Re: [RFC net-next v2 00/14] net: stmmac: Selftests

[Corentin Labbe]

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 05:45:22PM +0200, Jose Abreu wrote:
> [ Submitting with net-next closed for proper review and testing. ]
> 
> This introduces selftests support in stmmac driver. We add 9 basic sanity
> checks and MAC loopback support for all cores within the driver. This way
> more tests can easily be added in the future and can be run in virtually
> any MAC/GMAC/QoS/XGMAC platform.
> 
> Having this we can find regressions and missing features in the driver
> while at the same time we can check if the IP is correctly working.
> 
> We have been using this for some time now and I do have more tests to
> submit in the feature. My experience is that although writing the tests
> adds more development time, the gain results are obvious.
> 
> I let this feature optional within the driver under a Kconfig option.
> 
> Cc: Joao Pinto <jpinto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Corentin Labbe (1):
>   net: ethernet: stmmac: dwmac-sun8i: Enable control of loopback
> 
> Jose Abreu (13):
>   net: stmmac: Add MAC loopback callback to HWIF
>   net: stmmac: dwmac100: Add MAC loopback support
>   net: stmmac: dwmac1000: Add MAC loopback support
>   net: stmmac: dwmac4/5: Add MAC loopback support
>   net: stmmac: dwxgmac2: Add MAC loopback support
>   net: stmmac: Switch MMC functions to HWIF callbacks
>   net: stmmac: dwmac1000: Also pass control frames while in promisc mode
>   net: stmmac: dwmac4/5: Also pass control frames while in promisc mode
>   net: stmmac: dwxgmac2: Also pass control frames while in promisc mode
>   net: stmmac: Introduce selftests support
>   net: stmmac: dwmac1000: Fix Hash Filter
>   net: stmmac: dwmac1000: Clear unused address entries
>   net: stmmac: dwmac4/5: Fix Hash Filter
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig        |   9 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Makefile       |   2 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/common.h       |   1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c  |  13 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000.h    |   1 +
>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000_core.c   |  22 +-
>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac100_core.c    |  13 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4.h       |   3 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_core.c  |  19 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2.h     |   2 +
>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2_core.c    |  15 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/hwif.c         |   9 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/hwif.h         |  21 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/mmc.h          |   4 -
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/mmc_core.c     |  13 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h       |  22 +
>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ethtool.c   |   8 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c  |   4 +-
>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_selftests.c | 846 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  19 files changed, 1014 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_selftests.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

Tested-by: Corentin LABBE <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-on: sun7i-a20-cubieboard2
Tested-on: sun50i-a64-bananapi-m64
Tested-on: meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc

For information the output is:
On sun50i-a64-bananapi-m64
ethtool --test eth0 offline
The test result is PASS
The test extra info:
 1. MAC Loopback         	 0
 2. PHY Loopback         	 -95
 3. MMC Counters         	 -95
 4. EEE                  	 -95
 5. Hash Filter MC       	 0
 6. Perfect Filter UC    	 0
 7. MC Filter            	 0
 8. UC Filter            	 0
 9. Flow Control         	 -95
with onine I got
dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet eth0: Only offline tests are supported

on sun7i-a20-cubieboard2:
ethtool --test eth0 offline
The test result is PASS
The test extra info:
 1. MAC Loopback         	 0
 2. PHY Loopback         	 -95
 3. MMC Counters         	 -95
 4. EEE                  	 -95
 5. Hash Filter MC       	 0
 6. Perfect Filter UC    	 0
 7. MC Filter            	 0
 8. UC Filter            	 0
 9. Flow Control         	 -95
With online I got:
sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet eth0: Only offline tests are supported

on meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc:
ethtool --test eth0 offline
The test result is FAIL
The test extra info:
 1. MAC Loopback         	 0
 2. PHY Loopback         	 -95
 3. MMC Counters         	 -1
 4. EEE                  	 -95
 5. Hash Filter MC       	 0
 6. Perfect Filter UC    	 0
 7. MC Filter            	 0
 8. UC Filter            	 0
 9. Flow Control         	 -95
with onine I got
meson8b-dwmac c9410000.ethernet eth0: Only offline tests are supported

I will try to investigate the MMC failure. Does -1 (vs other -EXXXX) is the right error code to return from the driver ?