Commit 6623c0fb authored Dec 15, 2017 by Russell King Committed by David S. Miller Dec 18, 2017

net: phy: marvell: avoid pause mode on SGMII-to-Copper for 88e151x



Observed on the 88e1512 in SGMII-to-Copper mode, negotiating pause
is unreliable.  While the pause bits can be set in the advertisment
register, they clear shortly after negotiation with a link partner
commences irrespective of the cause of the negotiation.

While these bits may be correctly conveyed to the link partner on the
first negotiation, a subsequent negotiation (eg, due to negotiation
restart by the link partner, or reconnection of the cable) will result
in the link partner seeing these bits as zero, while the kernel
believes that it has advertised pause modes.

This leads to the local kernel evaluating (eg) symmetric pause mode,
while the remote end evaluates that we have no pause mode capability.

Since we can't guarantee the advertisment, disable pause mode support
with this PHY when used in SGMII-to-Copper mode.

The 88e1510 in RGMII-to-Copper mode appears to behave correctly.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 84aeb437

drivers/net/phy/marvell.c

+12 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -879,6 +879,8 @@ static int m88e1510_config_init(struct phy_device *phydev)

		/* SGMII-to-Copper mode initialization */
		if (phydev->interface == PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_SGMII) {
		u32 pause;

		/* Select page 18 */
		err = marvell_set_page(phydev, 18);
		if (err < 0)
		@@ -902,6 +904,16 @@ static int m88e1510_config_init(struct phy_device *phydev)
		err = marvell_set_page(phydev, MII_MARVELL_COPPER_PAGE);
		if (err < 0)
		return err;

		/* There appears to be a bug in the 88e1512 when used in
		* SGMII to copper mode, where the AN advertisment register
		* clears the pause bits each time a negotiation occurs.
		* This means we can never be truely sure what was advertised,
		* so disable Pause support.
		*/
		pause = SUPPORTED_Pause \| SUPPORTED_Asym_Pause;
		phydev->supported &= ~pause;
		phydev->advertising &= ~pause;
		}

		return m88e1121_config_init(phydev);

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