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

[Kalle Valo]

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

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