Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix for KSZ DSA switch shutdown

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 10:19:24PM +0200, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 10.09.21 at 16:58, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 01:51:56PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >>> It does not really scale but we also don't have that many DSA masters to
> >>> support, I believe I can name them all: bcmgenet, stmmac, bcmsysport, enetc,
> >>> mv643xx_eth, cpsw, macb.
> >>
> >> fec, mvneta, mvpp2, i210/igb.
> >
> > I can probably double that list only with Freescale/NXP Ethernet
> > drivers, some of which are not even submitted to mainline. To name some
> > mainline drivers: gianfar, dpaa-eth, dpaa2-eth, dpaa2-switch, ucc_geth.
> > Also consider that DSA/switchdev drivers can also be DSA masters of
> > their own, we have boards doing that too.
> >
> > Anyway, I've decided to at least try and accept the fact that DSA
> > masters will unregister their net_device on shutdown, and attempt to do
> > something sane for all DSA switches in that case.
> >
> > Attached are two patches (they are fairly big so I won't paste them
> > inline, and I would like initial feedback before posting them to the
> > list).
> >
> > As mentioned in those patches, the shutdown ordering guarantee is still
> > very important, I still have no clue what goes on there, what we need to
> > do, etc.
> >
> 
> I tested these patches with my 5.10 kernel (based on Gregs 5.10.27 stable
> kernel) and while I do not see the message "unregister_netdevice: waiting
> for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 2." any more the shutdown/reboot hangs, too.
> After a few attempts without any error messages on the console I was able to get a
>  stack trace. Something still seems to go wrong in bcm2835_spi_shutdown() (see attachment).
> I have not had the time yet to investigate this further (or to test the patches
>  with a newer kernel).

Could you post the full kernel output? The picture you've posted is
truncated and only shows a WARN_ON in rpi_firmware_transaction and is
probably a symptom and not the issue (which is above and not shown).