Re: Crashes in -next due to 'phy: add support for a reset-gpio specification'

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

Hi Uwe,

On 05/22/2016 03:10 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 09:37:11PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> [    9.366256] libphy: ethoc-mdio: probed
>> [    9.367389]  (null): could not attach to PHY
>> [    9.368555]  (null): failed to probe MDIO bus
>> [    9.371540] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000001c
>> [    9.371540]  pc = d0320926, ra = 903209d1
>> [    9.375358] Oops: sig: 11 [#1]
>> [    9.376081] PREEMPT
>> [    9.377080] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.6.0-next-20160517 #1
>> [    9.378397] task: d7c2c000 ti: d7c30000 task.ti: d7c30000
>> [    9.379394] a00: 903209d1 d7c31bd0 d7fb5810 00000001 00000000 00000000 d7f45c00 d7c31bd0
>> [    9.382298] a08: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00060100 d04b0c10 d7f45dfc d7c31bb0
>> [    9.385732] pc: d0320926, ps: 00060110, depc: 00000018, excvaddr: 0000001c
>> [    9.387061] lbeg: d0322e35, lend: d0322e57 lcount: 00000000, sar: 00000011
>> [    9.388173]
>> Stack: d7c31be0 00060700 d7f45c00 d7c31bd0 9021d509 d7c31c30 d7f45c00 00000000
>>         d0485dcc d0485dcc d7fb5810 d7c2c000 00000000 d7c31c30 d7f45c00 d025befc
>>         d0485dcc d7c30000 d7f45c34 d7c31bf0 9021c985 d7c31c50 d7f45c00 d7f45c34
>> [    9.396652] Call Trace:
>> [    9.397469]  [<d021d4d9>] __device_release_driver+0x7d/0x98
>> [    9.398869]  [<d021d509>] device_release_driver+0x15/0x20
>> [    9.400247]  [<d021c985>] bus_remove_device+0xc1/0xd4
>> [    9.401569]  [<d021a935>] device_del+0x109/0x15c
>> [    9.402794]  [<d025c3f9>] phy_mdio_device_remove+0xd/0x18
>> [    9.404124]  [<d025d264>] mdiobus_unregister+0x40/0x5c
>> [    9.405444]  [<d025ff44>] ethoc_probe+0x534/0x5b8
>> [    9.406742]  [<d021e2e0>] platform_drv_probe+0x28/0x48
>> [    9.408122]  [<d021d1e5>] driver_probe_device+0x101/0x234
>> [    9.409499]  [<d021d395>] __driver_attach+0x7d/0x98
>> [    9.410809]  [<d021bd80>] bus_for_each_dev+0x30/0x5c
>> [    9.412104]  [<d021cdf0>] driver_attach+0x14/0x18
>> [    9.413385]  [<d021ca61>] bus_add_driver+0xc9/0x198
>> [    9.414686]  [<d021d7d4>] driver_register+0x70/0xa0
>> [    9.416001]  [<d021e2b4>] __platform_driver_register+0x24/0x28
>> [    9.417463]  [<d04a1d34>] ethoc_driver_init+0x10/0x14
>> [    9.418824]  [<d00032c8>] do_one_initcall+0x80/0x1ac
>> [    9.420083]  [<d049386d>] kernel_init_freeable+0x131/0x198
>> [    9.421504]  [<d03236e8>] kernel_init+0xc/0xb0
>> [    9.422693]  [<d000482c>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x8/0xc
>
> Guenter, can you please test if the following patch fixes your setup:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> index 307f72a0f2e2..efa85fb31574 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> @@ -1573,14 +1573,14 @@ static int phy_probe(struct device *dev)
>   	int err = 0;
>   	struct gpio_descs *reset_gpios;
>
> -	phydev->drv = phydrv;
> -
>   	/* take phy out of reset */
>   	reset_gpios = devm_gpiod_get_array_optional(dev, "reset",
>   						    GPIOD_OUT_LOW);
>   	if (IS_ERR(reset_gpios))
>   		return PTR_ERR(reset_gpios);
>
> +	phydev->drv = phydrv;
> +
>   	/* Disable the interrupt if the PHY doesn't support it
>   	 * but the interrupt is still a valid one
>   	 */
>
> This doesn't make your ethernet work, but at least the driver should
> fail in a clean way.
>
I tried, but it still fails with exactly the same error, meaning
it still crashes with the same traceback.

> Together with enabling GPIOLIB this should put ethernet in a working
> state again.
>

I am not exactly in favor of forcing GPIOLIB to be enabled for every
system with Ethernet support, just because a few of them may require
a gpio based phy reset. The same is true, really, for every other
driver using _optional gpiolib functions.

Personally, I think that the _optional functions in gpiolib _should_
return no error if gpiolib is not configured. After all, those
gpio pins _are_ supposed to be optional. gpiolib should be enabled
for affected configurations, ie on systems with gpio support which
do need the optional gpio pins. Forcing gpiolib to be enabled even
in systems with no gpio support seems to be a bit heavy-handed.
It just bloats the kernel on such systems with no added benefit.

Thanks,
Guenter