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    net: enetc: apply the MDIO workaround for XDP_REDIRECT too · 24e39309
    Vladimir Oltean authored
    Described in fd5736bf ("enetc: Workaround for MDIO register access
    issue") is a workaround for a hardware bug that requires a register
    access of the MDIO controller to never happen concurrently with a
    register access of a port PF. To avoid that, a mutual exclusion scheme
    with rwlocks was implemented - the port PF accessors are the 'read'
    side, and the MDIO accessors are the 'write' side.
    
    When we do XDP_REDIRECT between two ENETC interfaces, all is fine
    because the MDIO lock is already taken from the NAPI poll loop.
    
    But when the ingress interface is not ENETC, just the egress is, the
    MDIO lock is not taken, so we might access the port PF registers
    concurrently with MDIO, which will make the link flap due to wrong
    values returned from the PHY.
    
    To avoid this, let's just slap an enetc_lock_mdio/enetc_unlock_mdio at
    the beginning and ending of enetc_xdp_xmit. The fact that the MDIO lock
    is designed as a rwlock is important here, because the read side is
    reentrant (that is one of the main reasons why we chose it). Usually,
    the way we benefit of its reentrancy is by running the data path
    concurrently on both CPUs, but in this case, we benefit from the
    reentrancy by taking the lock even when the lock is already taken
    (and that's the situation where ENETC is both the ingress and the egress
    interface for XDP_REDIRECT, which was fine before and still is fine now).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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