ath5k: fix spontaneus AR5312 freezes
authorSergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Tue, 3 Feb 2015 21:21:13 +0000 (00:21 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:22:35 +0000 (13:22 +0100)
commit868fd3d3e338c81232050a0519b86e7d6b6462be
treea5885ab1ea65e8000cd950d79f3afca509397fe5
parent8686fc3d2fb81fbcc91f873d7227069d21fc2fcf
ath5k: fix spontaneus AR5312 freezes

commit 8bfae4f9938b6c1f033a5159febe97e441d6d526 upstream.

Sometimes while CPU have some load and ath5k doing the wireless
interface reset the whole WiSoC completely freezes. Set of tests shows
that using atomic delay function while we wait interface reset helps to
avoid such freezes.

The easiest way to reproduce this issue: create a station interface,
start continous scan with wpa_supplicant and load CPU by something. Or
just create multiple station interfaces and put them all in continous
scan.

This patch partially reverts the commit 1846ac3dbec0 ("ath5k: Use
usleep_range where possible"), which replaces initial udelay()
by usleep_range().

I do not know actual source of this issue, but all looks like that HW
freeze is caused by transaction on internal SoC bus, while wireless
block is in reset state.

Also I should note that I do not know how many chips are affected, but I
did not see this issue with chips, other than AR5312.

CC: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
CC: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
CC: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Fixes: 1846ac3dbec0 ("ath5k: Use usleep_range where possible")
Reported-by: Christophe Prevotaux <c.prevotaux@rural-networks.com>
Tested-by: Christophe Prevotaux <c.prevotaux@rural-networks.com>
Tested-by: Eric Bree <ebree@nltinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/reset.c