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Re: wifi: rtw88: 8821CU hangs after some number of power-off/on cycles

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pon., 27 maj 2024 o 20:43 Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@xxxxxxxxx> napisał(a):
>
> On 27/05/2024 20:34, Marcin Ślusarz wrote:
> > From: Marcin Ślusarz <mslusarz@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > If I don't connect to any Wifi network, after around 10 minutes, the device
> > hangs with endless spamming of:
> > rtw_8821cu 1-1:1.2: rtw_usb_reg_sec: reg 0x4e0, usb write 1 fail, status: -71
> > killing both Wifi and Bluetooth part of the device.
> >
> > On arm, just leaving the wifi device unconnected kills it in up to 20 minutes.
> > If I keep restarting wpa_supplicant I can trigger it within a minute.
> > Looping "ifconfig wlan0 down; ifconfig wlan0 up" also triggers it within a minute.
> >
> > On x86_64 system the only way I could trigger this was via ifconfig loop,
> > but it took 3 hours and 20 minutes to do it.
> >
> > The only thing that can "fix" the device is replugging it.
> >
> > I found out that the reason for those hangs is a power-off+on sequence that's
> > triggered by the above steps.
> >
> > Disabling power-off for that chip "fixes" the issue. The patches below
> > implement that, but I'm not seriously proposing them for merging.
> >
> > Marcin Ślusarz (2):
> >   wifi: rtw88: use RTW_FLAG_RUNNING for deciding whether to enter/leave
> >     IPS
> >   wifi: rtw88: disable power offs for 8821C
> >
> >  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.c | 14 ++++++++------
> >  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/ps.c   |  4 ++--
> >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
>
> The first patch alone doesn't fix it?

The first patch exists only to make the second patch work.
Without the first one, rtw_enter_ips will perform all actions except actually
doing the power off, which clears the POWERON flag.
After that, rtw_leave_ips will happily return early success without actually
undoing the stuff that rtw_enter_ips did (like canceling all work_structs).





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