linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mwifiex: Use non-posted PCI register writes

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Date:   Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:14:04 +0200
From:   Jonas Dreßler <verdre@...d.nl>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>,
        Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
        Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi017@...il.com>,
        Xinming Hu <huxinming820@...il.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Tsuchiya Yuto <kitakar@...il.com>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mwifiex: Use non-posted PCI register writes

On 9/30/21 5:42 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Thursday 30 September 2021 17:38:43 Jonas Dreßler wrote:
>> On 9/23/21 10:22 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>> On Thursday 23 September 2021 22:41:30 Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 6:28 PM Jonas Dreßler <verdre@...d.nl> wrote:
>>>>> On 9/22/21 2:50 PM, Jonas Dreßler wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>> - Just calling mwifiex_write_reg() once and then blocking until the card
>>>>> wakes up using my delay-loop doesn't fix the issue, it's actually
>>>>> writing multiple times that fixes the issue
>>>>>
>>>>> These observations sound a lot like writes (and even reads) are actually
>>>>> being dropped, don't they?
>>>>
>>>> It sounds like you're writing into a not ready (fully powered on) device.
>>>
>>> This reminds me a discussion with Bjorn about CRS response returned
>>> after firmware crash / reset when device is not ready yet:
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20210922164803.GA203171@bhelgaas/
>>>
>>> Could not be this similar issue? You could check it via reading
>>> PCI_VENDOR_ID register from config space. And if it is not valid value
>>> then card is not really ready yet.
>>>
>>>> To check this, try to put a busy loop for reading and check the value
>>>> till it gets 0.
>>>>
>>>> Something like
>>>>
>>>>     unsigned int count = 1000;
>>>>
>>>>     do {
>>>>       if (mwifiex_read_reg(...) == 0)
>>>>         break;
>>>>     } while (--count);
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> With Best Regards,
>>>> Andy Shevchenko
>>
>> I've tried both reading PCI_VENDOR_ID and the firmware status using a busy
>> loop now, but sadly none of them worked. It looks like the card always
>> replies with the correct values even though it sometimes won't wake up after
>> that.
>>
>> I do have one new observation though, although I've no clue what could be
>> happening here: When reading PCI_VENDOR_ID 1000 times to wakeup we can
>> "predict" the wakeup failure because exactly one (usually around the 20th)
>> of those 1000 reads will fail.
> 
> What does "fail" means here?

ioread32() returns all ones, that's interpreted as failure by 
mwifiex_read_reg().

> 
>> Maybe the firmware actually tries to wake up,
>> encounters an error somewhere in its wakeup routines and then goes down a
>> special failure code path. That code path keeps the cards CPU so busy that
>> at some point a PCI_VENDOR_ID request times out?
>>
>> Or well, maybe the card actually wakes up fine, but we don't receive the
>> interrupt on our end, so many possibilities...