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    usbnet: smsc95xx: Avoid link settings race on interrupt reception · 8960f878
    Lukas Wunner authored
    When a PHY interrupt is signaled, the SMSC LAN95xx driver updates the
    MAC full duplex mode and PHY flow control registers based on cached data
    in struct phy_device:
    
      smsc95xx_status()                 # raises EVENT_LINK_RESET
        usbnet_deferred_kevent()
          smsc95xx_link_reset()         # uses cached data in phydev
    
    Simultaneously, phylib polls link status once per second and updates
    that cached data:
    
      phy_state_machine()
        phy_check_link_status()
          phy_read_status()
            lan87xx_read_status()
              genphy_read_status()      # updates cached data in phydev
    
    If smsc95xx_link_reset() wins the race against genphy_read_status(),
    the registers may be updated based on stale data.
    
    E.g. if the link was previously down, phydev->duplex is set to
    DUPLEX_UNKNOWN and that's what smsc95xx_link_reset() will use, even
    though genphy_read_status() may update it to DUPLEX_FULL afterwards.
    
    PHY interrupts are currently only enabled on suspend to trigger wakeup,
    so the impact of the race is limited, but we're about to enable them
    perpetually.
    
    Avoid the race by delaying execution of smsc95xx_link_reset() until
    phy_state_machine() has done its job and calls back via
    smsc95xx_handle_link_change().
    
    Signaling EVENT_LINK_RESET on wakeup is not necessary because phylib
    picks up link status changes through polling.  So drop the declaration
    of a ->link_reset() callback.
    
    Note that the semicolon on a line by itself added in smsc95xx_status()
    is a placeholder for a function call which will be added in a subsequent
    commit.  That function call will actually handle the INT_ENP_PHY_INT_
    interrupt.
    
    Tested-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> # LAN9514/9512/9500
    Tested-by: Ferry Toth <fntoth@gmail.com> # LAN9514
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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