BCM4331 reset leads to wl lockup

[Arend van Spriel]

On 29-05-16 13:02, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 02:42:46PM +0200, Michael Büsch wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 May 2016 14:12:10 +0200 Lukas Wunner <lukas at wunner.de> wrote:
>>> +	mmio = early_ioremap(addr, BCM4331_MMIO_SIZE);
>>> +	if (!mmio) {
>>> +		pr_err("Cannot iomap Apple AirPort card\n");
>>> +		return;
>>> +	}
>>> +	pr_info("Resetting Apple AirPort card\n");
>>> +	iowrite32(BCMA_RESET_CTL_RESET,
>>> +		  mmio + (1 * BCMA_CORE_SIZE) + BCMA_RESET_CTL);
>>> +	early_iounmap(mmio, BCM4331_MMIO_SIZE);
>>
>> Just writing that bit is not the correct reset procedure.
>> So it might cause problems depending on how wl does the core reset
>> later.
>>
>> Please try this:
>> - wait for BCMA_RESET_ST to be 0
>> - set reset bit
>> - flush
>> - wait 1us
>> - reset reset bit
>> - flush
>> - wait 10us
>>
>> See bcma_core_disable()
> 
> It turned out that the lockups are triggered by bec3cfdca36b
> ("net: skb_segment() provides list head and tail") in Linux 3.18
> and that Eric Duzamet has kindly provided a fix for broadcom-sta:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523326#c24
> https://523326.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=393374

Looked at the patch and it provides little context. So before diving in
the code would you know if the patched broadcom-sta driver works for
kernels before 3.18?

Regards,
Arend