From: Russell King (Oracle) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:00:02 +0000 (+0200) Subject: net: stmmac: provide flag to disable EEE X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=187b00a26679ae58a79f56c0024df1e3dbd7dff0;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git net: stmmac: provide flag to disable EEE Some platforms have problems when EEE is enabled, and thus need a way to disable stmmac EEE support. Add a flag before the other LPI related flags which tells stmmac to avoid populating the phylink LPI capabilities, which causes phylink to call phy_disable_eee() for any PHY that is attached to the affected phylink instance. iMX8MP is an example - the lpi_intr_o signal is wired to an OR gate along with the main dwmac interrupts. Since lpi_intr_o is synchronous to the receive clock domain, and takes four clock cycles to clear, this leads to interrupt storms as the interrupt remains asserted for some time after the LPI control and status register is read. This problem becomes worse when the receive clock from the PHY stops when the receive path enters LPI state - which means that lpi_intr_o can not deassert until the clock restarts. Since the LPI state of the receive path depends on the link partner, this is out of our control. We could disable RX clock stop at the PHY, but that doesn't get around the slow-to-deassert lpi_intr_o mentioned in the above paragraph. Previously, iMX8MP worked around this by disabling gigabit EEE, but this is insufficient - the problem is also visible at 100M speeds, where the receive clock is slower. There is extensive discussion and investigation in the thread linked below, the result of which is summarised in this commit message. Reported-by: Laurent Pinchart Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251026122905.29028-1-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) Tested-by: Ovidiu Panait Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260325210003.2752013-2-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c index 9b6b493316399..ce51b9c221299 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c @@ -1438,7 +1438,12 @@ static int stmmac_phylink_setup(struct stmmac_priv *priv) config->supported_interfaces, pcs->supported_interfaces); - if (priv->dma_cap.eee) { + /* Some platforms, e.g. iMX8MP, wire lpi_intr_o to the same interrupt + * used for stmmac's main interrupts, which leads to interrupt storms. + * STMMAC_FLAG_EEE_DISABLE allows EEE to be disabled on such platforms. + */ + if (priv->dma_cap.eee && + !(priv->plat->flags & STMMAC_FLAG_EEE_DISABLE)) { /* The GMAC 3.74a databook states that EEE is only supported * in MII, GMII, and RGMII interfaces. */ diff --git a/include/linux/stmmac.h b/include/linux/stmmac.h index eaaee329ef9d7..4430b967abdeb 100644 --- a/include/linux/stmmac.h +++ b/include/linux/stmmac.h @@ -204,12 +204,13 @@ enum dwmac_core_type { #define STMMAC_FLAG_MULTI_MSI_EN BIT(7) #define STMMAC_FLAG_EXT_SNAPSHOT_EN BIT(8) #define STMMAC_FLAG_INT_SNAPSHOT_EN BIT(9) -#define STMMAC_FLAG_RX_CLK_RUNS_IN_LPI BIT(10) -#define STMMAC_FLAG_EN_TX_LPI_CLOCKGATING BIT(11) -#define STMMAC_FLAG_EN_TX_LPI_CLK_PHY_CAP BIT(12) -#define STMMAC_FLAG_HWTSTAMP_CORRECT_LATENCY BIT(13) -#define STMMAC_FLAG_KEEP_PREAMBLE_BEFORE_SFD BIT(14) -#define STMMAC_FLAG_SERDES_SUPPORTS_2500M BIT(15) +#define STMMAC_FLAG_EEE_DISABLE BIT(10) +#define STMMAC_FLAG_RX_CLK_RUNS_IN_LPI BIT(11) +#define STMMAC_FLAG_EN_TX_LPI_CLOCKGATING BIT(12) +#define STMMAC_FLAG_EN_TX_LPI_CLK_PHY_CAP BIT(13) +#define STMMAC_FLAG_HWTSTAMP_CORRECT_LATENCY BIT(14) +#define STMMAC_FLAG_KEEP_PREAMBLE_BEFORE_SFD BIT(15) +#define STMMAC_FLAG_SERDES_SUPPORTS_2500M BIT(16) struct mac_device_info;