This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: brcm80211: bugfix for softmac crash on multi cpu configurations
to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6.git
in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also will be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 6a3be6e6e7feb4cb35275475d6a863b748d59cc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland Vossen <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:51:56 +0100
Subject: staging: brcm80211: bugfix for softmac crash on multi cpu
configurations
Solved a locking issue that resulted in driver crashes with the 43224 and 43225
chips. The problem has been reported on several fora. Root cause was two fold:
hardware was being manipulated by two unsynchronized threads, and a scan
operation could interfere with an ongoing dynamic calibration process. Fix was
to invoke a lock on wl_ops_config() operation and to set internal flags when a
scan operation is started and stopped.
Please add this to the staging-linus branch.
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Roland Vossen <[email protected]>
Cc: stable <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wl_mac80211.c | 12 ++++++++++--
drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wlc_mac80211.c | 13 +++++++++++++
drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wlc_pub.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wl_mac80211.c
b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wl_mac80211.c
index f123588..cd8392b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wl_mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wl_mac80211.c
@@ -263,9 +263,7 @@ ieee_set_channel(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct
ieee80211_channel *chan,
switch (type) {
case NL80211_CHAN_HT20:
case NL80211_CHAN_NO_HT:
- WL_LOCK(wl);
err = wlc_set(wl->wlc, WLC_SET_CHANNEL, chan->hw_value);
- WL_UNLOCK(wl);
break;
case NL80211_CHAN_HT40MINUS:
case NL80211_CHAN_HT40PLUS:
@@ -285,6 +283,7 @@ static int wl_ops_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32
changed)
int err = 0;
int new_int;
+ WL_LOCK(wl);
if (changed & IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_LISTEN_INTERVAL) {
WL_NONE("%s: Setting listen interval to %d\n",
__func__, conf->listen_interval);
@@ -341,6 +340,7 @@ static int wl_ops_config(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32
changed)
}
config_out:
+ WL_UNLOCK(wl);
return err;
}
@@ -459,13 +459,21 @@ wl_ops_set_tim(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct
ieee80211_sta *sta, bool set)
static void wl_ops_sw_scan_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
{
+ struct wl_info *wl = hw->priv;
WL_NONE("Scan Start\n");
+ WL_LOCK(wl);
+ wlc_scan_start(wl->wlc);
+ WL_UNLOCK(wl);
return;
}
static void wl_ops_sw_scan_complete(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
{
+ struct wl_info *wl = hw->priv;
WL_NONE("Scan Complete\n");
+ WL_LOCK(wl);
+ wlc_scan_stop(wl->wlc);
+ WL_UNLOCK(wl);
return;
}
diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wlc_mac80211.c
b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wlc_mac80211.c
index a130386..e37e805 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wlc_mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wlc_mac80211.c
@@ -8461,3 +8461,16 @@ static void wlc_txq_free(struct wlc_info *wlc, struct
osl_info *osh,
kfree(qi);
}
+
+/*
+ * Flag 'scan in progress' to withold dynamic phy calibration
+ */
+void wlc_scan_start(struct wlc_info *wlc)
+{
+ wlc_phy_hold_upd(wlc->band->pi, PHY_HOLD_FOR_SCAN, true);
+}
+
+void wlc_scan_stop(struct wlc_info *wlc)
+{
+ wlc_phy_hold_upd(wlc->band->pi, PHY_HOLD_FOR_SCAN, false);
+}
diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wlc_pub.h
b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wlc_pub.h
index 146a690..aff4130 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wlc_pub.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/sys/wlc_pub.h
@@ -570,6 +570,8 @@ extern void wlc_enable_mac(struct wlc_info *wlc);
extern u16 wlc_rate_shm_offset(struct wlc_info *wlc, u8 rate);
extern u32 wlc_get_rspec_history(struct wlc_bsscfg *cfg);
extern u32 wlc_get_current_highest_rate(struct wlc_bsscfg *cfg);
+extern void wlc_scan_start(struct wlc_info *wlc);
+extern void wlc_scan_stop(struct wlc_info *wlc);
static inline int wlc_iovar_getuint(struct wlc_info *wlc, const char *name,
uint *arg)
--
1.7.1
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