[PATCH v3 00/12] fw_devlink improvements

[Saravana Kannan]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 1:08 PM Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 11:27:11AM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 2:13 AM Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Saravana,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 05:41:52PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > > > Vladimir,
> > > >
> > > > Ccing you because DSA's and fw_devlink have known/existing problems
> > > > (still in my TODOs to fix). But I want to make sure this series doesn't
> > > > cause additional problems for DSA.
> > > >
> > > > All,
> > > >
> > > > This patch series improves fw_devlink in the following ways:
> > > >
> > > > 1. It no longer cares about a fwnode having a "compatible" property. It
> > > >    figures this out more dynamically. The only expectation is that
> > > >    fwnodes that are converted to devices actually get probed by a driver
> > > >    for the dependencies to be enforced correctly.
> > > >
> > > > 2. Finer grained dependency tracking. fw_devlink will now create device
> > > >    links from the consumer to the actual resource's device (if it has one,
> > > >    Eg: gpio_device) instead of the parent supplier device. This improves
> > > >    things like async suspend/resume ordering, potentially remove the need
> > > >    for frameworks to create device links, more parallelized async probing,
> > > >    and better sync_state() tracking.
> > > >
> > > > 3. Handle hardware/software quirks where a child firmware node gets
> > > >    populated as a device before its parent firmware node AND actually
> > > >    supplies a non-optional resource to the parent firmware node's
> > > >    device.
> > > >
> > > > 4. Way more robust at cycle handling (see patch for the insane cases).
> > > >
> > > > 5. Stops depending on OF_POPULATED to figure out some corner cases.
> > > >
> > > > 6. Simplifies the work that needs to be done by the firmware specific
> > > >    code.
> > > >
> > > > The v3 series has gone through my usual testing on my end and looks good
> > > > to me.
> > >
> > > Booted on an NXP LS1028A (arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1028a-rdb.dts)
> > > and a Turris MOX (arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-turris-mox.dts)
> > > with no observed regressions.
> >
> > Thanks for testing Vladimir!
> >
> > > Is there something specific you would like
> > > me to test?
> >
> > Not really, I just want to make sure the common DSA architectures
> > don't hit any regression. In the hardware you tested, are there cases
> > of PHYs where the supplier is the parent MDIO? I remember that being
> > the only case where I needed special casing
> > (FWNODE_FLAG_NEEDS_CHILD_BOUND_ON_ADD) in fw_devlink -- so it'll be
> > good to make sure I didn't accidentally break anything there.
> >
> > -Saravana
>
> Yes and no (I never had a system which depended on FWNODE_FLAG_NEEDS_CHILD_BOUND_ON_ADD).
>
> Yes, because well, yes, in arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-turris-mox.dts,
> the PHYs will depend on interrupts provided by their (parent) switch. However this
> is not explicit in the device tree. To make it explicit, one would need to add:
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-turris-mox.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-turris-mox.dts
> index cd0988317623..d789cda49e35 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-turris-mox.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-turris-mox.dts

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> However, as I had explained in one of the first discussions here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210901012826.iuy2bhvkrgahhrl7@skbuf/
>
> it was always hit-or-miss whether the above device tree had an issue
> with fw_devlink or not: it depended on how the driver was written (and
> the mv88e6xxx switch driver was tricking the fw_devlink logic from that
> time to drop the device links because of an unrelated -EPROBE_DEFER).

Yeah, I never forgot this issue. That's why I used "additional" in my
cover letter :)

So far I've not needed to change fw_devlink in a way that'd break this
unintentional "tricky behavior" but I might be coming up to that wall
soon. So this reply is becoming more relevant to me:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAGETcx8De_qm9hVtK5CznfWke9nmOfV8OcvAW6kmwyeb7APr=g@mail.gmail.com/

Not sure if you've had a chance to read or think about it.

> What I had done to "untrick" fw_devlink so that I could see the issue
> (which was originally reported by Alvin Šipraga) was to modify the
> mv88e6xxx driver, and change the placement of mv88e6xxx_mdios_register()
> to a point after which we will never hit -EPROBE_DEFER (from driver probe()
> to the dsa_switch_ops :: setup() method):
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c
> index 0a5d6c7bb128..48650465660d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/chip.c

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> After applying both of the above changes on top of yours, I confirm that
> the PHYs on the mv88e6xxx on Turris MOX still probe with their specific
> PHY driver rather than the generic one, and with interrupts (not poll mode):
>
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>
> even though I am seeing these error messages earlier in the boot process (maybe this is something to look into):
>
> [    0.910219] mdio_bus d0032004.mdio-mii:10: Failed to create device link with d0032004.mdio-mii:10

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> [    0.943879] mv88e6085 d0032004.mdio-mii:12: switch 0x1900 detected: Marvell 88E6190, revision 1
>
>
> If _on top_ of all the above, I also remove the logic that sets FWNODE_FLAG_NEEDS_CHILD_BOUND_ON_ADD:

> then *finally* I get something approximating Alvin's reported issue.
> In my case, one switch out of 3 gets its PHYs bound to the Generic PHY
> driver (why not all is a story for another time):

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> So I guess that FWNODE_FLAG_NEEDS_CHILD_BOUND_ON_ADD does something.

Thanks for the extensive effort into testing this!

-Saravana