[PATCH RFC v1 0/7] rtw88: prepare locking for SDIO support

Martin Blumenstingl
2021-07-17T20:41:57Z

Hello rtw88 and mac80211 maintainers/contributors,

there is an ongoing effort where Jernej and I are working on adding
SDIO support to the rtw88 driver.
The hardware we use at the moment is RTL8822BS and RTL8822CS.
We are at a point where scanning, assoc etc. works (though it's not
fast yet, in my tests I got ~6Mbit/s in either direction).

This series contains some preparation work for adding SDIO support.
While testing our changes we found that there are some "scheduling
while atomic" errors in the kernel log. These are due to the fact
that the SDIO accessors (sdio_readb, sdio_writeb and friends) may
sleep internally.

Some background on why SDIO access (for example: sdio_writeb) cannot
be done with a spinlock held (this is a copy from my previous mail,
see [0]):
- when using for example sdio_writeb the MMC subsystem in Linux
prepares a so-called MMC request
- this request is submitted to the MMC host controller hardware
- the host controller hardware forwards the MMC request to the card
- the card signals when it's done processing the request
- the MMC subsystem in Linux waits for the card to signal that it's
done processing the request in mmc_wait_for_req_done() -> this uses
wait_for_completion() internally, which might sleep (which is not
allowed while a spinlock is held)

Based on Ping-Ke's suggestion I came up with the code in this series.
The goal is to use non-atomic locking for all register access in the
rtw88 driver. One patch adds a new function to mac80211 which did not
have a "non-atomic" version of it's "atomic" counterpart yet.

As mentioned before I don't have any rtw88 PCIe device so I am unable
to test on that hardware.
I am sending this as an RFC series since I am new to the mac80211
subsystem as well as the rtw88 driver. So any kind of feedback is
very welcome!
The actual changes for adding SDIO support will be sent separately in
the future.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CAFBinCDMPPJ7qW7xTkep1Trg+zP0B9Jxei6sgjqmF4NDA1JAhQ@mail.gmail.com/

Martin Blumenstingl (7):
mac80211: Add stations iterator where the iterator function may sleep
rtw88: Use rtw_iterate_vifs where the iterator reads or writes
registers
rtw88: Use rtw_iterate_stas where the iterator reads or writes
registers
rtw88: Replace usage of rtw_iterate_keys_rcu() with rtw_iterate_keys()
rtw88: Configure the registers from rtw_bf_assoc() outside the RCU
lock
rtw88: hci: Convert rf_lock from a spinlock to a mutex
rtw88: fw: Convert h2c.lock from a spinlock to a mutex

drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/bf.c | 8 ++++++--
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/fw.c | 14 +++++++-------
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/hci.h | 11 ++++-------
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/mac80211.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.c | 16 +++++++---------
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h | 4 ++--
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/phy.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/ps.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/util.h | 4 ++--
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/wow.c | 2 +-
include/net/mac80211.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
net/mac80211/util.c | 13 +++++++++++++
12 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

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