TX99 support enables Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) testing.
SAR is the unit of measurement for the amount of radio frequency(RF)
absorbed by the body when using a wireless device. The RF
exposure limits used are expressed in the terms of SAR, which is a
measure of the electric and magnetic field strength and power density
for transmitters operating at frequencies from 300 kHz to 100 GHz.
Regulatory bodies around the world require that wireless device
be evaluated to meet the RF exposure limits set forth in the
governmental SAR regulations.
In the examples below, for more bit rate options see the iw TX bitrate
setting documentation:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw#Modifying_transmit_bitrates
Example usage:
iw phy phy0 interface add moni0 type monitor
ip link set dev moni0 up
iw dev moni0 set channel 36 HT40+
iw set bitrates mcs-5 4
echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/tx99_power
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/tx99
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add nf parameter to ath9k_hw_getchan_noise() in order to compute NF for EXT
chains with the same scale of noise floor calculated on CTL chains.
ath9k_hw_getchan_noise() will be used in ath_process_fft() for spectral scan on
HT40 channels
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is no need to call ath_txq_unlock_complete() in the
TX poll routine - frame completion is not done here,
so use ath_txq_unlock().
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The check "enable_ani" is not required since it is always
set to true and the logic for disabling/enabling ANI via
debugfs is done at a higher layer.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This option has not been enabled by default in any
distribution, has never been enabled in OpenWrt and no developer
has asked for this information in a bug report.
Dumping pages of random values doesn't help debugging,
remove this option (along with the vmalloc() abuse).
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The following issue was reported.
WARNING: at net/mac80211/util.c:599 ieee80211_can_queue_work.isra.7+0x32/0x40 [mac80211]()
Hardware name: iMac12,1
queueing ieee80211 work while going to suspend
Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: PF O 3.8.2-206.fc18.x86_64 #1
Call Trace: Mar 16 09:39:17 Parags-iMac kernel: [ 3993.642992] <IRQ>
[<ffffffff8105e61f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[<ffffffffa0581420>] ? ath_start_rx_poll+0x70/0x70 [ath9k]
<ffffffff8105e716>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[<ffffffffa045b542>] ieee80211_can_queue_work.isra.7+0x32/0x40
Fix this by avoiding to queue the work if our device has
already been marked as suspended or stopped.
Reported-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Drivers that don't use chanctxes cannot perform VHT association because
they still use a "backward compatibility" pair of {ieee80211_channel,
nl80211_channel_type} in ieee80211_conf and ieee80211_local.
Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
[fix kernel-doc]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The beacon and multicast-buffer queues are managed by the beacon
tasklet, and the generic tx path hang check does not help in any way
here. Running it on those queues anyway can introduce some race
conditions leading to unnecessary chip resets.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add a HW capability to indicate whether PAPRD is enabled
for the card, since PAPRD could be enabled in the EEPROM, but
disabled in the driver. This makes things clearer.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Move the PowerSave wrappers outside ath_paprd_activate(),
since they are already being used in ath_paprd_calibrate().
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The 'xmit' debugfs file has become big and unwieldy, fix
multiple issues with its usage:
* Store TX counters/statistics only for the 4 Access Categories.
Use IEEE80211_NUM_ACS instead of ATH9K_NUM_TX_QUEUES.
* Move various utility macros to debug.h, they can be reused
elsewhere.
* Remove tx_complete_poll_work_seen.
* Remove code that accesses various internal queue-specific
variables without any locking whatsoever. HW/SW queue details
will be handled in a subsequent patch.
* Do not print internal values like txq_headidx and txq_headidx.
They were mostly unused anyway, considering code like:
PRX("txq_tailidx: ", txq_headidx);
* Handle 'txprocdesc' for EDMA too.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the macros provided by mac80211 and remove redundant
declarations inside the drivers.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As of now the ANI cycle is executed only when the chip is awake.
On idle state case, the station wakes up from network sleep for
beacon reception. Since most of the time, ANI cycle is not syncing
with beacon wakeup, ANI cycle is ignored. Approx 5 mins once, the
calibration is performed. This could affect the connection stability
when the station is idle for long. Even though the OFDM and CCK phy
error rates are too high, ANI is unable to tune its immunity level
as quick enough due to rare execution.
Here the experiment shows that OFDM and CCK levels are at default
even on higher phy error rate.
listenTime=44 OFDM:3 errs=121977/s CCK:2 errs=440818/s ofdm_turn=1
This change ensures that ANI calibration will be exectued atleast
once for every 10 seconds. The below result shows improvements and
immunity levels are adopted quick enough.
listenTime=557 OFDM:4 errs=752/s CCK:4 errs=125/s ofdm_turn=0
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some checks for PA linearization support checked ATH9K_HW_CAP_PAPRD and some
used the EEPROM ops, leading to issues in tx power handling, since those
two can be out of sync.
Disable the feature by default, since it has been reported that it can
cause damage to the rx path under some circumstances. It can now be enabled
for testing via debugfs.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Before PAPRD training can run, the card needs to have sent a packet for
thermal calibration. Sending a dummy packet with the PAPRD training flag
set causes a crash under some circumstance.
Fix the code by replacing the dummy tx with a delay that waits for a
real packet tx to have occurred.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Re-train if the calibrated PA linearization curve is out of bounds
(affects AR933x and AR9485).
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using work_pending() to defer certain operations when
a HW-reset work has been queued is racy since the check
would return false when the work item is actually in
execution. Use SC_OP_HW_RESET instead to fix this race.
Also, unify the reset debug statistics maintenance.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently, there are problems with how ANI is handled in
multi-VIF scenarios. This patch addresses them by unifying
the start/stop logic.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The baseband and cycle counters are being sampled during ani
processing for debugging purpose. Whenever the ani is postponded
due to sleep state, taking samples on that time is of no use and
also unneccesarily waking up the chip might increase the power
consumption on idle associated state. Hence moving debug function
within powersave block.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
steps to recreate:
load latest ath9k driver with AR9485
stop the network-manager and wpa_supplicant
bring the interface up
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa0517490>] ? ath_hw_check+0xe0/0xe0 [ath9k]
[<ffffffff812cd1e8>] __const_udelay+0x28/0x30
[<ffffffffa03bae7a>] ar9003_get_pll_sqsum_dvc+0x4a/0x80 [ath9k_hw]
[<ffffffffa05174eb>] ath_hw_pll_work+0x5b/0xe0 [ath9k]
[<ffffffff810744fe>] process_one_work+0x11e/0x470
[<ffffffff8107530f>] worker_thread+0x15f/0x360
[<ffffffff810751b0>] ? manage_workers+0x230/0x230
[<ffffffff81079af3>] kthread+0x93/0xa0
[<ffffffff815fd3a4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff81079a60>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70
[<ffffffff815fd3a0>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13
ensure that the PLL-WAR for AR9485/AR9340 is executed only if the STA is
associated (or) IBSS/AP mode had started beaconing. Ideally this WAR
is needed to recover from some rare beacon stuck during stress testing.
Before the STA is associated/IBSS had started beaconing, PLL4(0x1618c)
always seem to have zero even though we had configured PLL3(0x16188) to
query about PLL's locking status. When we keep on polling infinitely PLL4's
8th bit(ie check for PLL locking measurements is done), machine hangs
due to softlockup.
fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811142
Reported-by: Rolf Offermanns <rolf.offermanns@gmx.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The 'sc_flags' variable is being used in a number of places
with no locking whatsoever. This patch converts the usage
of sc_flags to atomic ops.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Currently, there is no synchronization between the reset
work and the tx-poll work. Fix this and make sure that we
bail out properly if a reset work is in progress.
* Cleanup the PLL WAR and enable it for AR9340 too and
use a helper for restarting work/timers after a reset.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add link.c and move all the link/connection monitoring
code to it.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Luis R. Rodriguez