Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mwifiex: Add quirk to disable deep sleep with certain hardware revision

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 06:10:55PM +0100, Jonas Dreßler wrote:
> The 88W8897 PCIe+USB card in the hardware revision 20 apparently has a
> hardware issue where the card wakes up from deep sleep randomly and very
> often, somewhat depending on the card activity, maybe the hardware has a
> floating wakeup pin or something. This was found by comparing two MS
> Surface Book 2 devices, where one devices wifi card experienced spurious
> wakeups, while the other one didn't.
> 
> Those continuous wakeups prevent the card from entering host sleep when
> the computer suspends. And because the host won't answer to events from
> the card anymore while it's suspended, the firmwares internal power
> saving state machine seems to get confused and the card can't sleep
> anymore at all after that.
> 
> Since we can't work around that hardware bug in the firmware, let's
> get the hardware revision string from the firmware and match it with
> known bad revisions. Then disable auto deep sleep for those revisions,
> which makes sure we no longer get those spurious wakeups.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@v0yd.nl>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c   | 18 +++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h   |  1 +
>  .../wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c    | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 39 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c
> index 19b996c6a260..ace7371c4773 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c
> @@ -226,6 +226,23 @@ static int mwifiex_process_rx(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static void maybe_quirk_fw_disable_ds(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
> +{
> +	struct mwifiex_private *priv = mwifiex_get_priv(adapter, MWIFIEX_BSS_ROLE_STA);
> +	struct mwifiex_ver_ext ver_ext;
> +
> +	if (test_and_set_bit(MWIFIEX_IS_REQUESTING_FW_VEREXT, &adapter->work_flags))
> +		return;
> +
> +	memset(&ver_ext, 0, sizeof(ver_ext));
> +	ver_ext.version_str_sel = 1;

> +	if (mwifiex_send_cmd(priv, HostCmd_CMD_VERSION_EXT,
> +			     HostCmd_ACT_GEN_GET, 0, &ver_ext, false)) {
> +		mwifiex_dbg(priv->adapter, MSG,
> +			    "Checking hardware revision failed.\n");
> +	}

Checkpatch won't warn you if string literal even > 100. So move it to one line
and drop curly braces. Ditto for the case(s) below.

> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * The main process.
>   *
> @@ -356,6 +373,7 @@ int mwifiex_main_process(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
>  			if (adapter->hw_status == MWIFIEX_HW_STATUS_INIT_DONE) {
>  				adapter->hw_status = MWIFIEX_HW_STATUS_READY;
>  				mwifiex_init_fw_complete(adapter);
> +				maybe_quirk_fw_disable_ds(adapter);
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h
> index 65609ea2327e..eabd0e0a9f56 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h
> @@ -524,6 +524,7 @@ enum mwifiex_adapter_work_flags {
>  	MWIFIEX_IS_SUSPENDED,
>  	MWIFIEX_IS_HS_CONFIGURED,
>  	MWIFIEX_IS_HS_ENABLING,
> +	MWIFIEX_IS_REQUESTING_FW_VEREXT,
>  };
>  
>  struct mwifiex_band_config {
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c
> index 20b69a37f9e1..6c7b0b9bc4e9 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c
> @@ -708,6 +708,26 @@ static int mwifiex_ret_ver_ext(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
>  {
>  	struct host_cmd_ds_version_ext *ver_ext = &resp->params.verext;
>  
> +	if (test_and_clear_bit(MWIFIEX_IS_REQUESTING_FW_VEREXT, &priv->adapter->work_flags)) {
> +		if (strncmp(ver_ext->version_str, "ChipRev:20, BB:9b(10.00), RF:40(21)",
> +			    MWIFIEX_VERSION_STR_LENGTH) == 0) {
> +			struct mwifiex_ds_auto_ds auto_ds = {
> +				.auto_ds = DEEP_SLEEP_OFF,
> +			};
> +
> +			mwifiex_dbg(priv->adapter, MSG,
> +				    "Bad HW revision detected, disabling deep sleep\n");
> +
> +			if (mwifiex_send_cmd(priv, HostCmd_CMD_802_11_PS_MODE_ENH,
> +					     DIS_AUTO_PS, BITMAP_AUTO_DS, &auto_ds, false)) {
> +				mwifiex_dbg(priv->adapter, MSG,
> +					    "Disabling deep sleep failed.\n");
> +			}
> +		}
> +
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (version_ext) {
>  		version_ext->version_str_sel = ver_ext->version_str_sel;
>  		memcpy(version_ext->version_str, ver_ext->version_str,
> -- 
> 2.33.1
> 

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko