Apart from locking the start and stop PCU we need
to ensure we also content starting and stopping the PCU
between hardware resets.
This is part of a series that will help resolve the bug:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14624
For more details about this issue refer to:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The real way to lock RX is to contend on the PCU
and reset, this will be fixed in the next patch but for
now just do the renames so that the next patch which changes
the locking order is crystal clear.
This is part of a series that will help resolve the bug:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14624
For more details about this issue refer to:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There was some locking for starting some parts of
RX but not for starting the PCU. Include this otherwise
we can content against stopping the PCU.
This can potentially lead to races against different
buffers on the PCU which can lead to to the DMA RX
engine writing to buffers which are already freed.
This is part of a series that will help resolve the bug:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14624
For more details about this issue refer to:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k locks for starting RX but not for stopping RX. We could
potentially run into a situation where tried to stop RX
but immediately started RX. This allows for races on the
the RX engine deciding what buffer we last left off on
and could potentially cause ath9k to DMA into already
free'd memory or in the worst case at a later time to
already given memory to other drivers.
Fix this by locking stopping RX.
This is part of a series that will help resolve the bug:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14624
For more details about this issue refer to:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This doesn't fix any problem that I'm aware of, but should
make it harder to add use-after-free type bugs in the
future.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The bf_dmacontext seems to be totally useless and duplicated
by bf_buf_addr. Remove it entirely, use bf_buf_addr in its
place.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This allows mac80211 to enable receiving of Probe Request frames in
station mode which is needed for P2P.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The old ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw method didn't properly
find VIFS when there was more than one per AP. This caused
AMPDU logic in ath9k to get the wrong VIF when trying to
account for transmitted SKBs.
This patch changes ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw to take a
localaddr argument to distinguish between VIFs with the
same AP but different local addresses. The method name
is changed to ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since AR9285 v1.0 and v1.1 were never sold (and the initvals removed),
its revision checks can be simplified similar to AR9280
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since AR9280 v1.0 was never sold (and the initvals removed), v1.0 specific
revision checks can be removed and the 'v2.0 or later' check can be
simplified to a check for AR9280 or later.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch:
commit 293dc5dfdb
Author: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Date: Fri Jun 19 12:17:48 2009 +0200
ath9k: remove ath_rx_ps_back_to_sleep helper
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>
introduced a regression which forgot to lift the beacon flag
after we received all broadcast and multicast data. This meant
we never went to sleep consuming about ~650mW on idle. This pretty
much broke power save completely.
This patch has fixes for stable kernels [2.6.32+].
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Sameer Nanda <snanda@google.com>
Cc: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k's entire logic with SC_OP_SCANNING is incorrect due to the
way mac80211 currently implements the scan complete callback and
we handle it in ath9k. This patch removes the flag completely in
preference for the SC_OP_OFFCHANNEL which is really what we wanted.
The scanning flag was used to ensure we reset ANI to the old values
when we go back to the home channel, but if we are offchannel we
use some defaults. The flag was also used to re-enable the TX monitor.
Without this patch we simply never re-enabled ANI and the TX monitor
after going offchannel. This means that after one background
scan we are prone to noise issues and if we had a TX hang we would
not recover. To get this to work properly we must enable ANI after
we have configured the beacon timers, otherwise hardware acts really
oddly.
This patch has stable fixes which apply down to [2.6.36+], there
*may* be a to fix this on older kernels but requires a bit of
work since this patch relies on the new mac80211 flag
IEEE80211_CONF_OFFCHANNEL which was introduced as of 2.6.36.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k has a race on putting the chip into network sleep and
having registers read from hardware. The race occurs because
although ath9k_ps_restore() locks its own callers it makes use
of some variables which get altered in the driver at different
code paths. The variables are the ps_enabled and ps_flags.
This is easily reprodicible in large network environments when
roaming with the wpa_supplicant simple bgscan. You'd get some
0xdeadbeef read out on certain registers such as:
ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x806c: 0xdeadbeef & 0x01f00000 != 0x00000000
ath: RX failed to go idle in 10 ms RXSM=0xdeadbeef
ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x7000: 0xdeadbeef & 0x00000003 != 0x00000000
ath: Chip reset failed
The fix is to protect the ath9k_config(hw, IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_PS)
calls with a spin_lock_irqsave() which will disable contendors for
these variables from interrupt context, timers, re-entry from mac80211
on the same callback, and most importantly from ath9k_ps_restore()
which is the only call which will put the device into network sleep.
There are quite a few threads and bug reports on these a few of them are:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/linux/+bug/407040http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5709http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5943
Stable fixes apply to [2.6.32+]
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CHECK drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:1341:6: warning: symbol 'ath_ant_div_conf_fast_divbias' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When there is more than one VIF, listen for all beacons
and ensure ATH9K_RX_FILTER_MCAST_BCAST_ALL is set.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This algorithm chooses the best main and alt lna out of
LNA1, LNA2, LNA1+LNA2 and LNA1-LNA2 to improve rx for single
chain chips(AR9285). This would greatly improve rx when there
is only one antenna is connected with AR9285.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
According to the hardware documentation, the MIC failure bit is only
valid if the frame was decrypted using a valid TKIP key and is not a
fragment.
In some setups I've seen hardware-reported MIC failures on an AP that
was configured for CCMP only, so it's clear that additional checks are
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_rx_skb_preprocess nulls rxs and the mactime is never set again -
mactime is always 0. This causes problems in IBSS mode.
ieee80211_rx_bss_info uses mactime to decide if an IBSS merge is needed.
Without this patch the merge is triggered by each beacon received.
This can be recognized by the "beacon TSF higher than local TSF - IBSS
merge with BSSID" log message accompanying each beacon.
This problem was not completely fixed in commit
a6d2055b02 and is not a stable kernel fix.
It is solely intended for wireless-testing.
Signed-off-by: Jan Friedrich <jft@dev2day.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_hw_setmac() only copies the mac address it is called with into
common->macaddr, yet in all call sites, the supplied mac address pointer
is already common->macaddr.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR5416 and all newer chipsets use a 32 bit rx timestamp, so there
is no need to keep the 15 bit timestamp extending logic around.
This patch removes ath9k_hw_extend_tsf (replaced by a call to
ath9k_hw_gettsf64), and reduces the frequency of TSF reads, which
can improve performance in some cases.
This change also has the side effect of making rx timestamps
more accurate.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The new ANI implementation will use this to skip ANI
calibration upon a scan. This cannot be ported to the
older ANI implementation unless default ANI values from
the ANI are also used upon a scan. This is essentially
what one of the things thenew ANI does.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If buffer is to be accessed by cpu after dma is over, but
between dma mapping and dma unmapping, we should use
dma_sync_single_for_cpu to sync the buffer between cpu with
device. And dma_sync_single_for_device is used to let
device gain the buffer again.
v2: Felix pointed out dma_sync_single_for_device is needed to return
buffer to device if an unsuccessful status bit check is found.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The rx status length should also be taken into account while
validating the length of a received frame.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Skip the rx status portion in skb->data before accessing ieee80211
frame header.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_rx_skb_preprocess() needs only ieee80211 frame header,
pass only frame headers instead of skb to that function. Also
remove ineffective frame dump in ath9k_process_rate().
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch relocates RX processing code from the
common module to ath9k. This reduces the size
of the common module which is also used by ath9k_htc.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For edma, we should use DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL, or else use
DMA_FROM_DEVICE.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The functionality to keep the device awake until it is done with
the rx of any mcast/bcast frames which are pending on AP should
also be added to the hardwares which support auto sleep feature.
This patch fixes frequent failures in ARP resolution when it is
initiated by the other end. Currently auto sleep is enabled only
for ar9003 in ath9k.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don't send them for further processing.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath_tx_status and ath_rx_status data are only necessary for a short
time, until they have been processed and converted into mac80211 data
structures.
Because of that, it makes no sense to keep them tied to the DMA
descriptor, that only wastes precious memory.
This patch allocates the data on stack in the functions that call the
conversion functions from ath9k_hw.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch passes in a pointer to the ath_rx_status data structure for
functions that need it, instead of letting them grab it directly from
the ath_desc struct. This is useful for making it possible to allocate
the intermediate rx status data separately.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Numeric channel is hard to get, so it won't be printed. Replace Mhz
with MHz on the affected lines and add commas as needed.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This file can be used to track frame reception errors.
PHY error counts are also added.
Location: ath9k/phy#/recv
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
sc_flags has slowly become a kitchen sink over time.
Move powersave related flags to a separate variable.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k and ath9k_htc share a lot of common hardware characteristics.
They only differ in that ath9k_htc works with a target CPU and ath9k
works directly with the hardware. ath9k_htc will do *some* things in
the firmware, but a lot of others on the host.
The common 802.11n hardware code is already shared through the ath9k_hw
module. Common helpers amongst all Atheros drivers can use the ath module,
this includes ath5k and ar9170 as users. But there is some common driver
specific helpers which are not exactly hardware code which ath9k and
ath9k_htc can share. We'll be using ath9k_common for this to avoid
bloating the ath module and the common 802.11n hardware module ath9k_hw.
We start by sharing skb pre and post processing in preparation for a hand
off to mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use a helper for the RX skb post processing,
ath9k_rx_skb_postprocess().
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This will make sharing code easier between ath9k and ath9k_htc.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
And change the return value to something more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
While at it flip the order, seems easier to read and also
add some better description as to why we do this check.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This will also be used by ath9k_htc.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The skb->cb (control buffer, 48 bytes) is available to the skb
upon skb allocation. You can fill it up imediately after skb
allocation. ath9k was copying onto the skb->cb the data from the
processed skb for mac80211 from a stack struct ieee80211_rx_status
structure. This is unnecessary, instead use the skb->cb for the
rx status immediately after the skb becomes available and DMA
synched.
Additionally, avoid the copy of the skb->cb also for virtual wiphys
as skb_copy() will copy over the skb->cb for us as well.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This moves all the RX processing of RSSI into a helper,
ath_rx_prepare(). ath_rx_prepare() should now be really
easy to read and follow.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This moves the qual computing into a small helper,
ath9k_compute_qual()
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_process_rate() now does all the rx status processing to
read the rate the hardware passed and translate it to whatever
mac80211 wants.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Its just a distraction when reading the code, instead use the
rx_stats->rs_rate directly.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This does sanity checking on the skb and RX status descriptor
prior to processing.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
No need to use the private driver structure to get to an sband.
This will make it easier to share this code with ath9k_htc.
With the sc gone we can now just pass the common structure to
ath_rx_prepare().
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This can be shared between ath9k and ath9k_htc. It will also
help with sharing routine helpers on the RX path.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This will be shared between ath9k and ath9k_htc.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Its not needed, so just pass the hardware RX status.
We'll be simplfying ath_rx_prepare() with code we can share
between ath9k and ath9k_htc. This will help make that code
easier to read and manage.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
this now uses the proper hw which should mean finding the
right sta when using ath9k virtual wiphy stuff. Only
advantage I see here is getting the rssi properly updated
so the 'fix' itself isn't that great, but at least this
is correct.
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>
ath_get_virt_hw() is required on RX to determine for which virtual
wiphy an skb came in for. Instead of searching for the hw twice do
it only once.
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>
Since we have a TODO item to make all station
management dependent on virtual interfaces, I
figured I'd start with pushing such a change
to drivers before more drivers start using the
ieee80211_find_sta() API with a hw pointer and
cause us grief later on.
For now continue exporting the old API in form
of ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw(), but discourage
its use strongly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k uses this for now, ath9k_htc is expected to re-use this
as well. We lave ath5k as is, but it certainly can also be
converted later.
The ath9k module parameter and debugfs entry is kept.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also make ath5k and ath9k use it, and share register definitions.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This ensures that we can access common on hw related code
independent of the driver core.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These are common amongst ath9k and ath5k, so put them into the
common structure and make ath9k to use it. ar9170 can use macaddr,
and curbssid. We'll change ath5k and ar9170 separately.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
DPRINTF() is used in hw specific related code, as such
ensure we don't rely on the private driver core ath_softc
struct when calling it. Drivers can then implement their
own DPRINTF() as they see fit.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
BAR frames have to be sent to mac80211 only if the
current channel is HT. Also, move the macro to
enum ath9k_rx_filter.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Support for FIF_OTHER_BSS was missing. This patch adds support for this
filtering mode which in turn resolves a problem where mesh interfaces would not
receive broadcast traffic.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Other than ns_avgbrssi (Average beacon rssi) no data of
ath9k_node_stats is being used anywhere. Nuke this structure
and move its only useful member to ar5416Anistate. Also cleanup
this redundant data in ath_softc.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Turns out ath5k and ath9k can share the same helper to
allocates RX skbs. We allocate skbs aligned to the cache line
size. This requirement seems to have come from AR5210; when
this was not done it seems sometimes we'd get bogus data. I'm
also told it may have been a performance enhancement
consideration. In the end I can't be sure we can remove this
on new hardware so just keep this and start sharing it through
ath.ko.
Make ath9k start using this, ath5k is next.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ANI uses the beacon RSSI for its operation.
Update this properly.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We used to set pspoll filter on ath9k on AP mode but
we no longer need this mode specific check as mac80211
now does the check for us and informs us when we should
enable pspoll through FIF_PSPOLL.
Cc: Igor Perminov <igor.perminov@inbox.ru>
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>
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>
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>
If we are in PS mode, we have to process the received frame if
the SC_OP_WAIT_FOR_CAB bit is set.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some APs seem to drift away from the expected TBTT (timestamp %
beacon_int_in_usec differs quite a bit from zero) which can result in
us waking up way too early to receive a Beacon frame. In order to work
around this, re-configure the Beacon timers after having received a
Beacon frame from the AP (i.e., when we know the offset between the
expected TBTT and the actual time the AP is sending out the Beacon
frame).
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When using timeout=0 (PS-Poll) with mac80211, the driver will need to
wake up for TX requests and remain awake until the TX has been
completed (ACK received or timeout) or until the buffer frame(s) have
been received (in case the TX is for a PS-Poll frame).
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We do not need to do this in ath_isr() and it looks like the modified
version ends up being more stable as far as being able receive beacon
frames is concerned. Furthermore, this reduces need to move between
AWAKE and NETWORK SLEEP states when processing some unrelated
interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The previous implementation was moving back to NETWORK SLEEP state
immediately after receiving a Beacon frame. This means that we are
unlikely to receive all the buffered broadcast/multicast frames that
would be sent after DTIM Beacon frames. Fix this by parsing the Beacon
frame and remaining awake, if needed, to receive the buffered
broadcast/multicast frames. The last buffered frame will trigger the
move back into NETWORK SLEEP state.
If the last broadcast/multicast frame is not received properly (or if
the AP fails to send it), the next Beacon frame will work as a backup
trigger for returning into NETWORK SLEEP.
A new debug type, PS (debug=0x800 module parameter), is added to make
it easier to debug potential power save issues in the
future. Currently, this is only used for the Beacon frame and buffered
broadcast/multicast receiving.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This makes use of the local fc variable in bit more places and uses a
common helper macro. The part of RX process that delivers skb's to
mac80211 is moved to a separate function in preparation for future
changes that will need to do this from two places. The modifications
here should not result in any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The broadcast bit is in the first, not the last octet..
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Luis R. Rodriguez