[PATCH ath-next v3 5/6] wifi: ath11k: choose default PM policy for hibernation

[Konrad Dybcio]

On 6/18/25 10:52 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 02:15:04AM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> On 3/28/25 6:32 AM, Baochen Qiang wrote:
>>> Now WoWLAN mode is chosen for those machines listed in the quirk table.
>>> This works for suspend (S3) but breaks for hibernation (S4), because
>>> WoWLAN mode requires WLAN power to be sustained, which is not the case
>>> during hibernation. For hibernation, the default mode should be used.
>>>
>>> Register a PM notifier with which kernel can notify us of the actual PM
>>> operation: if system is going to suspend, the original PM policy is
>>> honored; while if it is hibernation, overwrite it with default policy.
>>>
>>> To summarize: for suspend (S3), WoWLAN mode is chosen for machines listed
>>> in the quirk table, non-WoWLAN mode for others; for hibernation (S4),
>>> non-WoWLAN mode is chosen for all.
>>>
>>> Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.30
>>>
>>> Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
>>> Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang at quicinc.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> I've bisected the following splat to this patch, still happening on
>> linux-next/master, WCN6855 + SC8280XP CRD, 100% reproducibility 
> 
> WFIW, I'm not seeing this with 6.16-rc2 (which has this patch) on either
> the X13s or sc8280xp-crd (ath11k now fails to resume on the latter
> because of missing regulatory data, but that appears to be a separate
> regression).

Do you have CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS?


>> [root at sc8280xp-crd ~]# echo mem > /sys/power/state 
>> [   20.267830] fb0: Framebuffer is not in virtual address space.
>> [   39.863070] PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
>> [   39.908067] Filesystems sync: 0.035 seconds
>> [   39.934453] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [   39.939259] Invalid notifier called!
>> [   39.939268] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 513 at kernel/notifier.c:79 notifier_call_chain+0x84/0x1a4
>> [   39.951566] Modules linked in:
>> [   39.954732] CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 513 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.14.0-rc4longbois-01215-g32d93b51bc7e #12177
> 
> 6.14?

g show 32d93b51bc7e2e557771abe4a88da69c609e3d52:Makefile | head

# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
VERSION = 6
PATCHLEVEL = 14
SUBLEVEL = 0
EXTRAVERSION = -rc4

it's been in the tree for a while

Konrad