mwifiex: Trigger a card reset on reaching tx_timeout threshold
tx_timeout doesn't always lead to a cmd_timeout. There are
occurrences where cmd_timeout never gets triggered for a long
time and we encounter a kernel crash. In this patch, we track
the consecutive timeouts (tx_timeout_cnt). When tx_timeout_cnt
exceeds the threshold, trigger a card reset thereby avoiding a
kernel crash.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <asnagarajan@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
index 9c802ed..121443a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c
@@ -588,10 +588,19 @@
{
struct mwifiex_private *priv = mwifiex_netdev_get_priv(dev);
- dev_err(priv->adapter->dev, "%lu : Tx timeout, bss_type-num = %d-%d\n",
- jiffies, priv->bss_type, priv->bss_num);
- mwifiex_set_trans_start(dev);
priv->num_tx_timeout++;
+ priv->tx_timeout_cnt++;
+ dev_err(priv->adapter->dev,
+ "%lu : Tx timeout(#%d), bss_type-num = %d-%d\n",
+ jiffies, priv->tx_timeout_cnt, priv->bss_type, priv->bss_num);
+ mwifiex_set_trans_start(dev);
+
+ if (priv->tx_timeout_cnt > TX_TIMEOUT_THRESHOLD &&
+ priv->adapter->if_ops.card_reset) {
+ dev_err(priv->adapter->dev,
+ "tx_timeout_cnt exceeds threshold. Triggering card reset!\n");
+ priv->adapter->if_ops.card_reset(priv->adapter);
+ }
}
/*