carl9170: fix spurious restart due to high latency

RX Stress tests of unidirectional bulk traffic with
bitrates of up to 220Mbit/s have revealed that the
fatal-event recovery logic [which was solely triggered
by an out-of-rx-buffer situation] is too aggressive.

The new method now "pings" the device and then
decides - based on the response - whenever
a restart is needed or not.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/carl9170.h

@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ enum carl9170_restart_reasons {
 	CARL9170_RR_TOO_MANY_FIRMWARE_ERRORS,
 	CARL9170_RR_WATCHDOG,
 	CARL9170_RR_STUCK_TX,
-	CARL9170_RR_SLOW_SYSTEM,
+	CARL9170_RR_UNRESPONSIVE_DEVICE,
 	CARL9170_RR_COMMAND_TIMEOUT,
 	CARL9170_RR_TOO_MANY_PHY_ERRORS,
 	CARL9170_RR_LOST_RSP,
@@ -287,6 +287,7 @@ struct ar9170 {
 
 	/* reset / stuck frames/queue detection */
 	struct work_struct restart_work;
+	struct work_struct ping_work;
 	unsigned int restart_counter;
 	unsigned long queue_stop_timeout[__AR9170_NUM_TXQ];
 	unsigned long max_queue_stop_timeout[__AR9170_NUM_TXQ];

drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c

@@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ static void carl9170_cancel_worker(struct ar9170 *ar)
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&ar->led_work);
 #endif /* CONFIG_CARL9170_LEDS */
 	cancel_work_sync(&ar->ps_work);
+	cancel_work_sync(&ar->ping_work);
 	cancel_work_sync(&ar->ampdu_work);
 }
 
@@ -533,6 +534,21 @@ void carl9170_restart(struct ar9170 *ar, const enum carl9170_restart_reasons r)
 	 */
 }
 
+static void carl9170_ping_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	struct ar9170 *ar = container_of(work, struct ar9170, ping_work);
+	int err;
+
+	if (!IS_STARTED(ar))
+		return;
+
+	mutex_lock(&ar->mutex);
+	err = carl9170_echo_test(ar, 0xdeadbeef);
+	if (err)
+		carl9170_restart(ar, CARL9170_RR_UNRESPONSIVE_DEVICE);
+	mutex_unlock(&ar->mutex);
+}
+
 static int carl9170_init_interface(struct ar9170 *ar,
 				   struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
 {
@@ -1614,6 +1630,7 @@ void *carl9170_alloc(size_t priv_size)
 		skb_queue_head_init(&ar->tx_pending[i]);
 	}
 	INIT_WORK(&ar->ps_work, carl9170_ps_work);
+	INIT_WORK(&ar->ping_work, carl9170_ping_work);
 	INIT_WORK(&ar->restart_work, carl9170_restart_work);
 	INIT_WORK(&ar->ampdu_work, carl9170_ampdu_work);
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&ar->tx_janitor, carl9170_tx_janitor);

drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/usb.c

@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ static void carl9170_usb_rx_complete(struct urb *urb)
 			 * device.
 			 */
 
-			carl9170_restart(ar, CARL9170_RR_SLOW_SYSTEM);
+			ieee80211_queue_work(ar->hw, &ar->ping_work);
 		}
 	} else {
 		/*