Re: [Regression in 2.6.29] forcedeth doesn't work after resume from hibernation (was: Re: Resume after hibernation regression in 2.6.29)

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On Saturday 04 April 2009, Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2009 18:41:12 Ed Swierk wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 08:24 -0700, Ed Swierk wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > I was able to reproduce the problem and identify the commit that broke
> > > > the resume of forcedeth, which turned out to be:
> > > >
> > > > commit cb52deba12f27af90a46d2f8667a64888118a888
> > > > Author: Ed Swierk <eswierk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Date:   Mon Dec 1 12:24:43 2008 +0000
> > > >
> > > >    forcedeth: power down phy when interface is down
> > > >
> > > >    Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >    Tested-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Since I have no slightest idea of what this commit is supposed to
> > > > achieve, I can only ask for reverting it.  It reverts cleanly, BTW.
> > >
> > > The change causes forcedeth to bring down the physical link when an
> > > interface goes down; leaving it up causes the switch at the other end
> > > to think the port is still active, with potentially random speed and
> > > duplex parameters.
> > >
> > > It's possible that the forcedeth driver needs to reset autonegotiation
> > > after bringing it up the link again.
> > >
> > > Can you please try this on a 2.6.29 kernel that's exhibiting the
> > > symptoms you describe, after resuming the machine from hibernation:
> > >
> > >   ethtool -s eth1 autoneg off speed 100 duplex full
> > >   ethtool -s eth1 autoneg on
> > >
> > > This should reset autonegotiation manually and bring the link. Let me
> > > know how it goes.
> >
> > Also please try this patch; it fixes the problem on my test system (a
> > DFI board with an nVidia MCP55).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > --
> > --- linux-2.6.29.x86_64/drivers/net/forcedeth.c.orig	2009-03-23
> > 16:12:14.000000000 -0700 +++
> > linux-2.6.29.x86_64/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2009-04-03 10:11:26.839614710
> > -0700 @@ -5995,6 +5995,9 @@
> >  	for (i = 0;i <= np->register_size/sizeof(u32); i++)
> >  		writel(np->saved_config_space[i], base+i*sizeof(u32));
> >
> > +	/* restore phy state, including autoneg */
> > +	phy_init(dev);
> > +
> >  	netif_device_attach(dev);
> >  	if (netif_running(dev)) {
> >  		rc = nv_open(dev);
> 
> Works for me on MCP73 as well.

Great, thanks for testing.

I think the patch should go to Linus ASAP and to -stable as a regression fix.

Thanks,
Rafael
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