netdev - Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Add quirk to disable deep sleep with certain hardware revision

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Message-ID: <0123bb9b-7c66-9197-94dd-d96e226f439f@suse.de>
Date:   Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:14:24 +0300
From:   Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@...e.de>
To:     Jonas Dreßler <verdre@...d.nl>,
        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>
Cc:     Tsuchiya Yuto <kitakar@...il.com>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Add quirk to disable deep sleep with certain
 hardware revision



10/28/21 10:37 AM, Jonas Dreßler пишет:
> The 88W8897 PCIe+USB card in the hardware revision 20 apparently has a
> hardware issue where the card wakes up from deep sleep randomly and very
> often, somewhat depending on the card activity, maybe the hardware has a
> floating wakeup pin or something.
> 
> Those continuous wakeups prevent the card from entering host sleep when
> the computer suspends. And because the host won't answer to events from
> the card anymore while it's suspended, the firmwares internal
> powersaving state machine seems to get confused and the card can't sleep
> anymore at all after that.
> 
> Since we can't work around that hardware bug in the firmware, let's
> get the hardware revision string from the firmware and match it with
> known bad revisions. Then disable auto deep sleep for those revisions,
> which makes sure we no longer get those spurious wakeups.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@...d.nl>
> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c      | 14 ++++++++++++++
>   drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h      |  1 +
>   .../net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c   | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c
> index 19b996c6a260..5ab2ad4c7006 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c
> @@ -226,6 +226,19 @@ static int mwifiex_process_rx(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> +static void maybe_quirk_fw_disable_ds(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
> +{
> +	struct mwifiex_private *priv = mwifiex_get_priv(adapter, MWIFIEX_BSS_ROLE_STA);
> +	struct mwifiex_ver_ext ver_ext;
> +
> +	set_bit(MWIFIEX_IS_REQUESTING_FW_VEREXT, &adapter->work_flags);
> +
> +	memset(&ver_ext, 0, sizeof(ver_ext));
> +	ver_ext.version_str_sel = 1;
> +	mwifiex_send_cmd(priv, HostCmd_CMD_VERSION_EXT,
> +			 HostCmd_ACT_GEN_GET, 0, &ver_ext, false);
> +}
> +
>   /*
>    * The main process.
>    *
> @@ -356,6 +369,7 @@ int mwifiex_main_process(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
>   			if (adapter->hw_status == MWIFIEX_HW_STATUS_INIT_DONE) {
>   				adapter->hw_status = MWIFIEX_HW_STATUS_READY;
>   				mwifiex_init_fw_complete(adapter);
> +				maybe_quirk_fw_disable_ds(adapter);
>   			}
>   		}
>   
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h
> index 90012cbcfd15..1e829d84b1f6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.h
> @@ -524,6 +524,7 @@ enum mwifiex_adapter_work_flags {
>   	MWIFIEX_IS_SUSPENDED,
>   	MWIFIEX_IS_HS_CONFIGURED,
>   	MWIFIEX_IS_HS_ENABLING,
> +	MWIFIEX_IS_REQUESTING_FW_VEREXT,
>   };
>   
>   struct mwifiex_band_config {
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c
> index 6b5d35d9e69f..8e49ebca1847 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c
> @@ -708,6 +708,22 @@ static int mwifiex_ret_ver_ext(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
>   {
>   	struct host_cmd_ds_version_ext *ver_ext = &resp->params.verext;
>   
> +	if (test_and_clear_bit(MWIFIEX_IS_REQUESTING_FW_VEREXT, &priv->adapter->work_flags)) {
> +		if (strncmp(ver_ext->version_str, "ChipRev:20, BB:9b(10.00), RF:40(21)", 128) == 0) {
> +			struct mwifiex_ds_auto_ds auto_ds = {
> +				.auto_ds = DEEP_SLEEP_OFF,
> +			};
> +
> +			mwifiex_dbg(priv->adapter, MSG,
> +				    "Bad HW revision detected, disabling deep sleep\n");
> +
> +			mwifiex_send_cmd(priv, HostCmd_CMD_802_11_PS_MODE_ENH,
> +					 DIS_AUTO_PS, BITMAP_AUTO_DS, &auto_ds, false);
> +		}
> +
> +		return 0;
> +	}

mwifiex_send_cmd() may return an error

> +
>   	if (version_ext) {
>   		version_ext->version_str_sel = ver_ext->version_str_sel;
>   		memcpy(version_ext->version_str, ver_ext->version_str,
>