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Re: [PATCH] Fix Bug 199967 - change WARN_ON(1) to IWL_ERR()

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On Fri, 2018-08-17 at 20:35 -0700, Nye Liu wrote:
> The TX_STATUS_FAIL_DEST_PS case fills logs with full backtraces, which
> are pretty useless. Just do IWL_ERR() printk.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nye Liu <nyet@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
> index cf2591f2ac23..87044953e6b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
> @@ -1407,8 +1407,10 @@ static void iwl_mvm_rx_tx_cmd_single(struct iwl_mvm *mvm,
>  			/* the FW should have stopped the queue and not
>  			 * return this status
>  			 */
> -			WARN_ON(1);
>  			info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_TX_FILTERED;
> +			IWL_ERR(mvm, "TX_STATUS_FAIL_DEST_PS: "
> +				"tid %d, status %x, flags %x\n", tid, status,
> +				info->flags);
>  			break;
>  		default:
>  			break;

I think this error is serious enough and we would like to catch it when
it occurs so we can debug the actual cause.

But I agree that we shouldn't be repeating it millions of times.  What
about just changing it to WARN_ON_ONCE() instead?

--
Cheers,
Luca.




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