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Re: [PATCH 3/3] wifi: ath11k: support hibernation

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On 2/20/2024 7:00 PM, Baochen Qiang wrote:
> Now that all infrastructure is in place and ath11k is fixed to handle all the
> corner cases, power down the ath11k firmware during suspend and power it back
> up during resume. This fixes the problem when using hibernation with ath11k PCI
> devices.
> 
> For suspend, two conditions needs to be satisfied:
>         1. since MHI channel unprepare would be done in late suspend stage,
>            ath11k needs to get all QMI-dependent things done before that stage.
>         2. and because unprepare MHI channels requires a working MHI stack,
>            ath11k is not allowed to call mhi_power_down() until that finishes.
> So the original suspend callback is separated into two parts: the first part
> handles all QMI-dependent things in suspend callback; while the second part
> powers down MHI in suspend_late callback. This is valid because kernel calls
> ath11k's suspend callback before all suspend_late callbacks, making the first
> condition happy. And because MHI devices are children of ath11k device
> (ab->dev), kernel guarantees that ath11k's suspend_late callback is called
> after QRTR's suspend_late callback, this satisfies the second condition.
> 
> Above analysis also applies to resume process. so the original resume
> callback is separated into two parts: the first part powers up MHI stack
> in resume_early callback, this guarantees MHI stack is working when
> QRTR tries to prepare MHI channels (kernel calls QRTR's resume_early callback
> after ath11k's resume_early callback, due to the child-father relationship);
> the second part waits for the completion of restart, which won't fail now
> since MHI channels are ready for use by QMI.
> 
> Another notable change is in power down path, we tell mhi_power_down() to not
> to destroy MHI devices, making it possible for QRTR to help unprepare/prepare
> MHI channels, and finally get us rid of the probe-defer issue when resume.
> 
> Also change related code due to interface changes.
> 
> Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.30
> 
> Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <quic_bqiang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx>





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