Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Lukas reports skb_over_panic errors on his Banana Pi BPI-CM4 which comes
> with an Amlogic A311D (G12B) SoC and a RTL8822CS SDIO wifi/Bluetooth
> combo card. The error he observed is identical to what has been fixed
> in commit e967229ead0e ("wifi: rtw88: sdio: Check the HISR RX_REQUEST
> bit in rtw_sdio_rx_isr()") but that commit didn't fix Lukas' problem.
>
> Lukas found that disabling or limiting RX aggregation works around the
> problem for some time (but does not fully fix it). In the following
> discussion a few key topics have been discussed which have an impact on
> this problem:
> - The Amlogic A311D (G12B) SoC has a hardware bug in the SDIO controller
> which prevents DMA transfers. Instead all transfers need to go through
> the controller SRAM which limits transfers to 1536 bytes
> - rtw88 chips don't split incoming (RX) packets, so if a big packet is
> received this is forwarded to the host in it's original form
> - rtw88 chips can do RX aggregation, meaning more multiple incoming
> packets can be pulled by the host from the card with one MMC/SDIO
> transfer. This Depends on settings in the REG_RXDMA_AGG_PG_TH
> register (BIT_RXDMA_AGG_PG_TH limits the number of packets that will
> be aggregated, BIT_DMA_AGG_TO_V1 configures a timeout for aggregation
> and BIT_EN_PRE_CALC makes the chip honor the limits more effectively)
>
> Use multiple consecutive reads in rtw_sdio_read_port() and limit the
> number of bytes which are copied by the host from the card in one
> MMC/SDIO transfer. This allows receiving a buffer that's larger than
> the hosts max_req_size (number of bytes which can be transferred in
> one MMC/SDIO transfer). As a result of this the skb_over_panic error
> is gone as the rtw88 driver is now able to receive more than 1536 bytes
> from the card (either because the incoming packet is larger than that
> or because multiple packets have been aggregated).
>
> In case of an receive errors (-EILSEQ has been observed by Lukas) we
> need to drain the remaining data from the card's buffer, otherwise the
> card will return corrupt data for the next rtw_sdio_read_port() call.
>
> Fixes: 65371a3f14e7 ("wifi: rtw88: sdio: Add HCI implementation for SDIO based chipsets")
> Reported-by: Lukas F. Hartmann <lukas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/CAFBinCBaXtebixKbjkWKW_WXc5k=NdGNaGUjVE8NCPNxOhsb2g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Suggested-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Did this fix Lukas' problem? I couldn't see any answer to Ping's
question.
Patch set to Deferred.
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