Some guests will use the standard MII status register
to verify link state. They will not notice link changes
unless this register is updated.
Verified with Linux 3.0 and Windows XP guests.
Without this patch, ethtool will report speed and duplex as
unknown when the link is down, but still report the link as
up. This is because the Linux e1000 driver checks the
mac_reg[STATUS] register link state before it checks speed
and duplex, but uses the phy_reg[PHY_STATUS] register for
the actual link state check. Fix by updating both registers
on link state changes.
Linux guest before:
(qemu) set_link e1000.0 off
kvm-sid:~# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: Unknown!
Duplex: Unknown! (255)
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Supports Wake-on: umbg
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
drv probe link
Link detected: yes
(qemu) set_link e1000.0 on
Linux guest after:
(qemu) set_link e1000.0 off
[ 63.384221] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Down
kvm-sid:~# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: Unknown!
Duplex: Unknown! (255)
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Supports Wake-on: umbg
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
drv probe link
Link detected: no
(qemu) set_link e1000.0 on
[ 84.304582] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Applied %s/^\([^I ]*\)^I/\1 /g on e1000.c and added e1000 to help message.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@3949 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
Jason Wang