes stmmac on his >> Lime2, so I assume that it fixes the issue for all A20 platforms. >> >>> let me know, is it enough to re-send the patches only? >> >> Just a resend with cc:stable :) > > Not quite. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, and the > section that concerns networking patches (and then consult > Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt which has all the details). FWIW, recent 4.6-rc series and 4.6.0 have worked fine for me and the=20 lime2. Had not tried 4.5.x again. 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From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bert@a20.net (Bert Lindner) Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 17:47:05 +0200 Subject: 4.5.0 on sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2: libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found (regression from rc7) In-Reply-To: <573EE8B4.1050701@arm.com> References: <56E9413D.9010902@a20.net> <56E945FF.6080005@arm.com> <56E94CF4.2060607@arm.com> <56E95B57.1090100@suse.de> <56E9776F.3070102@a20.net> <56E99B0C.2070609@arm.com> <56E9F2B8.1030605@a20.net> <20160317075202.16b14ed6@arm.com> <573EC33D.2010209@arm.com> <573EC77A.2000800@st.com> <573EE8B4.1050701@arm.com> Message-ID: <574082F9.7010702@a20.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi, On 2016-05-20 12:36, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 20/05/16 11:30, Andre Heider wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Giuseppe CAVALLARO >> wrote: >>> On 5/20/2016 9:56 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>>> >>>> On 20/05/16 06:44, Andre Heider wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Giuseppe, Alexandre, et al., >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Marc Zyngier >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:56:40 +0100 >>>>>> Bert Lindner wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 2016-03-16 18:42, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 16/03/16 15:10, Bert Lindner wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 2016-03-16 14:10, Andreas F?rber wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Am 16.03.2016 um 13:09 schrieb Robin Murphy: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On 16/03/16 11:39, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> On 16/03/16 11:19, Bert Lindner wrote: >>>>> >>>>> ... >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> For the board sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2, there seems to be a >>>>>>>>>>>>> problem >>>>>>>>>>>>> with the eth0 PHY in mainline kernel 4.5.0 that developed since >>>>>>>>>>>>> 4.5.0-rc7. Ethernet does not work, although eth0 is reported: >>>>> >>>>> ... >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> [ 9.767125] NET: Registered protocol family 10 >>>>>>>>>>>>> [ 10.357405] libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found >>>>>>>>>>>>> [ 10.362382] eth0: Could not attach to PHY >>>>>>>>>>>>> [ 10.366557] stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19) >>>>> >>>>> ... >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> v4 fixes for 4.5 are here: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598195/ (revert) >>>>>>>>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598196/ >>>>> >>>>> ... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Good to know, thanks. Could you also give the potential fix a go (as >>>>>>>> mentioned by Andreas)? Just to make sure that whatever gets merged >>>>>>>> next >>>>>>>> will actually fix the issue. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yes sure, it took a while because I had to travel. Confirmed, the >>>>>>> v4-for-4.5 fix works well for me, on sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> root at lime2-079f:~# cat /proc/version >>>>>>> Linux version 4.5.0-598195-598196-v4 (root at lime2-079f) (gcc version >>>>>>> 4.9.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) ) #1 SMP Wed Mar 16 16:44:22 UTC >>>>>>> 2016 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> dmesg: >>>>>>> [ 8.245273] NET: Registered protocol family 10 >>>>>>> [ 9.297406] RX IPC Checksum Offload disabled >>>>>>> [ 9.297460] No MAC Management Counters available >>>>>>> [ 9.297951] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready >>>>>>> [ 16.285658] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - >>>>>>> 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx >>>>>>> [ 16.285798] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The board is connected to my laptop rather than to a switch, so that >>>>>>> might be where the flow control message comes from (not sure). Anyway >>>>>>> ethernet works. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Cool, many thanks for taking the time to test and report. >>>>>> >>>>>> Hopefully Giuseppe will get this merged quickly enough in mainline, and >>>>>> it should then trickle into a 4.5-stable release (cc-ing stable on >>>>>> these patches would probably be a good idea, BTW). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> stmmac is broken on at least Lime2, BananaPi and Cubieboard2 since >>>>> v4.5 [0], including all five stable releases :( >>>> >>>> >>>> All the A20 platforms are dead, actually. >>>> >>>>> The v4.5 patches quoted above are already +4 weeks old, could we >>>>> please get them into stable? >>>> >>>> >>>> For that, the maintainer would have needed to CC stable, which he >>>> didn't. I'd expect someone who cares to send these patches to stable. >>>> It'd be better if the maintainer would do it himself though. >>> >>> >>> sure, I can send the patches to stable (sorry if I missed to add >>> stable ML on CC). >>> >>> Andre, I have not clear if the train of patches actually fix the >>> issue or if you need my support to fix something else. In that case >>> I need some input for debugging (e.g. kernel log). >> >> Bert already confirmed that those two patches fixes stmmac on his >> Lime2, so I assume that it fixes the issue for all A20 platforms. >> >>> let me know, is it enough to re-send the patches only? >> >> Just a resend with cc:stable :) > > Not quite. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, and the > section that concerns networking patches (and then consult > Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.txt which has all the details). FWIW, recent 4.6-rc series and 4.6.0 have worked fine for me and the lime2. Had not tried 4.5.x again. Best, -bert