[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "iwlwifi: pcie: try to get ownership several times" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    iwlwifi: pcie: try to get ownership several times

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.27.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 991a718e7610bd179ca858f8b8dfe182b189ca9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 12:15:22 +0300
Subject: iwlwifi: pcie: try to get ownership several times

commit 501fd9895c1d7d8161ed56698ae2fccb10ef14f5 upstream.

Some races with the hardware can happen when we take
ownership of the device. Don't give up after the first try.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
index be0f8b9..68335b5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
@@ -304,6 +304,7 @@ static int iwl_pcie_prepare_card_hw(struct iwl_trans *trans)
 {
 	int ret;
 	int t = 0;
+	int iter;

 	IWL_DEBUG_INFO(trans, "iwl_trans_prepare_card_hw enter\n");

@@ -312,18 +313,23 @@ static int iwl_pcie_prepare_card_hw(struct iwl_trans *trans)
 	if (ret >= 0)
 		return 0;

-	/* If HW is not ready, prepare the conditions to check again */
-	iwl_set_bit(trans, CSR_HW_IF_CONFIG_REG,
-		    CSR_HW_IF_CONFIG_REG_PREPARE);
+	for (iter = 0; iter < 10; iter++) {
+		/* If HW is not ready, prepare the conditions to check again */
+		iwl_set_bit(trans, CSR_HW_IF_CONFIG_REG,
+			    CSR_HW_IF_CONFIG_REG_PREPARE);
+
+		do {
+			ret = iwl_pcie_set_hw_ready(trans);
+			if (ret >= 0)
+				return 0;

-	do {
-		ret = iwl_pcie_set_hw_ready(trans);
-		if (ret >= 0)
-			return 0;
+			usleep_range(200, 1000);
+			t += 200;
+		} while (t < 150000);
+		msleep(25);
+	}

-		usleep_range(200, 1000);
-		t += 200;
-	} while (t < 150000);
+	IWL_DEBUG_INFO(trans, "got NIC after %d iterations\n", iter);

 	return ret;
 }
--
1.9.1