[PATCH ath-next 3/8] wifi: ath12k: add TCL ring TX buffer allocation failure counter
Pardeep Kaur
pardeep.kaur at oss.qualcomm.com
Thu Jul 23 05:54:43 PDT 2026
From: Hariharan Ramanathan <hariharan.ramanathan at oss.qualcomm.com>
When ath12k_dp_tx_assign_buffer() fails, the TX path returns -ENOMEM
silently with no per-ring visibility into how often this occurs.
Without a counter, buffer pool exhaustion on a specific TCL ring is
invisible during debugging.
Add txbuf_na[] to ath12k_device_dp_tx_err_stats to track per-ring TX
buffer allocation failures and increment it on assign failure in the
TX path. Expose the per-ring counts in debugfs under a new 'TCL Ring
Buffer Alloc Failures' section.
Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.6.r1-00402-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Signed-off-by: Hariharan Ramanathan <hariharan.ramanathan at oss.qualcomm.com>
Co-developed-by: Pardeep Kaur <pardeep.kaur at oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pardeep Kaur <pardeep.kaur at oss.qualcomm.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/debugfs.c | 5 +++++
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp.h | 2 ++
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wifi7/dp_tx.c | 4 +++-
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/debugfs.c
index d54995b7adb2..0f8b458200a8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/debugfs.c
@@ -1117,6 +1117,11 @@ static ssize_t ath12k_debugfs_dump_device_dp_stats(struct file *file,
len += scnprintf(buf + len, size - len, "ring%d: %u\n",
i, device_stats->tx_err.desc_na[i]);
+ len += scnprintf(buf + len, size - len, "\nTCL Ring Buffer Alloc Failures:\n");
+ for (i = 0; i < DP_TCL_NUM_RING_MAX; i++)
+ len += scnprintf(buf + len, size - len, "ring%d: %u\n",
+ i, device_stats->tx_err.txbuf_na[i]);
+
len += scnprintf(buf + len, size - len,
"\nMisc Transmit Failures: %d\n",
atomic_read(&device_stats->tx_err.misc_fail));
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp.h
index a94bbc337df4..ac125adde258 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp.h
@@ -428,6 +428,8 @@ struct ath12k_dp_arch_ops {
struct ath12k_device_dp_tx_err_stats {
/* TCL Ring Descriptor unavailable */
u32 desc_na[DP_TCL_NUM_RING_MAX];
+ /* TCL Ring Buffers unavailable */
+ u32 txbuf_na[DP_TCL_NUM_RING_MAX];
/* Other failures during dp_tx due to mem allocation failure
* idr unavailable etc.
*/
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wifi7/dp_tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wifi7/dp_tx.c
index a0e409452a19..ca0e1369af21 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wifi7/dp_tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wifi7/dp_tx.c
@@ -123,8 +123,10 @@ int ath12k_wifi7_dp_tx(struct ath12k_pdev_dp *dp_pdev, struct ath12k_link_vif *a
tx_ring = &dp->tx_ring[ti.ring_id];
tx_desc = ath12k_dp_tx_assign_buffer(dp, pool_id);
- if (!tx_desc)
+ if (!tx_desc) {
+ dp->device_stats.tx_err.txbuf_na[ti.ring_id]++;
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
dp_link_vif = ath12k_dp_vif_to_dp_link_vif(&ahvif->dp_vif, arvif->link_id);
--
2.34.1
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