[PATCH 0/2] ath10k: pci fixes 2014-06-05

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Tue Jul 15 01:22:41 PDT 2014


Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> writes:

> I've found a few issues while I was testing ath10k
> in QEMU/KVM with PCI passthrough. The second patch
> is something that I've found while analysing the
> bmi race and I don't think anyone experienced
> problems associated with it.
>
> There's still a weird synchronization issue with
> (what I think is) iomap write propagation. The
> initial fw bootup interrupt doesn't come in and
> it seems CE interrupts are unmasked with a lag
> because explicit polling after ctl_resp timeout
> seems to be sufficient to work around it. I
> suspect this might be a virtualization problem
> rather than ath10k. Ideas, anyone?

No ideas, but it would be great to get ath10k working in KVM. If we
cannot find a better solution, could we add the explicit polling anyway?
(With an approriate comment why such a hack is needed, of course)

> Michal Kazior (2):
>   ath10k: fix bmi exchange tx/rx race
>   ath10k: sanitize tx ring index access properly

Thanks, both patches applied.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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