[PATCH 1/3] wifi: ath11k: fix dest ring-buffer corruption

[Miaoqing Pan]

On 6/5/2025 12:24 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On 6/3/2025 7:34 PM, Miaoqing Pan wrote:
>> We previously had extensive discussions on this topic in the
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/ecfe850c-b263-4bee-b888-c34178e690fc@quicinc.com/
>> thread. On my platform, dma_rmb() did not work as expected. The issue
>> only disappeared after disabling PCIe endpoint relaxed ordering in
>> firmware side. So it seems that HP was updated (Memory write) before
>> descriptor (Memory write), which led to the problem.
> 
> Have all ath11k and ath12k firmware been updated to prevent this problem from
> the firmware side?
> 
No, as this is not a widespread issue, and addressing it would require 
modifying the core underlying modules of the firmware. Therefore, we 
chose not to proceed with that approach but instead used the workaround 
patch I previously submitted.

> Or do we need both the barriers and the logic to retry reading the descriptor?
> 

I think so, that would be best.