Re: [PATCH w-t] iwlwifi: fix canceling monitor_recover timer

["Guy, Wey-Yi" <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 06:23 -0700, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> To make del_timer_sync() works we have to assure that timer function
> does not rearm the timer. To achieve that we cancel timer with
> STATUS_EXIT_PENDING bit set in __iwl{3945,}_down function.
> 
> Patch also fix priv->txq memory usage after free for iwl3945, because
> it move timer cancellation before iwl3945_hw_txq_ctx_free(priv) is called.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c      |    7 +++++--
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c |    7 +++++--
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
> index 3ced9ea..26bc048 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
> @@ -2764,6 +2764,11 @@ static void __iwl_down(struct iwl_priv *priv)
>  	if (!exit_pending)
>  		set_bit(STATUS_EXIT_PENDING, &priv->status);
>  
> +	/* Stop TX queues watchdog. We need to have STATUS_EXIT_PENDING bit set
> +	 * to prevent rearm timer */
> +	if (priv->cfg->ops->lib->recover_from_tx_stall)
> +		del_timer_sync(&priv->monitor_recover);
> +
>  	iwl_clear_ucode_stations(priv);
>  	iwl_dealloc_bcast_station(priv);
>  	iwl_clear_driver_stations(priv);
> @@ -3870,8 +3875,6 @@ static void iwl_cancel_deferred_work(struct iwl_priv *priv)
>  	cancel_work_sync(&priv->beacon_update);
>  	del_timer_sync(&priv->statistics_periodic);
>  	del_timer_sync(&priv->ucode_trace);
> -	if (priv->cfg->ops->lib->recover_from_tx_stall)
> -		del_timer_sync(&priv->monitor_recover);
>  }
>  
>  static void iwl_init_hw_rates(struct iwl_priv *priv,
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
> index 94d7e6e..53e6cbb 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
> @@ -2571,6 +2571,11 @@ static void __iwl3945_down(struct iwl_priv *priv)
>  	if (!exit_pending)
>  		set_bit(STATUS_EXIT_PENDING, &priv->status);
>  
> +	/* Stop TX queues watchdog. We need to have STATUS_EXIT_PENDING bit set
> +	 * to prevent rearm timer */
> +	if (priv->cfg->ops->lib->recover_from_tx_stall)
> +		del_timer_sync(&priv->monitor_recover);
> +
>  	/* Station information will now be cleared in device */
>  	iwl_clear_ucode_stations(priv);
>  	iwl_dealloc_bcast_station(priv);
> @@ -3811,8 +3816,6 @@ static void iwl3945_cancel_deferred_work(struct iwl_priv *priv)
>  	cancel_delayed_work(&priv->alive_start);
>  	cancel_work_sync(&priv->start_internal_scan);
>  	cancel_work_sync(&priv->beacon_update);
> -	if (priv->cfg->ops->lib->recover_from_tx_stall)
> -		del_timer_sync(&priv->monitor_recover);
>  }
>  
>  static struct attribute *iwl3945_sysfs_entries[] = {

Make sense, Thanks for catching this

Wey