Update tx BA window and complete the frame as failed
one if we can't clone the holding descriptor due to
unavailability of descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
oops, this one should be part of the original patch
"ath9k: downgrade assert in ath_clone_txbuf()"
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The hardware doesn't generate interrupts in some cases and so work
around this by monitoring the TX status periodically and reset the
chip if required.
This behavior of the hardware not generating the TX interrupts can
be noticed through ath9k debugfs interrupt statistics when heavy
traffic is being sent from STA to AP. One can easily see this behavior
when the STA is transmitting at a higher rates. The interrupt statistics
in the debugfs interface clearly shows that only RX interrupts alone
being generated and TX being stuck.
TX should be monitored through a timer and reset the chip only when
frames are queued to the hardware but TX interrupts are not generated
for the same even after one second. Also, we shouldn't remove holding
descriptor from AC queue if it happens to be the only descriptor and
schedule TX aggregation regarless of queue depth as it improves
scheduling of AMPDUs from software to hardware queue.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Running iperf along with p2p traffic on both TX and RX side then
stop one side, then stop the other side, then start it up again,
eventually the STA gets into a mode that it can not pass data at
all.
A hardware workaround for invalid RSSI can make FIFO write pointer
to jump over read pointer, causing RX data corruption and repeated
DMA. Both TX and RX works fine when the workaround is disabled.
To replace the original hardware work around, software looks for
frames with post delimiter CRC error and mark the RSSI invalid so
that the upperlayer will not use the RSSI associated with this
frame. So disable the hardware workaround by updating the appropriate
registers.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
RSSI reported by the RX descriptor requires little manipulation.
Manipulate and report the correct RSSI to the stack. This will
fix the improper signal levels reported by iwconfig iw dev wlanX
station dump. Also the Link Quality reported seems to be varying
(falls to zero also sometimes) when iperf is run from STA to AP.
Also use the default noise floor for now as the one reported
during the caliberation seems to be wrong.
The Signal and Link Quality before this patch (taken while TX is
in progress from STA to AP)
09:59:13.285428037 Link Quality=29/70 Signal level=-81 dBm
09:59:13.410660084 Link Quality=20/70 Signal level=-90 dBm
09:59:13.586864392 Link Quality=21/70 Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:13.710296281 Link Quality=21/70 Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:13.821683064 Link Quality=25/70 Signal level=-85 dBm
09:59:13.933402989 Link Quality=24/70 Signal level=-86 dBm
09:59:14.045839276 Link Quality=26/70 Signal level=-84 dBm
09:59:14.193926673 Link Quality=23/70 Signal level=-87 dBm
09:59:14.306230262 Link Quality=31/70 Signal level=-79 dBm
09:59:14.419459667 Link Quality=26/70 Signal level=-84 dBm
09:59:14.530711167 Link Quality=37/70 Signal level=-73 dBm
09:59:14.642593962 Link Quality=29/70 Signal level=-81 dBm
09:59:14.754361169 Link Quality=21/70 Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:14.866217355 Link Quality=21/70 Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:14.976963623 Link Quality=28/70 Signal level=-82 dBm
09:59:15.089149809 Link Quality=26/70 Signal level=-84 dBm
09:59:15.205039887 Link Quality=27/70 Signal level=-83 dBm
09:59:15.316368003 Link Quality=23/70 Signal level=-87 dBm
09:59:15.427684036 Link Quality=36/70 Signal level=-74 dBm
09:59:15.539756380 Link Quality=21/70 Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:15.650549093 Link Quality=22/70 Signal level=-88 dBm
09:59:15.761171672 Link Quality=32/70 Signal level=-78 dBm
09:59:15.872793750 Link Quality=23/70 Signal level=-87 dBm
09:59:15.984421694 Link Quality=22/70 Signal level=-88 dBm
09:59:16.097315093 Link Quality=21/70 Signal level=-89 dBm
The link quality and signal level after this patch (take while
TX is in progress from STA to AP)
17:21:25.627848091 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:25.762805607 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:25.875521888 Link Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44 dBm
17:21:25.987468448 Link Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44 dBm
17:21:26.100628151 Link Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44 dBm
17:21:26.213129671 Link Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44 dBm
17:21:26.324923070 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:26.436831357 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:26.610356973 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:26.723340047 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:26.835715293 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:26.949542748 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.062261613 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:27.174511563 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.287616232 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.400598119 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.511381404 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.624530421 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:27.737807109 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.850861352 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:27.963369436 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:28.076582289 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Move its only member (u8 per) to struct ath_rate_priv.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Get rid of rssi reduce interval.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k rate control is based on only PER (packet error rate),
remove unused code which was intented to do rssi based rate
selection.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After the cleanup we just use get_rate as a wrapper, skip
the wrapper.
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All current rate control algorithms agree to send management and no-ack
frames at the lowest rate. They also agree to do this when sta
and the private rate control data is NULL. We add a hlper to mac80211
for this and simplify the rate control algorithm code.
Developers wishing to make enhancements to rate control algorithms
are for broadcast/multicast can opt to not use this in their
gate_rate() mac80211 callback.
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We check for this condition early on in our mac80211 get_rate()
callback ath_get_rate(), so remove this check later down the path.
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The purpose is to find the highest rate we can use.
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are a lot of gaps here.
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This saves us 2733 bytes.
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249905 3628 1584 255117 3e48d ath9k.ko
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Siged-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
What this does is get us our next lower rate so call it that,
ath_rc_get_lower_rix().
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is just calling another helper, so just use the other
helper directly. This should make it clear that when do not
find the next rate we stick to the current one.
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is not used, remove this.
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is not used, and when we need to get the lowest rate
we should simply use mac80211's own rate_lowest_index(sband, sta).
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This has no functional change and just cleans up the code
to be more legible and removes a useless variable for
Multi Rate Retry.
For regular frames we use 2 retries for MRR segments [0-2].
For the last MRR segment [3] we use 4.
MRR[0] = 2
MRR[1] = 2
MRR[2] = 2
MRR[3] = 4
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The case where no vaid rate is found should not happen now
but to help debugging and downgrade this to a warn.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch roughly implements xmit aggregation for ar9170-like device.
Not all AP are compatible with the driver(and firmware) yet, so YMMV.
A more refined code will definitely need the final HT specification
to be available for the public, lots of firmware modification and
possibly a redesigned driver just for good measure.
Sadly, these conditions won't come true anytime soon...
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Two users of ar9170 devices have now reported their cards
have been programmed with a regulatory domain of 0x8000.
This is not a valid regulatory domain as such these users were
unable to use these devices. Since this doesn't seem to be
a device EEPROM corruption we must treat it specially. It
may have been possible the manufacturer intended to use 0x0
as the regulatory domain and that would ultimately yield
to US but since we cannot get confirmationf or this we
default this special case to one of our world regulatory
domains, specifically 0x64.
Reported-by: DavidFreeman on #linux-wireless
Reported-by: Joerg Albert <jal2@gmx.de>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>,
Cc: Stephen Chen <stephen.chen@atheros.com>
Cc: David Quan <david.quan@atheros.com>
Cc: Tony Yang <tony.yang@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For AP mode we must tune ANI specially for 2 GHz and
for 5 GHz. We mask in only the flags we want to toggle
on ath9k_hw_ani_control() through the ah->ani_function
bitmask, this will take care of ignoring changes during
ANI reset which we were disabling before.
Testedy-by: Steven Luo <steven@steven676.net>
Cc: Bennyam Malavazi <bennyam.malavazi@atheros.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Pavel Roskin reported some issues with using AP mode without
nohwcrypt=1. Most likely this is similar to the problem fixed
some time ago in ath9k by 3f53dd64f1,
"ath9k: Fix hw crypto configuration for TKIP in AP mode."
That only affects TKIP but it's easiest to just disable that and
WEP too until we get a proper fix in.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"Ath5k: unify resets"
introduced a regression into 2.6.28 where the PCU registers are never
initialized, due to ath5k_reset() always passing true for change_channel.
We subsequently program a lot of these registers but several may start
in an unknown state.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Forrest Zhang <forrest@hifulltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Paraphrasing Rafael J. Wysocki: "drivers should not release PCI IRQs
in suspend." Doing so causes a warning during suspend/resume on some
platforms.
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using the enable_beacon flag allows some simplifications and fixes
some corner cases in beacon handling. This change adds a state
variable for beaconing in ath5k_beacon_config and handles both
enabling and disabling, thus eliminating the need for
ath5k_beacon_disable. We also now configure the beacon when any
of the beacon parameters change, so ath5k_beacon_reconfig is no
longer needed (its mmiowb gets moved to ath5k_beacon_config).
Finally, by locking around the whole config function, we don't
need to worry about clearing the interrupt mask register before
installing the new mask.
The upshot is this correctly disables beaconing when the interfaces
are taken down, it fixes a potential restarting of beaconing
when ath5k_reset() is called, and ensures that updates to the
beacon interval take effect immediately.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Enable the "Content" After Beacon queue and utilize it to send
any buffered frames for power-saving clients.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don't allow users to open debugfs files, because it can cause oopses.
When a user opens some file, driver unlinks it and frees the
corresponding structure, we will dereference freed memory.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don't allow users to open debugfs files, because it can cause oopses.
When a user opens some file, driver unlinks it and frees the
corresponding structure, we will dereference freed memory.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes an issue when the TX and RX streams are different.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ANI calibration shouldn't be done when we are not on our home channel.
This is already verified. However, it is racy. Fix this by proper
spin locks.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ANI is not required when the STA is disconnected. So stop it and enable
ANI for adhoc and monitor mode.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove unncessary STATION mode check in ath9k_bss_assoc_info() as
it is called only for STATION mode.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Andrey Yurovsky reported that the driver forwarded erroneously the
parent device structure instead of the real thing, which of course
led to some dodgy sysfs links (at least?).
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We were not differentiating quality between legacy and HT
configurations. We change this to consider the differences.
New theory for reporting quality:
At a hardware RSSI of 45 you will be able to use MCS 7 reliably.
At a hardware RSSI of 45 you will be able to use MCS 15 reliably.
At a hardware RSSI of 35 you should be able use 54 Mbps reliably.
MCS 7 is the highets MCS index usable by a 1-stream device.
MCS 15 is the highest MCS index usable by a 2-stream device.
All ath9k devices are either 1-stream or 2-stream.
How many bars you see is derived from the qual reporting.
A more elaborate scheme can be used here but it requires tables
of SNR/throughput for each possible mode used. For the MCS table
you can refer to the wireless wiki:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/ieee80211/802.11n
This should fix this bug report:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13537
Cc: Janath.Peiris@atheros.com
Cc: Matt.Smith@atheros.com
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This helper only clears the SC_OP_WAIT_FOR_{BEACON,CAB} flags.
Remove it and clear these flags directly in the approptiate
places instead.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All SC_OP_WAIT_* flags will be cleared in 'ath9k_conf' when PS mode
is disabled, so we don't have to clear it here.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Within mac80211, we often need to copy the rx status into
skb->cb. This is wasteful, as drivers could be building it
in there to start with. This patch changes the API so that
drivers are expected to pass the RX status in skb->cb, now
accessible as IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb). It also updates all
drivers to pass the rx status in there, but only by making
them memcpy() it into place before the call to the receive
function (ieee80211_rx(_irqsafe)). Each driver can now be
optimised on its own schedule.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves the sanity check on beacon interval
which was done only for mesh mode to all operating
modes just to be safe.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cardbus and some PCI cards use hardware LEDs rather than software GPIOs.
Program them with the proper blink patterns when idle, scanning or
associated. Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13288.
Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Tested-by: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ah_gpios array isn't used, and ah_current_channel can be a pointer
instead of an embedded struct. Removing these and some other
write-only variables, and moving some things around for better
packing and cache utilization saves 116 bytes.
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Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We can easily run out of tx buf if there is any stuck in
transmission, so downgrade it to WARN_ON().
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 already has one to keep track of number of failure
addba attempts.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU in tx control flags should be enough
to confirm BA is negotiated for that tid.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
