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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: "John W . Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, wil6210@qca.qualcomm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] wil6210: improve debug for WMI receive
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 06:59:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1401199199.18413.26.camel@joe-AO725> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401191150-29037-5-git-send-email-qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>

On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 14:45 +0300, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
> Print error if no events received. This should not happen.
> If it is, it points to the problem in firmware.
> 
> Print information as soon as possible - mbox pointers and
> event header right after reading it. This helps to identify potential
> problem with memory allocation for the event buffer.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wmi.c
[]
> @@ -658,21 +658,27 @@ void wmi_recv_cmd(struct wil6210_priv *wil)
[]
> 	for (;;) {
> +	for (n = 0;; n++) {
>  		u16 len;
>  
>  		r->head = ioread32(wil->csr + HOST_MBOX +
>  				   offsetof(struct wil6210_mbox_ctl, rx.head));
> -		if (r->tail == r->head)
> +		if (r->tail == r->head) {
> +			if (n == 0)
> +				wil_err(wil, "No events?\n");

This error message might be expanded a bit to describe
a bit more about what to do: report to you, turn on
event debugging, update firmware, etc...



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-27 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-27 11:45 [PATCH 0/7] wil6210 patches Vladimir Kondratiev
2014-05-27 11:45 ` [PATCH 1/7] wil6210: limit MTU Vladimir Kondratiev
2014-05-27 11:45 ` [PATCH 2/7] wil6210: limit fw error recovery attempts Vladimir Kondratiev
2014-05-27 11:45 ` [PATCH 3/7] wil6210: inline functions for vring hi/lo watermarks Vladimir Kondratiev
2014-05-27 11:45 ` [PATCH 4/7] wil6210: improve debug for WMI receive Vladimir Kondratiev
2014-05-27 13:59   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-05-27 14:11     ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2014-05-27 14:15       ` Joe Perches
2014-05-27 14:46         ` Vladimir Kondratiev
2014-05-29 15:37           ` Resubmitting [PATCH 4/7 v2] Vladimir Kondratiev
2014-05-29 15:37           ` [PATCH 4/7 v2] wil6210: improve debug for WMI receive Vladimir Kondratiev
2014-05-27 11:45 ` [PATCH 5/7] wil6210: detect scan timeouts Vladimir Kondratiev
2014-05-27 11:45 ` [PATCH 6/7] wil6210: improve pointers printing Vladimir Kondratiev
2014-05-27 11:45 ` [PATCH 7/7] wil6210: optimize wil_release_reorder_frames Vladimir Kondratiev

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