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Brian Norris 5d5ddb5e0d mwifiex: pcie: don't loop/retry interrupt status checks
The following sequence occurs when using IEEE power-save on 8997:
(a) driver sees SLEEP event
(b) driver issues SLEEP CONFIRM
(c) driver recevies CMD interrupt; within the interrupt processing loop,
    we do (d) and (e):
(d) wait for FW sleep cookie (and often time out; it takes a while), FW
    is putting card into low power mode
(e) re-check PCIE_HOST_INT_STATUS register; quit loop with 0 value

But at (e), no one actually signaled an interrupt (i.e., we didn't check
adapter->int_status). And what's more, because the card is going to
sleep, this register read appears to take a very long time in some cases
-- 3 milliseconds in my case!

Now, I propose that (e) is completely unnecessary. If there were any
additional interrupts signaled after the start of this loop, then the
interrupt handler would have set adapter->int_status to non-zero and
queued more work for the main loop -- and we'd catch it on the next
iteration of the main loop.

So this patch drops all the looping/re-reading of PCIE_HOST_INT_STATUS,
which avoids the problematic (and slow) register read in step (e).

Incidentally, this is a very similar issue to the one fixed in commit
ec815dd2a5 ("mwifiex: prevent register accesses after host is
sleeping"), except that the register read is just very slow instead of
fatal in this case.

Tested on 8997 in both MSI and (though not technically supported at the
moment) MSI-X mode.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
2017-01-20 11:46:32 +02:00
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