[PATCH net-next v8 00/10] bng_en: add link management and statistics support

From: Vikas Gupta

Date: Thu Mar 19 2026 - 01:52:37 EST


Hi,

This series enhances the bng_en driver by adding:
1. Link/PHY support
a. Link query
b. Async Link events
c. Ethtool link set/get functionality
2. Hardware statistics reporting via ethtool -S

This version incorporates feedback received prior to splitting the
original series into two parts.

Addressed following comments from Andrew Lunn
- Apply Rev-xmas fix in several places.
- Correct ethtool-speed comment to reflect accurate behavior.
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/49930724-74b8-41fe-8f5c-482afc976b82@xxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CANXQDtb5XuLKOOorCMYDUpVz6aFuQgvmQZ4pS6RJGkAgeM8n1A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Addressed following comments from Jakub Kicinski
- Took care of missing mutex_init()
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20251127190855.69779791@xxxxxxxxxx/#t
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CANXQDtYy2JziaaVi=Cqt+gAJNt4NjFFs8NbhrS=RBV61ORwinA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Addressed following comments from ALOK TIWARI
- Add newline for clarity/formatting.
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CANXQDtZbLhdwEtN+kKg1OVLV+uy-gsNfX+rU4MR77QPuO6_y9A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

v8:
- Fix the smatch warnings reported by Dan Carpenter
https://lore.kernel.org/r/202603180509.nOQGZrG0-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
v7:
- Addressed the two valid issues reported by AI (Jakub Kicinski).
- Fixed minor issues reported by Alok Tiwari.
- Addressed the concern of statistics duplication raised by Jakub
Kicinski. A few statistics (discards/errors) have been made part
of the standard netdev statistics and removed from ethtool -S.
Additionally, a few statistics that require proper implementation
have been removed and will be addressed in a later series, for example,
get_pause_stats and get_fec_stats.
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260312192251.61243873@xxxxxxxxxx/#t

v6:
- Resending the full series due to an SMTP failure during v5
submission.
- No functional changes from v5.

v5:
Address Jakub Kicinski's comments by holding the instance lock across
the entire service task (instead of flag-based locking) and checking
the OPEN bit under the lock to resolve the close-path deadlock.

v4:
Addressed comments from Jakub Kicinski:
- Explicitly size speed mask arrays to remove the need for manual
sentinels in the hardware configuration.
- Fix an off-by-one error in the queue index bound check.
- Standardize ethtool -S per-ring stat naming to "rxq$id_$name"
(e.g., rxq0_errors). Removed spaces and brackets to ensure
compatibility with parsing scripts.
- Exclude ethtool -S global counters (tx_err, tx_fifo_underruns,
tx_total_collisions) already covered by rtnl_link_stats64.

v3:
Addressed comments from Andrew Lunn:
- Fix a comment and refactor bnge_hwrm_set_pause()
to improve code readability.

Addressed comments from Jakub Kicinski:
- Switch to RCU for stats synchronization and drop the
BNGE_STATE_READ_STATS state bit.

Fix checkpatch warning by switching to kzalloc_node().

v2:
Addressed comments from Andrew Lunn:
- Add implementation for .get_pauseparam and .set_pauseparam to
support
a full flow control configuration, covering global autoneg,
independent
pause autoneg, and forced RX/TX pause functionality.
- Move MAC, PHY, Control, Pause, and RMON statistics from
.get_ethtool_stats to their respective structured ethtool
callbacks (e.g., .get_eth_mac_stats, .get_rmon_stats).

Addressed comments from Jakub Kicinski:
- Fix potential out-of-bounds read in speed mask array by adding
the missing sentinel.
- Simplify timer synchronization by removing the redundant intr_sem.
- Replace link_lock with the netdev instance lock, as it is sufficient
to handle the required synchronization.

v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260223163641.755200-1-bhargava.marreddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx/


Bhargava Marreddy (10):
bng_en: add per-PF workqueue, timer, and slow-path task
bng_en: query PHY capabilities and report link status
bng_en: add ethtool link settings, get_link, and nway_reset
bng_en: implement ethtool pauseparam operations
bng_en: add support for link async events
bng_en: add HW stats infra and structured ethtool ops
bng_en: periodically fetch and accumulate hardware statistics
bng_en: implement ndo_get_stats64
bng_en: implement netdev_stat_ops
bng_en: add support for ethtool -S stats display

drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/Makefile | 3 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge.h | 12 +
.../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_core.c | 1 +
.../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_ethtool.c | 723 +++++++++
.../ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_hwrm_lib.c | 386 ++++-
.../ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_hwrm_lib.h | 8 +
.../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_link.c | 1303 +++++++++++++++++
.../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_link.h | 204 +++
.../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_netdev.c | 597 +++++++-
.../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_netdev.h | 87 +-
.../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_txrx.c | 35 +-
11 files changed, 3340 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_link.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_link.h

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