Re: [PATCH 3.12] mwifiex: fix SDIO interrupt lost issue

[Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>]

On 27.09.2013 19:55, Bing Zhao wrote:
> From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
> 
> 601216e "mwifiex: process RX packets in SDIO IRQ thread directly"
> introduced a command timeout issue which can be reproduced easily on
> an AM33xx platform using a test application written by Daniel Mack:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/zonque/6579314
> 
> mwifiex_main_process() is called from both the SDIO handler and
> the workqueue. In case an interrupt occurs right after the
> int_status check, but before updating the mwifiex_processing flag,
> this interrupt gets lost, resulting in a command timeout and
> consequently a card reset.
> 
> Let main_proc_lock protect both int_status and mwifiex_processing
> flag. This fixes the interrupt lost issue.

John, could you take this patch trough your tree?


Thanks,
Daniel


> 
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.7+
> Reported-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>
> Reported-by: Andreas Fenkart <andreas.fenkart@streamunlimited.com>
> Tested-by: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dylan Reid <dgreid@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
> index fd77833..c2b91f5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
> @@ -358,10 +358,12 @@ process_start:
>  		}
>  	} while (true);
>  
> -	if ((adapter->int_status) || IS_CARD_RX_RCVD(adapter))
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
> +	if ((adapter->int_status) || IS_CARD_RX_RCVD(adapter)) {
> +		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
>  		goto process_start;
> +	}
>  
> -	spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
>  	adapter->mwifiex_processing = false;
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
>  
>