Re: [PATCH] ath10k: fix initial radar detection logic

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>]

Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> writes:

> This fixes a problem of initial radar detection
> (CAC) being stuck and blocking Rx in some cases
> until all interfaces were brought down.

It would be good to describe more about the cases where this problem
happened.

> For userspace this meant first run of hostapd
> would perform CAC but due to filtered Rx no
> clients would associate. Subsequent runs of
> hostapd would not perform CAC (as it was already
> done) and would associate clients.
>
> This also makes sure radar detection is performed
> when bandwidth is widened. Before if 20MHz CAC was
> performed then 40MHz CAC wouldn't start monitor
> vdev effectively disabling initial radar
> detection.
>
> A driver should just start/stop radar detection
> based on hw->conf.radar_enabled. However, since
> ath10k needs to start a monitor vdev for the
> initial radar detection special care needs to be
> applied.
>
> While at it cleanup the code a bit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>

[...]

> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
> @@ -434,6 +434,8 @@ struct ath10k {
>  	unsigned int filter_flags;
>  	unsigned long dev_flags;
>  	u32 dfs_block_radar_events;
> +	bool radar_enabled; /* protected by conf_mutex */
> +	int num_started_vdevs; /* protected by conf_mutex */

I would prefer style like this:

        u32 dfs_block_radar_events;

        /* these are protected by conf_mutex */
        bool radar_enabled; 
        int num_started_vdevs;

> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
> @@ -489,6 +489,8 @@ static inline int ath10k_vdev_setup_sync(struct ath10k *ar)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static void ath10k_recalc_radar_detection(struct ath10k *ar);

Forward declarations should be avoided if possible. Can you add a new
patch which just moves ath10k_recalc_radar_detection() and in this patch
you do the modifications in the function?

> @@ -571,6 +576,11 @@ static int ath10k_vdev_stop(struct ath10k_vif *arvif)
>  		return ret;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (WARN_ON(ar->num_started_vdevs == 0)) {
> +		ar->num_started_vdevs--;
> +		ath10k_recalc_radar_detection(ar);

Now num_started_vdevs will be -1, what does that mean? It would be good
to document that in struct ath10k.

-- 
Kalle Valo