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Johannes Berg 4620fefa59 iwlagn: use mutex for aggregation
Now that the ampdu_action callback can sleep,
we can use the mutex to properly protect the
aggregation data, and return useful errors if
they should happen.

Also, add some sleep and mutex debugging so
we won't call any of the functions that now
require being able to sleep and/or the mutex
to be held in an invalid context.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-06-21 10:46:21 -07:00
John W. Linville abf52f86aa Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/mlme.c
2010-06-17 16:21:14 -04:00
Reinette Chatre da5ae1cfff iwlwifi: serialize station management actions
We are seeing some race conditions between incoming station management
requests (station add/remove) and the internal unassoc RXON command that
modifies station table. Modify these flows to require the mutex to be held
and thus serializing them.

This fixes http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2207

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-06-14 10:51:16 -07:00
John W. Linville 1c62c72b1a Merge branch 'wireless-next-2.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6 2010-06-02 15:36:51 -04:00
Dan Carpenter 96900c751d iwlwifi: testing the wrong variable in iwl_add_bssid_station()
The intent here is to test that "sta_id_r" is a valid pointer.  We do
this same test later on in the function.

Btw iwl_add_bssid_station() is called from two places and "sta_id_r" is
a valid pointer from both callers.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-24 15:07:42 -04:00
Reinette Chatre 9c5ac091b2 iwlwifi: fix and add missing sta_lock usage
There are a few places where sta_lock is used, but the
station information protected by it is accessed outside
of the lock. Address this in two ways, if the access
won't sleep then just move the access into the lock, if
the access can sleep then copy the needed station
information to the stack to be accessed without risk of
it changing while access in progress.

Additionally, a number of other places access station
station information without holding the sta_lock, fix
those as well.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2010-05-13 10:44:16 -07:00
Johannes Berg 0af8bcae6f iwlwifi: introduce iwl_sta_id_or_broadcast
There are now five places where we need to
look up the station ID, but the sta pointer
may be NULL due to mac80211 passing that to
indicate a certain special state.

Replace all these by a new inline function,
called iwl_sta_id_or_broadcast(), and add
documentation about when to use it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-13 10:42:32 -07:00
Johannes Berg 63d4176933 iwlwifi: remove pointless HT check
Remove the check before invoking iwl_set_ht_add_station(),
since neither of the conditions in this check makes sense,
as either we pass in a NULL ht_info (first branch) or in
the IBSS case an ht_info with ht_enabled=false.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:07 -07:00
Johannes Berg 57f8db8934 iwlwifi: rename iwl_add_local_station
This function is now only used for the special
IBSS BSSID station, so rename it to indicate
this. The new name is iwl_add_bssid_station.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:07 -07:00
Johannes Berg c1182743b6 iwlwifi: move iwl_find_station() to 4965
4965 code is the only thing that now still
needs iwl_find_station(), so move it there
and make it static. Everything else can
rely on the station data passed by mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:06 -07:00
Johannes Berg bdbb612fb2 iwlwifi: use iwl_sta_id() for TKIP key update
With the station ID being stored in the
station struct, which mac80211 gives us
for TKIP phase 1 key updates, we can also
remove the use of iwl_find_station() in
that code path.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:06 -07:00
Johannes Berg 619753ff57 iwlagn: use iwl_sta_id() for aggregation
With the station ID being stored in the
station struct, which mac80211 gives us
for aggregation callbacks, we can also
remove the use of iwl_find_station() in
those code paths.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:06 -07:00
Johannes Berg 2a87c26bbe iwlwifi: use iwl_find_station less
Since we now store the station ID in each station
struct, many places need not look at the station
table any more since they can just pull the station
ID out of the struct. Remove iwl_get_sta_id() and
use iwl_sta_id() instead as appropriate.

This reduces the amount of code needed to find the
right station significantly, and works since
mac80211 passes the station only after it has been
fully initialised, ie. even if TX races with
station addition it will only be passed to TX once
the addition is complete.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:05 -07:00
Johannes Berg fd1af15d0a iwlwifi: track station IDs
mac80211 allows us to store private data per
station, so put the station ID there. This
allows us to avoid the station ID lookup when
removing regular stations. To also be able to
avoid the lookup to remove the special IBSS
BSSID station, track its ID in the per-vif
private data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:04 -07:00
Reinette Chatre 3bce606626 iwlagn: work around rate scaling reset delay
When station is using an HT channel to communicate to AP and communication
is lost then driver will first be notified that channel is not an HT
channel anymore before AP station is removed. A consequence of that is that
the driver will know that it is not communicating on HT anymore, but the
rate scaling table is still under the impression it is operating in HT. Any
time after driver has been notified channel is not HT anymore there will
thus be a firmware SYSASSERT when the current active LQ command is sent.

A workaround for this issue is to not send a LQ command in the short time between
being notified channel is not HT anymore and rate scaling table being
updated.

This fixes http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2173

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:02 -07:00
Johannes Berg 2c810ccdba iwlwifi: rework broadcast station management
Currently, the broadcast station is managed along
with the interface type, rather than always being
present. That leads to a bug with injection -- it
is currently not possible to inject frames when
the only virtual interface is a monitor, because
in that the required broadcast station is missing.

Additionally, allocating and deallocating the
broadcast station's LQ all the time is wasteful,
and the code to support this is fairly complex.

So this changes completely the way we manage the
broadcast station. Rather than manage it along
with any interface, we now allocate it when we
bring the device up, and remove it again when we
bring the device down. When we bring the device
up, we don't immediately program the broadcast
station into it, instead we just mark it active
and rely on the next restore cycle to upload it
to the device. This works because an unassociated
RXON is always required at least once to set up
device parameters, which implies a reprogramming
of stations into the device.

As we now manage all stations properly, there no
longer is a need for forcing a clearing of them
via iwl_clear_ucode_stations(), which can become
a lot simpler.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:02 -07:00
Johannes Berg a6a0345c83 iwlwifi: split allocation/sending local station LQ
Rename iwl_sta_init_lq to iwl_sta_alloc_lq and
move sending it out into the caller.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:02 -07:00
Johannes Berg 156b70d17c iwlwifi: fix iwl_sta_init_lq station ID
The "is_ap" argument to iwl_sta_init_lq is never true,
so it and the corresponding code can be removed. However,
it needs to have the station ID because it is also used
for the IBSS BSSID station, and that doesn't have the
broadcast ID.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:09:01 -07:00
Johannes Berg 93286db501 iwlagn: move iwl_get_ra_sta_id to 4965
This function is only needed by 4965, so
it need not be in core code and can be
made static.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:57 -07:00
Johannes Berg 1fa61b2e79 iwlwifi: manage IBSS station properly
Currently iwlwifi will eventually exhaust the station
table when adding the BSSID station for IBSS mode,
unless the interface is set down.

The new mac80211 ibss joined/left notification allows
us to fix that easily by moving the code to add the
IBSS station to the notification, and also adding
code to remove it again when we leave the IBSS.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:53 -07:00
Johannes Berg c0222df86e iwlwifi: pass address to iwl_remove_station
We'll need that function for IBSS station management,
so pass it the address, which is the only thing it
uses from the station struct.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:52 -07:00
Reinette Chatre d2e210aef3 iwlwifi: make bcast LQ command available for later restore actions
When adding the broadcast station the link quality command is
generated on demand, sent to device, and disappears. It is thus not
available for later cases when we need to restore stations and need
to send the link quality command afterwards. Now, when first adding the
broadcast station, also generate its link quality command to always be
available for later restoring.

Also fix an issue when adding local stations where the "in progress" state
is never cleared.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-05-10 15:08:51 -07:00
Shanyu Zhao c8d5420d95 iwlwifi: remove redundant iwl_dump_lq_cmd()
This function is called twice in a row, remove the second one.

Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:52:33 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy 3a23d69582 iwlwifi: set correct single/dual stream mask
Even the initial single/dual stream values will be overridden later when
issue link quality command; but still make sense not to use hard-code
value during initialization. Single/Dual stream mask are used to indicate the
best antenna for SISO/MIMO; different NIC has different tx antenna
configuration; so the parameter need to based on the valid tx antenna.

1x2 device: single tx antenna available, only SISO is valid
configuration, but still need to set up MIMO configuration, so set it up
with antenna A & B as default.
2x2 device: two tx antenna available, dual_stream will use both valid
antenna.

3x3 device: three tx antenna available, skip the first antenna and
choice the second and third antenna for dual_stream.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-16 13:46:29 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy 57e40d36e5 iwlwifi: fix compiler warning
Check return code on iwl_send_cmd_pdu() to get rid of compiler warning.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-09 12:41:06 -07:00
Reinette Chatre f875f5183b iwlwifi: fix compile warnings when compiling without debug
Fixes:
CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.o
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c: In function ‘rs_get_rate’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rs.c:2419: warning: unused variable ‘priv’
CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.o
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c: In function ‘iwl_send_add_sta’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c:197: warning: unused variable ‘sta_id’

drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c: In function ‘iwl3945_rx_reply_rx’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c:601: warning: unused variable ‘rx_stats_noise_diff’
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c:600: warning: unused variable ‘rx_stats_sig_avg’
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-rs.c: In function ‘rs_get_rate’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-rs.c:650: warning: unused variable ‘priv’

Reported-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-09 11:32:36 -07:00
Johannes Berg 76c3c698bf iwlwifi: remove pointless sta_id invalid check
lq->sta_id cannot be invalid here since this
function will only be called after the station
has been added properly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-09 11:28:03 -07:00
Johannes Berg 43a61261d7 iwlwifi: remove wrong key use check
Default WEP keys and regular keys are not allocated
from the same space in the firmware, so we shouldn't
use the same bits to indicate in use.

For default WEP keys, however, mac80211 won't allow
using the same key index twice, so the check is not
necessary at all -- add/remove are perfectly nested
due to those checks.

Other keys are allocated in the device in a global
array that only has a certain number of slots, so
for that we need to keep the allocation bitmap; but
the 802.11 key index isn't relevant there.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-09 11:27:41 -07:00
Johannes Berg 335348b170 iwlwifi: make WEP key restoring explicit
The firmware clears default WEP keys on
transitions to !associated, so we need
to restore them just like stations. This
is rather implicit as part of sending a
station right now, which is odd. Make it
explicit instead and only for agn since
3945 doesn't use hw crypto for WEP.

Due to that, iwl_send_static_wepkey_cmd
is now only used in iwl-sta.c and can be
static.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-09 11:27:31 -07:00
Frans Pop 91dd6c27a2 iwlwifi: remove trailing space in messages
Includes minor improvements in debugging messages in iwl-4965.c,
function iwl4965_is_temp_calib_needed().

Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-04-02 12:53:54 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy 74bcdb33e9 iwlwifi: move agn only tx functions from iwlcore to iwlagn
Identify the tx functions only used by agn driver and move those from
iwlcore to iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:19:27 -07:00
Reinette Chatre fe6b23dd36 iwlwifi: implement new mac80211 station add/remove calls
mac80211 recently implemented two new callbacks that are used to request
station add/remove from the driver. The benefot from these new callbacks
are that they enable the driver to sleep while performing this work.

This is a big patch since a few things need to be coordinated in this move.
First we need to decouple station management from rate scaling, which
caused a lot of code to be moved and/or deleted. Next we needed to tie in
with mac80211's station management callback and let it direct our station
management as well as trigger the rate scaling initialization.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:40:58 -07:00
Reinette Chatre 7e2461910e iwlwifi: only add broadcast station once
Currently the broadcast station is added after every RXON command. Change
this to only add the broadcast station when interface is added by mac80211.
With this we need some extra work to ensure broadcast station is always
present since station table is cleared when RXON without ASSOC bit set is
sent. To deal with this we re-add all driver known stations to uCode after
such an RXON command is sent.

We also do some cleanup and remove the various calls to clear the station
table. We now only clear the station table in two scenarios:
- only clear uCode portion of station table when RXON command without ASSOC
bit is sent
- clear uCode and driver portion when interface goes down or is removed.

We need to do this clearing when interface goes down to deal with the
device restart/reconfigure routines which do not remove the interface, but
do add the interface during reconfiguration.

Previously the keys were also cleared when station table in driver is
cleared, this is not done anymore since mac80211 will take care that keys
are set and cleared correctly.

There is a known issue with this change. Associating with different AP
without bringing interface down fails with a firmware error. This is
because of the lack of full station notification support and the later
patches in this series that complete the station notification support will
fix this.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:40:49 -07:00
Johannes Berg 72e15d71b0 iwlwifi: change WEP key protection to use mutex
For later station notification support we would like WEP key setting to be
done synchronously always. Currently all places from which WEP key is set
can sleep, but the usage of sta_lock prevents it to do so. Modify the
locking to use priv->mutex instead and thus enable this call to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:12:08 -08:00
David S. Miller 10be7eb36b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-02-04 08:58:14 -08:00
Daniel Halperin ff27fabe62 iwlwifi: fix throughput degradation in aggregation mode
The following commit

	commit e4da8c37af
	Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
	Date:   Wed Dec 23 13:15:43 2009 +0100

	   mac80211: make off-channel work generic

triggered a bug in iwlwifi where HT parameters would not be correctly set in
some mac80211 pathways. The aggregation (and possibly other) station flags were
not being set, which limited the size of aggregation blocks and reduced
throughput at high rates.

>From Johannes:
"""
Due to Wey-Yi's patch to use the set-channel command when the channel changes
while associated, we don't get a full new RXON. Therefore, we don't re-set the
rxon-station either. However, under some circumstances that apparently have
gotten more likely mac80211 will first set up the BSS info, then add the
station and then switch to an HT channel type.

Therefore, the check for "priv->current_ht_config.is_ht" in
iwl_rxon_add_station() will hit false and not fill in the HT information.

However, that check can just be removed, which is the easiest fix for all this,
because the HT capa struct is always there, just could possibly have the
ht_supported member set to false.
"""

A sample good link in my 3x3 network improves by approximately 25% TCP
throughput. This fixes Bug 2144
(http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2144).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:27 -05:00
Reinette Chatre 3459ab5a1c iwlwifi: make broadcast station addition generic
Add function pointer for broadcast station addition so that we can call it
in from iwlcore at a later time. We only distinguish between iwlagn and
iwl3945 broadcast station addition. For the iwl3945 station addition we add
that function to iwlcore since that is where most station functionality
resides, making it part of iwl3945 will require significant code
reorganization that will dilute station management functionality. This
seems to be an efficient solution.

It may seem as though we are removing error checking when adding the 3945
broadcast station but this error checking was never really necessary since
the function returns the station id and the broadcast station id is always
set.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:22 -05:00
Reinette Chatre 1fa97aaeb7 iwlwifi: cleanup station adding code
The work done when a station is added is very similar whether the station
is added synchronously or asynchronously. Centralize this work. At the same
time increase the status flags being checked for when the command returns
with accompanying debug messages. Also increase checking when setting the
"ucode active" state with accompanying debugging.

This work is done in preparation for station notification support.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:22 -05:00
Johannes Berg 0b5d9b2689 iwlwifi: fix pointer signedness warning
There are a few station addresses that are
char *, instead of the normal u8 *; gcc
gives pointer signedness warnings for some
of those, so use u8 * consistently.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:17:25 -05:00
Reinette Chatre 1f44780827 iwlwifi: update copyright year to 2010
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:15 -05:00
Zhu Yi 64a76b504b iwlwifi: allocated rx page accounting cleanup
In iwlwifi, priv->alloc_rxb_page is used to keep track of the Rx
pages allocated by the driver. This cleans up the page free routines
by introducing __iwl_free_pages/iwl_free_pages so that the accounting
is more accurate and less error prone. This also fixes two instances where
the counter was not updated.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 11:31:55 -05:00
Johannes Berg 6ab10ff873 iwlwifi: handle unicast PS buffering
Using the new mac80211 functionality, this makes
iwlwifi handle unicast PS buffering correctly.
The device works like this:

 * when a station goes to sleep, the microcode notices
   this and marks the station as asleep
 * when the station is marked asleep, the microcode
   refuses to transmit to the station and rejects all
   frames queued to it with the failure status code
   TX_STATUS_FAIL_DEST_PS (a previous patch handled
   this correctly)
 * when we need to send frames to the station _although_
   it is asleep, we need to tell the ucode how many,
   and this is asynchronous with sending so we cannot
   just send the frames, we need to wait for all other
   frames to be flushed, and then update the counter
   before sending out the poll response frames. This
   is handled partially in the driver and partially in
   mac80211.

In order to do all this correctly, we need to
 * keep track of how many frames are pending for each
   associated client station (avoid doing it for other
   stations to avoid the atomic ops)
 * tell mac80211 that we driver-block the PS status
   while there are still frames pending on the queues,
   and once they are all rejected (due to the dest sta
   being in PS) unblock mac80211

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:08 -05:00
Johannes Berg 5ed176e1c4 mac80211: make ieee80211_find_sta per virtual interface
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>
2009-11-04 18:44:48 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy 3f3e0376bb iwlwifi: add SM PS support for 6x50 series
Spatial Multiplexing Power Save was disabled to achieve better
throughput while in power save mode by activating all the rx chains all the time.
By doing so, the device power consumption is high.

Enable static/dynamic spatial multiplexing power save if device support
it, which can lower the power consumption without impact throughput.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-02 15:39:48 -05:00
Reinette Chatre 9a9ca65fbf iwlwifi: split adding broadcast station from others
In preparation for some station management changes we split the addition of
a broadcast station from the other stations. Later we will rely on mac80211
to direct all management (addition/removal) of all stations except the
broadcast station.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-02 15:39:46 -05:00
Zhu Yi 2f301227a1 iwlwifi: use paged Rx
This switches the iwlwifi driver to use paged skb from linear skb for Rx
buffer. So that it relieves some Rx buffer allocation pressure for the
memory subsystem. Currently iwlwifi (4K for 3945) requests 8K bytes for
Rx buffer. Due to the trailing skb_shared_info in the skb->data,
alloc_skb() will do the next order allocation, which is 16K bytes. This
is suboptimal and more likely to fail when the system is under memory
usage pressure. Switching to paged Rx skb lets us allocate the RXB
directly by alloc_pages(), so that only order 1 allocation is required.

It also adjusts the area spin_lock (with IRQ disabled) protected in the
tasklet because tasklet guarentees to run only on one CPU and the new
unprotected code can be preempted by the IRQ handler. This saves us from
spawning another workqueue to make skb_linearize/__pskb_pull_tail happy
(which cannot be called in hard irq context).

Finally, mac80211 doesn't support paged Rx yet. So we linearize the skb
for all the management frames and software decryption or defragmentation
required data frames before handed to mac80211. For all the other frames,
we __pskb_pull_tail 64 bytes in the linear area of the skb for mac80211
to handle them properly.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:06 -04:00
Reinette Chatre bba98871c6 iwlwifi: do not send sync command while holding spinlock
commit 10c994ca70e8e94bbc85a5bf13de5911ee8de4d2 "iwlwifi: fix remove key
error" fixed an error reported by mac80211 during interface down. The fix
involved changing an async command to synchronous. Unfortunately this was
inside a spinlock section in which we cannot sleep.

Modify the sending of the command back to async. This causes the mac80211
error "mac80211-phy0: failed to remove key (0, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) from
hardware (-16)." to return. This error is not serious since this occurs
during interface down and the keys will be cleared anyway when ucode is
unloaded. Having this error message is thus less serious than a potential
deadlock introduced when sleeping while holding a spinlock. We will have to
find another fix for that error.

This is a revert of the abovementioned commit.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23 11:35:53 -04:00
Abhijeet Kolekar b2ccb4dbe7 iwlwifi: fix remove key error
Fix following error by sending synchronous command and waiting for the command
to complete.

mac80211-phy0: failed to remove key (0, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) from hardware (-16).

-16 is EBUSY error. The asynchronous command tests for STATUS_EXIT_PENDING
while interface is getting down and it returns -EBUSY error if set.
Changing the host command from asynchronous call to synchronous call
enables command to be run while interface is going down.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:39 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy 7aafef1c6e iwlwifi: name changed from "fat" to "ht40"
Rename "fat" to "ht40"
The term "fat channel" is deprecated in favor of "HT40"

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:46 -04:00
Reinette Chatre 3d816c77ec iwlwifi: re-introduce per device debugging
Commit "iwlwifi: make debug level more user friendly" cleaned up the
debug level handling. In doing so it created a single global debug
level for all devices. Some setups do consits of more that one iwlwifi
device and in these setups there is a requirement that debug levels
should be unique per device.

We now re-introduce the per device debugging while maintaining the
cleanup effort of the previous patch.

The maintain the global debug level and now introduce a per-device debug
level that will be used if it (the per-device debug level) is set. The
per-device debug level can be controlled via the debug_level sysfs file
while the global debug level is controlled by the debug module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:46 -04:00