Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] fix macb phy probe failure if phy-reset is not handled

[David Abdurachmanov <david.abdurachmanov@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 5:42 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 02:16:54 PST (-0800), schwab@linux-m68k.org wrote:
> > On Jan 13 2021, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:22:09 PST (-0800), sagar.kadam@sifive.com wrote:
> >>> HiFive Unleashed is having VSC8541-01 ethernet phy device and requires a
> >>> specific reset sequence of 0-1-0-1 in order to use it in unmanaged mode.
> >>> This series addresses a corner case where phy reset is not handled by boot
> >>> stages prior to linux.
> >>> Somewhat similar unreliable phy probe failure was reported and discussed
> >>> here [1].
> >>> The macb driver fails to detect the ethernet phy device if the bootloader
> >>> doesn't provide a proper reset sequence to the phy device or the phy itself
> >>> is in some invalid state. Currently, the FSBL or u-boot-spl is resetting
> >>> the phy device, and so there is no issue observed in the linux network
> >>> setup.
> >>>
> >>> The series is based on linux-5.10-rc5.
> >>> Patch 1: Add the OUI to the phy dt node to fix issue of missing mdio device
> >>> Patch 2 and 3:
> >>>     Resetting phy needs GPIO support so add to dt and defconfig.
> >>>
> >>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/29/154
> >>>
> >>> To reproduce the issue:
> >>> Using FSBL:
> >>> 1. Comment out VSC8541 reset sequence in fsbl/main.c
> >>>    from within the freedom-u540-c000-bootloader.
> >>> 2. Build and flash fsbl.bin to micro sdcard.
> >>>
> >>> Using u-boot:
> >>> 1. Comment out VSC8541 reset sequence in board/sifive/fu540/spl.c
> >>>    from mainline u-boot source code.
> >>> 2. Build and flash u-boot binaries to micro sdcard.
> >>>
> >>> Boot the board and bootlog will show network setup failure messages as:
> >>>
> >>> [  1.069474] libphy: MACB_mii_bus: probed
> >>> [  1.073092] mdio_bus 10090000.ethernet-ffffffff: MDIO device at address 0
> >>>            is missing
> >>> .....
> >>> [  1.979252] macb 10090000.ethernet eth0: Could not attach PHY (-19)
> >>>
> >>> 3. Now apply the series build, and boot kernel.
> >>> 4. MACB and VSC8541 driver get successfully probed and the network is set
> >>>    without any failure.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> So irrespective of whether the prior stages handle the phy reset sequence,
> >>> the probing is successful in both the cases of cold boot and warm boot.
> >>>
> >>> Change History:
> >>> ===============================
> >>> V2:
> >>> -Rebased v1 on linux kernel v5.10-rc3.
> >>>
> >>> V1:
> >>> -Ignore 4th patch as suggested and so removed it from the series.
> >>> -Verified this series on 5.7-rc5.
> >>>
> >>> V0: Base RFC patch. Verified on 5.7-rc2
> >>>
> >>> Sagar Shrikant Kadam (3):
> >>>   dts: phy: fix missing mdio device and probe failure of vsc8541-01
> >>>     device
> >>>   dts: phy: add GPIO number and active state used for phy reset
> >>>   riscv: defconfig: enable gpio support for HiFive Unleashed
> >>>
> >>>  arch/riscv/boot/dts/sifive/hifive-unleashed-a00.dts | 2 ++
> >>>  arch/riscv/configs/defconfig                        | 2 ++
> >>>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> David pointed out I missed these, they're on fixes.  Thanks!
> >
> > This is now on 5.10.12, and breaks ethernet on the Hifive Unleashed:
> >
> > [   12.777976] macb 10090000.ethernet: Registered clk switch 'sifive-gemgxl-mgmt'
> > [   12.784559] macb 10090000.ethernet: GEM doesn't support hardware ptp.
> > [   12.791629] libphy: MACB_mii_bus: probed
> > [   12.919728] MACsec IEEE 802.1AE
> > [   12.984676] macb 10090000.ethernet eth0: Cadence GEM rev 0x10070109 at 0x10090000 irq 16 (70:b3:d5:92:f1:07)
> > [   14.030319] Microsemi VSC8541 SyncE 10090000.ethernet-ffffffff:00: phy_poll_reset failed: -110
> > [   14.038986] macb 10090000.ethernet eth0: Could not attach PHY (-110)
>
> Sorry about that.  Looks like we forgot to add the special reset sequence to
> the VSC8541, which the driver doesn't yet support (there's a thread about it,
> but I guess I forgot to clean up the patch).  IIUC this should manifest on
> master as well, so my guess is that nobody is testing the HiFive Unleashed any
> more (probably a bad sign).

BayLibre has Unleashed connected to KernelCI. I did notice:

[..]
08:24:37.572482  <3>[    2.022855] Microsemi VSC8541 SyncE
10090000.ethernet-ffffffff:00: phy_poll_reset failed: -110
08:24:37.574273  <3>[    2.031882] macb 10090000.ethernet eth0: Could
not attach PHY (-110)
08:24:37.575304  <3>[    2.037772] IP-Config: Failed to open eth0
08:24:37.576087  <3>[    2.042087] IP-Config: No network devices available
08:24:37.576863  <6>[    2.053662] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2144K
08:24:37.577412  <6>[    2.057794] Run /init as init process
[..]

in KCIDB.

I don't use KernelCI extensively, but today at FOSDEM I was told that
KernelCI also incl. "including maintainer ones".

I guess the idea would be to check and ensure that all relevant trees
are tested in KernelCI.


>
> I'll send out a revert.  I looked at the GPIO driver and can't tell if it's
> twiddling GPIO lines when probed, in which case just enabling the GPIO would
> break the ethernet.  Hopefully we're OK with the GPIO driver enabled.
>
> Thanks for testing this.
>
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