Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] ath11k: Enable low power mode when WLAN is not active

[Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise@quicinc.com>]

On 2/24/2023 8:16 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise@quicinc.com> writes:
> 
>> Currently, WLAN chip is powered once during driver probe and is kept
>> ON (powered) always even when WLAN is not active; keeping the chip
>> powered ON all the time will consume extra power which is not
>> desirable for a battery operated device. Same is the case with non-WoW
>> suspend, chip will never be put into low power mode when the system is
>> suspended resulting in higher battery drain.
>>
>> As per the recommendation, sending a PDEV suspend WMI command followed
>> by a QMI MODE OFF command will cease all WLAN activity and put the device
>> in low power mode. When WLAN interfaces are brought up, sending a QMI
>> MISSION MODE command would be sufficient to bring the chip out of low
>> power. This is a better approach than doing hif_power_down()/hif_power_up()
>> for every WiFi ON/OFF sequence since the turnaround time for entry/exit of
>> low power mode is much less. Overhead is just the time taken for sending
>> QMI MODE OFF & QMI MISSION MODE commands instead of going through the
>> entire chip boot & QMI init sequence.
>>
>> Currently the changes are applicable only for WCN6750. This can be
>> extended to other targets with a future patch.
>>
>> Tested-on: WCN6750 hw1.0 AHB WLAN.MSL.1.0.1-00887-QCAMSLSWPLZ-1
>> Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.16
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise@quicinc.com>
> 
> This is still crashing for me every time with WCN6855 on a NUC x86
> device when I rmmod ath11k. Interestingly enough QCA6390 on a Dell XPS
> 13 9310 does not crash.
> 

Surprisingly enough, I was never been able to reproduce the problem on 
my device which has WCN6855.

> I investigated the crash more, the crash happens in
> ath11k_dp_process_rxdma_err() on this line:
> 
> 	srng = &ab->hal.srng_list[err_ring->ring_id];
> 
> Here are the debug messages before the crash (first and last are my
> own messages):
> 
> [  226.766111] rmmod ath11k_pci
> [  227.003678] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: txpower from firmware NaN, reported -2147483648 dBm
> [  227.082283] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: qmi wifi fw del server
> [  227.195760] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: cookie:0x0
> [  227.195843] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: WLAON_WARM_SW_ENTRY 0x15b894d
> [  227.216022] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: WLAON_WARM_SW_ENTRY 0x0
> [  227.216086] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: soc reset cause:0
> [  227.236170] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: MHISTATUS 0xff04
> [  227.270816] ath11k_pci 0000:06:00.0: ext irq:167
> [  227.271231] ath11k_dp_process_rxdma_err() 4187 ab ffff888145520000 err_ring 00000000000001d0
> 
> So we get irq 167 which is:
> 
>   167:          0          0          0          0          0          0          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI-0000:06:00.0   14-edge      DP_EXT_IRQ
> 
> But in ath11k_pcic_ext_interrupt_handler() ATH11K_FLAG_EXT_IRQ_ENABLED
> is still enabled so the irq is processed:
> 
> 	if (!test_bit(ATH11K_FLAG_EXT_IRQ_ENABLED, &ab->dev_flags))
> 		return IRQ_HANDLED;
> 
> It looks like that, after applying this patch 3, whenever
> ath11k_pci_remove() is called we are not calling
> ath11k_hif_irq_disable() anymore. I checked that without patch 3
> ath11k_hif_irq_disable() is always called. So this patch is definitely
> breaking something fundamental, but I ran out of time to invetigate
> further. I hope this still helps.
> 

This definitely helps, thanks a lot for the direction. I'll check what 
is missing here.

> Do note I have concerns about this patchset, it just changes quite a lot
> of the driver logic and I'm worried what else this breaks. Also we
> should definitely test with another AHB device like IPQ8074, this
> patchset needs extensive testing.
> 

Noted.

Thanks,
Manikanta

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