Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: qcom: sa8540p-ride: Specify ethernet phy OUI

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On 8.06.2023 22:15, Andrew Halaney wrote:
> With wider usage on more boards, there have been reports of the
> following:
> 
>     [  315.016174] qcom-ethqos 20000.ethernet eth0: no phy at addr -1
>     [  315.016179] qcom-ethqos 20000.ethernet eth0: __stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19)
> 
> which has been fairly random and isolated to specific boards.
> Early reports were written off as a hardware issue, but it has been
> prevalent enough on boards that theory seems unlikely.
> 
> In bring up of a newer piece of hardware, similar was seen, but this
> time _consistently_. Moving the reset to the mdio bus level (which isn't
> exactly a lie, it is the only device on the bus so one could model it as
> such) fixed things on that platform. Analysis on sa8540p-ride shows that
> the phy's reset is not being handled during the OUI scan if the reset
> lives in the phy node:
> 
>     # gpio 752 is the reset, and is active low, first mdio reads are the OUI
>     modprobe-420     [006] .....   154.738544: mdio_access: stmmac-0 read  phy:0x08 reg:0x02 val:0x0141
>     modprobe-420     [007] .....   154.738665: mdio_access: stmmac-0 read  phy:0x08 reg:0x03 val:0x0dd4
>     modprobe-420     [004] .....   154.741357: gpio_value: 752 set 1
>     modprobe-420     [004] .....   154.741358: gpio_direction: 752 out (0)
>     modprobe-420     [004] .....   154.741360: gpio_value: 752 set 0
>     modprobe-420     [006] .....   154.762751: gpio_value: 752 set 1
>     modprobe-420     [007] .....   154.846857: gpio_value: 752 set 1
>     modprobe-420     [004] .....   154.937824: mdio_access: stmmac-0 write phy:0x08 reg:0x0d val:0x0003
>     modprobe-420     [004] .....   154.937932: mdio_access: stmmac-0 write phy:0x08 reg:0x0e val:0x0014
> 
> Moving it to the bus level, or specifying the OUI in the phy's
> compatible ensures the reset is handled before any mdio access
> Here is tracing with the OUI approach (which skips scanning the OUI):
> 
>     modprobe-549     [007] .....    63.860295: gpio_value: 752 set 1
>     modprobe-549     [007] .....    63.860297: gpio_direction: 752 out (0)
>     modprobe-549     [007] .....    63.860299: gpio_value: 752 set 0
>     modprobe-549     [004] .....    63.882599: gpio_value: 752 set 1
>     modprobe-549     [005] .....    63.962132: gpio_value: 752 set 1
>     modprobe-549     [006] .....    64.049379: mdio_access: stmmac-0 write phy:0x08 reg:0x0d val:0x0003
>     modprobe-549     [006] .....    64.049490: mdio_access: stmmac-0 write phy:0x08 reg:0x0e val:0x0014
> 
> The OUI approach is taken given the description matches the situation
> perfectly (taken from ethernet-phy.yaml):
> 
>     - pattern: "^ethernet-phy-id[a-f0-9]{4}\\.[a-f0-9]{4}$"
>       description:
>         If the PHY reports an incorrect ID (or none at all) then the
>         compatible list may contain an entry with the correct PHY ID
>         in the above form.
>         The first group of digits is the 16 bit Phy Identifier 1
>         register, this is the chip vendor OUI bits 3:18. The
>         second group of digits is the Phy Identifier 2 register,
>         this is the chip vendor OUI bits 19:24, followed by 10
>         bits of a vendor specific ID.
> 
> With this in place the sa8540p-ride's phy is probing consistently, so
> it seems the floating reset during mdio access was the issue. In either
> case, it shouldn't be floating so this improves the situation. The below
> link discusses some of the relationship of mdio, its phys, and points to
> this OUI compatible as a way to opt out of the OUI scan pre-reset
> handling which influenced this decision.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/dca54c57-a3bd-1147-63b2-4631194963f0@xxxxxxxxx/
> Fixes: 57827e87be54 ("arm64: dts: qcom: sa8540p-ride: Add ethernet nodes")
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxx>

Konrad
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sa8540p-ride.dts | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sa8540p-ride.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sa8540p-ride.dts
> index 21e9eaf914dd..5a26974dcf8f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sa8540p-ride.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sa8540p-ride.dts
> @@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ mdio {
>  
>  		/* Marvell 88EA1512 */
>  		rgmii_phy: phy@8 {
> +			compatible = "ethernet-phy-id0141.0dd4";
>  			reg = <0x8>;
>  
>  			interrupts-extended = <&tlmm 127 IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_FALLING>;



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