[PATCH v3 0/3] Enable low power mode when WLAN is not active

[Kalle Valo]

Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise at quicinc.com> writes:

> On 11/23/2022 9:35 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>> Kalle Valo <kvalo at kernel.org> writes:
>>
>>> Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise at quicinc.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Currently, WLAN chip is powered once during driver probe and is kept
>>>> ON (powered) always even when WLAN is not active; keeping the chip
>>>> powered ON all the time will consume extra power which is not
>>>> desirable for battery operated devices. Same is the case with non-WoW
>>>> suspend, chip will not be put into low power mode when the system is
>>>> suspended resulting in higher battery drain.
>>>>
>>>> Send QMI MODE OFF command to firmware during WiFi OFF to put device
>>>> into low power mode.
>>>>
>>>> Tested-on: WCN6750 hw1.0 AHB WLAN.MSL.1.0.1-00887-QCAMSLSWPLZ-1
>>>> Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.16
>>>>
>>>> Manikanta Pubbisetty (3):
>>>>    ath11k: Fix double free issue during SRNG deinit
>>>>    ath11k: Move hardware initialization logic to start()
>>>>    ath11k: Enable low power mode when WLAN is not active
>>>> ---
>>>> V3:
>>>>   - Removed patch "ath11k: Fix failed to parse regulatory event print" as it is not needed anymore
>>>>   - Fixed a potential deadlock scenario reported by lockdep around ab->core_lock with V2 changes
>>>>   - Fixed other minor issues that were found during code review
>>>>   - Spelling corrections in the commit messages
>>>
>>> I still see a crash, immediately after the first rmmod:
>>>
>>> Nov 22 11:05:47 nuc2  [  139.378719] rmmod ath11k_pci
>>> Nov 22 11:05:48 nuc2 [ 139.892395] general protection fault, probably
>>> for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000003e: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
>>> DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN
>>> Nov 22 11:05:48 nuc2 [ 139.892453] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range
>>> [0x00000000000001f0-0x00000000000001f7]
>>>
>>> Really odd that you don't see it. Unfortunately not able to debug this
>>> further right now.
>>>
>>> This is with:
>>>
>>> wcn6855 hw2.0 WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.9
>>
>> A bit more information how I see the crash. So first I have all modules
>> loaded:
>>
>> $ lsmod
>> Module                  Size  Used by
>> ath11k_pci             57344  0
>> ath11k               2015232  1 ath11k_pci
>> mac80211             3284992  1 ath11k
>> libarc4                16384  1 mac80211
>> cfg80211             2494464  2 ath11k,mac80211
>> qmi_helpers            57344  1 ath11k
>> qrtr_mhi               20480  0
>> mhi                   217088  2 ath11k_pci,qrtr_mhi
>> qrtr                   98304  5 qrtr_mhi
>> nvme                  122880  3
>> nvme_core             299008  5 nvme
>> $
>>
>> Then I just remove ath11k_pci module and boom:
>>
>> $ sudo rmmod ath11k_pci
>>
>> [ 153.658409] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical
>> address 0xdffffc000000003e: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>> KASAN
>>
>> This happens every time, there doesn't seem to be any randomness on the
>> behaviour.
>>
>
> Thanks for the help Kalle, this is exactly what I was doing in my
> tests. Unfortunately, I'm not able to reproduce the problem. I have
> also tried with the exact firmware that you have pointed out. Let me
> see if I'm missing anything.

I tested this more and patch 3 seems to be the one causing the crash. I
didn't see this when patch 1-2 were applied.

The crash happens in ath11k_dp_process_rxdma_err() in this line:

	srng = &ab->hal.srng_list[err_ring->ring_id];

ab looks sane to me (0xffff88814c960000) but err_ring is set to 0x200.
Does this help?

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