2014-01-14 10:11:48

by Srinivas KANDAGATLA

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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/9]net: stmmac PM related fixes.

Hi Dave/Peppe,
Do you have any plans to take this series?

Peppe already Acked these series.

Please let me know if you want me to rebase these patches to a
particular branch.

Thanks,
srini

On 18/11/13 11:30, [email protected] wrote:
> From: Srinivas Kandagatla <[email protected]>
>
> Hi Peppe,
>
> During PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE testing, I have noticed that PM support in STMMAC is
> partly broken. I had to re-arrange the code to do PM correctly. There were lot
> of things I did not like personally and some bits did not work in the first
> place. I thought this is the nice opportunity to clean the mess up.
>
> Here is what I did:
> any
> 1> Test PM suspend freeeze via pm_test
> It did not work for following reasons.
> - If the power to gmac is removed when it enters in low power state.
> stmmac_resume could not cope up with such behaviour, it was expecting the ip
> register contents to be still same as before entering low power, This
> assumption is wrong. So I started to add some code to do Hardware
> initialization, thats when I started to re-arrange the code. stmmac_open
> contains both resource and memory allocations and hardware initialization. I
> had to separate these two things in two different functions.
>
> These two patches do that
> net: stmmac: move dma allocation to new function
> net: stmmac: move hardware setup for stmmac_open to new function
>
> And rest of the other patches are fixing the loose ends, things like mdio
> reset, which might be necessary in cases likes hibernation(I did not test).
>
> In hibernation cases the driver was just unregistering with subsystems and
> releasing resources which I did not like and its not necessary to do this as
> part of PM. So using the same stmmac_suspend/resume made more sense for
> hibernation cases than using stmmac_open/release.
> Also fixed a NULL pointer dereference bug too.
>
> 2> Test WOL via PM_SUSPEND_FREEZE
> Did get an wakeup interrupt, but could not wakeup a freeze system.
> So I had to add pm_wakeup_event to the driver.
> net: stmmac: notify the PM core of a wakeup event. patch.
>
> Also few patches like
> net: stmmac: make stmmac_mdio_reset non-static
> net: stmmac: restore pinstate in pm resume.
> helps the resume function to reset the phy and put back the pins in default
> state.
>
> Comments?
>
> Thanks,
> srini
>
> Srinivas Kandagatla (9):
> net: stmmac: support max-speed device tree property
> net: stmmac: mdio: remove reset gpio free
> net: stmmac: move dma allocation to new function
> net: stmmac: move hardware setup for stmmac_open to new function
> net: stmmac: make stmmac_mdio_reset non-static
> net: stmmac: fix power mangement suspend-resume case
> net: stmmac: use suspend functions for hibernation
> net: stmmac: restore pinstate in pm resume.
> net: stmmac: notify the PM core of a wakeup event.
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h | 4 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 360 ++++++++++----------
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c | 3 +-
> .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c | 51 +--
> include/linux/stmmac.h | 1 +
> 5 files changed, 209 insertions(+), 210 deletions(-)
>


2014-01-15 21:49:33

by David Miller

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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/9]net: stmmac PM related fixes.

From: srinivas kandagatla <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:05:54 +0000

> Do you have any plans to take this series?
>
> Peppe already Acked these series.
>
> Please let me know if you want me to rebase these patches to a
> particular branch.

Please respin them against net-next and be sure to include Peppe's
ACKs.