Single missed (i.e. not transmitted) beacons in AP mode are not very rare
and not necessarily an indicator of strong interference, so only trigger
noise floor recalibration when multiple consecutive beacons could not
be transmitted.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AP mode beacon timers in ath9k are configured in milliseconds, which breaks
when increasing ATH_BCBUF to 8 instead of 4 (due to rounding errors).
Since the hardware timers are actually configured in microseconds, it's
better to let the driver use that unit directly.
To be able to do that, the beacon interval parameter abuse for passing
certain flags needs to be removed. This is easy to do, because those flags
are completely unnecessary anyway. ATH9K_BEACON_ENA is ignored,
ATH9K_BEACON_RESET_TSF can be replaced with calling ath9k_hw_reset_tsf
from the driver directly.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add support for suspend/resume in if_spi.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This driver adds WiFi support for Marvell 802.11n based chipsets
with SDIO interface. Currently only SD8787 is supported. More
chipsets will be supported later.
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Yang <yangyang@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramesh Radhakrishnan <rramesh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Huang <frankh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Only AR9485 1.1 was sold. This debloats the driver by ~14 KiB.
text data bss dec hex filename
300413 624 1056 302093 49c0d drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.ko
text data bss dec hex filename
310285 624 1056 311965 4c29d drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw-old.ko
$ du -b ath9k_hw*
6210541 ath9k_hw.ko
6225089 ath9k_hw-old.ko
Cc: Bill Wu <bill.wu@atheros.com>
Cc: Paul Shaw <paul.shaw@atheros.com>
Cc: Forbes Tsai <Forbes.Tsai@Atheros.com>
Cc: Jesmine Chen <jesmine.chen@atheros.com>
Cc: Marvian Chen <Hou-hua.Chen@Atheros.com>
Cc: Vivek Natarajan <vivek.natarajan@atheros.com>
Cc: Bernadette Yetso <bernadette.yetso@atheros.com>
Cc: Sarvesh Shrivastava <sarvesh.shrivastava@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Yi-Chen Su <yi-chen.su@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Jeffrey Chung <jeffrey.chung@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This workaround called ath_txq_schedule whenever there were still pending
frames for a queue, but the queue depth was zero. Because of its its high
false positive probability (e.g. with paused TIDs) and because it is in
the way of other pending work (AP powersave fixes), it is better to remove
this code entirely.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Most AR9100 devices already have a chainmask of 7 (three antennas), however
on the ones that don't (rx and tx chainmask set to 5), problems with IQ
mismatch calibration have been observed.
This shows up as tx queue hangs (and subsequent hardware resets) if traffic
is sent during this type of calibration.
Forcing the rx chainmask to 7 fixes the calibration issues with no apparent
negative side effects on throughput and stability.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fixes interop issues with aggregation in combination with multi-BSSID
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On some devices the correct MAC address is not in the EEPROM data, but
stored somewhere else.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some devices control antenna settings or other things through GPIO pins
of the wireless interface. Add a debugfs interface for changing those
and keeping them set across card resets.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since the ath9k debugfs directory is cleaned up by debugfs_remove_recursive,
there's no point in checking the return code of every single debugfs create
line.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Queue ADDBA requests in respective data queues to avoid ADDBA
requests and the the related data packets (to the same ra/tid)
queued in the hardware to be sent out asynchronously.
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If the outgoing packet rate to a particular HT station is <=6.5
Mbps, do not attempt to create an ampdu. Also, if the outgoing
rate is legacy rate, do not create an ampdu.
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When an ampdu stream is on, if the firmware rate adaptation
logic decides that the outgoing packet rate to the station needs
to go below 6.5Mbps (non HT rate), it sends an event indicating that
the ampdu stream needs to be destroyed. Handle this event in the driver
and destroy the ampdu stream so that the rate can go below 6.5Mbps
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Specifically, handle ampdu_action and attempt to start a BA
session on receiving the first qos packet from mac80211 for
transmission to a HT sta. While the BA session is being created,
all the packets belonging to that stream will be dropped to
prevent sequence number mismatch at the recipient.
Contains contributions from:
Yogesh Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Pradeep Nemavat <pnemavat@marvell.com>
Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In particular, we can now add, start, lookup, and remove streams.
Based on work by Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com> and
Pradeep Nemavat <pnemavat@marvell.com>.
Signed-off-by: Pradeep Nemavat <pnemavat@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We now have two different kinds of queues. And the number of
AMPDU queues may vary. So we must be clear about which queues we
are dealing with. Note that when we report the number of queues
to mac80211, we only report the WMM queues.
Based on work by Yogesh Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>.
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Pradeep Nemavat <pnemavat@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Firmware APIv2 adds the following enhancements:
-- capabilities are reported by the firmware
-- API supports up to 8 dedicated AMPDU streams
-- optional packet timestamping and expiration can be enabled.
Specifically, packets that are queued in firmware for longer
than 500ms will be dropped if this option is used.
Based on work by "Nishant Sarmukadam" <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Specifically, APIv2 will specify a variable number of AMPDU
queues in the MWL8K_CMD_GET_HW_SPEC. So init the tx queues after
MWL8K_CMD_GET_HW_SPEC for ap fw.
Also, we make it safe to deinit queues that have not been init'd.
This happens if the mwl8k_get_hw_spec_ap routine fails, for
example.
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fine-tuning register write operation and avoid unnecessay
delays for ath9k_htc driver, saves hw reset time which
improves scanning time and also solves one of the following
scenario.
Sometimes the ACK is sent by STA for assoc response is not
seen at AP side. So the AP continues to send retry assoc
responses. At the STA side, since the assoc response was
already forwarded to mac80211, it proceeded to channel change
which in turns does chip reset.
In most of the cases the chip reset was completed before
max retries are reached at AP side. Hence STA can able to ACK
the retried frames again. But in clear environment these retries
are completed within shortspan of time.
Since ath9k_htc consumes more time for hw reset, this latency
is causing dissociation by AP due to max reties are reached.
This issue was originally reported with Cisco Aironet 1250 AP
in HT40 mode in noise free environment.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
By enabling buffered register write for ath9k_htc driver
avoids unnecessary dissociation while rekeying phase under
heavy traffic exchange.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Doing adc gain calibration for AR9287 chips is causing
throughput drops in HT40 mode. Remove ADC Gain from supported
calibration list.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We initialize exit_pending twice. It's the second initialization which
is correct. That was added in d745d472af "iwlwifi: cancel scan when
down the device".
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If change_interface gets invoked during a firmware
restart, it may crash; prevent that from happening
by checking if ctx->vif is assigned.
Additionally, in my initial commit I forgot to set
the vif->p2p variable correctly, so fix that too.
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some clients seem to rely upon the reception of BlockAckReqs to flush
their rx reorder buffer. In order to fix aggregation for these clients
carl9170 should set IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK to generate a
BlockAckReq if the transmission of an AMPDU subframe fails.
This fixes aggregation problems with Intel 5100 Windows STAs (and maybe
others as well).
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After new NetworkManager 0.8.996 changes, hardware scanning is causing
microcode errors as reported here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683571
and sometimes kernel crashes:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688252
Also with hw scan there are very bad performance on some systems
as reported here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671366
Since Intel no longer supports 3945, there is no chance to get proper
firmware fixes, we need workaround problems by disable hardware scanning
by default.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Software scanning can be used for workaround some performance problems,
so do not deprecate it.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the chip is still asleep when ath9k_start is called,
ath9k_hw_configpcipowersave can trigger a data bus error.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (56 commits)
route: Take the right src and dst addresses in ip_route_newports
ipv4: Fix nexthop caching wrt. scoping.
ipv4: Invalidate nexthop cache nh_saddr more correctly.
net: fix pch_gbe section mismatch warning
ipv4: fix fib metrics
mlx4_en: Removing HW info from ethtool -i report.
net_sched: fix THROTTLED/RUNNING race
drivers/net/a2065.c: Convert release_resource to release_region/release_mem_region
drivers/net/ariadne.c: Convert release_resource to release_region/release_mem_region
bonding: fix rx_handler locking
myri10ge: fix rmmod crash
mlx4_en: updated driver version to 1.5.4.1
mlx4_en: Using blue flame support
mlx4_core: reserve UARs for userspace consumers
mlx4_core: maintain available field in bitmap allocator
mlx4: Add blue flame support for kernel consumers
mlx4_en: Enabling new steering
mlx4: Add support for promiscuous mode in the new steering model.
mlx4: generalization of multicast steering.
mlx4_en: Reporting HW revision in ethtool -i
...
This gives much better performance at fast 3x3 rates (up to ~160 Mbps).
The scheduler will still make most decisions about batch size based on
available packets and RX parameters.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Throughout the code we use rate_n_flags & 0xff to extract the lower byte
of the rate_n_flags u32 that contains the information about the rate.
Add a #define and remove the use of the magic number.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Since the driver split, there's no need for no_agg_framecnt_info since
all devices have this set to false. Secondly, the compressed block ack
handling code was broken. Fix this.
(1) A shift less than zero simply implies that the buffer wrapped, this
is expected. Remove the incorrect comment.
(2) The (agg->frame_count > (64-sh)) condition can happen if the last
frame is dropped. E.g., if I send 7 frames and the 6th is received but
the 7th is lost, the other side may only shift the window 6, not 7
frames since the last bit is a 0. This is perfectly fine behavior and
doesn't invalidate the feedback.
(3) Store the feedback from a Compressed BA in the first newly received
frame, rather than the start of the window. This way it will get
processed by the rate selection code. Feedback stored in a non-received
frame is likely to get overwritten by the retransmission.
This is based on the approach taken by minstrel_ht.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
When filling out its rate scale table, iwlwifi repeats the first HT rate
IWL_HT_NUMBER_TRY times. The hardware scheduler will stop using
aggregation for any frame that fails LINK_QUAL_AGG_DISABLE_START_DEF
times. Currently, both these constants equal 3.
If iwlwifi probes a faster rate than the link supports, all frames in a
(potentially tens of frames large) batch will fail IWL_HT_NUMBER_TRY
times. Because this happens to be as large as
LINK_QUAL_AGG_DISABLE_START_DEF, all frames will then be sent
individually. This leads to a short, but performance-degrading window
where the legacy stop-and-wait MAC takes over.
Bounding the initial rate by (LINK_QUAL_AGG_DISABLE_START_DEF-1)
attempts makes the third try use a lower rate and hence more be likely
to succeed. This somewhat mitigates the above described behavior.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
iwlagn's hardware scheduler needs to be set up
with the right aggregation frame limit and
buffer sizes. To achieve this, we need to move
the hardware queue setup to when the session
becomes operational.
Tested-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Since the driver split, there's no need for
function pointers any more for aggregation
queue setup and teardown as all devices now
share the same code. Simplify this.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
commit 86271e460a introduced a
regression that caused mac80211 queues in stopped state.
ath_drain_all_txq is called in driver flush which would reset
the stopped flag and the mac80211 queues were never started
after that. iperf traffic is completely stalled due to this issue.
Restart the mac80211 queues in driver flush only if the txqs were
drained.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the recent tx status optimization in mac80211, we bail out as
and and when invalid rate index is found. So the behavior of resetting
rate idx to -1 and count to 0 has changed for the rate indexes that
were not part of the driver's retry series.
This has resulted in ath9k using incorrect rate table index which
caused the system to panic. Ideally ath9k need to loop only for the
indexes that were part of the retry series and so simply use hw->max_rates
as the loop counter.
Pasted the stack trace of the panic issue for reference.
[ 754.093192] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88046a9025b0
[ 754.093256] IP: [<ffffffffa02eac49>] ath_tx_status+0x209/0x2f0 [ath9k]
[ 754.094888] Call Trace:
[ 754.094903] <IRQ>
[ 754.094928] [<ffffffffa051f883>] ieee80211_tx_status+0x203/0x9e0 [mac80211]
[ 754.094975] [<ffffffffa053e305>] ? __ieee80211_wake_queue+0x125/0x140 [mac80211]
[ 754.095017] [<ffffffffa02e66c9>] ath_tx_complete_buf+0x1b9/0x370 [ath9k]
[ 754.095054] [<ffffffffa02e6fcf>] ath_tx_complete_aggr+0x51f/0xb50 [ath9k]
[ 754.095098] [<ffffffffa05382a3>] ? ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0x173/0xab0 [mac80211]
[ 754.095148] [<ffffffff81350e62>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x32/0x40
[ 754.095186] [<ffffffffa02e9735>] ath_tx_tasklet+0x365/0x4b0 [ath9k]
[ 754.095224] [<ffffffff8107a2a2>] ? clockevents_program_event+0x62/0xa0
[ 754.095261] [<ffffffffa02e2628>] ath9k_tasklet+0x168/0x1c0 [ath9k]
[ 754.095298] [<ffffffff8105599b>] tasklet_action+0x6b/0xe0
[ 754.095331] [<ffffffff81056278>] __do_softirq+0x98/0x120
[ 754.095361] [<ffffffff8100cd5c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[ 754.095393] [<ffffffff8100efb5>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
[ 754.095423] [<ffffffff810563fd>] irq_exit+0x8d/0x90
[ 754.095453] [<ffffffff8100ebc1>] do_IRQ+0x61/0xe0
[ 754.095482] [<ffffffff81351413>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x15
[ 754.095513] <EOI>
[ 754.095531] [<ffffffff81014375>] ? native_sched_clock+0x15/0x70
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffffa02bcfa6>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x24d/0x285 [processor]
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffffa02bcf9f>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x246/0x285 [processor]
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff8127fab2>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x82/0x100
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff8100a236>] cpu_idle+0xa6/0xf0
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff81339bc1>] rest_init+0x91/0xa0
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff814efccd>] start_kernel+0x3fd/0x408
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff814ef347>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x132/0x136
[ 754.096475] [<ffffffff814ef451>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x106/0x115
[ 754.096475] RIP [<ffffffffa02eac49>] ath_tx_status+0x209/0x2f0 [ath9k]
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On hardware busy the scan request pointer should be cleared, as higher
levels will release. This avoids a crash when that pointer is
erroneously used later.
Signed-off-by: Joseph J. Gunn <armadefuego@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Clearly a mistake, since pointers won't suddenly
change their value...
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
