Re: [PATCH v3] ath11k: Handle keepalive during WoWLAN suspend and resume

From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang@quicinc.com>
Cc: <ath11k@lists.infradead.org>,  <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ath11k: Handle keepalive during WoWLAN suspend and resume
Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 09:32:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsln9nn2.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220506012540.1579604-1-quic_bqiang@quicinc.com> (Baochen Qiang's message of "Fri, 6 May 2022 09:25:40 +0800")

Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang@quicinc.com> writes:

> With WoWLAN enabled and after sleeping for a rather long time,
> we are seeing that with some APs, it is not able to wake up
> the STA though the correct wake up pattern has been configured.
> This is because the host doesn't send keepalive command to
> firmware, thus firmware will not send any packet to the AP and
> after a specific time the AP kicks out the STA.
>
> Fix this issue by enabling keepalive before going to suspend
> and disabling it after resume back.
>
> Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-01720.1-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-1
>
> Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang@quicinc.com>

[...]

> +int ath11k_wmi_sta_keepalive(struct ath11k *ar,
> +			     const struct wmi_sta_keepalive_arg *arg)
> +{
> +	struct ath11k_pdev_wmi *wmi = ar->wmi;
> +	struct wmi_sta_keepalive_cmd *cmd;
> +	struct wmi_sta_keepalive_arp_resp *arp;
> +	struct sk_buff *skb;
> +	size_t len;
> +
> +	len = sizeof(*cmd) + sizeof(*arp);
> +	skb = ath11k_wmi_alloc_skb(wmi->wmi_ab, len);
> +	if (!skb)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +	cmd = (struct wmi_sta_keepalive_cmd *)skb->data;
> +	cmd->tlv_header = FIELD_PREP(WMI_TLV_TAG,
> +				     WMI_TAG_STA_KEEPALIVE_CMD) |
> +				     FIELD_PREP(WMI_TLV_LEN, sizeof(*cmd) - TLV_HDR_SIZE);
> +	cmd->vdev_id = arg->vdev_id;
> +	cmd->enabled = arg->enabled;
> +	cmd->interval = arg->interval;
> +	cmd->method = arg->method;
> +
> +	if (arg->method == WMI_STA_KEEPALIVE_METHOD_UNSOLICITED_ARP_RESPONSE ||
> +	    arg->method == WMI_STA_KEEPALIVE_METHOD_GRATUITOUS_ARP_REQUEST) {
> +		arp = (struct wmi_sta_keepalive_arp_resp *)(cmd + 1);
> +		arp->tlv_header = FIELD_PREP(WMI_TLV_TAG, WMI_TAG_STA_KEEPALVE_ARP_RESPONSE) |
> +				 FIELD_PREP(WMI_TLV_LEN, sizeof(*arp) - TLV_HDR_SIZE);

This added a new warning:

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/wmi.c:8989: line length of 94 exceeds 90 columns

I fixed it in the pending branch, no need to resend because of this.

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