Re: [PATCH] net: macb: ensure the device is available before accessing GEMGXL control registers

[Florian Fainelli]

On 5/21/2021 5:48 AM, Zong Li wrote:
> If runtime power menagement is enabled, the gigabit ethernet PLL would
> be disabled after macb_probe(). During this period of time, the system
> would hang up if we try to access GEMGXL control registers.
> 
> We can't put runtime_pm_get/runtime_pm_put/ there due to the issue of
> sleep inside atomic section (7fa2955ff70ce453 ("sh_eth: Fix sleeping
> function called from invalid context"). Add the similar flag to ensure
> the device is available before accessing GEMGXL device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h      | 2 ++
>  drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h
> index d8d87213697c..acf5242ce715 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h
> @@ -1309,6 +1309,8 @@ struct macb {
>  
>  	u32	rx_intr_mask;
>  
> +	unsigned int is_opened;
> +
>  	struct macb_pm_data pm_data;
>  	const struct macb_usrio_config *usrio;
>  };
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> index 6bc7d41d519b..e079ed10ad91 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
> @@ -2781,6 +2781,8 @@ static int macb_open(struct net_device *dev)
>  	if (bp->ptp_info)
>  		bp->ptp_info->ptp_init(dev);
>  
> +	bp->is_opened = 1;
> +
>  	return 0;
>  
>  reset_hw:
> @@ -2818,6 +2820,8 @@ static int macb_close(struct net_device *dev)
>  	if (bp->ptp_info)
>  		bp->ptp_info->ptp_remove(dev);
>  
> +	bp->is_opened = 0;
> +
>  	pm_runtime_put(&bp->pdev->dev);
>  
>  	return 0;
> @@ -2867,6 +2871,9 @@ static struct net_device_stats *gem_get_stats(struct macb *bp)
>  	struct gem_stats *hwstat = &bp->hw_stats.gem;
>  	struct net_device_stats *nstat = &bp->dev->stats;
>  
> +	if (!bp->is_opened)
> +		return nstat;

The canonical way to do this check is to use netif_running(), and not
open code a boolean tracking whether a network device is opened or not.
-- 
Florian