On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Kalle Valo <kv...@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Amitkumar Karwar <amitkar...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Kalle Valo <kv...@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>>> Amitkumar Karwar <amitkar...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> From: Karun Eagalapati <karun...@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> We are disabling of interrupts from firmware in freeze handler.
>>>> Also setting power management capability KEEP_MMC_POWER to make
>>>> device wakeup for WoWLAN trigger.
>>>> At restore, we observed a device reset on some platforms. Hence
>>>> reloading of firmware and device initialization is performed.
>>>
>>> With "reloading of firmware and device initialization" you mean calling
>>> rsi_mac80211_detach()?
>>
>> After rsi_mac80211_detach, we have a call for rsi_hal_device_init() in
>> which reloading of firmware happens.
>>
>>>
>>> void rsi_mac80211_detach(struct rsi_hw *adapter)
>>> {
>>> struct ieee80211_hw *hw = adapter->hw;
>>> enum nl80211_band band;
>>>
>>> if (hw) {
>>> ieee80211_stop_queues(hw);
>>> ieee80211_unregister_hw(hw);
>>> ieee80211_free_hw(hw);
>>> }
>>>
>>> That looks like a quite heavy sledgehammer workaround to a resume
>>> problem. Is it really the best way to handle this?
>>
>> I agree with you. I will appreciate if someone propose a better
>> solution. Following are details about the problem.
>>
>> Connection remain alive after suspend(S4 state). System is resumed
>> from S4 through GPIO pin after receiving magic packet. But SDIO
>> doesn't work after this. We need to do perform SDIO reset and
>> redownload the firmware. Mac80211 is under impression that connection
>> is alive. We keep on getting mac80211 handler calls and data while
>> firmware re-download is in progress. This leads to different race
>> issues and occasionally kernel crashes. detaching from mac80211 solves
>> the problem here.
>
> So what I think is the right approach is that the firmare is restarted
> behind the scenes and user space doesn't even notice it, for example
> that's what ath10k does. There's ieee80211_restart_hw() even for just
> that.
>
> We discussed about this also on one of mwifiex patches from Brian Norris
> and there it was concluded that for cfg80211 driver it's ok to delete
> the whole interface when restarting the firmware. But mac80211 drivers
> can do better.
Thanks for the suggestions. I went through the discussion for mwifiex patch.
We are exploring ieee80211_restart_hw() API approach.
>
>>> And even if that would be the right approach it needs to be properly
>>> described in the commit log, a vague sentence in the end of a commit log
>>> is not enough.
>>
>> Understood. I will add detailed description and send updated version
>> if the patch is fine.
>
> Not sure if this is fine or not. I think what you do here is ugly but I
> guess it's better than nothing?
Agreed. I have dropped the idea of sending updated patch with only
description change
Regards,
Amitkumar Karwar
