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Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] ath11k: Enable low power mode when WLAN is not active

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On 8/31/2022 1:31 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Currently, WLAN chip is powered once during driver probe and is kept
ON (powered) always even when WLAN is not active; keeping the chip
powered ON all the time will consume extra power which is not
desirable for a battery operated device. Same is the case with non-WoW
suspend, chip will never be put into low power mode when the system is
suspended resulting in higher battery drain.

As per the recommendation, sending a PDEV suspend WMI command followed
by a QMI MODE OFF command will cease all WLAN activity and put the device
in low power mode. When WLAN interfaces are brought up, sending a QMI
MISSION MODE command would be sufficient to bring the chip out of low
power. This is a better approach than doing hif_power_down()/hif_power_up()
for every WiFi ON/OFF sequence since the turnaround time for entry/exit of
low power mode is much less. Overhead is just the time taken for sending
QMI MODE OFF & QMI MISSION MODE commands instead of going through the
entire chip boot & QMI init sequence.

Currently the changes are applicable only for WCN6750. This can be
extended to other targets with a future patch.

Tested-on: WCN6750 hw1.0 AHB WLAN.MSL.1.0.1-00887-QCAMSLSWPLZ-1

Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise@xxxxxxxxxxx>

With this patch 3 my regression tests on WCN6855 panic:

[  109.009427] rmmod ath11k_pci
[  109.437120] kworker/dying (1560) used greatest stack depth: 24704 bytes left
[  109.446051] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000003e: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN
[  109.446133] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000001f0-0x00000000000001f7]
[  109.446211] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc2-wt-ath+ #683
[  109.446315] Hardware name: Intel(R) Client Systems NUC8i7HVK/NUC8i7HVB, BIOS HNKBLi70.86A.0067.2021.0528.1339 05/28/2021
[  109.446393] RIP: 0010:ath11k_dp_process_rxdma_err+0x1c8/0x810 [ath11k]
[  109.446486] Code: d2 48 63 d8 48 8b 4c 24 38 48 8d 04 5b 48 c1 e0 04 48 8d bc 01 f4 01 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 14 02 48 89 f8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 38 d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85 aa
[  109.446557] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007b90 EFLAGS: 00010203
[  109.446619] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  109.446677] RDX: 000000000000003e RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000001f4
[  109.446734] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff88814c0e1470 R09: ffff88814c0f6678
[  109.446792] R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed102981ecd0 R12: 0000000000000000
[  109.446903] R13: 0000000000000040 R14: 1ffff92000000f81 R15: ffff88814c0e0000
[  109.446961] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888233600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  109.447020] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  109.447080] CR2: 000055570fe84cc8 CR3: 0000000152540006 CR4: 00000000003706f0
[  109.447136] Call Trace:
[  109.447194]  <IRQ>
[  109.447257]  ? ath11k_dp_process_reo_status+0x3ce/0x560 [ath11k]
[  109.447349]  ? ath11k_dp_rx_process_wbm_err+0x17d0/0x17d0 [ath11k]
[  109.447442]  ath11k_dp_service_srng+0x358/0xab0 [ath11k]
[  109.447536]  ath11k_pcic_ext_grp_napi_poll+0x40/0x1d0 [ath11k]
[  109.447628]  __napi_poll.constprop.0+0x97/0x350
[  109.447690]  net_rx_action+0x7bf/0xbb0
[  109.447749]  ? __napi_poll.constprop.0+0x350/0x350
[  109.447831]  ? ktime_get+0x101/0x2f0
[  109.447911]  __do_softirq+0x1ca/0x897
[  109.447989]  __irq_exit_rcu+0xdb/0x180
[  109.448049]  irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20
[  109.448109]  sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8a/0xb0
[  109.448168]  </IRQ>
[  109.448226]  <TASK>
[  109.448284]  asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20
[  109.448343] RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0x1ef/0x9a0
[  109.448407] Code: 00 00 8b 73 04 bf ff ff ff ff e8 8c f0 ff ff 31 ff e8 75 16 47 fe 80 7c 24 08 00 0f 85 a1 01 00 00 e8 75 7d 6a fe fb 45 85 f6 <0f> 88 6f 02 00 00 4d 63 ee 4b 8d 44 6d 00 49 8d 44 85 00 48 8d 7c
[  109.448477] RSP: 0018:ffffffffb9407db8 EFLAGS: 00000202
[  109.448540] RAX: 0000000000124987 RBX: ffff888114966400 RCX: 1ffffffff738a3e1
[  109.448600] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffffb8a71bc0 RDI: ffffffffb8bec9c0
[  109.448659] RBP: ffffffffb986efa0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffffb9c54717
[  109.448715] R10: fffffbfff738a8e2 R11: 00000000000002ec R12: 000000197b7a6a19
[  109.448774] R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: ffff888114966404
[  109.448871]  ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x1eb/0x9a0
[  109.448947]  ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x120/0x870
[  109.449006]  cpuidle_enter+0x45/0xa0
[  109.449065]  cpuidle_idle_call+0x274/0x3f0
[  109.449125]  ? arch_cpu_idle_exit+0x30/0x30
[  109.449187]  ? tsc_verify_tsc_adjust+0x86/0x2d0
[  109.449247]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_off+0x90/0xd0
[  109.449306]  do_idle+0xe0/0x140
[  109.449363]  cpu_startup_entry+0x14/0x20
[  109.449423]  rest_init+0x135/0x1e0
[  109.449482]  arch_call_rest_init+0xa/0xb
[  109.449542]  start_kernel+0x391/0x3af
[  109.449606]  secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xce/0xdb
[  109.449671]  </TASK>
[  109.449729] Modules linked in: ath11k_pci(-) ath11k mac80211 libarc4 cfg80211 qmi_helpers qrtr_mhi mhi qrtr nvme nvme_core
[  109.449846] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[  109.449927] RIP: 0010:ath11k_dp_process_rxdma_err+0x1c8/0x810 [ath11k]
[  109.450073] Code: d2 48 63 d8 48 8b 4c 24 38 48 8d 04 5b 48 c1 e0 04 48 8d bc 01 f4 01 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 14 02 48 89 f8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 38 d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85 aa
[  109.450147] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007b90 EFLAGS: 00010203
[  109.450212] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  109.450275] RDX: 000000000000003e RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000001f4
[  109.450337] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff88814c0e1470 R09: ffff88814c0f6678
[  109.450401] R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed102981ecd0 R12: 0000000000000000
[  109.450465] R13: 0000000000000040 R14: 1ffff92000000f81 R15: ffff88814c0e0000
[  109.450531] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888233600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  109.450595] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  109.450661] CR2: 000055570fe84cc8 CR3: 0000000152540006 CR4: 00000000003706f0
[  109.450723] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
[  109.450794] Kernel Offset: 0x34e00000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
[  109.450837] Rebooting in 10 seconds..


Thanks for the report. From the logs, I see the system crashed during rmmod ath11k_pci. I have run rmmod & insmod tests several times on WCN6855 before sending the revised version. Probably some tests before rmmod would have led to this crash. Could you please let me know what tests does the regression suite covers? I'll try repro the bug.

Thanks,
Manikanta



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