Re: [net-next,PATCH] net: stmmac: stm32: Do not suspend downed interface

[Marek Vasut]

On 1/14/26 6:12 PM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 04:29:17PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 09:17:54AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > If an interface is down, the ETHnSTP clock are not running. Suspending
> > > such an interface will attempt to stop already stopped ETHnSTP clock,
> > > and produce a warning in the kernel log about this.
> > >
> > > STM32MP25xx that is booted from NFS root via its first ethernet MAC
> > > (also the consumer of ck_ker_eth1stp) and with its second ethernet
> > > MAC downed produces the following warnings during suspend resume
> > > cycle. This can be provoked even using pm_test:
> > >
> > > "
> > > $ echo devices > /sys/power/pm_test
> > > $ echo mem > /sys/power/state
> > > ...
> > > ck_ker_eth2stp already disabled
> > > ...
> > > ck_ker_eth2stp already unprepared
> > > ...
> > > "
> > >
> > > Fix this by not manipulating with the clock during suspend resume
> > > of interfaces which are downed.
> >
> > I don't think this is the correct fix. Looking back at my commits:
> > b51f34bc85e3 net: stmmac: platform: legacy hooks for suspend()/resume() methods
> > 07bbbfe7addf net: stmmac: add suspend()/resume() platform ops
> >
> > I think I changed the behaviour of the suspend/resume callbacks
> > unintentionally. Sorry, I don't have time to complete this email
> > (meeting.)
>
> I think I'm going to start over, trying to figure out what happened.
>
> c7308b2f3d0d net: stmmac: stm32: convert to suspend()/resume() methods
>
> Did the conversion, and it always called stm32_dwmac_clk_disable() and
> where it exists, dwmac->ops->suspend() on suspend, provided
> stmmac_suspend() returns zero (which it will do, even if the interface
> is down. On resume, it always calls dwmac->ops->resume() and
> stm32_dwmac_init() before calling stmmac_resume().
>
> The conversion added hooks into ny new ->suspend() and ->resume()
> methods to handle the stm32_dwmac_clk_disable(), dwmac->ops->suspend(),
> dwmac->ops->resume() and stm32_dwmac_init() steps.
>
> However, in 07bbbfe7addf I failed to realise that, in order to keep
> things compatible with how stuff works, we need to call
> priv->plat->suspend() even if the interface is down. This is where
> the bug is, not in your glue driver.
>
> Please try this:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> index a8a78fe7d01f..2acbb0107cd3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> @@ -8066,7 +8066,7 @@ int stmmac_suspend(struct device *dev)
>   	u32 chan;
>   
>   	if (!ndev || !netif_running(ndev))
> -		return 0;
> +		goto suspend_bsp;
>   
>   	mutex_lock(&priv->lock);
>   
> @@ -8106,6 +8106,7 @@ int stmmac_suspend(struct device *dev)
>   	if (stmmac_fpe_supported(priv))
>   		ethtool_mmsv_stop(&priv->fpe_cfg.mmsv);
>   
> +suspend_bsp:
>   	if (priv->plat->suspend)
>   		return priv->plat->suspend(dev, priv->plat->bsp_priv);
>   
This works too, thank you.

Will you send this fix ?