There are few places where we are checking for macversion and revsions
before RTC is powered ON. However we are reading the macversion and
revisions only after RTC is powered ON and so both macversion and
revisions are actully zero and this leads to incorrect srev checks
Incorrect srev checks can cause registers to be configured wrongly and can
cause unexpected behavior. Fixing this seems to address the ASPM issue that
we have observed. The laptop becomes very slow and hangs mostly with ASPM L1
enabled without this fix.
fix this by reading the macversion and revisisons even before we start
using them. There is no reason why should we delay reading this info
until RTC is powered on as this is just a register information.
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2 -- fixed reading revisions unnecessarily during every reset.
v3 -- added more information to the commit log.
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
index 4b51ed4..0a0ba80 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
@@ -491,6 +491,8 @@ static int __ath9k_hw_init(struct ath_hw *ah)
if (ah->hw_version.devid == AR5416_AR9100_DEVID)
ah->hw_version.macVersion = AR_SREV_VERSION_9100;
+ ath9k_hw_read_revisions(ah);
+
if (!ath9k_hw_set_reset_reg(ah, ATH9K_RESET_POWER_ON)) {
ath_err(common, "Couldn't reset chip\n");
return -EIO;
@@ -1078,8 +1080,6 @@ static bool ath9k_hw_set_reset_power_on(struct ath_hw *ah)
return false;
}
- ath9k_hw_read_revisions(ah);
-
return ath9k_hw_set_reset(ah, ATH9K_RESET_WARM);
}
--
1.7.3.4
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