b43: fix transmit failure when VT is switched

Setup:
Using BCM4306 rev.03 chip based CardBus wireless card.
IRQ is shared with yenta (cardbus bridge) and i915 (display) driver.
For firmware, installed latest but dated openfwwf 5.2
(http://netweb.ing.unibs.it/~openfwwf/)

How-to-reproduce:
Do "ssh <NetBSD-remotehost>", then "ls -lR /" to generate traffic, then
repeatedly switch VTs by Alt-F1<>Alt-F2.
Eventually (within a minute) the card stops working.
You can receive traffic but no transmission.
For unknown reason it doesn't occur when just generating traffic by
"ssh <remotehost> ls -lR /".

With CONFIG_B43_DEBUG=y kernel config, when it stops,
the debug message shows
    kernel: b43-phy1 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 148, but got 180
The slot offset I observed so far was always 32.

When err_out2 is not set to make error messages successive,
the debug output will be like this:
kernel: b43-phy1 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 116, but got 148
kernel: b43-phy1 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 116, but got 150
kernel: b43-phy1 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 116, but got 120
kernel: b43-phy1 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 116, but got 152
kernel: b43-phy1 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 116, but got 122
kernel: b43-phy1 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 116, but got 154
kernel: b43-phy1 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 116, but got 124
kernel: b43-phy1 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 116, but got 156
kernel: b43-phy1 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 116, but got 126
The TX ring alternates between 2 sequences; the ring seems
to be completely confused. Controller restart is needed.

Workaround(1):
This problem doesn't occur when using propriatory firmware
you will extract by b43-fwcutter, so it may be a bug in
openfwwf firmware, as the comment in the b43_dma_handle_txstatus() suggests.
I wasn't able to find a bug in the terse openfwwf code though.

Workaround(2):
Using "pio=1" option to not use DMA makes this problem to
not occur.

Description of the patch:
This patch will forcibly reset the controller to make it
work again. Very kludgy and doesn't look right, but
the traffic will continue to flow.

Signed-off-by: Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Michael Buesch <m@bues.ch>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/dma.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/dma.c
index 6837064908bed38f05c4d98642c50c82d9cf984d..6b0e1ec346cb60aacd8076600033cf9ee554c462 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/dma.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/dma.c
@@ -1484,7 +1484,7 @@ void b43_dma_handle_txstatus(struct b43_wldev *dev,
        int slot, firstused;
        bool frame_succeed;
        int skip;
-       static u8 err_out1, err_out2;
+       static u8 err_out1;
 
        ring = parse_cookie(dev, status->cookie, &slot);
        if (unlikely(!ring))
@@ -1518,13 +1518,13 @@ void b43_dma_handle_txstatus(struct b43_wldev *dev,
                        }
                } else {
                        /* More than a single header/data pair were missed.
-                        * Report this error once.
+                        * Report this error, and reset the controller to
+                        * revive operation.
                         */
-                       if (!err_out2)
-                               b43dbg(dev->wl,
-                                      "Out of order TX status report on DMA ring %d. Expected %d, but got %d\n",
-                                      ring->index, firstused, slot);
-                       err_out2 = 1;
+                       b43dbg(dev->wl,
+                              "Out of order TX status report on DMA ring %d. Expected %d, but got %d\n",
+                              ring->index, firstused, slot);
+                       b43_controller_restart(dev, "Out of order TX");
                        return;
                }
        }