net: phy: Introduce ethernet link topology representation

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: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/phy.h b/include/linux/phy.h
index e6e83304558e..8c848c79b1fd 100644
--- a/include/linux/phy.h
+++ b/include/linux/phy.h
@@ -550,6 +550,9 @@ struct macsec_ops;
  * @drv: Pointer to the driver for this PHY instance
  * @devlink: Create a link between phy dev and mac dev, if the external phy
  *           used by current mac interface is managed by another mac interface.
+ * @phyindex: Unique id across the phy's parent tree of phys to address the PHY
+ *	      from userspace, similar to ifindex. A zero index means the PHY
+ *	      wasn't assigned an id yet.
  * @phy_id: UID for this device found during discovery
  * @c45_ids: 802.3-c45 Device Identifiers if is_c45.
  * @is_c45:  Set to true if this PHY uses clause 45 addressing.
@@ -650,6 +653,7 @@ struct phy_device {
 
 	struct device_link *devlink;
 
+	u32 phyindex;
 	u32 phy_id;
 
 	struct phy_c45_device_ids c45_ids;