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ath10k: reduce warning messages during rx without proper channel context
authorMohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qti.qualcomm.com>
Mon, 23 May 2016 20:12:46 +0000 (23:12 +0300)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tue, 24 May 2016 17:53:23 +0000 (20:53 +0300)
commit3b0499e9ce420e8841d5007130b5e074eb2e674b
tree9afde1582766e2924573f61d1474849eded64d06
parent7a0adc83f34ddbb974b01e41890498af4f9a5725
ath10k: reduce warning messages during rx without proper channel context

WARN_ON_ONCE when we receive packets for self peer when mac80211
had not assigned a proper channel context. This scenario happens
in QCA4019 when we start the AP via hostapd in background and start
it once again in the background without killing the previous instance!
This happens intermittently when we start / stop hostapd in a while loop
(incase the hostapd is not properly killed).  This results in mac80211
chancontext to be unassigned, while the self peer continuous receive
packets in target operating channel. This results in lot of call traces
in the rx path. Make this as a WARN_ON_ONCE to avoid flooding the console
which result in rebooting low memory systems, while still reporting the
warning once that we are receiving packets in target operating channel and
to indicate that something is happening which is not the expected result.

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c:803
[<c0318838>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<bf4a0104>]
(ath10k_htt_rx_h_channel+0xe0/0x1b8 [ath10k_core])
[<bf4a0104>] (ath10k_htt_rx_h_channel [ath10k_core]) from
[<bf4a025c>] (ath10k_htt_rx_h_ppdu+0x80/0x288 [ath10k_core])
[<bf4a025c>] (ath10k_htt_rx_h_ppdu [ath10k_core]) from
[<bf4a1a9c>] (ath10k_htt_txrx_compl_task+0x724/0x9d4 [ath10k_core])
[<bf4a1a9c>] (ath10k_htt_txrx_compl_task [ath10k_core])

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c