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Re: Bug 119151 - [regression] ath10k no longer authenitcates and freezes system

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On 2016-06-02 22:53, Ben Greear wrote:
On 06/02/2016 10:03 AM, Manoharan, Rajkumar wrote:
On Thursday, June 2, 2016 8:51 PM, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 06/02/2016 07:24 AM, Valo, Kalle wrote:
Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

there's a regression in ath10k:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119151

Reporter bisected it to this:

5c86d97bcc1d42ce7f75685a61be4dad34ee8183 is the first bad commit
commit 5c86d97bcc1d42ce7f75685a61be4dad34ee8183
Author: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Mar 22 17:22:19 2016 +0530

ath10k: combine txrx and replenish task

[...]

I found a lot of problems with this code as well, and the 5 patches
starting from the URL below fixed the issues for me.

Ben,

Can you please explain the sort of issues you have observed with this change?

I imported a bunch of upstream patches at once, so not sure exactly what commit
caused it.  And, this was about 2 months ago...  Upon review, I'm not
sure I even have
the patch this particular bug was bisected to, so maybe that is some
other issue.

Please keep track of buggy commit and report them asap.

But, the problems I saw were deadlocks and memory corruption. A lot of it was
because I was debugging new firmware at the time and so peer creation
was failing
sometimes, and things like that. The error handling in ath10k for this was faulty and racy and such. We have not seen any performance regressions,
but we mostly run on very powerful CPUs.

Please take a look at those 5 patches. A good review would be much appreciated, and by reading them you will better be able to see the problems I was hitting
and trying to fix.

Below two patches are critical and I already shared my feedback.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8727841/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9073471/

Others are LGTM.

In case you want to look at the full context of those patches, you can find
them here (around 24 patches down from the top...)

Quite a big list :)

http://dmz2.candelatech.com/?p=linux-4.4.dev.y/.git;a=summary

For now, I am sticking with 4.4 + what I pulled in, but will rebase
against upstream someday
soon-ish and then we can start testing it all over again :)

Will go through the list. Better to post them to public if not.

-Rajkumar
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