RE: Regression v5.12-rc3: net: stmmac: re-init rx buffers when mac resume back

[Joakim Zhang <qiangqing.zhang@nxp.com>]

Hi Jon,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
> Sent: 2021年4月13日 16:41
> To: Joakim Zhang <qiangqing.zhang@nxp.com>; Giuseppe Cavallaro
> <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>; Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>;
> Jose Abreu <joabreu@synopsys.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Linux Kernel Mailing List
> <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; linux-tegra <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>;
> Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: Regression v5.12-rc3: net: stmmac: re-init rx buffers when mac
> resume back
> 
> 
> On 01/04/2021 17:28, Jon Hunter wrote:
> >
> > On 31/03/2021 12:41, Joakim Zhang wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> >>> In answer to your question, resuming from suspend does work on this
> >>> board without your change. We have been testing suspend/resume now
> >>> on this board since Linux v5.8 and so we have the ability to bisect
> >>> such regressions. So it is clear to me that this is the change that caused
> this, but I am not sure why.
> >>
> >> Yes, I know this issue is regression caused by my patch. I just want to
> analyze the potential reasons. Due to the code change only related to the page
> recycle and reallocate.
> >> So I guess if this page operate need IOMMU works when IOMMU is enabled.
> Could you help check if IOMMU driver resume before STMMAC? Our common
> desire is to find the root cause, right?
> >
> >
> > Yes of course that is the desire here indeed. I had assumed that the
> > suspend/resume order was good because we have never seen any problems,
> > but nonetheless it is always good to check. Using ftrace I enabled
> > tracing of the appropriate suspend/resume functions and this is what I
> > see ...
> >
> > # tracer: function
> > #
> > # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 4/4   #P:6
> > #
> > #                                _-----=> irqs-off
> > #                               / _----=> need-resched
> > #                              | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
> > #                              || / _--=> preempt-depth
> > #                              ||| /     delay
> > #           TASK-PID     CPU#  ||||   TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
> > #              | |         |   ||||      |         |
> >          rtcwake-748     [000] ...1   536.700777:
> stmmac_pltfr_suspend <-platform_pm_suspend
> >          rtcwake-748     [000] ...1   536.735532:
> arm_smmu_pm_suspend <-platform_pm_suspend
> >          rtcwake-748     [000] ...1   536.757290:
> arm_smmu_pm_resume <-platform_pm_resume
> >          rtcwake-748     [003] ...1   536.856771:
> stmmac_pltfr_resume <-platform_pm_resume
> >
> >
> > So I don't see any ordering issues that could be causing this.
> 
> 
> Another thing I have found is that for our platform, if the driver for the ethernet
> PHY (in this case broadcom PHY) is enabled, then it fails to resume but if I
> disable the PHY in the kernel configuration, then resume works. I have found
> that if I move the reinit of the RX buffers to before the startup of the phy, then
> it can resume OK with the PHY enabled.
> 
> Does the following work for you? Does your platform use a specific ethernet
> PHY driver?

I am also looking into this issue these days, we use the Realtek RTL8211FDI PHY, driver is drivers/net/phy/realtek.c.

For our EQOS MAC integrated in our SoC, Rx side logic depends on RXC clock from PHY, so we need phylink_start before MAC.

I will test below code change tomorrow to see if it can work at my side, since it is only re-init memory, need not RXC clock.


> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> index 208cae344ffa..071d15d86dbe 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> @@ -5416,19 +5416,20 @@ int stmmac_resume(struct device *dev)
>                         return ret;
>         }
> +       rtnl_lock();
> +       mutex_lock(&priv->lock);
> +       stmmac_reinit_rx_buffers(priv);
> +       mutex_unlock(&priv->lock);
> +
>         if (!device_may_wakeup(priv->device) || !priv->plat->pmt) {
> -               rtnl_lock();
>                 phylink_start(priv->phylink);
>                 /* We may have called phylink_speed_down before */
>                 phylink_speed_up(priv->phylink);
> -               rtnl_unlock();
>         }
> -       rtnl_lock();
>         mutex_lock(&priv->lock);
>         stmmac_reset_queues_param(priv);
> -       stmmac_reinit_rx_buffers(priv);
>         stmmac_free_tx_skbufs(priv);
>         stmmac_clear_descriptors(priv);
> 
> 
> It is still not clear to us why the existing call to
> stmmac_clear_descriptors() is not sufficient to fix your problem.

During suspend/resume stress test, I found rx descriptor may not refill when system suspended, rx descriptor could be: 008 [0x00000000c4310080]: 0x0 0x40 0x0 0x34010040.
When system resume back, stmmac_clear_descriptors() would change this rx descriptor to: 008 [0x00000000c4310080]: 0x0 0x40 0x0 0xb5010040, a broken rx descriptor.
So at my side, stmmac_clear_descriptors() seems to be chief culprit. I have a idea if there is way to ensure all rx descriptors are refilled when suspend MAC.

> How often does the issue you see occur?
Suspend about 2000 times.

Best Regards,
Joakim Zhang
> Thanks
> Jon
> 
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