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>
---
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>;
--
2.40.1
