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When running in AP mode, ath10k sometimes suffers from TX credit starvation. The issue is hard to reproduce and shows up once in a few days, but has been repeatedly seen with QCA9882 and a large range of firmwares, including 10.2.4.70.67. Once the module is in this state, TX credits are never replenished, which results in "SWBA overrun" errors, as no beacons can be sent. Even worse, WMI commands run in a timeout while holding the conf mutex for three seconds each, making any further operations slow and the whole system unresponsive. The firmware/driver never recovers from that state automatically, and triggering TX flush or warm restarts won't work over WMI. So issue a hardware restart if a WMI command times out due to missing TX credits. This implies a connectivity outage of about 1.4s in AP mode, but brings back the interface and the whole system to a usable state. WMI command timeouts have not been seen in absent of this specific issue, so taking such drastic actions seems legitimate. Signed-off-by: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.