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[v1,1/2] dtb: xgene: fix: Disable 10GbE and SGMII based 1GbE by default

Message ID 1414630580-24640-2-git-send-email-isubramanian@apm.com (mailing list archive)
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Iyappan Subramanian Oct. 30, 2014, 12:56 a.m. UTC 
This patch disables 10GbE and SGMII based 1GbE interfaces by default
for backward compatibility with older firmware, which don't support
these interfaces.

The following kernel crash was reported when using older firmware (<= 1.13.28).

[    0.980000] libphy: APM X-Gene MDIO bus: probed
[    1.130000] Unhandled fault: synchronous external abort (0x96000010) at 0xffffff800009a17c
[    1.140000] Internal error: : 96000010 [#1] SMP
[    1.140000] Modules linked in:
[    1.140000] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.17.0+ #21
[    1.140000] task: ffffffc3f0110000 ti: ffffffc3f0064000 task.ti: ffffffc3f0064000
[    1.140000] PC is at ioread32+0x58/0x68
[    1.140000] LR is at xgene_enet_setup_ring+0x18c/0x1cc
[    1.140000] pc : [<ffffffc0003cec68>] lr : [<ffffffc00053dad8>] pstate: a0000045
[    1.140000] sp : ffffffc3f0067b20
[    1.140000] x29: ffffffc3f0067b20 x28: ffffffc000aa8ea0
[    1.140000] x27: ffffffc000bb2000 x26: ffffffc000a64270
[    1.140000] x25: ffffffc000b05ad8 x24: ffffffc0ff99ba58
[    1.140000] x23: 0000000000004000 x22: 0000000000004000
[    1.140000] x21: 0000000000000200 x20: 0000000000200000
[    1.140000] x19: ffffffc0ff99ba18 x18: ffffffc0007a6000
[    1.140000] x17: 0000000000000007 x16: 000000000000000e
[    1.140000] x15: 0000000000000001 x14: 0000000000000000
[    1.140000] x13: ffffffbeedb71320 x12: 00000000ffffff80
[    1.140000] x11: 0000000000000002 x10: 0000000000000000
[    1.140000] x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : ffffffc3eb2a4000
[    1.140000] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
[    1.140000] x5 : 0000000001080000 x4 : 000000007d654010
[    1.140000] x3 : ffffffffffffffff x2 : 000000000003ffff
[    1.140000] x1 : ffffff800009a17c x0 : ffffff800009a17c

The issue was that the older firmware does not support 10GbE and
SGMII based 1GBE interfaces.

The newer firmware (version 1.13.29) will support 10GbE and SGMII based 1GbE
and it will patch the dtb to enable these nodes on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Iyappan Subramanian <isubramanian@apm.com>
Signed-off-by: Keyur Chudgar <kchudgar@apm.com>
Reported-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm-mustang.dts | 8 --------
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm-storm.dtsi  | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Comments

Arnd Bergmann Oct. 30, 2014, 10:13 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Wednesday 29 October 2014 17:56:19 Iyappan Subramanian wrote:
> @@ -621,7 +621,7 @@
>                         };
>                 };
>  
> -               sgenet0: ethernet@1f210000 {
> +               sgenet0: sgenet@1f210000 {
>                         compatible = "apm,xgene-enet";
>                         status = "disabled";
>                         reg = <0x0 0x1f210000 0x0 0x10000>,
> 

This looks like you accidentally reverted a bug fix made earlier.
Network devices should always have the name 'ethernet@...'.

	Arnd
Iyappan Subramanian Nov. 3, 2014, 7:45 p.m. UTC | #2 
Hi Arnd,

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2014 17:56:19 Iyappan Subramanian wrote:
>> @@ -621,7 +621,7 @@
>>                         };
>>                 };
>>
>> -               sgenet0: ethernet@1f210000 {
>> +               sgenet0: sgenet@1f210000 {
>>                         compatible = "apm,xgene-enet";
>>                         status = "disabled";
>>                         reg = <0x0 0x1f210000 0x0 0x10000>,
>>
>
> This looks like you accidentally reverted a bug fix made earlier.
> Network devices should always have the name 'ethernet@...'.

Thanks for the review.  Since our firmware was patching the dtb, based
on the node-name, we thought by changing node-name, we can avoid the
patching and maintain backward compatibility.

Now we know that network devices should have 'ethernet@...', we will
handle the backward compatibility in a different way and will post the
patch v2 shortly.

>
>         Arnd
Arnd Bergmann Nov. 4, 2014, 9:40 a.m. UTC | #3 
On Monday 03 November 2014 11:45:44 Iyappan Subramanian wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 October 2014 17:56:19 Iyappan Subramanian wrote:
> >> @@ -621,7 +621,7 @@
> >>                         };
> >>                 };
> >>
> >> -               sgenet0: ethernet@1f210000 {
> >> +               sgenet0: sgenet@1f210000 {
> >>                         compatible = "apm,xgene-enet";
> >>                         status = "disabled";
> >>                         reg = <0x0 0x1f210000 0x0 0x10000>,
> >>
> >
> > This looks like you accidentally reverted a bug fix made earlier.
> > Network devices should always have the name 'ethernet@...'.
> 
> Thanks for the review.  Since our firmware was patching the dtb, based
> on the node-name, we thought by changing node-name, we can avoid the
> patching and maintain backward compatibility.
> 
> Now we know that network devices should have 'ethernet@...', we will
> handle the backward compatibility in a different way and will post the
> patch v2 shortly.

It's not important enough to break backwards compatibility over this.
If you can't find a better way to handle compatibility with the old
firmware, just add a comment explaining the node name.

	Arnd
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm-mustang.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm-mustang.dts
index 2e25de0..f649000 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm-mustang.dts
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm-mustang.dts
@@ -40,11 +40,3 @@ 
 &menet {
 	status = "ok";
 };
-
-&sgenet0 {
-	status = "ok";
-};
-
-&xgenet {
-	status = "ok";
-};
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm-storm.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm-storm.dtsi
index 295c72d..52488c8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm-storm.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm-storm.dtsi
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ 
 			};
 		};
 
-		sgenet0: ethernet@1f210000 {
+		sgenet0: sgenet@1f210000 {
 			compatible = "apm,xgene-enet";
 			status = "disabled";
 			reg = <0x0 0x1f210000 0x0 0x10000>,
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ 
 			phy-connection-type = "sgmii";
 		};
 
-		xgenet: ethernet@1f610000 {
+		xgenet: xgenet@1f610000 {
 			compatible = "apm,xgene-enet";
 			status = "disabled";
 			reg = <0x0 0x1f610000 0x0 0xd100>,