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Re: [RFC 3/5] mac80211: fix idle trigger upon resume

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On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:09:22PM -0700, Luis Rodriguez wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:53:30AM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
>>> > On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 11:34 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > > Also, __ieee80211_queues_stopped_by_reason is misnamed since it checks
>>> > > > only a single queue. I also think that we can do this much better by
>>> > > > keeping track of the suspend state in a new variable rather than looking
>>> > > > at all the queues; even just checking queue 0 would be sufficient, but I
>>> > > > think a new variable is warranted.
>>> > >
>>> > > A global variable for going to suspend? Hm, do we have a system wide
>>> > > thing for this instead?
>>> >
>>> > No, and even then we couldn't use it I think since you can have
>>> > per-device suspend. I was just thinking of a local->variable.
>>>
>>> OK thanks will add this.
>>
>> So I've added the WARN_ON() here as we agreed to investigate on irc. Turns out
>> we hit it several times as expected. We hit it while going to suspend
>> once, and then on resume 3 times.
>
> The trace doesn't help much except for acknowledging the issue I was
> pointing out. The workqueue is run because we flush it, twice, during
> suspend. The idle recalc is run because we call it within
> ieee80211_sta_work(). If we want we can move the check for
> local->suspended to ieee80211_sta_work() but then we'd have to set
> local->suspended early on during suspend before the first flush and
> that doesn't seem right. So I think the patch as I have it is fine
> unless I'm missing something.

Nevermind -- the last trace does show its called from disassoc -- and
we I don't think we should disassoc until we've come back from
suspend.

  Luis
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