2016-09-27 10:12:40

by Rafał Miłecki

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Subject: [PATCH] brcmfmac: replace WARNING on timeout with a simple error message

From: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>

Even with timeout increased to 950 ms we get WARNINGs from time to time.
It mostly happens on A-MPDU stalls (e.g. when station goes out of
range). It may take up to 5-10 secods for the firmware to recover and
for that time it doesn't process packets.

It's still useful to have a message on time out as it may indicate some
firmware problem and incorrect key update. Raising a WARNING however
wasn't really that necessary, it doesn't point to any driver bug anymore
and backtrace wasn't much useful.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
index 6d046ba..9e6f60a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
@@ -1161,7 +1161,8 @@ int brcmf_netdev_wait_pend8021x(struct brcmf_if *ifp)
!brcmf_get_pend_8021x_cnt(ifp),
MAX_WAIT_FOR_8021X_TX);

- WARN_ON(!err);
+ if (!err)
+ brcmf_err("Timed out waiting for no pending 802.1x packets\n");

return !err;
}
--
2.9.3


2016-09-27 11:25:55

by Arend Van Spriel

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: replace WARNING on timeout with a simple error message

On 27-9-2016 12:12, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
>
> Even with timeout increased to 950 ms we get WARNINGs from time to time.
> It mostly happens on A-MPDU stalls (e.g. when station goes out of
> range). It may take up to 5-10 secods for the firmware to recover and
> for that time it doesn't process packets.
>
> It's still useful to have a message on time out as it may indicate some
> firmware problem and incorrect key update. Raising a WARNING however
> wasn't really that necessary, it doesn't point to any driver bug anymore
> and backtrace wasn't much useful.

Indeed the interesting part would be in another context. So:

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
> index 6d046ba..9e6f60a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
> @@ -1161,7 +1161,8 @@ int brcmf_netdev_wait_pend8021x(struct brcmf_if *ifp)
> !brcmf_get_pend_8021x_cnt(ifp),
> MAX_WAIT_FOR_8021X_TX);
>
> - WARN_ON(!err);
> + if (!err)
> + brcmf_err("Timed out waiting for no pending 802.1x packets\n");
>
> return !err;
> }
>

2016-09-27 15:47:26

by Kalle Valo

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Subject: Re: brcmfmac: replace WARNING on timeout with a simple error message

Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
>
> Even with timeout increased to 950 ms we get WARNINGs from time to time.
> It mostly happens on A-MPDU stalls (e.g. when station goes out of
> range). It may take up to 5-10 secods for the firmware to recover and
> for that time it doesn't process packets.
>
> It's still useful to have a message on time out as it may indicate some
> firmware problem and incorrect key update. Raising a WARNING however
> wasn't really that necessary, it doesn't point to any driver bug anymore
> and backtrace wasn't much useful.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

2f0e56fa37cc brcmfmac: replace WARNING on timeout with a simple error message

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9351657/

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