Add support for PHY WOL capability to dwmac-imx MAC driver.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Popescu <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,dwmac-imx.yaml | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,dwmac-imx.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,dwmac-imx.yaml
index 4c01cae7c93a..6cf373772eb1 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,dwmac-imx.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,dwmac-imx.yaml
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ properties:
description:
To select RMII reference clock from external.
+ nxp,phy-wol:
+ $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/flag
+ description:
+ If present, indicates that PHY supports WOL(Wake-On-LAN), and PHY WOL will be enabled.
+ Otherwise, MAC WOL is preferred.
+
required:
- compatible
- clocks
base-commit: 61996c073c9b070922ad3a36c981ca6ddbea19a5
prerequisite-patch-id: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--
2.34.1
Add support for PHY WOL capability into dwmac-imx MAC driver.
This is required to enable WOL feature on a platform where MAC
WOL capability is not sufficient and WOL capability built into
the PHY is actually needed.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Popescu <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-imx.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-imx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-imx.c
index 6b65420e11b5..9d7278c083bf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-imx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-imx.c
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ struct imx_priv_data {
struct regmap *intf_regmap;
u32 intf_reg_off;
bool rmii_refclk_ext;
+ bool phy_wol;
void __iomem *base_addr;
const struct imx_dwmac_ops *ops;
@@ -312,6 +313,8 @@ imx_dwmac_parse_dt(struct imx_priv_data *dwmac, struct device *dev)
}
}
+ dwmac->phy_wol = of_property_read_bool(np, "nxp,phy-wol");
+
return err;
}
@@ -353,6 +356,11 @@ static int imx_dwmac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (data->flags & STMMAC_FLAG_HWTSTAMP_CORRECT_LATENCY)
plat_dat->flags |= STMMAC_FLAG_HWTSTAMP_CORRECT_LATENCY;
+ if (dwmac->phy_wol)
+ plat_dat->flags |= STMMAC_FLAG_USE_PHY_WOL;
+ else
+ plat_dat->flags &= ~STMMAC_FLAG_USE_PHY_WOL;
+
/* Default TX Q0 to use TSO and rest TXQ for TBS */
for (int i = 1; i < plat_dat->tx_queues_to_use; i++)
plat_dat->tx_queues_cfg[i].tbs_en = 1;
--
2.34.1
On 3/6/24 09:24, Catalin Popescu wrote:
> Add support for PHY WOL capability into dwmac-imx MAC driver.
> This is required to enable WOL feature on a platform where MAC
> WOL capability is not sufficient and WOL capability built into
> the PHY is actually needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Popescu <[email protected]>
Nope, this is not about how to do this. You use a Device Tree property
as a policy rather than properly describe your systems capabilities.
What sort of Wake-on-LAN do you want to be done by the PHY exactly? Does
the PHY have packet matching capabilities, or do you want to wake-up
from a PHY event like link up/down/any interrupt?
If the former, then you would need to interrogate the PHY driver via
phy_ethtool_get_wol() to figure out what Wake-on-LAN modes it is capable
of supporting and then make a decision whether to prioritize Wake-on-LAN
from the PHY or the MAC, or maybe only the PHY can actually wake-up the
system in your case.
If the latter, then you need to add support for WAKE_PHY to the stmmac
driver.
pw-bot: cr
--
Florian
On 3/6/24 09:24, Catalin Popescu wrote:
> Add support for PHY WOL capability to dwmac-imx MAC driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Popescu <[email protected]>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,dwmac-imx.yaml | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,dwmac-imx.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,dwmac-imx.yaml
> index 4c01cae7c93a..6cf373772eb1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,dwmac-imx.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nxp,dwmac-imx.yaml
> @@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ properties:
> description:
> To select RMII reference clock from external.
>
> + nxp,phy-wol:
> + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/flag
> + description:
> + If present, indicates that PHY supports WOL(Wake-On-LAN), and PHY WOL will be enabled.
> + Otherwise, MAC WOL is preferred.
This is encoding a policy in Device Tree, which is not acceptable, see
my comment about your second patch.
pw-bot: cr
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> On 3/6/24 09:24, Catalin Popescu wrote:
>> Add support for PHY WOL capability into dwmac-imx MAC driver.
>> This is required to enable WOL feature on a platform where MAC
>> WOL capability is not sufficient and WOL capability built into
>> the PHY is actually needed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Catalin Popescu <[email protected]>
>
> Nope, this is not about how to do this. You use a Device Tree property
> as a policy rather than properly describe your systems capabilities.
I'm not sure what policy means in that context.
BTW, dwmac-mediatek does the same with binding "mediatek,mac-wol" which
is a commit from 03/2022.
I understand this way of doing became "unacceptable" since then ??
>
> What sort of Wake-on-LAN do you want to be done by the PHY exactly? Does
> the PHY have packet matching capabilities, or do you want to wake-up
> from a PHY event like link up/down/any interrupt?
PHY is TI dp83826 and has secure magic packet capability. For the wakeup
we rely on a external MCU which is signaled through a PHY's GPIO which
toggles only on magic packet reception.
We want to wakeup _only_ on magic packet reception.
>
> If the former, then you would need to interrogate the PHY driver via
> phy_ethtool_get_wol() to figure out what Wake-on-LAN modes it is capable
> of supporting and then make a decision whether to prioritize Wake-on-LAN
> from the PHY or the MAC, or maybe only the PHY can actually wake-up the
> system in your case.
>
stmmac already calls phy_ethtool_get_wol/phy_ethtool_set_wol through
phylink_ethtool_get_wol/phylink_ethtool_set_wol. But needs flag
STMMAC_FLAG_USE_PHY_WOL to be set. Otherwise, it will only work with MAC
WOL which we don't want. With the new binding we just allow the MAC
driver to call the PHY for the WOL capability. This doesn't force WOL to
enabled or disabled, as it is still up to ethtool to configure it.
> If the latter, then you need to add support for WAKE_PHY to the stmmac
> driver.
No, we don't want WAKE_PHY, we want WAKE_MAGIC/WAKE_MAGICSECURE which
stmmac driver already supports.
>
> pw-bot: cr
> --
> Florian
>
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>> On 3/6/24 09:24, Catalin Popescu wrote:
>>> Add support for PHY WOL capability into dwmac-imx MAC driver.
>>> This is required to enable WOL feature on a platform where MAC
>>> WOL capability is not sufficient and WOL capability built into
>>> the PHY is actually needed.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Catalin Popescu <[email protected]>
>> Nope, this is not about how to do this. You use a Device Tree property
>> as a policy rather than properly describe your systems capabilities.
> I'm not sure what policy means in that context.
> BTW, dwmac-mediatek does the same with binding "mediatek,mac-wol" which
> is a commit from 03/2022.
> I understand this way of doing became "unacceptable" since then ??
>> What sort of Wake-on-LAN do you want to be done by the PHY exactly? Does
>> the PHY have packet matching capabilities, or do you want to wake-up
>> from a PHY event like link up/down/any interrupt?
> PHY is TI dp83826 and has secure magic packet capability. For the wakeup
> we rely on a external MCU which is signaled through a PHY's GPIO which
> toggles only on magic packet reception.
> We want to wakeup _only_ on magic packet reception.
>
>> If the former, then you would need to interrogate the PHY driver via
>> phy_ethtool_get_wol() to figure out what Wake-on-LAN modes it is capable
>> of supporting and then make a decision whether to prioritize Wake-on-LAN
>> from the PHY or the MAC, or maybe only the PHY can actually wake-up the
>> system in your case.
>>
> stmmac already calls phy_ethtool_get_wol/phy_ethtool_set_wol through
> phylink_ethtool_get_wol/phylink_ethtool_set_wol. But needs flag
> STMMAC_FLAG_USE_PHY_WOL to be set. Otherwise, it will only work with MAC
> WOL which we don't want. With the new binding we just allow the MAC
> driver to call the PHY for the WOL capability. This doesn't force WOL to
> enabled or disabled, as it is still up to ethtool to configure it.
>> If the latter, then you need to add support for WAKE_PHY to the stmmac
>> driver.
> No, we don't want WAKE_PHY, we want WAKE_MAGIC/WAKE_MAGICSECURE which
> stmmac driver already supports.
Actually, sttmac doesn't support WAKE_MAGICSECURE but we don't really
care as PHY driver supports it.
>> pw-bot: cr
>> --
>> Florian
>>
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>> On 3/6/24 09:24, Catalin Popescu wrote:
>>> Add support for PHY WOL capability into dwmac-imx MAC driver.
>>> This is required to enable WOL feature on a platform where MAC
>>> WOL capability is not sufficient and WOL capability built into
>>> the PHY is actually needed.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Catalin Popescu <[email protected]>
>>
>> Nope, this is not about how to do this. You use a Device Tree property
>> as a policy rather than properly describe your systems capabilities.
> I'm not sure what policy means in that context.
> BTW, dwmac-mediatek does the same with binding "mediatek,mac-wol" which
> is a commit from 03/2022.
Policy here means you want a certain behavior from the OS that is
consuming the Device Tree, and that behavior is encoded via a Device
Tree property. This is different from describing how the hardware works
which does not make any provisions for getting a behavior out of the OS.
> I understand this way of doing became "unacceptable" since then ??
It was not acceptable then, but there is only a limited reviewer time,
and it is easy unfortunately to sneak through reviewers.
>>
>> What sort of Wake-on-LAN do you want to be done by the PHY exactly? Does
>> the PHY have packet matching capabilities, or do you want to wake-up
>> from a PHY event like link up/down/any interrupt?
>
> PHY is TI dp83826 and has secure magic packet capability. For the wakeup
> we rely on a external MCU which is signaled through a PHY's GPIO which
> toggles only on magic packet reception.
> We want to wakeup _only_ on magic packet reception.
Then you need to represent that wake-up GPIO line in the Device Tree,
associate it with the PHY's Device Tree node for starters and add in a
'wakeup-source' property in the Device Tree.
Now the PHY driver can know about the existence of a GPIO and it can
know the PHY is a system wake-up source, so the driver can call
device_set_wakeup_capable().
In user-space you have to configure the network interface with
WAKE_MAGICSECURE which needs to propagate to the PHY driver for adequate
configuration. Still in user-space you need to make the PHY device
wake-up *enabled* by doing:
echo "enable" > /sys/class/net/ethX/attached_phydev/power/wakeup
If both WAKE_MAGICSECURE is enabled and the PHY device in sysfs reports
that it is wake-up enabled would you wake-up from the PHY's GPIO. Your
PHY driver ought to be modified to check for both
device_wakeup_enabled() and wolopts being non-zero to call
enable_irq_wake() on the GPIO interrupt line.
That's how I would go about doing this, yes it's a tad more complicated
than adding an ad-hoc Device Tree property, but it's more flexible and
it's transposable to other configurations, too. Whether that sort of
encoding needs to be in the individual PHY drivers or somewhere in the
PHY library can be decided if we have more than one similar
configuration to support.
>
>>
>> If the former, then you would need to interrogate the PHY driver via
>> phy_ethtool_get_wol() to figure out what Wake-on-LAN modes it is capable
>> of supporting and then make a decision whether to prioritize Wake-on-LAN
>> from the PHY or the MAC, or maybe only the PHY can actually wake-up the
>> system in your case.
>>
> stmmac already calls phy_ethtool_get_wol/phy_ethtool_set_wol through
> phylink_ethtool_get_wol/phylink_ethtool_set_wol. But needs flag
> STMMAC_FLAG_USE_PHY_WOL to be set. Otherwise, it will only work with MAC
> WOL which we don't want. With the new binding we just allow the MAC
> driver to call the PHY for the WOL capability. This doesn't force WOL to
> enabled or disabled, as it is still up to ethtool to configure it.
>> If the latter, then you need to add support for WAKE_PHY to the stmmac
>> driver.
> No, we don't want WAKE_PHY, we want WAKE_MAGIC/WAKE_MAGICSECURE which
> stmmac driver already supports.
Does not matter, it should be up to user-space to intersect between what
the PHY is capable of waking you from, and what the intent is.
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> On 3/7/2024 1:13 AM, POPESCU Catalin wrote:
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>>> On 3/6/24 09:24, Catalin Popescu wrote:
>>>> Add support for PHY WOL capability into dwmac-imx MAC driver.
>>>> This is required to enable WOL feature on a platform where MAC
>>>> WOL capability is not sufficient and WOL capability built into
>>>> the PHY is actually needed.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Catalin Popescu <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Nope, this is not about how to do this. You use a Device Tree property
>>> as a policy rather than properly describe your systems capabilities.
>> I'm not sure what policy means in that context.
>> BTW, dwmac-mediatek does the same with binding "mediatek,mac-wol" which
>> is a commit from 03/2022.
>
> Policy here means you want a certain behavior from the OS that is
> consuming the Device Tree, and that behavior is encoded via a Device
> Tree property. This is different from describing how the hardware works
> which does not make any provisions for getting a behavior out of the OS.
>
>> I understand this way of doing became "unacceptable" since then ??
>
> It was not acceptable then, but there is only a limited reviewer time,
> and it is easy unfortunately to sneak through reviewers.
>
>>>
>>> What sort of Wake-on-LAN do you want to be done by the PHY exactly?
>>> Does
>>> the PHY have packet matching capabilities, or do you want to wake-up
>>> from a PHY event like link up/down/any interrupt?
>>
>> PHY is TI dp83826 and has secure magic packet capability. For the wakeup
>> we rely on a external MCU which is signaled through a PHY's GPIO which
>> toggles only on magic packet reception.
>> We want to wakeup _only_ on magic packet reception.
>
> Then you need to represent that wake-up GPIO line in the Device Tree,
> associate it with the PHY's Device Tree node for starters and add in a
> 'wakeup-source' property in the Device Tree.
The GPIO I was referring to is a PHY GPIO not a SOC GPIO, so there's no
way to describe it into the DT.
The PHY is connected on the SOC MDIO bus, so the SOC programs the PHY,
but the PHY wakes up the external MCU which in turn wakes up the SOC.
>
> Now the PHY driver can know about the existence of a GPIO and it can
> know the PHY is a system wake-up source, so the driver can call
> device_set_wakeup_capable().
>
> In user-space you have to configure the network interface with
> WAKE_MAGICSECURE which needs to propagate to the PHY driver for adequate
> configuration. Still in user-space you need to make the PHY device
> wake-up *enabled* by doing:
>
> echo "enable" > /sys/class/net/ethX/attached_phydev/power/wakeup
>
> If both WAKE_MAGICSECURE is enabled and the PHY device in sysfs reports
> that it is wake-up enabled would you wake-up from the PHY's GPIO. Your
> PHY driver ought to be modified to check for both
>
> device_wakeup_enabled() and wolopts being non-zero to call
> enable_irq_wake() on the GPIO interrupt line.
>
> That's how I would go about doing this, yes it's a tad more complicated
> than adding an ad-hoc Device Tree property, but it's more flexible and
> it's transposable to other configurations, too. Whether that sort of
> encoding needs to be in the individual PHY drivers or somewhere in the
> PHY library can be decided if we have more than one similar
> configuration to support.
>
Yes, it's more complicated and it doesn't apply to our platform.
But, this doesn't really matter in the end, the problem I'm trying to
address here is to allow stmac for IMX to support PHY WOL.
Since the binding is not acceptable, I guess the only option here is to
remove flag STMMAC_FLAG_USE_PHY_WOL from stmac driver and replace it
with a call to phylink_ethtool_get_wol to identify whether the PHY is
WOL capable or not.
Then, how should we allow the platform to choose b/w MAC WOL and PHY WOL
if both are supported ?
AFAIK ethtool only knows about MAC WOL capability since it interrogates
the MAC interface. ethtool doesn't know anything about the PHY, or does
it ??
>>
>>>
>>> If the former, then you would need to interrogate the PHY driver via
>>> phy_ethtool_get_wol() to figure out what Wake-on-LAN modes it is
>>> capable
>>> of supporting and then make a decision whether to prioritize
>>> Wake-on-LAN
>>> from the PHY or the MAC, or maybe only the PHY can actually wake-up the
>>> system in your case.
>>>
>> stmmac already calls phy_ethtool_get_wol/phy_ethtool_set_wol through
>> phylink_ethtool_get_wol/phylink_ethtool_set_wol. But needs flag
>> STMMAC_FLAG_USE_PHY_WOL to be set. Otherwise, it will only work with MAC
>> WOL which we don't want. With the new binding we just allow the MAC
>> driver to call the PHY for the WOL capability. This doesn't force WOL to
>> enabled or disabled, as it is still up to ethtool to configure it.
>>> If the latter, then you need to add support for WAKE_PHY to the stmmac
>>> driver.
>> No, we don't want WAKE_PHY, we want WAKE_MAGIC/WAKE_MAGICSECURE which
>> stmmac driver already supports.
>
> Does not matter, it should be up to user-space to intersect between what
> the PHY is capable of waking you from, and what the intent is.
> --
> Florian
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>> On 3/7/2024 1:13 AM, POPESCU Catalin wrote:
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>>>> On 3/6/24 09:24, Catalin Popescu wrote:
>>>>> Add support for PHY WOL capability into dwmac-imx MAC driver.
>>>>> This is required to enable WOL feature on a platform where MAC
>>>>> WOL capability is not sufficient and WOL capability built into
>>>>> the PHY is actually needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Catalin Popescu <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>> Nope, this is not about how to do this. You use a Device Tree property
>>>> as a policy rather than properly describe your systems capabilities.
>>> I'm not sure what policy means in that context.
>>> BTW, dwmac-mediatek does the same with binding "mediatek,mac-wol" which
>>> is a commit from 03/2022.
>>
>> Policy here means you want a certain behavior from the OS that is
>> consuming the Device Tree, and that behavior is encoded via a Device
>> Tree property. This is different from describing how the hardware works
>> which does not make any provisions for getting a behavior out of the OS.
>>
>>> I understand this way of doing became "unacceptable" since then ??
>>
>> It was not acceptable then, but there is only a limited reviewer time,
>> and it is easy unfortunately to sneak through reviewers.
>>
>>>>
>>>> What sort of Wake-on-LAN do you want to be done by the PHY exactly?
>>>> Does
>>>> the PHY have packet matching capabilities, or do you want to wake-up
>>>> from a PHY event like link up/down/any interrupt?
>>>
>>> PHY is TI dp83826 and has secure magic packet capability. For the wakeup
>>> we rely on a external MCU which is signaled through a PHY's GPIO which
>>> toggles only on magic packet reception.
>>> We want to wakeup _only_ on magic packet reception.
>>
>> Then you need to represent that wake-up GPIO line in the Device Tree,
>> associate it with the PHY's Device Tree node for starters and add in a
>> 'wakeup-source' property in the Device Tree.
> The GPIO I was referring to is a PHY GPIO not a SOC GPIO, so there's no
> way to describe it into the DT.
Well, technically there is, it's just that the PHY is not registered
with Linux as a GPIO controller/provider, nothing prevents you from
doing that, but it starts raising the bar.
> The PHY is connected on the SOC MDIO bus, so the SOC programs the PHY,
> but the PHY wakes up the external MCU which in turn wakes up the SOC.
OK, but that still needs to be described somehow, otherwise you are just
cutting corners and assuming that the pin from the PHY to the external
MCU is only driven when the PHY drives it, how about other wake-up
sources to the MCU?
>
>>
>> Now the PHY driver can know about the existence of a GPIO and it can
>> know the PHY is a system wake-up source, so the driver can call
>> device_set_wakeup_capable().
>>
>> In user-space you have to configure the network interface with
>> WAKE_MAGICSECURE which needs to propagate to the PHY driver for adequate
>> configuration. Still in user-space you need to make the PHY device
>> wake-up *enabled* by doing:
>>
>> echo "enable" > /sys/class/net/ethX/attached_phydev/power/wakeup
>>
>> If both WAKE_MAGICSECURE is enabled and the PHY device in sysfs reports
>> that it is wake-up enabled would you wake-up from the PHY's GPIO. Your
>> PHY driver ought to be modified to check for both
>>
>> device_wakeup_enabled() and wolopts being non-zero to call
>> enable_irq_wake() on the GPIO interrupt line.
>>
>> That's how I would go about doing this, yes it's a tad more complicated
>> than adding an ad-hoc Device Tree property, but it's more flexible and
>> it's transposable to other configurations, too. Whether that sort of
>> encoding needs to be in the individual PHY drivers or somewhere in the
>> PHY library can be decided if we have more than one similar
>> configuration to support.
>>
> Yes, it's more complicated and it doesn't apply to our platform.
> But, this doesn't really matter in the end, the problem I'm trying to
> address here is to allow stmac for IMX to support PHY WOL.
> Since the binding is not acceptable, I guess the only option here is to
> remove flag STMMAC_FLAG_USE_PHY_WOL from stmac driver and replace it
> with a call to phylink_ethtool_get_wol to identify whether the PHY is
> WOL capable or not.
> Then, how should we allow the platform to choose b/w MAC WOL and PHY WOL
> if both are supported ?
We don't have a good way to configure that decision consistently and
across *all* device drivers currently, what I can think of as the least
bad solution is to intersect between the PHY supported WOL modes, the
MAC supported WOL modes, and checking which of those is a wake-up enable
device via device_wakeup_enabled() and use that one with a preference
for the PHY since that is the closest to the wire. But this might be
good for me and you, maybe not for others.
> AFAIK ethtool only knows about MAC WOL capability since it interrogates
> the MAC interface. ethtool doesn't know anything about the PHY, or does
> it ??
No we don't, and until Maxime's patches about PHY topology land upstream:
https://lwn.net/Articles/961959/
we do not want to invent many different ways of specifying which of the
MAC or the PHY should be used for WOL. FWIW, I have a similar need:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg751196.html
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
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Florian