On the 88W8897 PCIe+USB card the firmware randomly crashes after setting the TX ring write pointer. The issue is present in the latest firmware version 15.68.19.p21 of the PCIe+USB card. Those firmware crashes can be worked around by reading any PCI register of the card after setting that register, so read the PCI_VENDOR_ID register here. The reason this works is probably because we keep the bus from entering an ASPM state for a bit longer, because that's what causes the cards firmware to crash. This fixes a bug where during RX/TX traffic and with ASPM L1 substates enabled (the specific substates where the issue happens appear to be platform dependent), the firmware crashes and eventually a command timeout appears in the logs. BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109681 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@v0yd.nl> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211011133224.15561-2-verdre@v0yd.nl
Linux kernel ============ 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. 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.
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