Re: [PATCH 5/5] mac80211: fix issuing idle calls when device open count is 0

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:48 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> There are a few places where mac80211 may issue a hw config
> but the hw config will be ignored and got into a black hole if
> the device count is already 0. Further hw config calls will also
> be discarded as the device is already marked as idle, in these
> cases mac80211 assumes the radio is idle but the driver never
> really got the notification. We need to ensure that places that
> will call a hw reconfig with open_count set to 0 will send the
> notification to the driver. This forces these checks in a few
> other key missing places.
> 
> Without this suspend and resume is broken on devices which require
> notifying the driver to become idle once the open_count already
> has reached 0. This fixes suspend/resume when using new DBus APIs
> are used which idle the device in places which had not yet gotten
> widely tested.
> 
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
> Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
> ---
>  net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h |    1 +
>  net/mac80211/iface.c       |   16 ++++++++++++++--
>  net/mac80211/pm.c          |    2 ++
>  net/mac80211/scan.c        |    2 +-
>  net/mac80211/util.c        |    1 +
>  5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
> index ae32349..78ab6ff 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
> +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
> @@ -1211,6 +1211,7 @@ void ieee80211_process_measurement_req(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
>  
>  /* Suspend/resume and hw reconfiguration */
>  int ieee80211_reconfig(struct ieee80211_local *local);
> +void ieee80211_recalc_idle_force(struct ieee80211_local *local);
>  void ieee80211_stop_device(struct ieee80211_local *local);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PM
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
> index 36b7000..a590bae 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
> @@ -1320,7 +1320,8 @@ u32 __ieee80211_recalc_idle(struct ieee80211_local *local)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -void ieee80211_recalc_idle(struct ieee80211_local *local)
> +static void ieee80211_recalc_idle_check(struct ieee80211_local *local,
> +					bool force)
>  {
>  	u32 chg;
>  
> @@ -1328,7 +1329,18 @@ void ieee80211_recalc_idle(struct ieee80211_local *local)
>  	chg = __ieee80211_recalc_idle(local);
>  	mutex_unlock(&local->iflist_mtx);
>  	if (chg)
> -		ieee80211_hw_config(local, chg);
> +		__ieee80211_hw_config(local, chg, force);
> +}
> +
> +void ieee80211_recalc_idle(struct ieee80211_local *local)
> +{
> +	ieee80211_recalc_idle_check(local, false);
> +}

I think I'd probably prefer an inline too.

> --- a/net/mac80211/pm.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/pm.c
> @@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ int __ieee80211_suspend(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
>  	if (local->open_count)
>  		ieee80211_stop_device(local);
>  
> +	ieee80211_recalc_idle_force(local);

Err? You just added a call to stop_device() too, and at the wrong place
as well...

> @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static void __ieee80211_scan_completed_finish(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
>  	}
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&local->mtx);
> -	ieee80211_recalc_idle(local);
> +	ieee80211_recalc_idle_force(local);

Does this really occur afterwards closing interfaces?

> @@ -1121,6 +1121,7 @@ void ieee80211_stop_device(struct ieee80211_local *local)
>  
>  	flush_workqueue(local->workqueue);
>  	drv_stop(local);
> +	ieee80211_recalc_idle_force(local);

That one definitely can't be after drv_stop().

johannes