Johannes Berg <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 19:20 +0200, Jan Scholz wrote:
>> Johannes Berg <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 16:07 +0200, Jan Scholz wrote:
>> >
>> >> > Jan, can you run with console_suspend=0 (or whatever it is now, Rafael
>> >> > will correct me if I'm wrong) that should work on your platform, and put
>> >> > a bunch of printk calls into __ieee80211_suspend in net/mac80211/pm.c to
>> >> > see where in there it's hanging?
>> >> 
>> >> Did that, seems like it hangs in
>> >>   drv_remove_interface(local, &conf);
>> >
>> > Ok, thanks! I was going to suggest doing the same in
>> > b43_op_remove_interface in drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c, but I think
>> > the problem is just that we have an ordering problem and call drv_stop
>> > before drv_remove_interface. I'll try to come up with a fix soon --
>> > might not be able to today though, in the meantime I guess you can just
>> > move the drv_stop call to the end of the function and tell me if that
>> > works -- that would be racy but should be ok most of the time.
>> 
>> I moved drv_stop to the end of the function (see patch below) and now
>> suspend works fine.
>
> Thanks, that's what I suspected -- I'll take a closer look into what is
> required to make it race-free against RX.
>

Hi,

The bug is still present in v2.6.31-rc4, it's still fixed by the patch
(see below) suggested as a test by Johannes.

Regards,
   Jan

>> diff --git a/net/mac80211/pm.c b/net/mac80211/pm.c
>> index 7a549f9..0ac15fb 100644
>> --- a/net/mac80211/pm.c
>> +++ b/net/mac80211/pm.c
>> @@ -58,12 +58,6 @@ int __ieee80211_suspend(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
>>      /* flush again, in case driver queued work */
>>      flush_workqueue(local->hw.workqueue);
>>  
>> -    /* stop hardware - this must stop RX */
>> -    if (local->open_count) {
>> -            ieee80211_led_radio(local, false);
>> -            drv_stop(local);
>> -    }
>> -
>>      /* remove STAs */
>>      spin_lock_irqsave(&local->sta_lock, flags);
>>      list_for_each_entry(sta, &local->sta_list, list) {
>> @@ -111,6 +105,12 @@ int __ieee80211_suspend(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
>>              drv_remove_interface(local, &conf);
>>      }
>>  
>> +    /* stop hardware - this must stop RX */
>> +    if (local->open_count) {
>> +            ieee80211_led_radio(local, false);
>> +            drv_stop(local);
>> +    }
>> +
>>      local->suspended = true;
>>      local->quiescing = false;
>> 

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