On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 08:16, Wen Gong <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > It is because the state has not changed to ATH10K_STATE_ON
> > > immediately, then it will have more than two simulate crash process
> > > running meanwhile, and complete/wakeup some field twice, it destroy
> > > the normal recovery process.
> >
> > This was intended to allow testing not only firmware crash path (and
> > recovery) but also firmware crash while recovering from a firmware crash.
> >
> If firmware is recovering from crash, then simulate a new crash will trigger 
> error.
> So remove it.

That's actually a feature, not a bug. If firmware crashes while driver
is restarting after a crash then its likely going to fail again and
again causing a crash-restart loop which can affect system performance
and responsiveness. It's better to give up and let the system admin
take over.

If it's still bothering you then please consider a crash counter
threshold so that, e.g. after 5 crash-while-restarting it's going to
give up. However I doubt it's worth the effort. My experience tells me
firmware crashes during recovery are rarely, if at all, transient.

The simulated fw crash is not representative here. It's a mere tool to
test driver code.


Michał

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