Re: [PATCH] ath10k: Don't touch the CE interrupt registers after power up

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

Yongqin Liu <yongqin.liu@linaro.org> writes:

> On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 at 06:19, Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> As talked about in commit d66d24ac300c ("ath10k: Keep track of which
>> interrupts fired, don't poll them"), if we access the copy engine
>> register at a bad time then ath10k can go boom. However, it's not
>> necessarily easy to know when it's safe to access them.
>>
>> The ChromeOS test labs saw a crash that looked like this at
>> shutdown/reboot time (on a chromeos-5.15 kernel, but likely the
>> problem could also reproduce upstream):
>>
>> Internal error: synchronous external abort: 96000010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
>> ...
>> CPU: 4 PID: 6168 Comm: reboot Not tainted
>> 5.15.111-lockdep-19350-g1d624fe6758f #1
>> 010b9b233ab055c27c6dc88efb0be2f4e9e86f51
>> Hardware name: Google Kingoftown (DT)
>> ...
>> pc : ath10k_snoc_read32+0x50/0x74 [ath10k_snoc]
>> lr : ath10k_snoc_read32+0x24/0x74 [ath10k_snoc]
>> ...
>> Call trace:
>> ath10k_snoc_read32+0x50/0x74 [ath10k_snoc ...]
>> ath10k_ce_disable_interrupt+0x190/0x65c [ath10k_core ...]
>> ath10k_ce_disable_interrupts+0x8c/0x120 [ath10k_core ...]
>> ath10k_snoc_hif_stop+0x78/0x660 [ath10k_snoc ...]
>> ath10k_core_stop+0x13c/0x1ec [ath10k_core ...]
>> ath10k_halt+0x398/0x5b0 [ath10k_core ...]
>> ath10k_stop+0xfc/0x1a8 [ath10k_core ...]
>> drv_stop+0x148/0x6b4 [mac80211 ...]
>> ieee80211_stop_device+0x70/0x80 [mac80211 ...]
>> ieee80211_do_stop+0x10d8/0x15b0 [mac80211 ...]
>> ieee80211_stop+0x144/0x1a0 [mac80211 ...]
>> __dev_close_many+0x1e8/0x2c0
>> dev_close_many+0x198/0x33c
>> dev_close+0x140/0x210
>> cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces+0xc8/0x1e0 [cfg80211 ...]
>> ieee80211_remove_interfaces+0x118/0x5c4 [mac80211 ...]
>> ieee80211_unregister_hw+0x64/0x1f4 [mac80211 ...]
>> ath10k_mac_unregister+0x4c/0xf0 [ath10k_core ...]
>> ath10k_core_unregister+0x80/0xb0 [ath10k_core ...]
>> ath10k_snoc_free_resources+0xb8/0x1ec [ath10k_snoc ...]
>> ath10k_snoc_shutdown+0x98/0xd0 [ath10k_snoc ...]
>> platform_shutdown+0x7c/0xa0
>> device_shutdown+0x3e0/0x58c
>> kernel_restart_prepare+0x68/0xa0
>> kernel_restart+0x28/0x7c
>>
>> Though there's no known way to reproduce the problem, it makes sense
>> that it would be the same issue where we're trying to access copy
>> engine registers when it's not allowed.
>>
>> Let's fix this by changing how we "disable" the interrupts. Instead of
>> tweaking the copy engine registers we'll just use disable_irq() and
>> enable_irq(). Then we'll configure the interrupts once at power up
>> time.
>>
>> Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.3.2.2.c10-00754-QCAHLSWMTPL-1
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
>> ---
>
> Recently during our Android build test on the Dragonboard 845c board,
> with the Android Common Kernel android11-5.4-lts and android12-5.4-lts branches,
>
> we found there are some ufshcd related changes printed,
> and the serial console gets stuck, no response for input,
> and the Android boot is stuck at the animation window.
>
> The problem is reported here
>     https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/314366682
> You could check there for more log details.
>
> And with some bisection, I found it's related to this commit,
> when I revert this commit, the problem is gone.
>
> So replied here, not sure if you have any idea about it,
> or any suggestions on what we should do next to resolve the problem?

FWIW we don't support Android kernels, only kernel.org releases.

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