[PATCH 1/2] ath10k: improve warm reset reliability

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Thu May 15 03:48:16 PDT 2014


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

> Warm reset is now able to recover after device
> crashes which required a cold reset before.
>
> This should greatly reduce chances of getting data
> bus errors or host system freezes due to buggy
> cold reset on some chips.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>

Awesome! This is very much needed. I just have a cosmetic comment:

> +/* this function effectively clears target memory controller assert line */
> +static void ath10k_pci_warm_reset_si0(struct ath10k *ar)
> +{
> +	u32 val;
> +
> +	val = ath10k_pci_read32(ar, RTC_SOC_BASE_ADDRESS +
> +				SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS);
> +	ath10k_pci_write32(ar, RTC_SOC_BASE_ADDRESS + SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS,
> +			   val | SOC_RESET_CONTROL_SI0_RST_MASK);
> +	val = ath10k_pci_read32(ar, RTC_SOC_BASE_ADDRESS +
> +				SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS);

We do have the ath10k_pci_soc_ functions for accessing SOC registers, I
would prefer to use those here. I now modified your patch with the diff
below. Is that ok to you?

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
@@ -1807,20 +1807,18 @@ static void ath10k_pci_warm_reset_si0(struct ath10k *ar)
 {
        u32 val;
 
-       val = ath10k_pci_read32(ar, RTC_SOC_BASE_ADDRESS +
-                               SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS);
-       ath10k_pci_write32(ar, RTC_SOC_BASE_ADDRESS + SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS,
-                          val | SOC_RESET_CONTROL_SI0_RST_MASK);
-       val = ath10k_pci_read32(ar, RTC_SOC_BASE_ADDRESS +
-                               SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS);
+       val = ath10k_pci_soc_read32(ar, SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS);
+       ath10k_pci_soc_write32(ar, SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS,
+                              val | SOC_RESET_CONTROL_SI0_RST_MASK);
+       val = ath10k_pci_soc_read32(ar, SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS);
+
        msleep(10);
 
-       val = ath10k_pci_read32(ar, RTC_SOC_BASE_ADDRESS +
-                               SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS);
-       ath10k_pci_write32(ar, RTC_SOC_BASE_ADDRESS + SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS,
-                          val & ~SOC_RESET_CONTROL_SI0_RST_MASK);
-       val = ath10k_pci_read32(ar, RTC_SOC_BASE_ADDRESS +
-                               SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS);
+       val = ath10k_pci_soc_read32(ar, SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS);
+       ath10k_pci_soc_write32(ar, SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS,
+                              val & ~SOC_RESET_CONTROL_SI0_RST_MASK);
+       val = ath10k_pci_soc_read32(ar, SOC_RESET_CONTROL_ADDRESS);
+
        msleep(10);
 }

Full patch here:

https://github.com/kvalo/ath/commit/7b52054308a371d479a9e686e1d8411d19a90fd7

-- 
Kalle Valo



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