net: phylink: add support for polling MAC PCS

Some MAC PCS blocks are unable to provide interrupts when their status
changes. As we already have support in phylink for polling status, use
this to provide a hook for MACs to enable polling mode.

The patch idea was picked up from Russell King's suggestion on the macb
phylink patch thread here [0] but the implementation was changed.
Instead of introducing a new phylink_start_poll() function, which would
make the implementation cumbersome for common PHYLINK implementations
for multiple types of devices, like DSA, just add a boolean property to
the phylink_config structure, which is just as backwards-compatible.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/16/603

Suggested-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

Author: vladimiroltean

Documentation/networking/sfp-phylink.rst

@@ -251,7 +251,8 @@ this documentation.
 	phylink_mac_change(priv->phylink, link_is_up);
 
     where ``link_is_up`` is true if the link is currently up or false
-    otherwise.
+    otherwise. If a MAC is unable to provide these interrupts, then
+    it should set ``priv->phylink_config.pcs_poll = true;`` in step 9.
 
 11. Verify that the driver does not call::
 

drivers/net/phy/phylink.c

@@ -1022,7 +1022,8 @@ void phylink_start(struct phylink *pl)
 		if (irq <= 0)
 			mod_timer(&pl->link_poll, jiffies + HZ);
 	}
-	if (pl->cfg_link_an_mode == MLO_AN_FIXED && pl->get_fixed_state)
+	if ((pl->cfg_link_an_mode == MLO_AN_FIXED && pl->get_fixed_state) ||
+	    pl->config->pcs_poll)
 		mod_timer(&pl->link_poll, jiffies + HZ);
 	if (pl->phydev)
 		phy_start(pl->phydev);

include/linux/phylink.h

@@ -63,10 +63,12 @@ enum phylink_op_type {
  * struct phylink_config - PHYLINK configuration structure
  * @dev: a pointer to a struct device associated with the MAC
  * @type: operation type of PHYLINK instance
+ * @pcs_poll: MAC PCS cannot provide link change interrupt
  */
 struct phylink_config {
 	struct device *dev;
 	enum phylink_op_type type;
+	bool pcs_poll;
 };
 
 /**