Re: [PATCH] r8169: introduce polling method for link change

On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 6:00 PM Heiner Kallweit [off-list ref] wrote:

On 03.06.2021 04:54, Koba Ko wrote:

quoted

For RTL8106E, it's a Fast-ethernet chip.
If ASPM is enabled, the link chang interrupt wouldn't be triggered
immediately and must wait a very long time to get link change interrupt.
Even the link change interrupt isn't triggered, the phy link is already
established.

At first please provide a full dmesg log and output of lspci -vv.
Do you have the firmware for the NIC loaded? Please provide "ethtool -i <if>"
output.

please get the logs from here,
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213165

Does the issue affect link-down and/or link-up detection?
Do you have runtime pm enabled? Then, after 10s of link-down NIC goes to
D3hot and link-up detection triggers a PME.

Issue affect link-up.
yes, pm runtime is enabled, but rtl8106e always stays D0 even if the
cable isn't present.

quoted

Introduce a polling method to watch the status of phy link and disable
the link change interrupt.
Also add a quirk for those realtek devices have the same issue.

Which are the affected chip versions? Did you check with Realtek?
Your patch switches to polling for all Fast Ethernet versions,
and that's not what we want.

I don't know the exact version, only the chip name 806e(pci device id 0x8165).
ok, Im asking Realtek to help how to identify the chip issue is observed.

My suspicion would be that something is system-dependent. Else I think
we would have seen such a report before.

On the mainline, the aspm is disable, so you may not observe this.
If you enable ASPM and must wait CHIP go to power-saving mode, then
you can observe the issue.

quoted

Signed-off-by: Koba Ko <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.h      |   2 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 112 ++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.h
index 2728df46ec41..a8c71adb1b57 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.h

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/phy.h>

+#define RTL8169_LINK_TIMEOUT (1 * HZ)
+
 enum mac_version {
      /* support for ancient RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_01 has been removed */
      RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_02,

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
index 2c89cde7da1e..70aacc83d641 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c

@@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ static const struct pci_device_id rtl8169_pci_tbl[] = {

 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, rtl8169_pci_tbl);

+static const struct pci_device_id rtl8169_linkChg_polling_enabled[] = {
+     { PCI_VDEVICE(REALTEK, 0x8136), RTL_CFG_NO_GBIT },
+     { 0 }
+};
+

This doesn't seem to be used.

quoted

 enum rtl_registers {
      MAC0            = 0,    /* Ethernet hardware address. */
      MAC4            = 4,

@@ -618,6 +623,7 @@ struct rtl8169_private {
      u16 cp_cmd;
      u32 irq_mask;
      struct clk *clk;
+     struct timer_list link_timer;

      struct {
              DECLARE_BITMAP(flags, RTL_FLAG_MAX);

@@ -1179,6 +1185,16 @@ static void rtl8168ep_stop_cmac(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
      RTL_W8(tp, IBCR0, RTL_R8(tp, IBCR0) & ~0x01);
 }

+static int rtl_link_chng_polling_quirk(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
+{
+     struct pci_dev *pdev = tp->pci_dev;
+
+     if (pdev->vendor == 0x10ec && pdev->device == 0x8136 && !tp->supports_gmii)
+             return 1;
+
+     return 0;
+}
+
 static void rtl8168dp_driver_start(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
 {
      r8168dp_oob_notify(tp, OOB_CMD_DRIVER_START);

@@ -4608,6 +4624,75 @@ static void rtl_task(struct work_struct *work)
      rtnl_unlock();
 }

+static void r8169_phylink_handler(struct net_device *ndev)
+{
+     struct rtl8169_private *tp = netdev_priv(ndev);
+
+     if (netif_carrier_ok(ndev)) {
+             rtl_link_chg_patch(tp);
+             pm_request_resume(&tp->pci_dev->dev);
+     } else {
+             pm_runtime_idle(&tp->pci_dev->dev);
+     }
+
+     if (net_ratelimit())
+             phy_print_status(tp->phydev);
+}
+
+static unsigned int
+rtl8169_xmii_link_ok(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+     struct rtl8169_private *tp = netdev_priv(dev);
+     unsigned int retval;
+
+     retval = (RTL_R8(tp, PHYstatus) & LinkStatus) ? 1 : 0;
+
+     return retval;
+}
+
+static void
+rtl8169_check_link_status(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+     struct rtl8169_private *tp = netdev_priv(dev);
+     int link_status_on;
+
+     link_status_on = rtl8169_xmii_link_ok(dev);
+
+     if (netif_carrier_ok(dev) == link_status_on)
+             return;
+
+     phy_mac_interrupt(tp->phydev);
+
+     r8169_phylink_handler (dev);
+}
+
+static void rtl8169_link_timer(struct timer_list *t)
+{
+     struct rtl8169_private *tp = from_timer(tp, t, link_timer);
+     struct net_device *dev = tp->dev;
+     struct timer_list *timer = t;
+     unsigned long flags;

flags isn't used and triggers a compiler warning. Did you even
compile-test your patch?

quoted

+
+     rtl8169_check_link_status(dev);
+
+     if (timer_pending(&tp->link_timer))
+             return;
+
+     mod_timer(timer, jiffies + RTL8169_LINK_TIMEOUT);
+}
+
+static inline void rtl8169_delete_link_timer(struct net_device *dev, struct timer_list *timer)
+{
+     del_timer_sync(timer);
+}
+
+static inline void rtl8169_request_link_timer(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+     struct rtl8169_private *tp = netdev_priv(dev);
+
+     timer_setup(&tp->link_timer, rtl8169_link_timer, TIMER_INIT_FLAGS);
+}
+
 static int rtl8169_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
 {
      struct rtl8169_private *tp = container_of(napi, struct rtl8169_private, napi);

@@ -4624,21 +4709,6 @@ static int rtl8169_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
      return work_done;
 }

-static void r8169_phylink_handler(struct net_device *ndev)
-{
-     struct rtl8169_private *tp = netdev_priv(ndev);
-
-     if (netif_carrier_ok(ndev)) {
-             rtl_link_chg_patch(tp);
-             pm_request_resume(&tp->pci_dev->dev);
-     } else {
-             pm_runtime_idle(&tp->pci_dev->dev);
-     }
-
-     if (net_ratelimit())
-             phy_print_status(tp->phydev);
-}
-
 static int r8169_phy_connect(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
 {
      struct phy_device *phydev = tp->phydev;

@@ -4769,6 +4839,10 @@ static int rtl_open(struct net_device *dev)
              goto err_free_irq;

      rtl8169_up(tp);
+
+     if (rtl_link_chng_polling_quirk(tp))
+             mod_timer(&tp->link_timer, jiffies + RTL8169_LINK_TIMEOUT);
+
      rtl8169_init_counter_offsets(tp);
      netif_start_queue(dev);
 out:

@@ -4991,7 +5065,10 @@ static const struct net_device_ops rtl_netdev_ops = {

 static void rtl_set_irq_mask(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
 {
-     tp->irq_mask = RxOK | RxErr | TxOK | TxErr | LinkChg;
+     tp->irq_mask = RxOK | RxErr | TxOK | TxErr;
+
+     if (!rtl_link_chng_polling_quirk(tp))
+             tp->irq_mask |= LinkChg;

      if (tp->mac_version <= RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_06)
              tp->irq_mask |= SYSErr | RxOverflow | RxFIFOOver;

@@ -5436,6 +5513,9 @@ static int rtl_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
      if (pci_dev_run_wake(pdev))
              pm_runtime_put_sync(&pdev->dev);

+     if (rtl_link_chng_polling_quirk(tp))
+             rtl8169_request_link_timer(dev);
+
      return 0;
 }

All this isn't needed. If you want to switch to link status polling,
why don't you simply let phylib do it? PHY_MAC_INTERRUPT -> PHY_POLL

Thanks for suggestions, I tried to use PHY_POLL, it could do the same
thing that I did.

Your timer-based code most likely would have problems if runtime pm
is enabled. Then you try to read the link status whilst NIC is in
D3hot.