usbnet: smsc95xx: Forward PHY interrupts to PHY driver to avoid polling

Link status of SMSC LAN95xx chips is polled once per second, even though
they're capable of signaling PHY interrupts through the MAC layer.

Forward those interrupts to the PHY driver to avoid polling.  Benefits
are reduced bus traffic, reduced CPU overhead and quicker interface
bringup.

Polling was introduced in 2016 by commit d69d16949346 ("usbnet:
smsc95xx: fix link detection for disabled autonegotiation").
Back then, the LAN95xx driver neglected to enable the ENERGYON interrupt,
hence couldn't detect link-up events when auto-negotiation was disabled.
The proper solution would have been to enable the ENERGYON interrupt
instead of polling.

Since then, PHY handling was moved from the LAN95xx driver to the SMSC
PHY driver with commit 05b35e7eb9a1 ("smsc95xx: add phylib support").
That PHY driver is capable of link detection with auto-negotiation
disabled because it enables the ENERGYON interrupt.

Note that signaling interrupts through the MAC layer not only works with
the integrated PHY, but also with an external PHY, provided its
interrupt pin is attached to LAN95xx's nPHY_INT pin.

In the unlikely event that the interrupt pin of an external PHY is
attached to a GPIO of the SoC (or not connected at all), the driver can
be amended to retrieve the irq from the PHY's of_node.

To forward PHY interrupts to phylib, it is not sufficient to call
phy_mac_interrupt().  Instead, the PHY's interrupt handler needs to run
so that PHY interrupts are cleared.  That's because according to page
119 of the LAN950x datasheet, "The source of this interrupt is a level.
The interrupt persists until it is cleared in the PHY."

https://www.microchip.com/content/dam/mchp/documents/UNG/ProductDocuments/DataSheets/LAN950x-Data-Sheet-DS00001875D.pdf

Therefore, create an IRQ domain with a single IRQ for the PHY.  In the
future, the IRQ domain may be extended to support the 11 GPIOs on the
LAN95xx.

Normally the PHY interrupt should be masked until the PHY driver has
cleared it.  However masking requires a (sleeping) USB transaction and
interrupts are received in (non-sleepable) softirq context.  I decided
not to mask the interrupt at all (by using the dummy_irq_chip's noop
->irq_mask() callback):  The USB interrupt endpoint is polled in 1 msec
intervals and normally that's sufficient to wake the PHY driver's IRQ
thread and have it clear the interrupt.  If it does take longer, worst
thing that can happen is the IRQ thread is woken again.  No big deal.

Because PHY interrupts are now perpetually enabled, there's no need to
selectively enable them on suspend.  So remove all invocations of
smsc95xx_enable_phy_wakeup_interrupts().

In smsc95xx_resume(), move the call of phy_init_hw() before
usbnet_resume() (which restarts the status URB) to ensure that the PHY
is fully initialized when an interrupt is handled.

Tested-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> # LAN9514/9512/9500
Tested-by: Ferry Toth <fntoth@gmail.com> # LAN9514
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> # from a PHY perspective
Cc: Andre Edich <andre.edich@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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