call for bge(4) testers
Pyun YongHyeon
pyunyh at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 01:11:12 UTC 2006
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:42:25AM +0400, Oleg Bulyzhin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:26:32AM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 04:40:35PM +0400, Oleg Bulyzhin wrote:
[...]
> >
> > > My idea was: perhaps, under certain condition, concurrent access to PHY could
> > > lead to hardware deadlock.
> > >
> >
> > Yes. Because MII bus access needs several steps to access PHY
> > registers its operation shouldn't be interrupted until all pending
> > requests are served.
> >
> > I can't sure you remember my mail for MII lock which modifies
> > mii_phy_probe API to take an additional mutex. The driver mutex
> > could be used with MII bus access/callbacks.
>
> Yes, i remember that mail but i didnt had time to dig code deep enough
> to give an answer. I did it recently, while working on PR.
>
Glad to hear that. :-)
> > If interface is up/running and auto negotiation is in progress MII
> > layer would inspect BMSR register periodically to know the state
> > of link. During the time if you run ifconfig(8) to know the state
> > of the link or to change media type/duplex it will access PHY
> > registers. Normally it would end up with "link states coalesced"
> > messages.
> >
> > As you know the two callbacks(vge_ifmedia_upd/vge_ifmedia_sts) will
> > end up with calling mii_mediachg() or mii_pollstat() which in turn
> > access PHY registers. So if MII access is properly serialized we
> > wouldn't get stale data. I guess your fix solves it by protecting
> > callbacks with driver mutex but it wouldn't fix other cases.
> > For example see vge_miibus_statchg MII interface.
>
> MII layer does not have it's own callouts, i.e. those autonegotiation
> checks of BMSR are triggered by driver's _tick() function, which are locked.
> So if we have locked _tick() & _ifmedia_(upd|sts) functions, concurrent
> access to PHY is impossible.
> (If we are talking about vge_miibus_statchg(), it would be:
> vge_tick (here we obtain lock) -> mii_tick -> ciphy_service ->
> mii_phy_update -> vge_miibus_statchg).
>
If we set media type manually while autonegotiation is in progress,
wouldn't it access PHY registers without driver lock?
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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