From: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
To: "yhchen312@gmail.com" <yhchen312@gmail.com>
Cc: Damon Chen <damon.chen@realtek.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] wifi: rtw89: pci: add .shutdown callback to stop rfkill polling on reboot
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:52:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c11e1e5c94b4a80835df4c5bafb55ea@realtek.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260729014142.2746777-1-yhchen312@gmail.com>
yhchen312@gmail.com <yhchen312@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: "Yuhang.chen" <yhchen312@gmail.com>
>
> Since the hardware rfkill polling was introduced, arm64 platforms can
> panic with an asynchronous SError during warm reboot:
>
> SError Interrupt on CPU8, code 0x00000000be000011 -- SError
> Workqueue: events_power_efficient rfkill_poll [rfkill]
> rtw89_pci_ops_read8+0x94/0x160 [rtw89_pci]
> rtw89_core_rfkill_poll+0x50/0x1e0 [rtw89_core]
> rtw89_ops_rfkill_poll+0x40/0x68 [rtw89_core]
> ieee80211_rfkill_poll+0x3c/0x70 [mac80211]
> cfg80211_rfkill_poll+0x40/0x2a0 [cfg80211]
> rfkill_poll+0x30/0x88 [rfkill]
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt
>
> On the reboot path the kernel only runs device_shutdown(), which calls
> each driver's .shutdown callback; .remove is not invoked. The rtw89 PCI
> driver had no .shutdown callback, so nothing stopped the rfkill polling
> work while the platform was tearing the PCIe link down. Once the link
> is gone, the next MMIO read from the poll handler targets a
> non-responding device and is reported as a fatal asynchronous SError on
> arm64.
>
> Add rtw89_pci_shutdown(), wired to all rtw89 PCI device drivers, which
> sets a new RTW89_FLAG_SHUTDOWN flag (mirroring the USB
> RTW89_FLAG_UNPLUGGED pattern). When the flag is set,
> rtw89_ops_rfkill_poll() returns early, so no MMIO read is issued to the
> chip after shutdown begins and the SError no longer occurs.
>
> This does not call the full .remove path from .shutdown, to keep the
> shutdown handler minimal and avoid running the non-idempotent teardown
> twice.
>
> Fixes: 0b38e6277aed ("wifi: rtw89: add support for hardware rfkill")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Suggested-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yuhang.chen <yhchen312@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-29 6:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-28 1:54 [PATCH] wifi: rtw89: 8852be: add .shutdown callback to quiesce device " yhchen312
2026-07-28 2:45 ` Ping-Ke Shih
2026-07-29 1:35 ` yhchen312
2026-07-29 6:53 ` Ping-Ke Shih
2026-07-29 1:41 ` [PATCH v2] wifi: rtw89: pci: add .shutdown callback to stop rfkill polling " yhchen312
2026-07-29 6:52 ` Ping-Ke Shih [this message]
2026-08-02 1:28 ` Ping-Ke Shih
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