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Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:12:03 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 6/8] net: phy: add calibration callbacks to
 phy_driver
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 04:31:07PM +0100, Romain Gantois wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2023, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 
> > > +static inline
> > > +int phy_start_calibration(struct phy_device *phydev)
> > > +{
> > > +	if (!(phydev->drv &&
> > > +	      phydev->drv->calibration_start &&
> > > +	      phydev->drv->calibration_stop))
> > > +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > > +
> > > +	return phydev->drv->calibration_start(phydev);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static inline
> > > +int phy_stop_calibration(struct phy_device *phydev)
> > > +{
> > > +	if (!(phydev->drv &&
> > > +	      phydev->drv->calibration_stop))
> > > +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > > +
> > > +	return phydev->drv->calibration_stop(phydev);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > 
> > What is the locking model?
> > 
> >      Andrew
> > 
> This driver currently uses an atomic flag to make sure that the calibration 
> doesn't run twice. It doesn't acquire any locks before calling 
> phy_start_calibration(), which is a mistake.
> 
> I think a good locking model for this would be similar to the one used for 
> phy_cable_test. The phy_start_calibration() and phy_stop_calibration() wrappers 
> would acquire a lock on the PHY device and then test phydev->state, to check for 
> an ongoing calibration. A new enum member such as PHY_CALIB could be defined for 
> this purpose. The lock would be released by the phylib wrapper once the 
> phy_driver callback returns.
> 
> The problem with this is that one calibration run can access multiple 
> phy_device instances at the same time, e.g. if a switch is linked to a multiport 
> PHY via a PSGMII link.
> 
> So acquiring a lock on a single phy device isn't enough. Ideally, these 
> calls could somehow acquire one lock on all the hardware resources of a 
> multiport PHY simultaneously. From what I've seen, there is no standard kernel 
> interface that allows MAC drivers to know about link-sharing between phy 
> devices. I'll have to do more research on this but if you know of an existing 
> interface that I can use for this, please tell me.

Lets get the switch parts merged first, then we can think about this
calibration problem. I need a better understanding of the requirements
before i can suggest something.

       Andrew