On the 88W8897 card it's very important the TX ring write pointer is updated correctly to its new value before setting the TX ready interrupt, otherwise the firmware appears to crash (probably because it's trying to DMA-read from the wrong place). The issue is present in the latest firmware version 15.68.19.p21 of the pcie+usb card. Since PCI uses "posted writes" when writing to a register, it's not guaranteed that a write will happen immediately. That means the pointer might be outdated when setting the TX ready interrupt, leading to firmware crashes especially when ASPM L1 and L1 substates are enabled (because of the higher link latency, the write will probably take longer). So fix those firmware crashes by always using a non-posted write for this specific register write. We do that by simply reading back the register after writing it, just as a few other PCI drivers do. This fixes a bug where during rx/tx traffic and with ASPM L1 substates enabled (the enabled substates are platform dependent), the firmware crashes and eventually a command timeout appears in the logs. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c index c6ccce426b49..0eff717ac5fa 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c @@ -240,6 +240,20 @@ static int mwifiex_write_reg(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter, int reg, u32 data) return 0; } +/* + * This function does a non-posted write into a PCIE card register, ensuring + * it's completion before returning. + */ +static int mwifiex_write_reg_np(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter, int reg, u32 data) +{ + struct pcie_service_card *card = adapter->card; + + iowrite32(data, card->pci_mmap1 + reg); + ioread32(card->pci_mmap1 + reg); + + return 0; +} + /* This function reads data from PCIE card register. */ static int mwifiex_read_reg(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter, int reg, u32 *data) @@ -1482,9 +1496,15 @@ mwifiex_pcie_send_data(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter, struct sk_buff *skb, reg->tx_rollover_ind); rx_val = card->rxbd_rdptr & reg->rx_wrap_mask; - /* Write the TX ring write pointer in to reg->tx_wrptr */ - if (mwifiex_write_reg(adapter, reg->tx_wrptr, - card->txbd_wrptr | rx_val)) { + /* Write the TX ring write pointer in to reg->tx_wrptr. + * The firmware (latest version 15.68.19.p21) of the 88W8897 + * pcie+usb card seems to crash when getting the TX ready + * interrupt but the TX ring write pointer points to an outdated + * address, so it's important we do a non-posted write here to + * force the completion of the write. + */ + if (mwifiex_write_reg_np(adapter, reg->tx_wrptr, + card->txbd_wrptr | rx_val)) { mwifiex_dbg(adapter, ERROR, "SEND DATA: failed to write reg->tx_wrptr\n"); ret = -1; -- 2.31.1