Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] mwifiex: wait firmware dump complete during card remove process

[Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:39:11PM +0000, Amitkumar Karwar wrote:

> > Ugh, yet another band-aid? You might do better to still cancel any
> > pending work, just don't do it synchronously. i.e., do cancel_work()
> > after you've removed the card. It doesn't make sense to do a FW dump on
> > the "new" adapter when it was requested for the old one.
> 
> I could not find async version of cancel_work().

cancel_work() *is* asynchronous. It does not synchronize with the last
event, so you won't have the deadlock. (Remember: the synchronous
version is cancel_work_sync().)

> We can fix this problem with below change at the end of
> mwifiex_sdio_work(). All pending work requests would be ignored.
> 
> --------
> @ -2571,6 +2571,8 @@ static void mwifiex_sdio_work(struct work_struct *work)
>         if (test_and_clear_bit(MWIFIEX_IFACE_WORK_CARD_RESET,
>                                &iface_work_flags))
>                 mwifiex_sdio_card_reset_work(save_adapter);
> +       clear_bit(MWIFIEX_IFACE_WORK_DEVICE_DUMP, &iface_work_flags);
> +       clear_bit(MWIFIEX_IFACE_WORK_CARD_RESET, &iface_work_flags);
>  }
> ----------

I don't think that's exactly what you want. That might lose events,
won't it? I'd rather this sort of hack go into
mwifiex_recreate_adapter(), in between the remove() and probe() calls,
where you don't expect any new events to trigger. And maybe include a
comment as to why.

> > I think I've asked elsewhere but didn't receive an answer: why is
> > SDIO's mwifiex_recreate_adapter() so much different from PCIe's
> > mwifiex_do_flr()? It seems like the latter should be refactored to
> > remove some of the PCIe-specific cruft from main.c and then reused for
> > SDIO.
> 
> Our initial SDIO card reset implementation was based on MMC APIs where
> remove() and probe() would automatically get called by MMC subsystem
> after power cycle.
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg98435.html
> Later it was improved by Andreas Fenkart by replacing those power
> cycle APIs with mmc_hw_reset().

Right.

> For PCIe, function level reset is standard feature. We implemented
> ".reset_notify" handler which gets called after and before FLR.

OK.

> You are right. We can have SDIO's handling similar to PCIe and avoid
> destroying+recreating adapter/card.

So all in all, you're saying it's just an artifact of history, and
there's no good reason they are so different? If so, then this looks
like another instance where you would have done well to refactor and
improve the existing mechanisms at the same time as you added new
features (i.e., PCIe FLR). I've seen this problem already several times,
where it seems development for your SDIO/PCIe/USB interface drivers
occur almost in isolation. IMO, it'd do you well to notice these
patterns while implementing features in the first place. The more code
you can share, the fewer bugs you (or I) will have to chase down.

> We have started working on this. We will get rid of global
> save_adapter, sdio_work etc.

Great!

> Meanwhile I will post above mentioned change if it looks good to you.

It's not perfect, but it's a start.

Brian