Re: [PATCH 1/1] ath9k: fix a soft lockup

[Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>]

John,

please drop this patch, as this still does not addresses a soft lockup 
observed in soft AP mode. Felix will send a proper patch for this. thank 
you!

On Friday 16 December 2011 06:38 PM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> On Friday 16 December 2011 06:37 PM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
>> On Friday 16 December 2011 06:35 PM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
>>> From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan<mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
>>>
>>> with the recent changes in the tx path we got a soft lockup.
>>> introduced by the commit 3ad2952998b08442044690fa9b4ec38c6c3fc4a9
>>> ath_send_bar seems to later call ath9k_tx which in turn seems to
>>> acquire the same axq_lock before calling ath_tx_start_dma
>>
>> this seems to fix the softlock up with my preliminary testing.
>> if some one finds a flaw in this or a better fix please feel free
>> to resend. i will be out of station for two days.
>>
>>>
>>> Call Trace:
>>> [<c03ba9ae>] __delay+0xe/0x10
>>> [<c03c1dc2>] do_raw_spin_lock+0xb2/0x100
>>> [<c0671a67>] _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x67/0x80
>>> [<f984aa81>] ? ath_tx_start+0x151/0x4c0 [ath9k]
>>> [<f984aa81>] ath_tx_start+0x151/0x4c0 [ath9k]
>>> [<f984248c>] ath9k_tx+0x9c/0x1f0 [ath9k]
>>> [<f97eae3e>] __ieee80211_tx+0x18e/0x2d0 [mac80211]
>>> [<f97ec9ac>] ieee80211_tx+0xfc/0x130 [mac80211]
>>> [<f97ec8e3>] ? ieee80211_tx+0x33/0x130 [mac80211]
>>> [<f97ecd88>] ieee80211_xmit+0xc8/0x130 [mac80211]
>>> [<f97eccc0>] ? ieee80211_tx_pending+0x2e0/0x2e0
>>> [mac80211]
>>> [<f97ece3d>] ieee80211_tx_skb_tid+0x4d/0x60 [mac80211]
>>> [<f97ceda4>] ieee80211_send_bar+0xd4/0xf0 [mac80211]
>>> [<f984a04a>] ath_tx_complete_aggr+0x52a/0xaa0 [ath9k]
>>> [<f9849bd0>] ? ath_tx_complete_aggr+0xb0/0xaa0 [ath9k]
>>> [<f9840029>] ? setup_ht_cap+0x169/0x180 [ath9k]
>>> [<f984b606>] ? ath_tx_edma_tasklet+0x76/0x2a0 [ath9k]
>>> [<f984b606>] ? ath_tx_edma_tasklet+0x76/0x2a0 [ath9k]
>>> [<f984a628>] ath_tx_process_buffer+0x68/0xe0 [ath9k]
>>> [<f984b705>] ath_tx_edma_tasklet+0x175/0x2a0 [ath9k]
>>> [<f983fc2d>] ? ath9k_ioread32+0x2d/0x70 [ath9k]
>>> [<f9842b4b>] ath9k_tasklet+0x10b/0x1c0 [ath9k]
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan<mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c | 7 ++++++-
>>> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
>>> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
>>> index 23e80e6..ef81df0 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
>>> @@ -189,8 +189,11 @@ static void ath_tx_flush_tid(struct ath_softc
>>> *sc, struct ath_atx_tid *tid)
>>> tid->state&= ~AGGR_CLEANUP;
>>> }
>>>
>>> - if (sendbar)
>>> + if (sendbar) {
>>> + spin_unlock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
>>> ath_send_bar(tid, tid->seq_start);
>>> + spin_lock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
>>> + }
>>> }
>>>
>>> static void ath_tx_update_baw(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_atx_tid
>>> *tid,
>>> @@ -556,7 +559,9 @@ static void ath_tx_complete_aggr(struct ath_softc
>>> *sc, struct ath_txq *txq,
>>>
>>> if (bar_index>= 0) {
>>> u16 bar_seq = ATH_BA_INDEX2SEQ(seq_first, bar_index);
>>> + spin_unlock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
>>> ath_send_bar(tid, ATH_BA_INDEX2SEQ(seq_first, bar_index + 1));
>>> + spin_lock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
>>> if (BAW_WITHIN(tid->seq_start, tid->baw_size, bar_seq))
>>> tid->bar_index = ATH_BA_INDEX(tid->seq_start, bar_seq);
>>> }
>>
>>
>
>


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thanks,
shafi