-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch Sent: Tuesday, 20 September, 2022 7:46 AM To: Jamaluddin, Aminuddin aminuddin.jamaluddin@intel.com Cc: Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com; Russell King linux@armlinux.org.uk; David S . Miller davem@davemloft.net; Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com; Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org; Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com; Ismail, Mohammad Athari mohammad.athari.ismail@intel.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux- kernel@vger.kernel.org; stable@vger.kernel.org; Tan, Tee Min tee.min.tan@intel.com; Zulkifli, Muhammad Husaini muhammad.husaini.zulkifli@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net: phy: marvell: add link status check before enabling phy loopback
Its required cabled plug in, back to back connection.
Loopback should not require that. The whole point of loopback in the PHY is you can do it without needing a cable.
Have you tested this with the cable unplugged?
Yes we have and its expected to have the timeout. But the self-test required the link to be up first before it can be run.
So you get an ETIMEDOUT, and then skip the code which actually sets the LOOPBACK bit?
If cable unplugged, test result will be displayed as 1. See comments below.
Please look at this again, and make it work without a cable.
Related to this the flow without cable, what we see in the codes during
debugging.
After the phy loopback bit was set. The test will be run through this __stmmac_test_loopback() https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.19.8/source/drivers/net/ethernet/s tmicro/stmmac/stmmac_selftests.c#L320 Here, it will have another set of checking in dev_direct_xmit(),
__dev_direct_xmit().
returning value 1(NET_XMIT_DROP) https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.19.8/source/net/core/dev.c#L4288 Which means the interface is not available or the interface link status is not
up.
For this case the interface link status is not up. Thus failing the phy loopback test. https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.19.8/source/net/core/dev.c#L4296 Since we don't own this __stmmac_test_loopback(), we conclude the
behaviour was as expected.
Maybe you are addressing the wrong issue? Is the PHY actually performing loopback, but reporting the link is down? Maybe you need to
fake a link up?
Maybe you need the self test to not care about the link state, all it really needs is that packets get looped?
When bit 14 was set, the link will be broken. But before the self-test was triggered it requires link to be up as stated
above comments.
You have not said anything about my comment:
Maybe you need to fake a link up?
My guess is, some PHYs are going to report link up when put into loopback. Others might not. For the Marvell PHY, it looks like you need to make marvell_read_status() return that the link is up if loopback is enabled.
We able to do the PHY loopback test, after fake link up without cable plugged on as suggested above. We will provide version 2 patch with minimum code changes without having the status link check. Only need to increase the msleep(200) to msleep(1000) inside m88e1510_loopback() function.
Amin