This patch fixes a long standing issue of pending packets in the queue being
sent (and retransmitted many times) to sleeping stations.
This was made worse by aggregation through driver-internal retransmitting
of A-MDPU subframes.
Previously the hardware tx filter was cleared unconditionally for every
single packet - with this patch it uses the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT
for unaggregated frames.
A sta_notify driver op is added to stop aggregation for stations when they
enter powersave mode. Subframes stay buffered inside the driver, to ensure
that the BlockAck window keeps a sane state.
Since the driver uses software aggregation, the clearing of the tx filter
needs to be handled by the driver instead of mac80211 for aggregated frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
While leaving the oper channel, beacon generation is stopped
by mac80211 and beacon slots are marked as inactive.
During the scan, ath9k configures beacon timers
based on IEEE80211_CONF_OFFCHANNEL which inturn generates
beacon alert even though bslot is inactive.
ath9k fails to disable beacon alert while moving to offchannel
if none of the beacon slot is active. This is causing beacon
transmission on foreign channel. This patch enables swba
based on active bslots.
This issue was reported with two vifs (AP+STA) and triggered
scan in STA vif in unassociated state.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_htc_tx_get_slot can return zero as valid index.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Move the ath9k_htc debugfs under ieee80211 to be inline
with ath9k driver and it also helps to simplify debug code.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This struct is not used in any common code, and moving it out of
the ath header makes it easier to add more driver specific ops.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Request a re-configuration of Beacon related timers
on the receipt of the first Beacon frame has to be set only
for station mode. Setting beacon sync for IBSS is causing
wrong beacon slot selection on beacon generation.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Otherwise, you get this:
CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.o
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c: In function ‘ath9k_skb_queue_complete’:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:230:12: error: expected expression before ‘do’
make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k] Error 2
make: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/] Error 2
The TX_STAT_INC macro should probably be changed to accomodate such
usage, although using a trinary operator in place of an if-else seems
questionable to me anyway.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@Atheros.com>
New debugfs files:
<debugfs_root>/ath9k_htc/<phy#>/tgt_int_stats
<debugfs_root>/ath9k_htc/<phy#>/tgt_tx_stats
<debugfs_root>/ath9k_htc/<phy#>/tgt_rx_stats
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Beacon transmission needs to involve as little latency
as possible after receiving a SWBA event from the target.
Since packets are buffered to use TX stream mode, beacon
frames sometimes gets queued up and are not sent out immediately.
Fix this by decoupling management frame transmission from the
normal data path and send them out immediately.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Occasionally, a WMI event would arrive ahead of the TX
URB completion handler. Discarding these events would exhaust
the available TX slots, so handle them by running a timer
cleaning up such events. Also, timeout packets for which TX
completion events have not arrived.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Now that the infrastructure is in place, process WMI
TX status events and complete packets.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When a station entry is removed, there could still be
pending packets destined for that station in the HIF layer.
Sending these to the target is not necessary, so drain them
in the driver itself.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is no point in looping over all the endpoints,
since the HIF layer uses the start/stop APIs only
for the TX pipe. Simplify the API accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When doing a channel set or a reset operation the pending
frames queued up for transmission have to be flushed and
sent to mac80211. Fixing this has to be done in two separate
steps:
* Flush queued frames and kill the URB TX completion handler.
* Complete all the frames that in the TX pending queue.
This patch adds proper support for draining and all the callsites
namely, channel change/reset/idle/stop are fixed. A separate queue
is used for handling failed frames.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Maintain a bitmap of slots for transmission and update
the cookie field for every packet with the slot value.
This value would be used for matching packets when TX
completion processing is added.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is no need to do endpoint header removal in the ISR.
Also, this is needed when TX slot management is added later on.
Use a helper function to strip the driver header.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
A new routine that takes an endpoint explicitly is
introduced. The normal htc_send() now retrieves the endpoint
from the packet's private data. This would be useful
in TX completion when the endpoint ID would be required.
While at it, use a helper function to map the queue to endpoint.
Data/mgmt/beacon packets use htc_send(), while WMI comamnds
pass the endpoint to HTC.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Handle queue start/stop properly by maintaining
a counter to check if the pending frame count has
exceeded the threshold. Otherwise, packets would be
dropped needlessly. While at it, use a simple flag
to track queue status and use helper functions too.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using a single URB for receiving WMI events is
insufficient, increase it to 64 to not lose
WMI events in high throughput situations.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This event will be generated by the target for packet completions.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add a new cookie field that would be filled by the host.
This can be used to match the TX status WMI event with
the appropriate packet.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The current max queue length of 1024 is quite large
and unnecessary. 256 suffices well enough even for high
throughput situations.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For all packets sent through the USB_WLAN_TX_PIPE endpoint,
the private area of the SKB's tx_info can be used to store
driver-specific information. For packets sent through USB_REG_OUT_PIPE,
this will not make a difference since they are routed through a
separate routine that doesn't access the private region.
This would help in situations where TX information is required
in the URB callback.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The length of the received SKB could be equal to
HTC_RX_FRAME_HEADER_SIZE in case of packets with phy/crc errors,
in which case they are dropped without being processed.
Fix this check so that the error counters are updated correctly.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use a queue to handle WMI events and schedule a tasklet
to process the events. This fixes the race between the
WMI event ISR and the SWBA tasklet when the arrival of
WMI events in quick succession could overwrite the SWBA
data before the tasklet from a previous iteration could
have been scheduled. Also, drain the WMI queue properly.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Transmission of beacons becomes erratic when TX load
is high, since the latency involved in the generation
of a SWBA interrupt on the target to the actual sending
of a beacon is quite high for USB devices.
Fix this by adjusting the beacon response time.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the CAB endpoint to send buffered multicast or
broadcast frames after each SWBA event.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Set operating parameters (cwmin, cwmax) for the beacon queue
in AP mode.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In multi-interface mode, beacons/probe responses that are
sent out must have their timestamp field updated. Calculate
the TSF adjustment value for each beaconing interface and set it
in the frame properly.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Beacon transmission is now handled through a slot mechanism.
This allows multiple beaconing interfaces to be be present.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Match the beacon header with that of the firmware.
Also, the firmware reports the TSF for an SWBA, so
store it.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also, update the wiphy information and use the correct
device pointer when registering. This would fix ethtool.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since the new FW requires backward incompatible host driver changes,
rename the FW to allow older driver versions to work with the
older FW.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All the AR7010 devices supoprted by ath9k_htc are based
on version v1.1, so remove support for v1.0.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently ath9k only available in menuconfig if PCI bus
support is enabled. However the driver is required for
the built-in wireless MACs of the Atheros AR9130/AR9132
SoCs. These SoCs have no PCI controller, the wireless
MAC is connected to the AHB bus on them.
Introduce separated config options for the supported
buses, in order to allow building of ath9h without PCI
bus support.
As a bonus, this patch removes the cross-reference of
the ATHEROS_AR71XX option which is not present in the
kernel.
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently the device id in the platform driver is hardcoded to an id
which is specific to AR9130/AR9132 SOCs as it supports only wmac (wireless mac)
of these SOCs. But this needs to be dynamic when we want to support different
wmac of SOCs. So add id_table to driver to make it extendable to more SOCs.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau