[PATCH] ath11k: add wmi ctrl path stats

[Kalle Valo]

Kalle Valo <kvalo at kernel.org> writes:

> Thiraviyam Mariyappan <quic_tmariyap at quicinc.com> wrote:
>
>> Currently, ath11k HTT debugfs uses the HTT interface to send stats request
>> to target and response from target. Here HTT interface already overloaded
>> with the data path stats. To reduce the load from HTT, using WMI interface
>> to print the control path stats. This patch come up with framework for
>> control path stats using wmi interface.
>> For now, this framework supports PDEV_STAT and further stats will be
>> added.
>> 
>> WMI control path stats command and results are below:
>> echo <stats_id> <action> >
>>         sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy3/netdev\:wlan3/wmi_ctrl_stats
>> cat sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy3/netdev\:wlan3/wmi_ctrl_stats
>> stats_id:
>> 1 -> WMI_REQ_CTRL_PATH_PDEV_STATS
>> action:
>> 1 -> stats get
>> 2 -> stats reset
>> 
>> WMI_CTRL_PATH_PDEV_STATS:
>> req_id = 26
>> fw_tx_mgmt_subtype =  0:0, 1:0, 2:0, 3:0, 4:0, 5:109, 6:0, 7:0, 8:344, ...
>> fw_rx_mgmt_subtype =  0:0, 1:0, 2:0, 3:0, 4:0, 5:0, 6:0, 7:0, 8:0, 9:0, ...
>> scan_fail_dfs_violation_time_ms = 0
>> nol_chk_fail_last_chan_freq = 0
>> nol_chk_fail_time_stamp_ms = 0
>> tot_peer_create_cnt = 2
>> tot_peer_del_cnt = 1
>> tot_peer_del_resp_cnt = 1
>> vdev_pause_fail_rt_to_sched_algo_fifo_full_cnt = 0
>> 
>> Tested-on: WLAN.HK.2.5.0.1-00517-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Thiraviyam Mariyappan <quic_tmariyap at quicinc.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo at quicinc.com>
>
> This added new warnings:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/debugfs.c:1600: line length of 92 exceeds 90 columns
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/debugfs.c:1666: line length of 93 exceeds 90 columns
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c:2702: line length of 94 exceeds 90 columns
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c:2703: line length of 97 exceeds 90 columns
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c:7037: line length of 97 exceeds 90 columns
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c:7085: line length of 97 exceeds 90 columns
>
> I fixed them in the pending branch. But in the future please use ath11k-check.
>
> There was one way too long field:
>
> 	u32 vdev_pause_fail_rt_to_sched_algo_fifo_full_cnt;
>
> I renamed that to:
>
> 	u32 vdev_pause_fail_rt;
>
> In ath11k_wmi_send_wmi_ctrl_stats_cmd() the error handling was unnecessarily
> using else branch which caused long lines, I fixed that by avoiding else
> branches.
>
> Also I saw some other things, like calling kzalloc() in variable declarations,
> but I will look at them in detail later.
>
> Here's what I did now:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=pending&id=28bc80a6a9c675fdc7003934a9493d9e95570f5f

And in my regression testing with WCN6855 I see new warnings:

[  422.555328] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  434.892534] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  447.169512] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  459.707762] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  472.078881] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  484.371612] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  496.663938] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  508.928868] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  521.310941] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  533.859349] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  575.072067] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  594.171473] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  617.581248] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  637.003411] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  656.153840] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  675.210066] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  694.594334] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  714.122679] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!
[  733.506719] debugfs: File 'wmi_ctrl_stats' in directory 'netdev:wlan0' already present!

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