The CAB (Content after Beacon) queue is used for beacon-triggered
transmission of buffered multicast frames. If lots of multicast frames
were buffered and this queue fills up, it drowns out all regular
traffic. To limit the damage that buffered traffic can do, try to limit
the queued data to becaon_interval / 8.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Chun-Yeow and Javier Lopez contributed these changes to
make mesh mode use the more similar AP beaconing mode and
queue parameters. Should improve PS performance, interface
concurrency (AP modes can coexist), and beacon interval
stability.
AR9271 (ath9k_htc) mesh interfaces also need to be in AP
operating mode.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.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>
On joining an existing IBSS network, beaconing has to start
only after a TSF sync has happened by receiving a beacon from
the BSS. In creator mode, beaconing can start immediately after
a HW reset has been done.
Now that mac80211 notifies the driver of the mode type (creator/joiner)
via ieee80211_bss_conf->ibss_creator, make use of it to properly setup
the HW beacon timers.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Dropping packets from aggregation sessions is usually not a good idea, as
it might upset the synchronization of the BlockAck receive window of the
remote node. The use of the retry_tx parameter to reset/tx-drain functions
also seemed a bit arbitrary.
This patch removes this parameter altogether and ensures that pending tx
frames are not dropped for no good reason.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
During teardown, mac80211 will not return a new beacon. This is normal and
handled properly in the driver, so there's no need to spam the user with a kernel
warning here.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the next beacon is sent, the ath_buf from the previous run is reused.
If getting a new beacon from mac80211 fails, bf->bf_mpdu is not reset, yet
the skb is freed, leading to a double-free on the next beacon tx attempt,
resulting in a system crash.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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>
Using ieee80211_free_txskb for tx frames is required, since mac80211 clones
skbs for which socket tx status is requested.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.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>
Remove unused variables, use a helper function to choose
the slot and reset beaconing status at one place.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Setup the beacon queue parameters after disabling
interrupts. Also, remove the redundant call in conf_tx()
for IBSS mode since the queue would be configured
with the appropriate cwmin/cwmax values when beaconing
is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the tx_last_beacon() callback, mac80211's beaconing
status can be used instead. The beacon tasklet doesn't require
it because it is disabled when removing a slot.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* The beaconing status routine is not required, since in
multi-VIF cases the HW beacon parameters should not be
re-configured.
* Remove SC_OP_TSF_RESET - when a beaconing interface comes
up the first time, the TSF has to be reset.
* Simplify ath9k_allow_beacon_config().
* Handle setting/clearing the SWBA interrupt properly.
* Remove the TSF mangling in IBSS mode, it is not required.
* General code cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cleanup the messy logic dealing with station association
and disassociation.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch revamps interface addition and deletion and simplifies
slot allocation. There is no need to setup the beacon buffer
in add/remove interface, remove this and use simple APIs for
assigning/deleting slots.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@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>
Configure CWmin based on slot time for IBSS mode. This helps
in increasing the beacon distribution of ath9k to accepted
levels in 11a mode.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <nataraja@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As of now beacon configuration is being called multiple times
in bss info change notification. This patch avoids multiple
configuration and make it simpler.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The tx interrupt for beacon queue is configured only for edma chips.
As the edma chip does not support per descriptor interrupt, no need to
set INTREQ for every beacon descriptor. And also clear ps filter for
beacon frame.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Whenever the reset work is queued up, do not generate beacon. And also
clear the beacon miss count once the beacon stuck was observed.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sync-up ibss beacon timer with the beacon frame's timestamp. When the
node acts as joiner, it has to sync with the received beacon timestamp
instead of reading tsf from hw. As the hw tsf wont wont be update till
bssid is configured. This patch programs hw tsf with the received beacon
timestamp if beacon timers are yet to be configured.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since it's only called when beacons are stuck, move it to the SWBA handler
tasklet, to avoid doing redundant checks on every single interrupt.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 provides short preamble information and ERP protection
information on a per-BSS basis, which can be used. Remove flags
stored in the driver, which was incorrect since they were being used
in a global manner.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The approach of this change is flawed, as it triggers tx status processing
from more callsites, yet the chips only have one global tx status queue.
Subsequent patches will properly fix the issue that this one tried to address.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
for EDMA chip AR_Q_TXE (tx enable for each queue) is read only
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add ATH_DBG_ to macros to shorten the uses and
reduce the line count.
Coalesce ath_dbg formats.
Add missing spaces to coalesced formats.
Add missing newline terminations to ath_dbg formats.
Align ath_dbg arguments where appropriate.
Standardize ath_dbg formats without periods.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the new API, tx descriptors can be written in one single pass
instead of having to re-read and rewrite fields from multiple places.
This makes the code easier to read and also slightly improves performance
on embedded MIPS hardware.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This ensures that only ath9k_hw_set_desc_link needs to recalculate the tx
descriptor checksum on AR9380+
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When starting the AP beacon timer, it assumes that the TSF has recently
been cleared. Set the SC_OP_TSF_RESET flag to ensure that this is always
the case.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This makes it much easier to add further rework to avoid race conditions
between reset and other work items.
Move other functions to make ath_reset static.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
we already have ah->{rx,tx}chainmask for the same purpose
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Let us enable/disable interrupts based on reference count.
By doing this we can ensure that interrupts are never be
enabled in the middle of tasklet processing. Instead of
addressing corner cases like "ath9k: avoid enabling interrupts
while processing rx", this approach handles it in generic manner.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
At preset set_interrupt also enables interrupt after changing
mask. This is not necessary in all cases and also sometime it
breaks the assumption that interrupt was disabled. So let us
enable the interrupt explicity if it was disabled earlier.
This could also avoid unnecessary register ops and also helps
the follow up patch to have global ref count for interrupts ops.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The received tx status of aggregated frame without BlockAck may
cause deaf state in AR5416 cards. So the driver does a reset to
recover. When this happens, we release the pcu_lock before doing
a reset as ath_rest acquires pcu_lock. This is ugly and also not
atomic. Fixing this addresses the TX DMA failure also.
ath_tx_complete_aggr can be called from different paths which
takes different variants of spin_lock. This patch also addresses
the following warning.
WARNING: at kernel/timer.c:1011 del_timer_sync+0x4e/0x50()
Call Trace:
<IRQ> [<ffffffff8104be3a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
[<ffffffff8104be85>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffff8105915e>] del_timer_sync+0x4e/0x50
[<ffffffffa03726be>] ath_reset+0x3e/0x210 [ath9k]
[<ffffffff8135cdaf>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1f/0x30
[<ffffffffa037760a>] ath_tx_complete_aggr.isra.26+0x54a/0xa40 [ath9k]
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The edma based (AR9003 family) chips update tx status
descriptors in a common ring buffer for all transmitted
frames. Whenever tx interrupt is raised, the descriptors
are processed and tx status index is moved.
The complete tx stauts ring are updated with beacons tx status
when there are no data frames to be sent for a period of time.
In this state, transmitting data frames causes the driver to
wait for the tx status on an incorrect tx status index though
the status was updated by hw properly. The driver detects this
condition as a h/w hang and does unnecessary chip resets.
This issue was orginally reported in adhoc mode while sending
frames after an idle time.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove linux/mm.h inclusion from netdevice.h -- it's unused (I've checked manually).
To prevent mm.h inclusion via other channels also extract "enum dma_data_direction"
definition into separate header. This tiny piece is what gluing netdevice.h with mm.h
via "netdevice.h => dmaengine.h => dma-mapping.h => scatterlist.h => mm.h".
Removal of mm.h from scatterlist.h was tried and was found not feasible
on most archs, so the link was cutoff earlier.
Hope people are OK with tiny include file.
Note, that mm_types.h is still dragged in, but it is a separate story.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This fix ensure the timers to be set at beacon interval boundaries.
Without this change timers can be set improperly resulting in the absence of beacons.
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Deyber <fabricedeyber@agilemesh.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Earlier beacon_interval is used to hold interval value and
some flags (ATH9K_BEACON_ENA &ATH9K_BEACON_PERIOD). So to
extract interval ATH9K_BEACON_PERIOD is used. Those flags
were completely removed. So masking beacon_interval is
not required.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
rounding up the delta between last-beacon-tsf and tsf to intval is wrong
and can lead to misconfigured timers which breaks beacon transmission.
Fix this by adding intval and subtracting the offset of the tsf within the
current slot.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In ad-hoc mode, beacon timers are configured differently compared to AP
mode, and (depending on the scenario) can vary enough to make the beacon
tasklet not detect slot 0 based on the TSF.
Since staggered beacons are not (and cannot be) used in ad-hoc mode, it
makes more sense to just hardcode slot 0 here, avoiding unnecessary
TSF reads and calculations.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The assumsion is that while processing ath9k tasklet,
interrupts were already disabled and it will be enabled
at the completion of ath9k tasklet. But whenever TSFOOR is raised,
the driver configures the beacon timers after having received a
beacon frame from the AP which inturn enables the interrupts.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Requesting beacon sync up to configure beacon timers properly
in hw, has be done after doing beacon config with default values.
Setting the flags in beacon config is causing the device to not
enter into network sleep on idle state.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau