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[1/4] mwifiex: more_task flag for main_process

Message ID 1423676547-5213-1-git-send-email-patila@marvell.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Kalle Valo
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Avinash Patil Feb. 11, 2015, 5:42 p.m. UTC
From: Shengzhen Li <szli@marvell.com>

This patch handles a corner case where TX packet would remain in
driver queue till next packet comes in.
Here is sequence:
1. TX packet is queued via hard_start_xmit and main_work is queued
2. SDIO interrupt comes in which directly call mwifiex_main_process.
This starts executing main superloop.
3. Now work from step1 is scheduled but at first check itself it sees
mwifiex_processing is set and exits.
4. Now if superloop from step2 has passed TX processing part of superloop
this packet would remain in queue until next packet/command/SDIO interrupt
arrives and queues main_work.

This patch fixes this corner case by defining more_task flag which is set when
mwifiex_processing is found to be true. At end of superloop we again check if
more_task flag is set and if set, execute superloop again.

Signed-off-by: Shengzhen Li <szli@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c | 16 +++++++++-------
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Comments

Kalle Valo Feb. 27, 2015, 8:10 a.m. UTC | #1
> From: Shengzhen Li <szli@marvell.com>
> 
> This patch handles a corner case where TX packet would remain in
> driver queue till next packet comes in.
> Here is sequence:
> 1. TX packet is queued via hard_start_xmit and main_work is queued
> 2. SDIO interrupt comes in which directly call mwifiex_main_process.
> This starts executing main superloop.
> 3. Now work from step1 is scheduled but at first check itself it sees
> mwifiex_processing is set and exits.
> 4. Now if superloop from step2 has passed TX processing part of superloop
> this packet would remain in queue until next packet/command/SDIO interrupt
> arrives and queues main_work.
> 
> This patch fixes this corner case by defining more_task flag which is set when
> mwifiex_processing is found to be true. At end of superloop we again check if
> more_task flag is set and if set, execute superloop again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shengzhen Li <szli@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cathy Luo <cluo@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>

Thanks, 4 patches applied to wireless-drivers-next.git:

04c7b363c9f7 mwifiex: more_task flag for main_process
7521ce6eb2d3 mwifiex: do not process mgmt rx on uninitialized interface
b4e8aebbc7c2 mwifiex: change datatype to bool for device capability flags
1c4c24eb7e96 mwifiex: modify TX buff size for SD8887

Kalle Valo
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
index 7e74b4f..74488ab 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
@@ -190,14 +190,16 @@  int mwifiex_main_process(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
 
 	/* Check if already processing */
 	if (adapter->mwifiex_processing) {
+		adapter->more_task_flag = true;
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
 		goto exit_main_proc;
 	} else {
 		adapter->mwifiex_processing = true;
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
 	}
 process_start:
 	do {
+		adapter->more_task_flag = false;
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
 		if ((adapter->hw_status == MWIFIEX_HW_STATUS_CLOSING) ||
 		    (adapter->hw_status == MWIFIEX_HW_STATUS_NOT_READY))
 			break;
@@ -238,6 +240,7 @@  process_start:
 			adapter->pm_wakeup_fw_try = true;
 			mod_timer(&adapter->wakeup_timer, jiffies + (HZ*3));
 			adapter->if_ops.wakeup(adapter);
+			spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
 			continue;
 		}
 
@@ -295,8 +298,10 @@  process_start:
 		if ((adapter->ps_state == PS_STATE_SLEEP) ||
 		    (adapter->ps_state == PS_STATE_PRE_SLEEP) ||
 		    (adapter->ps_state == PS_STATE_SLEEP_CFM) ||
-		    adapter->tx_lock_flag)
+		    adapter->tx_lock_flag){
+			spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		if (!adapter->cmd_sent && !adapter->curr_cmd) {
 			if (mwifiex_exec_next_cmd(adapter) == -1) {
@@ -330,15 +335,12 @@  process_start:
 			}
 			break;
 		}
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
 	} while (true);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
-	if (!adapter->delay_main_work &&
-	    (adapter->int_status || IS_CARD_RX_RCVD(adapter))) {
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
+	if (adapter->more_task_flag)
 		goto process_start;
-	}
-
 	adapter->mwifiex_processing = false;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->main_proc_lock, flags);
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.h b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.h
index f0a6af1..2089a30 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.h
@@ -774,6 +774,7 @@  struct mwifiex_adapter {
 	/* spin lock for main process */
 	spinlock_t main_proc_lock;
 	u32 mwifiex_processing;
+	u8 more_task_flag;
 	u16 tx_buf_size;
 	u16 curr_tx_buf_size;
 	u32 ioport;