[PATCH] iwlwifi: Increase microcodes loading timeout

From: Kai-Heng Feng
Date: Thu Dec 02 2021 - 21:10:31 EST


Intel AX201/AX211 device may not work at boot:
[ 8.875307] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: SecBoot CPU1 Status: 0x7267, CPU2 Status: 0xb03
[ 8.875418] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: UMAC PC: 0x80481126
[ 8.875426] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: LMAC PC: 0x1541c
[ 8.875430] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WRT: Collecting data: ini trigger 13 fired (delay=0ms).
[ 8.877906] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Loaded firmware version: 64.97bbee0a.0 so-a0-gf-a0-64.ucode
...
[ 8.878997] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Failed to start RT ucode: -110
[ 8.878999] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Failed to start RT ucode: -110

Increase MVM_UCODE_ALIVE_TIMEOUT to 2 seconds can solve the issue.

The PNVM loading can also fail:
[ 5.159949] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded PNVM version 4b50f925
[ 5.414211] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Timeout waiting for PNVM load!
[ 5.414219] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Failed to start RT ucode: -110
[ 5.414224] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WRT: Collecting data: ini trigger 13 fired (delay=0ms).
[ 5.416618] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Start IWL Error Log Dump:
[ 5.416619] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Transport status: 0x00000042, valid: 6
[ 5.416620] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Loaded firmware version: 64.97bbee0a.0 so-a0-gf-a0-64.ucode
...
[ 5.914276] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Failed to run INIT ucode: -110

Trial and error shows that the MVM_UCODE_PNVM_TIMEOUT also needs to be
bumped to 2 seconds to fully eliminate the issue.

The timeout values are verified by rebooting over 10k times.

Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/pnvm.h | 2 +-
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/pnvm.h b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/pnvm.h
index 203c367dd4dee..b730330d8feac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/pnvm.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/fw/pnvm.h
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@

#include "fw/notif-wait.h"

-#define MVM_UCODE_PNVM_TIMEOUT (HZ / 4)
+#define MVM_UCODE_PNVM_TIMEOUT (2 * HZ)

#define MAX_PNVM_NAME 64

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
index 6ce78c03e51f7..0c5375f7baecf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/fw.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
#include "iwl-modparams.h"
#include "iwl-nvm-parse.h"

-#define MVM_UCODE_ALIVE_TIMEOUT (HZ)
+#define MVM_UCODE_ALIVE_TIMEOUT (2 * HZ)
#define MVM_UCODE_CALIB_TIMEOUT (2 * HZ)

#define UCODE_VALID_OK cpu_to_le32(0x1)
--
2.32.0