linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] wifi: ath11k: Clear affinity hint before calling ath11k_pcic_free

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Message-ID: <4dc9e860-7417-480f-ba89-439498138d3f@quicinc.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:23:04 +0800
From: Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang@...cinc.com>
To: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>,
        <jjohnson@...nel.org>
CC: <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, <ath12k@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <ath11k@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] wifi: ath11k: Clear affinity hint before calling
 ath11k_pcic_free_irq() in error path



On 2/25/2025 1:34 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> If a shared IRQ is used by the driver due to platform limitation, then the
> IRQ affinity hint is set right after the allocation of IRQ vectors in
> ath11k_pci_alloc_msi(). This does no harm unless one of the functions
> requesting the IRQ fails and attempt to free the IRQ. This results in the
> below warning:
> 
> WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 349 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1929 free_irq+0x278/0x29c
> Call trace:
>  free_irq+0x278/0x29c
>  ath11k_pcic_free_irq+0x70/0x10c [ath11k]
>  ath11k_pci_probe+0x800/0x820 [ath11k_pci]
>  local_pci_probe+0x40/0xbc
> 
> The warning is due to not clearing the affinity hint before freeing the
> IRQs.
> 
> So to fix this issue, clear the IRQ affinity hint before calling
> ath11k_pcic_free_irq() in the error path. The affinity will be cleared once
> again further down the error path due to code organization, but that does
> no harm.
> 
> Tested-on: QCA6390 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HST.1.0.1-05266-QCAHSTSWPLZ_V2_TO_X86-1
> 
> Cc: Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang@...cinc.com>
> Fixes: 39564b475ac5 ("wifi: ath11k: fix boot failure with one MSI vector")
> Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c
> index b93f04973ad7..eaac9eabcc70 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c
> @@ -939,6 +939,8 @@ static int ath11k_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>  	return 0;
>  
>  err_free_irq:
> +	/* __free_irq() expects the caller to have cleared the affinity hint */
> +	ath11k_pci_set_irq_affinity_hint(ab_pci, NULL);
>  	ath11k_pcic_free_irq(ab);
>  
>  err_ce_free:

LGTM