Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Fix attaching to PYH failed on RPi 4B

[Heiner Kallweit]

On 22.06.2021 08:29, Jian-Hong Pan wrote:
> Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> 於 2021年6月22日 週二 上午5:47寫道：
>>
>> On 6/21/21 1:15 PM, Stefan Wahren wrote:
>>> Am 21.06.21 um 18:56 schrieb Peter Robinson:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 5:39 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On 6/21/21 6:09 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 06:33:11PM +0800, Jian-Hong Pan wrote:
>>>>>>> The Broadcom UniMAC MDIO bus comes too late. So, GENET cannot find the
>>>>>>> ethernet PHY on UniMAC MDIO bus. This leads GENET fail to attach the
>>>>>>> PHY.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> bcmgenet fd580000.ethernet: GENET 5.0 EPHY: 0x0000
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> could not attach to PHY
>>>>>>> bcmgenet fd580000.ethernet eth0: failed to connect to PHY
>>>>>>> uart-pl011 fe201000.serial: no DMA platform data
>>>>>>> libphy: bcmgenet MII bus: probed
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> unimac-mdio unimac-mdio.-19: Broadcom UniMAC MDIO bus
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This patch makes GENET try to connect the PHY up to 3 times. Also, waits
>>>>>>> a while between each time for mdio-bcm-unimac module's loading and
>>>>>>> probing.
>>>>>> Don't loop. Return -EPROBE_DEFER. The driver core will then probed the
>>>>>> driver again later, by which time, the MDIO bus driver should of
>>>>>> probed.
>>>>> This is unlikely to work because GENET register the mdio-bcm-unimac
>>>>> platform device so we will likely run into a chicken and egg problem,
>>>>> though surprisingly I have not seen this on STB platforms where GENET is
>>>>> used, I will try building everything as a module like you do. Can you
>>>>> see if the following helps:
>>>> For reference we have mdio_bcm_unimac/genet both built as modules in
>>>> Fedora and I've not seen this issue reported using vanilla upstream
>>>> kernels if that's a useful reference point.
>>>
>>> I was also unable to reproduce this issue, but it seems to be a known
>>> issue [1], [2].
>>>
>>> Jian-Hong opened an issue in my Github repo [3], but before the issue
>>> was narrowed down, he decided to send this workaround.
>>
>> The comment about changing the phy-mode property is not quite making
>> sense to me, except if that means that in one case the Broadcom PHY
>> driver is used and in the other case the Generic PHY driver is used.
>>
>> What is not clear to me from the debugging that has been done so far is
>> whether the mdio-bcm-unimac MDIO controller was not loaded at the time
>> of_phy_connect() was trying to identify the PHY device.
> 
> MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: mdio-bcm-unimac")  mentioned in the comment [1]
> solves this issue.
> 
> Tracing the code by following the debug message in comment #2 [2], I
> learned the path bcmgenet_mii_probe()'s of_phy_connect() ->
> of_phy_find_device() -> of_mdio_find_device() ->
> bus_find_device_by_of_node().  And, bus_find_device_by_of_node()
> cannot find the device on the mdio bus.
> 
> So, I traced bcm2711-rpi-4-b's device tree to find out which one is
> the mdio device and why it has not been prepared ready on the mdio bus
> for genet.
> Then, I found out it is mdio-bcm-unimac module as mentioned in comment
> #4 [3].  Also, noticed "unimac-mdio unimac-mdio.-19: Broadcom UniMAC
> MDIO bus" comes after "bcmgenet fd580000.ethernet eth0: failed to
> connect to PHY" in the log.
> 
> With these findings, I try to re-modprobe genet module again.  The
> ethernet on RPi 4B works correctly!  Also, noticed mdio-bcm-unimac
> module is loaded before I re-modprobe genet module.
> Therefore, I try to make mdio-bcm-unimac built in kernel image,
> instead of a module.  Then, genet always can find the mdio device on
> the bus and the ethernet works as well.
> 
> Consequently, the idea, loading mdio-bcm-unimac module earlier than
> genet module comes in my head!  However, I don't know the key word
> "MODULE_SOFTDEP" until Florian's guide.  That is why I have a loop to
> connect the PHY in the original patch.  But, I understand
> MODULE_SOFTDEP is a better solution now!
> 
> I think this is like the module loading order situation mentioned in
> commit 11287b693d03 ("r8169: load Realtek PHY driver module before
> r8169") [4].
> 
The reason in r8169 is different. When people add r8169 module to
initramfs but not the Realtek PHY driver module then loading
r8169 will fail. The MODULE_SOFTDEP is a hint to tools building
initramfs.

> [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213485#c6
> [2] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213485#c2
> [3] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213485#c4
> [4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=11287b693d03830010356339e4ceddf47dee34fa
> 
> Jian-Hong Pan
>