Re: REGRESSION: "wlcore: sdio: allow pm to handle sdio power" breaks wifi on HiKey960

[John Stultz]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 7:42 AM, Valentin Schneider
<valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 13/06/18 05:13, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> * John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> [180612 22:15]:
>>> Hey Folks,
>>>   I noticed with linus/master wifi wasn't coming up on HiKey960. I
>>> bisected it down and it seems to be due to:
>>>
>>> 60f36637bbbd ("wlcore: sdio: allow pm to handle sdio power")  and
>>> 728a9dc61f13 ("wlcore: sdio: Fix flakey SDIO runtime PM handling")
>>>
>>> When wifi fails to load, the only useful error message I see is:
>>> [    8.466097] wl1271_sdio mmc1:0001:2: wl12xx_sdio_power_on: failed
>>> to get_sync(-13)
>>
>> Sorry to hear about that.
>>
>>> Reverting those two changes gets wifi working again for me:
>>> [    8.754953] wlcore: wl18xx HW: 183x or 180x, PG 2.2 (ROM 0x11)
>>> [    8.761778] random: crng init done
>>> [    8.765185] random: 7 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting
>>> [    8.779149] wlcore: loaded
>>> ...
>>> [   12.945903] wlcore: PHY firmware version: Rev 8.2.0.0.237
>>> [   13.058077] wlcore: firmware booted (Rev 8.9.0.0.70)
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions how to resolve this w/o a revert?
>>
>> Sounds like we need to ignore also -EACCES if runtime PM is
>> disabled for MMC. Care to try and see if the patch below
>> helps?
>>
>
> I don't use wifi with my board (I have an USB ethernet adapter), but I do
> get the same error message as John.
>
> Reverting the patches works and I do see wlan0 being brought up. Sadly,
> applying your patch doesn't seem to fix the issue - and actually it seems
> to freeze my board on first boot with this error:
>
> [   11.169127] wlcore: ERROR timeout waiting for the hardware to complete initialization
>
> On second boot it finally comes to life, but issuing ifconfig freezes it again.
>
> $ dmesg | grep wl
> [    5.922661] wl18xx_driver wl18xx.0.auto: Direct firmware load for ti-connectivity/wl18xx-conf.bin failed with error -2
> [    5.933904] wlcore: ERROR could not get configuration binary ti-connectivity/wl18xx-conf.bin: -2
> [    5.949158] wlcore: WARNING falling back to default config
> [    6.199806] wlcore: wl18xx HW: 183x or 180x, PG 2.2 (ROM 0x11)
> [    6.210738] wlcore: WARNING Detected unconfigured mac address in nvs, derive from fuse instead.
> [    6.221644] wlcore: WARNING This default nvs file can be removed from the file system
> [    6.235180] wlcore: loaded
> [    6.820146] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
> [    7.280611] wlcore: PHY firmware version: Rev 8.2.0.0.236
> [    7.388339] wlcore: firmware booted (Rev 8.9.0.0.69)
> [    7.409610] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
> [    7.417815] wlcore: down
> [   10.628867] wlcore: ERROR timeout waiting for the hardware to complete initialization
>
>
> Seems like it's not getting powered on, which might be why those mmc_power_*
> calls were in there originally ?

Ryan Grachek came up with a different solution. I still need to
validate it, but it seems promising:
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/13/481


thanks
-john