mwifiex cmd timeout on one pci variant

[Dominique MARTINET <dominique.martinet@atmark-techno.com>]

Hi,

This is probably more a question for the maker.. But maybe someone will
know.
I've got a mwifiex M.2 pci module that won't take any wifi command and
hang right away (dmesg below). Bluetooth through serial works.


Context:
I've got a board with an i.MX8MP chip, and three different marvell W8997
M.2 modules -- one from laird which works fine, and two from azurewave
which are labeled exactly the same AW-CM276MA 2276MA PCIE-UART except
one works and not the other.
The inscription on the chip itself are slightly different, one saying
it's a W8997-M1216 from marvell (works) and the other having AW-CM276NF
azurewave mark. The electronics around are also different.

I could say it's just a bad chip, but I've actually got two of each
(samples) which act the same... And I've tried it in another device
where it works with the same kernel/firmware, so there must be something
wrong on the board as well as the wifi card works elsewhere.


Anyway, if someone knows how to get around to debugging this, I'd
appreciate a pointer! I can't see anything wrong with the tools I have
here.
If nothing else, I can't read /sys/class/devcoredump/devcd*/data that I
saw Amitkumar Karwar request somewhere else, so just deciphering this
would be great help.


dmesg looks like this on failure:
[  108.513028] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: mwifiex_cmd_timeout_func: Timeout cmd id = 0x10, act = 0x1
[  108.522388] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: num_data_h2c_failure = 0
[  108.528310] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: num_cmd_h2c_failure = 0
[  108.534143] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: is_cmd_timedout = 1
[  108.539631] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: num_tx_timeout = 0
[  108.545029] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: last_cmd_index = 0
[  108.550431] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: last_cmd_id: 10 00 28 00 16 00 cd 00 1e 00
[  108.557913] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: last_cmd_act: 01 00 13 00 01 00 01 00 00 00
[  108.565484] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: last_cmd_resp_index = 4
[  108.571318] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: last_cmd_resp_id: df 80 28 80 16 80 cd 80 1e 80
[  108.579237] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: last_event_index = 2
[  108.584810] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: last_event: 00 00 0b 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00
[  108.592206] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: data_sent=0 cmd_sent=1
[  108.597954] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: ps_mode=1 ps_state=0
[  108.604085] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: ===mwifiex driverinfo dump start===
[  108.613552] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: info: MWIFIEX VERSION: mwifiex 1.0 (16.68.1.p179) 
[  108.621748] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: PCIE register dump start
[  108.627676] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: pcie scratch register:
[  108.633441] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: reg:0xcf0, value=0xfedcba00
               reg:0xcf8, value=0x8260049
               reg:0xcfc, value=0x1282820

[  108.648584] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: PCIE register dump end
[  108.654411] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: ===mwifiex driverinfo dump end===
[  108.661119] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: == mwifiex firmware dump start ==
[  110.560689] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: cmd_wait_q terminated: -110
[  148.127107] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: == mwifiex firmware dump end ==
[  148.134552] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: == mwifiex dump information to /sys/class/devcoredump start
[  148.143669] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: == mwifiex dump information to /sys/class/devcoredump end
[  148.152485] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: PREP_CMD: FW is in bad state
[  148.158915] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: info: shutdown mwifiex...
[  148.165829] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: PREP_CMD: card is removed
[  148.443761] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: info: dnld wifi firmware from 169340 bytes
[  149.511193] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: info: FW download over, size 632240 bytes
[  150.163677] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: WLAN FW is active
[  150.231583] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: info: MWIFIEX VERSION: mwifiex 1.0 (16.68.1.p179) 
[  150.239814] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: driver_version = mwifiex 1.0 (16.68.1.p179) 

I tried with two different firmwares, full dmesg and data.txt are here:
hang on `ip link set mlan0 up`:
https://codewreck.org/tmp/16.68.1.p179-data.txt
https://codewreck.org/tmp/16.68.1.p179-dmesg

hang on `iw mlan0 scan` after successful link up:
https://codewreck.org/tmp/16.68.1.p179-2-data.txt
https://codewreck.org/tmp/16.68.1.p179-2-dmesg

other firmware (dmesg truncated to just timeout message):
https://codewreck.org/tmp/16.68.10.p16-data.txt
https://codewreck.org/tmp/16.68.10.p16-dmesg



Extra info:
 - it doesn't always fail at the same place, so this looks like a
tolerance problem? e.g. sometimes transmission works and sometimes
a message is garbled?

- on the working azurewave module I can keep the card maxed at ~300mbps
in or ~100mbps out without problem for a while with iperf so signals
can't be that bad...? Or that could just be wishful thinking!



Thanks,
-- 
Dominique Martinet