[PATCH] brcmfmac: don't net_ratelimit() CONSOLE messages on firmware crash

[PATCH] brcmfmac: don't net_ratelimit() CONSOLE messages on firmware crash

[Rafał Miłecki]

From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>

Firmware crash is a pretty rare event and can't happen too frequently as
it has to be followed by a hardware reinitialization and config reload.
It should be safe to don't use net_ratelimit() when it happens.

For reporting & debugging purposes it's important to provide a complete
log as the last lines are actually the most important. This change
modifies brcmfmac to print all messages in an unlimited way in that
specific case. With this change there should be finally a backtrace of
firmware finally visible after a crash.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c
index e488b1aaaee2..7ac945369762 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c
@@ -794,7 +794,8 @@ static void brcmf_pcie_bus_console_read(struct brcmf_pciedev_info *devinfo,
 		if (ch == '\n') {
 			console->log_str[console->log_idx] = 0;
 			if (error)
-				brcmf_err(bus, "CONSOLE: %s", console->log_str);
+				__brcmf_err(bus, __func__, "CONSOLE: %s",
+					    console->log_str);
 			else
 				pr_debug("CONSOLE: %s", console->log_str);
 			console->log_idx = 0;
-- 
2.21.0

Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: don't net_ratelimit() CONSOLE messages on firmware crash

[Arend Van Spriel]

On 7/21/2019 9:52 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> 
> Firmware crash is a pretty rare event and can't happen too frequently as
> it has to be followed by a hardware reinitialization and config reload.
> It should be safe to don't use net_ratelimit() when it happens.
> 
> For reporting & debugging purposes it's important to provide a complete
> log as the last lines are actually the most important. This change
> modifies brcmfmac to print all messages in an unlimited way in that
> specific case. With this change there should be finally a backtrace of
> firmware finally visible after a crash.

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: don't net_ratelimit() CONSOLE messages on firmware crash

[Kalle Valo]

Rafał Miłecki wrote:

> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> 
> Firmware crash is a pretty rare event and can't happen too frequently as
> it has to be followed by a hardware reinitialization and config reload.
> It should be safe to don't use net_ratelimit() when it happens.
> 
> For reporting & debugging purposes it's important to provide a complete
> log as the last lines are actually the most important. This change
> modifies brcmfmac to print all messages in an unlimited way in that
> specific case. With this change there should be finally a backtrace of
> firmware finally visible after a crash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

e3b1d879ccda brcmfmac: don't net_ratelimit() CONSOLE messages on firmware crash

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11051195/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches