kernel/linux.git/include/linux/phy_link_topology.h, branch v7.2-rc2Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/atom?h=v7.2-rc22026-06-09T17:13:04+00:00net: ethtool: relax ethnl_req_get_phydev() locking assertion2026-06-09T17:13:04+00:00Jakub Kicinskikuba@kernel.org2026-06-05T00:29:02+00:00urn:sha1:ded86da4bbb78cad74cecc368fee3ae3a296e2ca
phydev <> netdev linking and lifecycle depends on rtnl_lock.
We want to switch to instance locks for most ethtool ops.
Let's add an assert that ops locked devices don't use phydev
today. If one does we can either opt the phy ops out of
being purely ops locked, or do deeper surgery to make phy
locking ops-compatible. I don't think there's any fundamental
challenge to make that work.
Reviewed-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605002912.3456868-3-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
net: phy: Introduce ethernet link topology representation2024-08-23T12:04:34+00:00Maxime Chevalliermaxime.chevallier@bootlin.com2024-08-21T15:09:55+00:00urn:sha1:3849687869092094003ba009dc00e2e0237a3b8a
Link topologies containing multiple network PHYs attached to the same
net_device can be found when using a PHY as a media converter for use
with an SFP connector, on which an SFP transceiver containing a PHY can
be used.
With the current model, the transceiver's PHY can't be used for
operations such as cable testing, timestamping, macsec offload, etc.
The reason being that most of the logic for these configuration, coming
from either ethtool netlink or ioctls tend to use netdev->phydev, which
in multi-phy systems will reference the PHY closest to the MAC.
Introduce a numbering scheme allowing to enumerate PHY devices that
belong to any netdev, which can in turn allow userspace to take more
precise decisions with regard to each PHY's configuration.
The numbering is maintained per-netdev, in a phy_device_list.
The numbering works similarly to a netdevice's ifindex, with
identifiers that are only recycled once INT_MAX has been reached.
This prevents races that could occur between PHY listing and SFP
transceiver removal/insertion.
The identifiers are assigned at phy_attach time, as the numbering
depends on the netdevice the phy is attached to. The PHY index can be
re-used for PHYs that are persistent.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Tested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>