From: Petr Oros <poros@redhat.com>
To: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>,
Arkadiusz Kubalewski <arkadiusz.kubalewski@intel.com>,
Grzegorz Nitka <grzegorz.nitka@intel.com>,
Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>,
Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>,
Jakub Ramaseuski <jramaseu@redhat.com>,
intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] ice: dpll: serialize changes of the SyncE CGU registers
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:22:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cf90b9bc-80a1-4905-8669-823ff80c575b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261110094350.184185-2-ivecera@redhat.com>
On 11/10/26 10:43 AM, Ivan Vecera wrote:
> All E825C PFs share the CGU registers R10 and R11. On dual complex E825
> the second complex reaches the CGU of complex 0 through cgu_peer. RCLK pin
> callbacks read, modify and write these registers under dpll_lock and the
> pf->dplls.lock of their PF. ice_ptp_link_change() rewrites R10 under the
> pf->dplls.lock of its PF only, so a link change on one PF can write back
> a stale R10 and undo an RCLK pin change made by another PF.
>
> Add a mutex to struct ice_adapter, which all E825C PFs share, and hold it
> around these sequences.
>
> Tested on GNR-D with dual complex E825, with a 2 to 4 ms delay after the
> read of R10 in the link change path to widen the window. Toggling the
> RCLK pin of one port while another port of the same complex went down
> and up 143 times lost 120 of 86814 updates of the mux in R10 without
> this patch, and none of 76992 with it.
>
> Fixes: ad1df4f2d591 ("ice: dpll: Support E825-C SyncE and dynamic pin discovery")
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_adapter.c | 2 ++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_adapter.h | 4 ++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.c | 11 ++++++-----
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.h | 4 ++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c | 2 ++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_tspll.c | 4 ++--
> 6 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_adapter.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_adapter.c
> index 536923b6ae979d..aa2d8addae5bef 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_adapter.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_adapter.c
> @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ static struct ice_adapter *ice_adapter_new(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> spin_lock_init(&adapter->txq_ctx_lock);
> for (int i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(adapter->cpi_phy_lock); i++)
> mutex_init(&adapter->cpi_phy_lock[i]);
> + mutex_init(&adapter->cgu_synce_lock);
> refcount_set(&adapter->refcount, 1);
>
> spin_lock_init(&adapter->ports.lock);
> @@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ static void ice_adapter_free(struct ice_adapter *adapter)
> WARN_ON(!list_empty(&adapter->ports.list));
> for (int i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(adapter->cpi_phy_lock); i++)
> mutex_destroy(&adapter->cpi_phy_lock[i]);
> + mutex_destroy(&adapter->cgu_synce_lock);
>
> cleanup_srcu_struct(&adapter->ports.srcu);
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_adapter.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_adapter.h
> index c61bd645e460de..fd5585005d91ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_adapter.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_adapter.h
> @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ struct ice_port_list {
> * @txq_ctx_lock: Spinlock protecting access to the GLCOMM_QTX_CNTX_CTL register
> * @cpi_phy_lock: Per-PHY mutex serializing CPI REQ/ACK transactions.
> * Index 0 = PHY0, index 1 = PHY1. Used on E825C devices.
> + * @cgu_synce_lock: Mutex serializing changes of the CGU registers R10 and R11,
> + * which all PFs reach. Used on E825C devices.
> * @ctrl_pf: Control PF of the adapter
> * @ports: Ports list
> * @index: 64-bit index cached for collision detection on 32bit systems
> @@ -53,6 +55,8 @@ struct ice_adapter {
> spinlock_t txq_ctx_lock;
> /* Serialize CPI REQ/ACK transactions per PHY (E825C only) */
> struct mutex cpi_phy_lock[ICE_E825_MAX_PHYS];
> + /* Serialize changes of the SyncE CGU registers (E825C only) */
> + struct mutex cgu_synce_lock;
>
> struct ice_pf *ctrl_pf;
> struct ice_port_list ports;
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.c
> index ade1fb3dd06743..5148e419f49a07 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.c
> @@ -2027,7 +2027,7 @@ ice_dpll_phase_offset_get(const struct dpll_pin *pin, void *pin_priv,
> *
> * DPLL subsystem callback. Set proper signals to recover clock from port.
> *
> - * Context: Called under pf->dplls.lock
> + * Context: Called under pf->dplls.lock, acquires adapter->cgu_synce_lock
> * Return:
> * * 0 - success
> * * negative - error
> @@ -2035,14 +2035,15 @@ ice_dpll_phase_offset_get(const struct dpll_pin *pin, void *pin_priv,
> static int ice_dpll_synce_update_e825c(struct ice_hw *hw, bool ena,
> u32 port_num, enum ice_synce_clk output)
> {
> + struct ice_pf *pf = hw->back;
> int err;
>
> + mutex_lock(&pf->adapter->cgu_synce_lock);
> /* configure the mux to deliver proper signal to DPLL from the MUX */
> err = ice_tspll_cfg_bypass_mux_e825c(hw, ena, port_num, output);
> - if (err)
> - return err;
> -
> - err = ice_tspll_cfg_synce_ethdiv_e825c(hw, output);
> + if (!err)
> + err = ice_tspll_cfg_synce_ethdiv_e825c(hw, output);
> + mutex_unlock(&pf->adapter->cgu_synce_lock);
> if (err)
> return err;
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.h
> index bce0bea9a664bc..3f9a993129acef 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_dpll.h
> @@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ struct ice_dpll {
> * txclk_notify_rwsem (read)
> * -> pf->dplls.lock
> * -> ctrl_pf->dplls.lock
> + * -> adapter->cgu_synce_lock
> *
> * - @lock serializes all DPLL state mutations on this PF. When the
> * controlling PF's lock must also be taken (e.g. updating the shared
> @@ -169,6 +170,9 @@ struct ice_dpll {
> * dpll_*_change_ntf() calls. ice_dpll_deinit() takes the write side
> * standalone (not nested under any other lock) to drain in-flight
> * readers before pins and the TXC DPLL device are freed.
> + * - adapter->cgu_synce_lock serializes changes of the CGU registers R10 and
> + * R11. All E825C PFs reach one CGU, so @lock, which is per PF, does not
> + * cover them.
> */
> struct ice_dplls {
> struct kthread_worker *kworker;
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c
> index 7980eaf9ce2535..449819cf8c8791 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ptp.c
> @@ -1368,7 +1368,9 @@ void ice_ptp_link_change(struct ice_pf *pf, bool linkup)
> break;
> }
>
> + mutex_lock(&pf->adapter->cgu_synce_lock);
> err = ice_tspll_cfg_synce_ethdiv_e825c(hw, clk_pin);
> + mutex_unlock(&pf->adapter->cgu_synce_lock);
> if (active && err) {
> dev_err_once(ice_pf_to_dev(pf),
> "Failed to configure SyncE ETH divider for pin %d, err %d\n",
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_tspll.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_tspll.c
> index 85bacb7c3a7903..b99e02cfe559bd 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_tspll.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_tspll.c
> @@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ int ice_tspll_bypass_mux_active_e825c(struct ice_hw *hw, u8 port, bool *active,
> *
> * Set reference clock source and output clock selection.
> *
> - * Context: Called under pf->dplls.lock
> + * Context: Called under pf->dplls.lock and adapter->cgu_synce_lock
> * Return:
> * * 0 - success
> * * negative - error
> @@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ static int ice_tspll_get_div_e825c(u16 link_speed, unsigned int *divider)
> *
> * Set the correct CGU divider for RCLKA or RCLKB.
> *
> - * Context: Called under pf->dplls.lock
> + * Context: Called under pf->dplls.lock and adapter->cgu_synce_lock
> * Return:
> * * 0 - success
> * * negative - error
Reviewed-by: Petr Oros <poros@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 9:43 [PATCH net 0/2] ice: dpll: fix updates of the SyncE CGU registers on E825 Ivan Vecera
2026-11-10 9:43 ` [PATCH net 1/2] ice: dpll: serialize changes of the SyncE CGU registers Ivan Vecera
2026-11-10 15:22 ` Petr Oros [this message]
2026-11-10 9:43 ` [PATCH net 2/2] ice: dpll: set the SyncE divider only for the port driving the output Ivan Vecera
2026-11-10 15:23 ` Petr Oros
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