net: stmmac: work around sporadic tx issue on link-up
authorHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:34:49 +0000 (22:34 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:16:46 +0000 (17:16 +0200)
commit50396e19d9d891d7ef17bc83fafc0ca7c93a8d63
treecd4a8caa5db73646112822dc9814b334a304bf2e
parent48f4d54ccc4d249e936e2d82bc8d37e3662abc9f
net: stmmac: work around sporadic tx issue on link-up

[ Upstream commit a3a57bf07de23fe1ff779e0fdf710aa581c3ff73 ]

This is a follow-up to the discussion in [0]. It seems to me that
at least the IP version used on Amlogic SoC's sometimes has a problem
if register MAC_CTRL_REG is written whilst the chip is still processing
a previous write. But that's just a guess.
Adding a delay between two writes to this register helps, but we can
also simply omit the offending second write. This patch uses the second
approach and is based on a suggestion from Qi Duan.
Benefit of this approach is that we can save few register writes, also
on not affected chip versions.

[0] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg831526.html

Fixes: bfab27a146ed ("stmmac: add the experimental PCI support")
Suggested-by: Qi Duan <qi.duan@amlogic.com>
Suggested-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e99857ce-bd90-5093-ca8c-8cd480b5a0a2@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac_lib.c
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c