Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] arm64: rockchip: Initial GeekBox enablement

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On 9 March 2016 at 11:27, Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Tomeu, Andreas,
>
> On 3/9/2016 10:52 AM, Giuseppe CAVALLARO wrote:
>>>
>>> * today's linux-next: probe failed
>>>
>>> * today's linux-next + revert of 88f8b1bb41c6 stmmac: Fix 'eth0: No
>>> PHY found' regression: probe succeeded but no network at all
>>>
>>> * today's linux-next + revert of 88f8b1bb41c6 (stmmac: Fix 'eth0: No
>>> PHY found' regression) + revert of 0e80bdc9a72d (stmmac: first frame
>>> prep at the end of xmit routine): probe succeeded, dhcp succeeds and
>>> nfsroot works for a few seconds before timing out
>>
>>
>> ok, I was looking at this problem now that seems to related
>> the "stmmac: first frame prep at the end of xmit routine"
>> that, at first glance, is breaking the gmac 3.50 with normal descriptor.
>
>
> I have no Hw where to test this use case. So, I wonder if may I ask you to
> test some patch.
>
> This first patch adds a missing barrier to the normal routine that inits the
> descriptor. Barrier was needed to well manage the OWN
> descriptor and it was not added in case of normal desc case after
> the xmit rework.
>
> Then I will check the algo behind the new xmit and in case of problems,
> if you agree, we will decide to revert it because it aimed to add an
> optimization.
>
> Let me know if you agree.

I'm not sure what you would like to be tested, but just in case, I
have just tried your patch on top of these commits and the result is
the "transmit queue 0 timed out" error during boot:

6542b30d0a67 Revert "stmmac: first frame prep at the end of xmit routine"
eb5274cbc0f7 Revert "stmmac: do not poll phy handler when attach a switch"
e88e625a68d9 Revert "stmmac: fix phy init when attached to a phy"
ef5dd3777876 stmmac: fix MDIO settings
77634ba1f25c Revert "stmmac: Fix 'eth0: No PHY found' regression"
7811b4ffc312 Add linux-next specific files for 20160309

Regards,

Tomeu

> Regards
> Peppe