This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem correctly
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rtlwifi-rtl8821ae-fix-connection-lost-problem-correctly.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c713fb071edc0efc01a955f65a006b0e1795d2eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 12:38:11 -0600
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem correctly
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit c713fb071edc0efc01a955f65a006b0e1795d2eb upstream.
There has been a coding error in rtl8821ae since it was first introduced,
namely that an 8-bit register was read using a 16-bit read in
_rtl8821ae_dbi_read(). This error was fixed with commit 40b368af4b75
("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues"); however, this change led to
instability in the connection. To restore stability, this change
was reverted in commit b8b8b16352cd ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection
lost problem").
Unfortunately, the unaligned access causes machine checks in ARM
architecture, and we were finally forced to find the actual cause of the
problem on x86 platforms. Following a suggestion from Pkshih
<pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>, it was found that increasing the ASPM L1
latency from 0 to 7 fixed the instability. This parameter was varied to
see if a smaller value would work; however, it appears that 7 is the
safest value. A new symbol is defined for this quantity, thus it can be
easily changed if necessary.
Fixes: b8b8b16352cd ("rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem")
Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.14+
Fix-suggested-by: Pkshih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: James Cameron <quozl@xxxxxxxxxx> # x86_64 OLPC NL3
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c | 5 +++--
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/wifi.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c
@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ static u8 _rtl8821ae_dbi_read(struct rtl
}
if (0 == tmp) {
read_addr = REG_DBI_RDATA + addr % 4;
- ret = rtl_read_word(rtlpriv, read_addr);
+ ret = rtl_read_byte(rtlpriv, read_addr);
}
return ret;
}
@@ -1170,7 +1170,8 @@ static void _rtl8821ae_enable_aspm_back_
}
tmp = _rtl8821ae_dbi_read(rtlpriv, 0x70f);
- _rtl8821ae_dbi_write(rtlpriv, 0x70f, tmp | BIT(7));
+ _rtl8821ae_dbi_write(rtlpriv, 0x70f, tmp | BIT(7) |
+ ASPM_L1_LATENCY << 3);
tmp = _rtl8821ae_dbi_read(rtlpriv, 0x719);
_rtl8821ae_dbi_write(rtlpriv, 0x719, tmp | BIT(3) | BIT(4));
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/wifi.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/wifi.h
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@
#define RTL_USB_MAX_RX_COUNT 100
#define QBSS_LOAD_SIZE 5
#define MAX_WMMELE_LENGTH 64
+#define ASPM_L1_LATENCY 7
#define TOTAL_CAM_ENTRY 32
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/rtlwifi-rtl8821ae-fix-connection-lost-problem-correctly.patch