[PATCH 2/6] brcmfmac: Handling the interrupt in ISR directly for non-OOB

Wei Ni wni at nvidia.com
Mon Aug 27 06:25:10 EDT 2012


In case of inband interrupts, if we handle the interrupt in dpc thread,
two level of thread switching takes place to process wifi interrupts.
One in SDHCI driver and the other in Wifi driver. This may cause the system
instability.
Because the SDHCI calls sdio_irq_thread() to handle the irq, this thread locks
mmc host and calls wifi handler. It expects WiFi handler to be quick and
enables sdio interrupt from card at end. If wifi handler defers this work for
a different thread, sdio_irq_thread() will be stuck on next wifi interrupt
since mmc lock is not freed.

Handling the interrupt in ISR directly will prevent thread context switching in
wifi driver. It can fix the instability problems.

Signed-off-by: Wei Ni <wni at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c   |    2 ++
 drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_sdio.c |    8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
index 8e7e692..5cf6c3b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
@@ -121,7 +121,9 @@ static void brcmf_sdio_irqhandler(struct sdio_func *func)
 
 	brcmf_dbg(INTR, "ib intr triggered\n");
 
+	sdio_release_host(sdiodev->func[1]);
 	brcmf_sdbrcm_isr(sdiodev->bus);
+	sdio_claim_host(sdiodev->func[1]);
 }
 
 /* dummy handler for SDIO function 2 interrupt */
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_sdio.c
index 472f2ef..4576d59 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_sdio.c
@@ -2347,7 +2347,7 @@ static bool brcmf_sdbrcm_dpc(struct brcmf_sdio *bus)
 	uint framecnt = 0;	/* Temporary counter of tx/rx frames */
 	bool rxdone = true;	/* Flag for no more read data */
 	bool resched = false;	/* Flag indicating resched wanted */
-	int err;
+	int err = 0;
 
 	brcmf_dbg(TRACE, "Enter\n");
 
@@ -3786,11 +3786,17 @@ void brcmf_sdbrcm_isr(void *arg)
 	if (!bus->intr)
 		brcmf_dbg(ERROR, "isr w/o interrupt configured!\n");
 
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_BRCMFMAC_SDIO_OOB
+	while (brcmf_sdbrcm_dpc(bus))
+		;
+#else
 	bus->dpc_sched = true;
 	if (bus->dpc_tsk) {
 		brcmf_sdbrcm_adddpctsk(bus);
 		complete(&bus->dpc_wait);
 	}
+#endif
 }
 
 static bool brcmf_sdbrcm_bus_watchdog(struct brcmf_sdio *bus)
-- 
1.7.1




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