[PATCH v2] ath11k: add wait operation for tx management packets for flush from mac80211

Wen Gong quic_wgong at quicinc.com
Thu Nov 25 19:32:43 PST 2021


Hi Kalle,

I have found the reason.

I will send new version to fix it.

It is because commit c0b0d2e87d91ce283c8766b4b3c2ec9ac90ebf96 (ath11k: 
Increment pending_mgmt_tx count before tx send invoke) which commit at 
Nov 15 11:25:52 2021.

And my rebase is auto merged by git, then it inc twice for 
num_pending_mgmt_tx.

wgong at wgong-HP3-Z230-SFF-Workstation:~/ath11k/ath-upstream$ git 
cherry-pick 0869610178a1
Auto-merging drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c
Auto-merging drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c
Auto-merging drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.h
Auto-merging drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.c
[add_wait_mgmt_ath-202111221436 954d233dbe34] ath11k: add wait operation 
for tx management packets for flush from mac80211

On 11/22/2021 8:19 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Wen Gong <quic_wgong at quicinc.com> writes:
>
>> In ath11k, tx of management packet is doing in a work queue. Sometimes
>> the workqueue does not finish tx immediately, then it lead after the next
>> step of vdev delete finished, it start to send the management packet to
>> firmware and lead firmware crash.
>>
>> ieee80211_set_disassoc have logic of ieee80211_flush_queues after it
>> send_deauth_disassoc to ath11k, its purpose is make sure the deauth
>> was actually sent, so it need to change ath11k to match the purpose
>> of mac80211.
>>
>> To address these issue wait for tx mgmt and tx data packets.
>>
>> Tested-on: QCA6390 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HST.1.0.1-01230-QCAHSTSWPLZ_V2_TO_X86-1
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wen Gong <quic_wgong at quicinc.com>
> I sometimes see new warnings with this patch:
>
> [  142.346474] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: failed to flush mgmt transmit queue 0
> [  147.466367] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: failed to flush mgmt transmit queue 0
>
> And more importantly this breaks suspend on my NUC testbox:
>
> [  175.141820] PM: suspend entry (deep)
> [  175.150512] Filesystems sync: 0.008 seconds
> [  175.229703] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.003 seconds) done.
> [  175.233506] OOM killer disabled.
> [  175.233588] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
> [  175.242457] printk: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
> [  175.245269] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:03:7f:48:81:59 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
> [  175.285881] e1000e: EEE TX LPI TIMER: 00000011
> [  180.745259] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: failed to flush mgmt transmit queue 0
> [  185.864977] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: failed to flush mgmt transmit queue 0
> [  185.970601] PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected
> [  185.974081] usb usb3: root hub lost power or was reset
> [  185.974135] usb usb4: root hub lost power or was reset
> [  186.098870] nvme nvme0: 8/0/0 default/read/poll queues
> [  186.297077] OOM killer enabled.
> [  186.297361] Restarting tasks ... done.
> [  186.343733] PM: suspend exit
>
> My setup:
>
> Tag:	ath-202111221111
>
> [  151.123732] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: MSI vectors: 32
> [  151.123851] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: qca6390 hw2.0
> [  151.720618] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: chip_id 0x0 chip_family 0xb board_id 0xff soc_id 0xffffffff
> [  151.720912] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: fw_version 0x101c06cc fw_build_timestamp 2020-06-24 19:50 fw_build_id
>



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