Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 1/3] Revert "e1000e: Additional PHY power saving in S0ix"

[Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>]

Hi, Vitaly,

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 11:22 PM Lifshits, Vitaly
<vitaly.lifshits@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Kai,
>
>
> We believe that simply reverting these patches is not a good idea. It will cause the driver to behave on a corporate system as if the CSME firmware is not there. This can lead to an unpredictable behavior in the long run.

I really don't want to revert the series either.

>
>
> The issue exposed by these patches is currently under active debug. We would like to find the root cause and fix it in a way that will still enable S0ix power savings on both corporate and consumer systems.

I am aware. But we've been waiting for the fix for a while, so I guess
it's better to revert the series now, and re-apply them when the fix
is ready.

Kai-Heng

>
>
> On 11/22/2021 18:19, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
>
> This reverts commit 3ad3e28cb203309fb29022dea41cd65df0583632.
>
> The s0ix series makes e1000e on TGL and ADL fails to work after s2idle
> resume.
>
> There doesn't seem to be any solution soon, so revert the whole series.
>
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214821
> Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
> index 44e2dc8328a22..e16b7c0d98089 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
> @@ -6380,16 +6380,10 @@ static void e1000e_s0ix_entry_flow(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
>   ew32(CTRL_EXT, mac_data);
>
>   /* DFT control: PHY bit: page769_20[0] = 1
> - * page769_20[7] - PHY PLL stop
> - * page769_20[8] - PHY go to the electrical idle
> - * page769_20[9] - PHY serdes disable
>   * Gate PPW via EXTCNF_CTRL - set 0x0F00[7] = 1
>   */
>   e1e_rphy(hw, I82579_DFT_CTRL, &phy_data);
>   phy_data |= BIT(0);
> - phy_data |= BIT(7);
> - phy_data |= BIT(8);
> - phy_data |= BIT(9);
>   e1e_wphy(hw, I82579_DFT_CTRL, phy_data);
>
>   mac_data = er32(EXTCNF_CTRL);