[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "rtlwifi: rtl8723ae: Fix too long disable of IRQs" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rtlwifi: rtl8723ae: Fix too long disable of IRQs

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 9aab0508f04410299b54bd7842efab1650098a4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:53:53 -0600
Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8723ae: Fix too long disable of IRQs

commit bfc1010c418a22cbebd8b1bd1e75dad6a527a609 upstream.

In commit f78bccd79ba3cd9d9664981b501d57bdb81ab8a4 entitled "rtlwifi:
rtl8192ce: Fix too long disable of IRQs", Olivier Langlois
<olivier at trillion01.com> fixed a problem caused by an extra long disabling
of interrupts. This patch makes the same fix for rtl8723ae.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/hw.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/hw.c
index c333dfd..99f6bc5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/hw.c
@@ -880,14 +880,25 @@ int rtl8723ae_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 	bool rtstatus = true;
 	int err;
 	u8 tmp_u1b;
+	unsigned long flags;

 	rtlpriv->rtlhal.being_init_adapter = true;
+	/* As this function can take a very long time (up to 350 ms)
+	 * and can be called with irqs disabled, reenable the irqs
+	 * to let the other devices continue being serviced.
+	 *
+	 * It is safe doing so since our own interrupts will only be enabled
+	 * in a subsequent step.
+	 */
+	local_save_flags(flags);
+	local_irq_enable();
+
 	rtlpriv->intf_ops->disable_aspm(hw);
 	rtstatus = _rtl8712e_init_mac(hw);
 	if (rtstatus != true) {
 		RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_EMERG, "Init MAC failed\n");
 		err = 1;
-		return err;
+		goto exit;
 	}

 	err = rtl8723ae_download_fw(hw);
@@ -895,8 +906,7 @@ int rtl8723ae_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 		RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_WARNING,
 			 "Failed to download FW. Init HW without FW now..\n");
 		err = 1;
-		rtlhal->fw_ready = false;
-		return err;
+		goto exit;
 	} else {
 		rtlhal->fw_ready = true;
 	}
@@ -971,6 +981,8 @@ int rtl8723ae_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 		RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_INIT, DBG_TRACE, "under 1.5V\n");
 	}
 	rtl8723ae_dm_init(hw);
+exit:
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 	rtlpriv->rtlhal.being_init_adapter = false;
 	return err;
 }
--
1.9.1