[PATCH v2] ath10k: add flag to protect napi operation to avoid dead loop hang for SDIO

Krishna Chaitanya chaitanya.mgit at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 04:35:55 EDT 2020


On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:03 AM Wen Gong <wgong at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>
> It happened "Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks" when
> test simulate crash and ifconfig down/rmmod meanwhile.
>
> Test steps:
>
> 1.Test commands, either can reproduce the hang.
> echo soft > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath10k/simulate_fw_crash;sleep 0.05;ifconfig wlan0 down
> echo soft > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath10k/simulate_fw_crash;rmmod ath10k_sdio
>
> 2. dmesg:
> [ 5622.548630] ath10k_sdio mmc1:0001:1: simulating soft firmware crash
> [ 5622.655995] ieee80211 phy0: Hardware restart was requested
> [ 5776.355164] INFO: task shill:1572 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
> [ 5776.355687] INFO: task kworker/1:2:24437 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
> [ 5776.359812] Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks
> [ 5776.359836] CPU: 1 PID: 55 Comm: khungtaskd Tainted: G        W         4.19.86 #137
> [ 5776.359846] Hardware name: MediaTek krane sku176 board (DT)
> [ 5776.359855] Call trace:
> [ 5776.359868]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x170
> [ 5776.359881]  show_stack+0x20/0x2c
> [ 5776.359896]  dump_stack+0xd4/0x10c
> [ 5776.359916]  panic+0x12c/0x29c
> [ 5776.359937]  hung_task_panic+0x0/0x50
> [ 5776.359953]  kthread+0x120/0x130
> [ 5776.359965]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> [ 5776.359986] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
> [ 5776.360012] Kernel Offset: 0x141ea00000 from 0xffffff8008000000
> [ 5776.360026] CPU features: 0x0,2188200c
> [ 5776.360035] Memory Limit: none
>
> command "ifconfig wlan0 down" or "rmmod ath10k_sdio" will be blocked
> callstack of ifconfig:
> [<0>] __switch_to+0x120/0x13c
> [<0>] msleep+0x28/0x38
> [<0>] ath10k_sdio_hif_stop+0x24c/0x294 [ath10k_sdio]
> [<0>] ath10k_core_stop+0x50/0x78 [ath10k_core]
> [<0>] ath10k_halt+0x120/0x178 [ath10k_core]
> [<0>] ath10k_stop+0x4c/0x8c [ath10k_core]
> [<0>] drv_stop+0xe0/0x1e4 [mac80211]
> [<0>] ieee80211_stop_device+0x48/0x54 [mac80211]
> [<0>] ieee80211_do_stop+0x678/0x6f8 [mac80211]
> [<0>] ieee80211_stop+0x20/0x30 [mac80211]
> [<0>] __dev_close_many+0xb8/0x11c
> [<0>] __dev_change_flags+0xe0/0x1d0
> [<0>] dev_change_flags+0x30/0x6c
> [<0>] devinet_ioctl+0x370/0x564
> [<0>] inet_ioctl+0xdc/0x304
> [<0>] sock_do_ioctl+0x50/0x288
> [<0>] compat_sock_ioctl+0x1b4/0x1aac
> [<0>] __se_compat_sys_ioctl+0x100/0x26fc
> [<0>] __arm64_compat_sys_ioctl+0x20/0x2c
> [<0>] el0_svc_common+0xa4/0x154
> [<0>] el0_svc_compat_handler+0x2c/0x38
> [<0>] el0_svc_compat+0x8/0x18
> [<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
> callstack of rmmod:
> [<0>] __switch_to+0x120/0x13c
> [<0>] msleep+0x28/0x38
> [<0>] ath10k_sdio_hif_stop+0x294/0x31c [ath10k_sdio]
> [<0>] ath10k_core_stop+0x50/0x78 [ath10k_core]
> [<0>] ath10k_halt+0x120/0x178 [ath10k_core]
> [<0>] ath10k_stop+0x4c/0x8c [ath10k_core]
> [<0>] drv_stop+0xe0/0x1e4 [mac80211]
> [<0>] ieee80211_stop_device+0x48/0x54 [mac80211]
> [<0>] ieee80211_do_stop+0x678/0x6f8 [mac80211]
> [<0>] ieee80211_stop+0x20/0x30 [mac80211]
> [<0>] __dev_close_many+0xb8/0x11c
> [<0>] dev_close_many+0x70/0x100
> [<0>] dev_close+0x4c/0x80
> [<0>] cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces+0x50/0xcc [cfg80211]
> [<0>] ieee80211_remove_interfaces+0x58/0x1a0 [mac80211]
> [<0>] ieee80211_unregister_hw+0x40/0x100 [mac80211]
> [<0>] ath10k_mac_unregister+0x1c/0x44 [ath10k_core]
> [<0>] ath10k_core_unregister+0x38/0x7c [ath10k_core]
> [<0>] ath10k_sdio_remove+0x8c/0xd0 [ath10k_sdio]
> [<0>] sdio_bus_remove+0x48/0x108
> [<0>] device_release_driver_internal+0x138/0x1ec
> [<0>] driver_detach+0x6c/0xa8
> [<0>] bus_remove_driver+0x78/0xa8
> [<0>] driver_unregister+0x30/0x50
> [<0>] sdio_unregister_driver+0x28/0x34
> [<0>] cleanup_module+0x14/0x6bc [ath10k_sdio]
> [<0>] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x1e0/0x22c
> [<0>] el0_svc_common+0xa4/0x154
> [<0>] el0_svc_compat_handler+0x2c/0x38
> [<0>] el0_svc_compat+0x8/0x18
> [<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
> The test command run simulate_fw_crash firstly and it call into
> ath10k_sdio_hif_stop from ath10k_core_restart, then napi_disable
> is called and bit NAPI_STATE_SCHED is set. After that, function
> ath10k_sdio_hif_stop is called again from ath10k_stop by command
> "ifconfig wlan0 down" or "rmmod ath10k_sdio", then command blocked.
>
> It is blocked by napi_synchronize, napi_disable will set bit with
> NAPI_STATE_SCHED, and then napi_synchronize will enter dead loop
> becuase bit NAPI_STATE_SCHED is set by napi_disable.
>
> function of napi_synchronize
> static inline void napi_synchronize(const struct napi_struct *n)
> {
>         if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP))
>                 while (test_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &n->state))
>                         msleep(1);
>         else
>                 barrier();
> }
>
> function of napi_disable
> void napi_disable(struct napi_struct *n)
> {
>         might_sleep();
>         set_bit(NAPI_STATE_DISABLE, &n->state);
>
>         while (test_and_set_bit(NAPI_STATE_SCHED, &n->state))
>                 msleep(1);
>         while (test_and_set_bit(NAPI_STATE_NPSVC, &n->state))
>                 msleep(1);
>
>         hrtimer_cancel(&n->timer);
>
>         clear_bit(NAPI_STATE_DISABLE, &n->state);
> }
>
> Add flag for it avoid the hang and crash.
>
> Tested-on: QCA6174 hw3.2 SDIO WLAN.RMH.4.4.1-00049
>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Gong <wgong at codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h |  1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c | 12 +++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
> index 5c18f6c20462..11a6b18c272d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
> @@ -1230,6 +1230,7 @@ struct ath10k {
>         /* NAPI */
>         struct net_device napi_dev;
>         struct napi_struct napi;
> +       bool napi_enabled;
>
>         struct work_struct set_coverage_class_work;
>         /* protected by conf_mutex */
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c
> index 81ddaafb6721..873f5492f93c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/sdio.c
> @@ -1859,7 +1859,10 @@ static int ath10k_sdio_hif_start(struct ath10k *ar)
>         struct ath10k_sdio *ar_sdio = ath10k_sdio_priv(ar);
>         int ret;
>
> -       napi_enable(&ar->napi);
> +       if (!ar->napi_enabled) {
> +               napi_enable(&ar->napi);
> +               ar->napi_enabled = true;
> +       }
>
>         /* Sleep 20 ms before HIF interrupts are disabled.
>          * This will give target plenty of time to process the BMI done
> @@ -1986,8 +1989,11 @@ static void ath10k_sdio_hif_stop(struct ath10k *ar)
>
>         spin_unlock_bh(&ar_sdio->wr_async_lock);
>
> -       napi_synchronize(&ar->napi);
> -       napi_disable(&ar->napi);
> +       if (ar->napi_enabled) {
> +               napi_synchronize(&ar->napi);
> +               napi_disable(&ar->napi);
> +               ar->napi_enabled = false;
> +       }
>  }
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PM
Even though your DUT is SDIO based we should be doing this in general
for all, no?
core_restart + hif_stop is common to all.



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