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Re: [PATCH 1/1] ath9k: fix a soft lockup

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John,

please drop this patch, as this still does not addresses a soft lockup observed in soft AP mode. Felix will send a proper patch for this. thank you!

On Friday 16 December 2011 06:38 PM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
On Friday 16 December 2011 06:37 PM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
On Friday 16 December 2011 06:35 PM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan<mohammed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

with the recent changes in the tx path we got a soft lockup.
introduced by the commit 3ad2952998b08442044690fa9b4ec38c6c3fc4a9
ath_send_bar seems to later call ath9k_tx which in turn seems to
acquire the same axq_lock before calling ath_tx_start_dma

this seems to fix the softlock up with my preliminary testing.
if some one finds a flaw in this or a better fix please feel free
to resend. i will be out of station for two days.


Call Trace:
[<c03ba9ae>] __delay+0xe/0x10
[<c03c1dc2>] do_raw_spin_lock+0xb2/0x100
[<c0671a67>] _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x67/0x80
[<f984aa81>] ? ath_tx_start+0x151/0x4c0 [ath9k]
[<f984aa81>] ath_tx_start+0x151/0x4c0 [ath9k]
[<f984248c>] ath9k_tx+0x9c/0x1f0 [ath9k]
[<f97eae3e>] __ieee80211_tx+0x18e/0x2d0 [mac80211]
[<f97ec9ac>] ieee80211_tx+0xfc/0x130 [mac80211]
[<f97ec8e3>] ? ieee80211_tx+0x33/0x130 [mac80211]
[<f97ecd88>] ieee80211_xmit+0xc8/0x130 [mac80211]
[<f97eccc0>] ? ieee80211_tx_pending+0x2e0/0x2e0
[mac80211]
[<f97ece3d>] ieee80211_tx_skb_tid+0x4d/0x60 [mac80211]
[<f97ceda4>] ieee80211_send_bar+0xd4/0xf0 [mac80211]
[<f984a04a>] ath_tx_complete_aggr+0x52a/0xaa0 [ath9k]
[<f9849bd0>] ? ath_tx_complete_aggr+0xb0/0xaa0 [ath9k]
[<f9840029>] ? setup_ht_cap+0x169/0x180 [ath9k]
[<f984b606>] ? ath_tx_edma_tasklet+0x76/0x2a0 [ath9k]
[<f984b606>] ? ath_tx_edma_tasklet+0x76/0x2a0 [ath9k]
[<f984a628>] ath_tx_process_buffer+0x68/0xe0 [ath9k]
[<f984b705>] ath_tx_edma_tasklet+0x175/0x2a0 [ath9k]
[<f983fc2d>] ? ath9k_ioread32+0x2d/0x70 [ath9k]
[<f9842b4b>] ath9k_tasklet+0x10b/0x1c0 [ath9k]

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan<mohammed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
index 23e80e6..ef81df0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
@@ -189,8 +189,11 @@ static void ath_tx_flush_tid(struct ath_softc
*sc, struct ath_atx_tid *tid)
tid->state&= ~AGGR_CLEANUP;
}

- if (sendbar)
+ if (sendbar) {
+ spin_unlock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
ath_send_bar(tid, tid->seq_start);
+ spin_lock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
+ }
}

static void ath_tx_update_baw(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_atx_tid
*tid,
@@ -556,7 +559,9 @@ static void ath_tx_complete_aggr(struct ath_softc
*sc, struct ath_txq *txq,

if (bar_index>= 0) {
u16 bar_seq = ATH_BA_INDEX2SEQ(seq_first, bar_index);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
ath_send_bar(tid, ATH_BA_INDEX2SEQ(seq_first, bar_index + 1));
+ spin_lock_bh(&txq->axq_lock);
if (BAW_WITHIN(tid->seq_start, tid->baw_size, bar_seq))
tid->bar_index = ATH_BA_INDEX(tid->seq_start, bar_seq);
}






--
thanks,
shafi
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