[PATCH v2 00/14] net: axienet: Update error handling and add 64-bit DMA support

From: Andre Przywara
Date: Mon Mar 09 2020 - 14:19:05 EST


Hi,

this is an update to the axienet improvement/64-bit support series.
Compared to v1 I fixed the issues mentioned in the reviews, removed
the hackish and wrong SGMII fix (there is now a much better solution
by Russell), and reworked the 64-bit DMA detection. We get away without
a DT property now: the MSB registers are autodetected, and the full
64 bit DMA mask is used when they are available.
Also I fixed two additional existing bugs/issues in the driver.

This series is based on net-next as of today (e2f5cb7280f8), which
includes Russell's fixes [1].

A git branch is available at:
http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-ap.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/axienet/v2
git://linux-arm.org/linux-ap.git branch axienet/v2

Thanks,
Andre

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/E1j6trA-0003GY-N1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Changelog v1 .. v2:
- Add Reviewed-by: tags from Radhey
- Extend kerndoc documentation
- Convert DMA error handler tasklet to work queue
- log DMA mapping errors
- mark DMA mapping error checks as unlikely (in "hot" paths)
- return NETDEV_TX_OK on TX DMA mapping error (increasing TX drop counter)
- Request eth IRQ as an optional IRQ
- Remove no longer needed MDIO IRQ register names
- Drop DT propery check for address width, assume full 64 bit

===============
This series updates the Xilinx Axienet driver to work on our board
here. One big issue was broken SGMII support, which Russell fixed already
(in net-next).
While debugging and understanding the driver, I found several problems
in the error handling and cleanup paths, which patches 2-7 address.
Patch 8 removes a annoying error message, patch 9 paves the way for newer
revisions of the IP. The next patch adds mii-tool support, just for good
measure.

The next four patches add support for 64-bit DMA. This is an integration
option on newer IP revisions (>= v7.1), and expects MSB bits in formerly
reserved registers. Without writing to those MSB registers, the state
machine won't trigger, so it's mandatory to access them, even if they
are zero. Patches 11 and 12 prepare the code by adding accessors, to
wrap this properly and keep it working on older IP revisions.
Patch 13 enables access to the MSB registers, by trying to write a
non-zero value to them and checking if that sticks. Older IP revisions
always read those registers as zero.
Patch 14 then adjusts the DMA mask, based on the autodetected MSB
feature. It uses the full 64 bits in this case, the rest of the system
(actual physical addresses in use) should provide a natural limit if the
chip has connected fewer address lines. If not, the parent DT node can
use a dma-range property.

The Xilinx PG138 and PG021 documents (in versions 7.1 in both cases)
were used for this series.

Andre Przywara (14):
net: xilinx: temac: Relax Kconfig dependencies
net: axienet: Convert DMA error handler to a work queue
net: axienet: Propagate failure of DMA descriptor setup
net: axienet: Fix DMA descriptor cleanup path
net: axienet: Improve DMA error handling
net: axienet: Factor out TX descriptor chain cleanup
net: axienet: Check for DMA mapping errors
net: axienet: Mark eth_irq as optional
net: axienet: Drop MDIO interrupt registers from ethtools dump
net: axienet: Add mii-tool support
net: axienet: Wrap DMA pointer writes to prepare for 64 bit
net: axienet: Upgrade descriptors to hold 64-bit addresses
net: axienet: Autodetect 64-bit DMA capability
net: axienet: Allow DMA to beyond 4GB

drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/Kconfig | 1 -
drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet.h | 19 +-
.../net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 378 +++++++++++++-----
3 files changed, 284 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)

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