netdev - Re: Mark IPW2100 as BROKEN: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.

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Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:06:49 +0400
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ipw2100-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, yi.zhu@...el.com,
	reinette.chatre@...el.com, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	linville@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: Mark IPW2100 as BROKEN: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:35:03AM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov (gorcunov@...il.com) wrote:
> yes Evgeniy - all could know that but this register info could help
> firmware engineers to distinguish problems (without additional efforts
> like ask users to pass debug argument - kerneloops will have it
> by default) if there not only one exist. I mean I don't think anyone
> would reject additional info about problem ever :)

Agreed.

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
index 19a401c..36cdd57 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "manually disable the radio (default 0 [radio on])");
 
 static u32 ipw2100_debug_level = IPW_DL_NONE;
 
+static int ipw2100_max_fatal_ints = 10;
+module_param(ipw2100_max_fatal_ints, int, 0644);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_IPW2100_DEBUG
 #define IPW_DEBUG(level, message...) \
 do { \
@@ -3174,16 +3177,21 @@ static void ipw2100_irq_tasklet(struct ipw2100_priv *priv)
 	if (inta & IPW2100_INTA_FATAL_ERROR) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME
 		       ": Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.\n");
+
+		printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME ": INTA: 0x%08lX\n",
+			(unsigned long)inta & IPW_INTERRUPT_MASK);
+
 		priv->inta_other++;
 		write_register(dev, IPW_REG_INTA, IPW2100_INTA_FATAL_ERROR);
 
 		read_nic_dword(dev, IPW_NIC_FATAL_ERROR, &priv->fatal_error);
-		IPW_DEBUG_INFO("%s: Fatal error value: 0x%08X\n",
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Fatal error value: 0x%08X\n",
 			       priv->net_dev->name, priv->fatal_error);
 
 		read_nic_dword(dev, IPW_ERROR_ADDR(priv->fatal_error), &tmp);
-		IPW_DEBUG_INFO("%s: Fatal error address value: 0x%08X\n",
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Fatal error address value: 0x%08X\n",
 			       priv->net_dev->name, tmp);
+		WARN_ON(ipw2100_max_fatal_ints-- >= 0);
 
 		/* Wake up any sleeping jobs */
 		schedule_reset(priv);


-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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