From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arend van Spriel Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: stop watchdog before detach and free everything Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 11:22:57 +0200 Message-ID: <5B0D1BF1.7070105@broadcom.com> References: <1527493857-2220-1-git-send-email-michael@amarulasolutions.com> <5B0BD13D.8000809@broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Franky Lin , Hante Meuleman , Chi-Hsien Lin , Wright Feng , Kalle Valo , "David S. Miller" , Pieter-Paul Giesberts , Ian Molton , "open list:TI WILINK WIRELES..." , "open list:BROADCOM BRCM80211 IEEE802.11n WIRELESS DRIVER" , brcm80211-dev-list@cypress.com, netdev , LKML To: Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi , Andy Shevchenko Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 5/28/2018 5:33 PM, Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi wrote: > Hi Andy > > The problem seems really easy to solve: > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c > b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c > index 412a05b..ba60b151 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c > @@ -4227,13 +4227,7 @@ struct brcmf_sdio *brcmf_sdio_probe(struct > brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev) > timer_setup(&bus->timer, brcmf_sdio_watchdog, 0); > /* Initialize watchdog thread */ > init_completion(&bus->watchdog_wait); > - bus->watchdog_tsk = kthread_run(brcmf_sdio_watchdog_thread, > - bus, "brcmf_wdog/%s", > - dev_name(&sdiodev->func1->dev)); > - if (IS_ERR(bus->watchdog_tsk)) { > - pr_warn("brcmf_watchdog thread failed to start\n"); > - bus->watchdog_tsk = NULL; > - } > + > /* Initialize DPC thread */ > bus->dpc_triggered = false; > bus->dpc_running = false; > @@ -4281,6 +4275,14 @@ struct brcmf_sdio *brcmf_sdio_probe(struct > brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev) > goto fail; > } > > + bus->watchdog_tsk = kthread_run(brcmf_sdio_watchdog_thread, > + bus, "brcmf_wdog/%s", > + dev_name(&sdiodev->func1->dev)); > + if (IS_ERR(bus->watchdog_tsk)) { > + pr_warn("brcmf_watchdog thread failed to start\n"); > + bus->watchdog_tsk = NULL; > + } > + > return bus; Hi Michael, That makes no sense. Or are you saying the function brcmf_fw_get_firmwares() fails for you? Oh wait, you mentioned the driver was built-in, right? The above change does not solve the issue. It just makes it less likely to occur. So I think your initial fix is the best solution for this. Regards, Arend