FW: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: tegra: pcie: Enable PCIe controller on Cardhu

Jay Agarwal jagarwal at nvidia.com
Tue Jun 4 13:17:14 EDT 2013


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Anybody aware of hang in r8169 driver over pcie interface mentioned at bottom of this mail?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Agarwal 
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 7:17 PM
To: 'Stephen Warren'
Cc: 'thierry.reding at avionic-design.de'
Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: tegra: pcie: Enable PCIe controller on Cardhu

> > > > > On 05/31/2013 06:17 AM, Jay Agarwal wrote:
> > > > > >>> I have taken care of all your comments, but Ethernet 
> > > > > >>> device is not working
> > > > > >> for me neither on cardhu nor harmony.
> > > > > >>> Could be related to my process or board, Currently 
> > > > > >>> debugging
> this.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Are you talking about a PCIe-based Ethernet device on 
> > > > > >> Harmony, or the one that's built into the board?
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> The on-board Ethernet device is USB, and should work fine 
> > > > > >> already, and irrespective of any PCIe patches.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > No I am talking about ethernet over PCIe interface.  There 
> > > > > > is no problem
> > > > > with built-in ethernet over USB.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> I have only tried an XHCI USB controller in the PCIe slot 
> > > > > >> on Harmony, so I can't say if Ethernet not working is a 
> > > > > >> regression or not. Does the Ethernet device work with just 
> > > > > >> Thierry's patches and not
> > > > yours?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It does not work w/o any of my patches also.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thierry,
> > > > > > Have you verified any ethernet card working on harmony?
> > > > > > I am using Broadcom Ethernet card with TIGON3 driver, but it 
> > > > > > does not
> > > > > work although PCIe enumeration and driver probe looks fine as
> > > attached.
> > > > > > Any idea?
> > > > >
> > > > > Oh, one thing to consider here: PCIe interrupts don't work 
> > > > > correctly when
> > > > > LP2 is enabled, at least in the upstream kernel. It's 
> > > > > something I've been trying to investigate, but haven't tracked down yet.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway, you need to disable the LP2 CPU power management state 
> > > > > for sure.
> > > > > Hopefully this will solve the issue for you. One way to do 
> > > > > this is the following patch, although we need a better 
> > > > > solution before we can actually merge anything:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2525151/
> > > > Stephen,
> > > > This patch also did not resolve the issue although I do get 
> > > > "Disabling
> > > > LP2 cpuidle state..."  message in logs.
> > >
> > > It stucks as below:
> > >
> > > root at localhost:~# dhclient eth0
> > > [ 1444.579544] smsc95xx 3-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of 
> > > remote wakeup [ 1444.587300] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link 
> > > is not ready
> >
> > My system does not have ping command, so dhclient fails like below:
> > /sbin/dhclient-script: line 325: ping: command not found
> >
> > So I provided static IP as : ifconfig eth0 <IP> but it also did not help.
> 
>  Actually sorry, I was using wrong Ethernet interface(eth0) on 
> harmony, but correct one is eth1(over pcie interface) which works fine 
> on Thierry's repo after applying patches to disable LP2.
> Now I will try after applying my patches on both harmony and cardhu.

Ethernet is working on harmony is working w/ & a/o my patches but cardhu is hanging as below:

root at localhost:~# ifconfig eth0 10.19.65.115 [  102.525245] r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw (-2) [  102.951516] r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: rtl_phyar_cond == 1 (loop: 20, delay: 25).
<System hangs here..>

1. Harmony is using Broadcom pcie Ethernet card and cardhu is using realtek one.
2. Enumeration and lspci seems to be fine though.
3. I tried applying similar patches for disabling LP2 for tegra 3 as well but it did not help.
4. Any idea/opinion?





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