It is expected that the returned counters by .get_survey are monotonic
increasing. But the data from ath10k gets reset to zero regularly. Channel
active/busy time are then showing incorrect values (less than previous or
sometimes zero) for the currently active channel during successive survey
dump commands.
example:
$ iw dev wlan0 survey dump
Survey data from wlan0
frequency: 5180 MHz [in use]
channel active time: 54995 ms
channel busy time: 432 ms
channel receive time: 0 ms
channel transmit time: 59 ms
...
$ iw dev wlan0 survey dump
Survey data from wlan0
frequency: 5180 MHz [in use]
channel active time: 32592 ms
channel busy time: 254 ms
channel receive time: 0 ms
channel transmit time: 0 ms
...
The correct way to handle this is to use the non-clearing
WMI_BSS_SURVEY_REQ_TYPE_READ wmi_bss_survey_req_type. The firmware will
then accumulate the survey data and handle wrap arounds.
Tested-on: QCA9984 hw1.0 10.4-3.5.3-00057
Tested-on: QCA988X hw2.0 10.2.4-1.0-00047
Tested-on: QCA9888 hw2.0 10.4-3.9.0.2-00024
Tested-on: QCA4019 hw1.0 10.4-3.6-00140
Fixes: fa7937e3d5 ("ath10k: update bss channel survey information")
Signed-off-by: Venkateswara Naralasetty <vnaralas@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Markus Theil <markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de>
Tested-by: John Deere <24601deerej@gmail.com>
[sven@narfation.org: adjust commit message]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1592232686-28712-1-git-send-email-kvalo@codeaurora.org
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