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authorVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>2022-04-07 19:55:38 +0300
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-04-09 00:17:55 +0300
commit74befa447e6839cdd90ed541159ec783726946f9 (patch)
tree95fc067deb6af6eb2d51c84f0d2f8bec1c27bdf7 /drivers/net/mdio
parent7cea5560bf656b84f9ed01c0cc829d4eecd0640b (diff)
downloadlinux-74befa447e6839cdd90ed541159ec783726946f9.tar.xz
net: mdio: don't defer probe forever if PHY IRQ provider is missing
When a driver for an interrupt controller is missing, of_irq_get() returns -EPROBE_DEFER ad infinitum, causing fwnode_mdiobus_phy_device_register(), and ultimately, the entire of_mdiobus_register() call, to fail. In turn, any phy_connect() call towards a PHY on this MDIO bus will also fail. This is not what is expected to happen, because the PHY library falls back to poll mode when of_irq_get() returns a hard error code, and the MDIO bus, PHY and attached Ethernet controller work fine, albeit suboptimally, when the PHY library polls for link status. However, -EPROBE_DEFER has special handling given the assumption that at some point probe deferral will stop, and the driver for the supplier will kick in and create the IRQ domain. Reasons for which the interrupt controller may be missing: - It is not yet written. This may happen if a more recent DT blob (with an interrupt-parent for the PHY) is used to boot an old kernel where the driver didn't exist, and that kernel worked with the vintage-correct DT blob using poll mode. - It is compiled out. Behavior is the same as above. - It is compiled as a module. The kernel will wait for a number of seconds specified in the "deferred_probe_timeout" boot parameter for user space to load the required module. The current default is 0, which times out at the end of initcalls. It is possible that this might cause regressions unless users adjust this boot parameter. The proposed solution is to use the driver_deferred_probe_check_state() helper function provided by the driver core, which gives up after some -EPROBE_DEFER attempts, taking "deferred_probe_timeout" into consideration. The return code is changed from -EPROBE_DEFER into -ENODEV or -ETIMEDOUT, depending on whether the kernel is compiled with support for modules or not. Fixes: 66bdede495c7 ("of_mdio: Fix broken PHY IRQ in case of probe deferral") Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220407165538.4084809-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/mdio')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/mdio/fwnode_mdio.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/mdio/fwnode_mdio.c b/drivers/net/mdio/fwnode_mdio.c
index 1becb1a731f6..1c1584fca632 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mdio/fwnode_mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mdio/fwnode_mdio.c
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ int fwnode_mdiobus_phy_device_register(struct mii_bus *mdio,
int rc;
rc = fwnode_irq_get(child, 0);
+ /* Don't wait forever if the IRQ provider doesn't become available,
+ * just fall back to poll mode
+ */
+ if (rc == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ rc = driver_deferred_probe_check_state(&phy->mdio.dev);
if (rc == -EPROBE_DEFER)
return rc;