More than one ath10k NIC will not load (bisected)

[Kalle Valo]

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

> On 4 February 2015 at 10:07, Kalle Valo <kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>> Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> writes:
>>
>>>> Hmm.. This removes warm_reset in probe function but I fail to see how
>>>> this could end up not loading one of the NIC *silently*?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway there's a pending patch which adds the reset back:
>>>> https://github.com/kvalo/ath/commit/bdcd6f4e4ac5d2d2a56da4813f56655e6db0ee45
>>>> . You might want to try it and see if it helps.
>>>
>>> Reverting the patch made it work again for me.
>>>
>>> I don't understand that code well, but perhaps you are disabling
>>> a shared interrupt that silently stops the second NIC from
>>> being able to do it's thing?
>>>
>>> Do you have a PC with 2 NICs in it that you could try yourself?
>>>
>>> I can grab you the logs of a failure to boot later today.
>>
>> What should we do with this one? I didn't look at the details yet, but
>> do we have any other option than to revert?
>
> I believe this is an issue in Ben's userspace (he sent me logs
> privately) or some sort of kernel event bug. It basically looked like
> this: both devices were detected by ath10k and both started
> register_work. One of the devices loaded all the way while the other
> tried to load a few non-existing firmware files and it stopped. Few
> minutes later there was a hung task splat pointing to
> request_firmware() called from ath10k suggesting userspace didn't
> handle firmware request.
>
> The "offending" patch effectively removed 200ms from probe() in
> ath10k. This could've change timing on request_firmware() calls on
> Ben's system. Btw. the 200ms is back again now with
> 1a7fecb766c83dace747f42b25bbb544b00a0163 ("ath10k: reset chip before
> reading chip_id in probe").
>
> Marek tried running 2 qca988x on his laptop some time ago (with and
> without the extra timing) and didn't have any issues.

Good, thanks for checking this.

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Kalle Valo