[PATCH v7 0/8] wifi: ath12k: Introduce device group abstraction

[Harshitha Prem]

On 5/30/2024 3:58 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On 5/28/2024 8:13 PM, Baochen Qiang wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 5/29/2024 6:04 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>>> On 5/27/2024 11:35 PM, Harshitha Prem wrote:
>>>> To support multi-link operation, multiple devices with different bands say
>>>> 2 GHz or 5 GHz or 6 GHz can be combined together as a group and provide
>>>> an abstraction to mac80211.
>>>>
>>>> Device group abstraction - when there are multiple devices that are
>>>> connected by any means of communication interface between them, then these
>>>> devices can be combined together as a single group using a group id to form
>>>> a group abstraction. In ath12k driver, this abstraction would be named as
>>>> ath12k_hw_group (ag).
>>>>
>>>> Please find below illustration of device group abstraction with two
>>>> devices.
>>>>
>>>>                   Grouping of multiple devices (in future)
>>>> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>>> |  +-------------------------------------+       +-------------------+   |
>>>> |  |   +-----------+ | | +-----------+   |       |   +-----------+   |   |
>>>> |  |   | ar (2GHz) | | | | ar (5GHz) |   |       |   | ar (6GHz) |   |   |
>>>> |  |   +-----------+ | | +-----------+   |       |   +-----------+   |   |
>>>> |  |          ath12k_base (ab)           |       | ath12k_base (ab)  |   |
>>>> |  |         (Dual band device)          |       |                   |   |
>>>> |  +-------------------------------------+       +-------------------+   |
>>>> |                 ath12k_hw_group (ag) based on group id                 |
>>>> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>>>
>>>> Say for example, device 1 has two radios (2 GHz and 5 GHz band) and
>>>> device 2 has one radio (6 GHz).
>>>>
>>>> In existing code -
>>>>          device 1 will have two hardware abstractions hw1 (2 GHz) and hw2
>>>>          (5 GHz) will be registered separately to mac80211 as phy0 and phy1
>>>>          respectively. Similarly, device 2 will register its hw (6GHz) as
>>>>          phy2 to mac80211.
>>>>
>>>> In future, with multi-link abstraction
>>>>
>>>>          combination 1 - Different group id for device1 and device 2
>>>>                  Device 1 will create a single hardware abstraction hw1
>>>>                  (2 GHz and  5 GHz) and will be registered to mac80211 as
>>>>                  phy0. similarly, device 2 will register its hardware
>>>>                  (6 GHz) to mac80211 as phy1.
>>>>
>>>>          combination 2 - Same group id for device1 and device 2
>>>>                  Both device details are combined together as a group, say
>>>>                  group1, with single hardware abstraction of radios 2 GHz,
>>>>                  5 GHz and 6 GHz band details and will be registered to
>>>>                  mac80211 as phy0.
>>>>
>>>> Add base infrastructure changes to add device grouping abstraction with
>>>> a single device.
>>>>
>>>> This patch series brings the base code changes with following order:
>>>>          1. Refactor existing code which would facilitate in introducing
>>>>             device group abstraction.
>>>>          2. Create a device group abstraction during device probe.
>>>>          3. Start the device group only after QMI firmware ready event is
>>>>             received for all the devices that are combined in the group.
>>>>          4. Move the hardware abstractions (ath12k_hw - ah) from device
>>>>             (ath12k_base - ab) to device group abstraction (ag) as it would
>>>>             ease in having different combinations of group abstraction that
>>>>             can be registered to mac80211.
>>>>
>>>> v7:
>>>>     - Added linux-wireless mailer to cc.
>>>>     - Removed Acked-by tag from "[PATCH v6 8/8]" as it has minor change.
>>>>
>>>> v6:
>>>>    - Addressed smatch error seen on "[PATCH v5 8/8] wifi: ath12k: move
>>>>      ath12k_hw from per soc to group"
>>>>    - Rebased to ToT
>>>> v5:
>>>>    - on "[PATCH 8/8] wifi: ath12k: move ath12k_hw from per soc to
>>>>      group", refactor the ath12k_mac_hw_allocate() api based on ag rather
>>>>      than ab and update hardware abstraction array size in ath12k_hw_group
>>>>      as ATH12K_GROUP_MAX_RADIO.
>>>>    - Rebased to ToT
>>>> v4:
>>>>    - Modified the cover letter
>>>> v3:
>>>>    - Removed depends-on tag of "wifi: ath12k: Refactor the hardware recovery
>>>>      procedures" as it is merged to ToT
>>>>    - Addressed the deadlock warning seen during rmmod.
>>>>
>>>> v2:
>>>>   - Rebased to ToT
>>>>
>>>> Karthikeyan Periyasamy (8):
>>>>    wifi: ath12k: Refactor core start api
>>>>    wifi: ath12k: Add helpers to get or set ath12k_hw
>>>>    wifi: ath12k: Add ath12k_get_num_hw api
>>>>    wifi: ath12k: Introduce QMI firmware ready flag
>>>>    wifi: ath12k: move ATH12K_FLAG_REGISTERED flag set to mac_register api
>>>>    wifi: ath12k: Introduce device group abstraction
>>>>    wifi: ath12k: refactor core start based on hardware group
>>>>    wifi: ath12k: move ath12k_hw from per device to group
>>>>
>>>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.c | 431 +++++++++++++++++++++----
>>>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h |  87 ++++-
>>>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp.c   |  19 +-
>>>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp.h   |   2 +-
>>>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c  | 117 ++++---
>>>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.h  |   9 +-
>>>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/pci.c  |   2 +
>>>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/qmi.c  |  10 +-
>>>>   8 files changed, 544 insertions(+), 133 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> base-commit: f8320064a28242448eeb9fece08abd865ea8a226
>>>
>>> With this series I'm seeing a firmware crash upon resume from hibernation, but
>>> I'm not sure if it is the same intermittent crash I reported in another thread
>>> where firmware is not correctly handling a low physical memory address.
>>>
>>> Baochen & Kalle, since this issue may be specific to my laptop, can you
>>> validate hibernation on your setups?
>> I can also see a firmware crash upon resume. I am using ath-202405281746 as code base.
> 
> I bisected to:
> [PATCH v7 7/8] wifi: ath12k: refactor core start based on hardware group
> 
> 
Thank you so much, Jeff. Identified the possible reason that is causing 
the firmware assert with hibernation scenario and will address it in 
next version.