4.5.0 on sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2: libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found (regression from rc7)

Thu Mar 17 00:52:02 PDT 2016

On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:56:40 +0100
Bert Lindner <bert at a20.net> wrote:

> On 2016-03-16 18:42, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On 16/03/16 15:10, Bert Lindner wrote:
> >> On 2016-03-16 14:10, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >>> Am 16.03.2016 um 13:09 schrieb Robin Murphy:
> >>>> On 16/03/16 11:39, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >>>>> On 16/03/16 11:19, Bert Lindner wrote:
> >>>>>> Hopefully this is the correct place and way to report this.
> >>>
> >>> The main discussion is on netdev list actually, CC'ed.
> >>>
> >>>>>> For the board sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2, there seems to be a problem
> >>>>>> with the eth0 PHY in mainline kernel 4.5.0 that developed since
> >>>>>> 4.5.0-rc7. Ethernet does not work, although eth0 is reported:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> root at lime2-079f:~# ip a l eth0
> >>>>>> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group
> >>>>>> default qlen 1000
> >>>>>>         link/ether 02:c9:05:02:07:9f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>      Difference reported in dmesg:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 4.5.0-rc7:
> >>>>>> [    9.379279] NET: Registered protocol family 10
> >>>>>> [   10.217148]  RX IPC Checksum Offload disabled
> >>>>>> [   10.217195]  No MAC Management Counters available
> >>>>>> [   10.217627] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> >>>>>> [   15.206250] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up -
> >>>>>> 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
> >>>>>> [   15.206360] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 4.5.0:
> >>>>>> [    9.767125] NET: Registered protocol family 10
> >>>>>> [   10.357405] libphy: PHY stmmac-0:ffffffff not found
> >>>>>> [   10.362382] eth0: Could not attach to PHY
> >>>>>> [   10.366557] stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> .config is identical for both, also after make oldconfig, apart from
> >>>>>> comment with version number. DTB file is also identical between the two
> >>>>>> versions.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Kernels are compiled on the board itself. /proc/version string:
> >>>>>> Linux version 4.5.0-rc7 (root at lime2-079f) (gcc version 4.9.1
> >>>>>> (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) ) #1 SMP Mon Mar 7 11:57:25 UTC 2016
> >>>>>> Linux version 4.5.0 (root at lime2-079f) (gcc version 4.9.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro
> >>>>>> 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) ) #1 SMP Tue Mar 15 11:39:01 UTC 2016
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Please let me know if more info is needed, if I should post complete
> >>>>>> .config, test compile with a particular config or patch, etc. Part of
> >>>>>> .config below.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can you please try reverting 88f8b1b ("stmmac: Fix 'eth0: No PHY found'
> >>>>> regression") and report whether or not this changes anything? This seems
> >>>>> to be the only stmac patch between -rc7 and release...
> >>>>
> >>>> Sounds like the same thing as the giant ongoing discussion thread here:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/159007/focus=402830
> >>>
> >>> v4 fixes for 4.5 are here:
> >>>
> >>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598195/ (revert)
> >>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598196/
> >>>
> >>> v2 fixes for linux-next here:
> >>>
> >>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598331/ (revert)
> >>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/598332/
> >>>
> >>> Please let Peppe know whether they work for you guys.
> >>
> >> Hi guys - I can confirm 4.5.0 minus 88f8b1b works for me:
> >>
> >> root at lime2-079f:~# cat /proc/version
> >> Linux version 4.5.0-minus-88f8b1b (root at lime2-079f) (gcc version 4.9.1
> >> (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) ) #2 SMP Wed Mar 16 12:50:03 UTC 2016
> >>
> >>   From dmesg output:
> >> [    9.731730] NET: Registered protocol family 10
> >> [   10.516893]  RX IPC Checksum Offload disabled
> >> [   10.516948]  No MAC Management Counters available
> >> [   10.517374] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> >> [   15.505548] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up -
> >> 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
> >> [   15.505660] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> >>
> >> .. and connected over ethernet.
> >
> > Good to know, thanks. Could you also give the potential fix a go (as
> > mentioned by Andreas)? Just to make sure that whatever gets merged next
> > will actually fix the issue.
> 
> Yes sure, it took a while because I had to travel. Confirmed, the 
> v4-for-4.5 fix works well for me, on sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2:
> 
> root at lime2-079f:~# cat /proc/version
> Linux version 4.5.0-598195-598196-v4 (root at lime2-079f) (gcc version 
> 4.9.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-16ubuntu6) ) #1 SMP Wed Mar 16 16:44:22 UTC 2016
> 
> dmesg:
> [    8.245273] NET: Registered protocol family 10
> [    9.297406]  RX IPC Checksum Offload disabled
> [    9.297460]  No MAC Management Counters available
> [    9.297951] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> [   16.285658] sun7i-dwmac 1c50000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 
> 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
> [   16.285798] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> 
> The board is connected to my laptop rather than to a switch, so that 
> might be where the flow control message comes from (not sure). Anyway 
> ethernet works.

Cool, many thanks for taking the time to test and report.

Hopefully Giuseppe will get this merged quickly enough in mainline, and
it should then trickle into a 4.5-stable release (cc-ing stable on
these patches would probably be a good idea, BTW).

> I'm less familiar with linux-next - not sure what base to test against, 
> I understand it is being redefined almost daily.

You can consider -next as a daily view of what mainline could become.
An over-sized crystal ball, in a way... ;-) Given that the regression
exists in mainline, there was no real point testing with -next.

Thanks again,

	M.
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