From: "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
To: "Jonas Dreßler" <verdre@v0yd.nl>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi017@gmail.com>,
Xinming Hu <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Tsuchiya Yuto <kitakar@gmail.com>,
"open list:TI WILINK WIRELES..." <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-pci <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mwifiex: Use non-posted PCI register writes
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 17:51:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210901155110.xgje2qrtq65loawh@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e38931e-2f1c-066e-088e-b27b56c1245c@v0yd.nl>
On Wednesday 01 September 2021 16:01:54 Jonas Dreßler wrote:
> On 8/30/21 2:49 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 3:38 PM Jonas Dreßler <verdre@v0yd.nl> wrote:
> >>
> >> On the 88W8897 card it's very important the TX ring write pointer is
> >> updated correctly to its new value before setting the TX ready
> >> interrupt, otherwise the firmware appears to crash (probably because
> >> it's trying to DMA-read from the wrong place).
> >>
> >> Since PCI uses "posted writes" when writing to a register, it's not
> >> guaranteed that a write will happen immediately. That means the pointer
> >> might be outdated when setting the TX ready interrupt, leading to
> >> firmware crashes especially when ASPM L1 and L1 substates are enabled
> >> (because of the higher link latency, the write will probably take
> >> longer).
> >>
> >> So fix those firmware crashes by always forcing non-posted writes. We do
> >> that by simply reading back the register after writing it, just as a lot
> >> of other drivers do.
> >>
> >> There are two reproducers that are fixed with this patch:
> >>
> >> 1) During rx/tx traffic and with ASPM L1 substates enabled (the enabled
> >> substates are platform dependent), the firmware crashes and eventually a
> >> command timeout appears in the logs. That crash is fixed by using a
> >> non-posted write in mwifiex_pcie_send_data().
> >>
> >> 2) When sending lots of commands to the card, waking it up from sleep in
> >> very quick intervals, the firmware eventually crashes. That crash
> >> appears to be fixed by some other non-posted write included here.
> >
> > Thanks for all this work!
> >
> > Nevertheless, do we have any commits that may be a good candidate to
> > be in the Fixes tag here?
> >
>
> I don't think there's any commit we could point to, given that the bug is
> probably somewhere in the firmware code.
Then please add Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org tag into commit message. Such
bugfix is a good candidate for backporting into stable releases.
> >> Signed-off-by: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@v0yd.nl>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-01 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-30 12:37 [PATCH 0/2] mwifiex: Work around firmware bugs on 88W8897 chip Jonas Dreßler
2021-08-30 12:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] mwifiex: Use non-posted PCI register writes Jonas Dreßler
2021-08-30 12:49 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-09-01 14:01 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-01 15:47 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-09-01 15:51 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2021-09-01 16:51 ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-09-01 17:07 ` Johannes Berg
2021-09-01 19:07 ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-09-01 22:41 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-09-02 14:05 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-09-01 19:40 ` Brian Norris
2021-09-01 20:40 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-09-01 21:04 ` Brian Norris
2021-09-01 21:07 ` Brian Norris
2021-09-18 7:37 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-20 17:48 ` Brian Norris
2021-09-22 12:50 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-23 15:28 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-23 19:37 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-09-23 19:41 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-09-23 20:22 ` Pali Rohár
2021-09-30 15:38 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-30 15:42 ` Pali Rohár
2021-09-30 16:14 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-30 16:19 ` Pali Rohár
2021-09-30 16:22 ` Jonas Dreßler
2021-09-30 16:39 ` Pali Rohár
2021-08-30 12:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] mwifiex: Try waking the firmware until we get an interrupt Jonas Dreßler
2021-08-30 12:51 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-08-30 12:55 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-09-25 17:32 ` [PATCH 0/2] mwifiex: Work around firmware bugs on 88W8897 chip Pali Rohár
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