Instead of sending one packet at a time to the firmware, try to
send all available packets at once.
This optimization decreases the number of transactions, which saves
CPU cycles and increases network throughput.
Instead of retrieving one packet at a time from the firmware, try to
retrieve all available packets at once.
This optimization decreases the number of transactions, which saves
CPU cycles and increases network throughput.
The HW supports up to 4095 bytes transfers via SPI. The SPI read & write
operations do not handle larger transfers, causing the HW to stall in such
cases.
Fix this by fragmenting large transfers into smaller chunks, and
transferring each one separately.
This patch improves connection reliability by choosing the lowest basic
rate for null-func frames (which increases their range, as the firmware does
not do rate fall-back for null-func frames.) Also, increase the PSM entry
retry-counter.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com> Tested-by: Tuomas Katila <ext-tuomas.2.katila@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Currently then dwell times for each channel in scans is set to an overly
long value, and excessive number of probe-requests are transmitted on each
channel (for active scans.)
Based on testing, comparable results can be received with smaller dwell-time,
and, with fever probe-requests - in fact, reducing the number of probe-requests
to 2 seems to increase the number of found results.
Configure more optimal values for per channel dwell times. Comparison for the
different scan configurations (in my current office environment):
wl1271: Add handling for failing hardware scan command
Currently, the driver does not handle a failing hardware command to scan in
any way - effectively, the scan machine will jam until the driver is shut down,
and future scan requests will just return -EBUSY to user space, resulting in
a type of busy-loop. The same problem occurs if the firmware fails to deliver
the scan completion event - add timeout for this.
There is some probability of hardware failures, which currently go largely
undetected. Attempt to recover from these failures by shutting down the
hardware, and requesting mac80211 to reconfigure it.
wl1271: Fix work cancelling when shutting down the driver
The work cancelling has had several hazards, ranging from potentially
executing work after the driver is in OFF state, to executing work after
the driver and relevant memory structures are already removed.
Juuso Oikarinen [Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:28:03 +0000 (06:28 +0300)]
wl1271: Move scan complete invocation into work function
The current scan implementation can jam, if the scan request ends up
containing no work. This can especially happen if there is a scan request
with only 11a band channels for HW that does not support 11a.
Juuso Oikarinen [Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:28:03 +0000 (06:28 +0300)]
wl1271: Enable 11a support always, prevent scanning for unsupporting chips
This patch always enables 11a band towards the mac80211, but prevents scanning
(and hence the usage of) 11a band channels if the chipset does not support it.
Juuso Oikarinen [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:22:02 +0000 (08:22 +0200)]
wl1271: Change supported channel order for a more optimal scan
The mac80211 inserts channels into a scan request in the same order the driver
registers them. Use this fact to optimize scan by ordering the channels so
that adjacent channels don't get scanned consecutively.
Luciano Coelho [Wed, 4 Aug 2010 01:36:32 +0000 (04:36 +0300)]
wl1271: fix forced passive scan
When we get no SSIDs in the scan request, we should force a passive scan in
all channels. This patch adds code to force the passive scan flag to be set
in that case.
In the scan state machine, the wl1271_mutex is unlocked first then relocked,
and then the scan state variables are modified.
This makes it possible for ieee80211_scan_complete to be called twice in some
scenarios, as the scan completion event from the firmware may be processed
while the mutex is unlocked.
To fix the issue, move the ieee80211_scan_complete call last in the function.
This is generally safer, but there still may be issues is functions calling
the scan state machine rely on states checked before the unlocking of the
global mutex.
(forward ported from 2.6.32 -- this is not strictly needed anymore, because
the mutex doesn't need to be unlocked anymore, but I'm applying this change
anyway, so that the call to ieee80211_scan_complete is in the same place)
wl1271: Add trigger to net_device oper_state to change BT coex priority
Add a trigger to net_device changes to monitor for oper_state changes in order
to be able to inform the firmware when association is fully complete (including
the EAP negotiation.)
Juuso Oikarinen [Thu, 27 May 2010 09:53:01 +0000 (12:53 +0300)]
wl1271: Implement CMD_SET_STA_STATE to indicate connection completion to FW
Implement the command function to send CMD_SET_STA_STATE to the firmware. This
is used to indicate that association (and the related EAP negotiation) are
complete.
This is used to tune WLAN-BT coexistense priority towards BT, improving BT
A2DP and SCO performance.
moved the CMNTR flag into the skb RX flags for
some aggregation cleanups, but this was wrong
since the optimisation this flag tried to make
requires that it is kept across the processing
of multiple interfaces -- which isn't true for
flags in the skb. The patch not only broke the
optimisation, it also introduced a bug: under
some (common!) circumstances the flag will be
set on an already freed skb!
However, investigating this in more detail, I
found that most of the flags that we set should
be per packet, _except_ for this one, due to
a-MPDU processing. Additionally, the flags used
for processing (currently just this one) need
to be reset before processing a new packet.
Since we haven't actually seen bugs reported as
a result of the wrong flags handling (which is
not too surprising -- the only real bug case I
can come up with is an a-MSDU contained in an
a-MPDU), I'll make a different fix for rc.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:21:08 +0000 (11:21 +0200)]
mac80211: fix release_reorder_timeout in scan
Even if the reorder timeout timer fires while
scanning, the frames weren't received during
scanning and therefore shouldn't be dropped.
To implement this, changes to the passive scan
RX handler simplify understanding it, because
it currently checks HW_SCANNING independently
of a packet's in-scan receive status (which
doesn't make a big difference, since scan_rx()
will only pick up probe responses and beacons,
which can't be aggregated.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:21:06 +0000 (11:21 +0200)]
mac80211: consolidate packet processing
There are now four instances of vaguely the same
code that does packet preparation, checking for
MMIC errors and reporting them, and then invoking
packet processing. Consolidate all of these.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The first argument to prepare_for_handlers is always
the sdata that can just be stored in rx data directly
(and even already is, in two of four code paths.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Teemu Paasikivi [Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:23:55 +0000 (07:23 +0300)]
nl80211: Fix exit from nl80211_set_power_save
If interface does not existk, when nl80211_set_power_save is called, (eg.
module has been unloaded) it has been causing kernel panic. Added new
goto target to avoid crash if get_rdev_dev_by_info_ifindex does not
return dev and rdev pointers.
Signed-off-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ben Greear [Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:22:24 +0000 (10:22 -0700)]
mac80211: Support receiving data frames on multiple vifs.
When using multiple STA interfaces on the same radio, some
data packets need to be received on all interfaces
(broadcast, for instance).
Make the STA loop look similar to the mgt-data loop.
Also, add logic to check RX_FLAG_MMIC_ERROR for last
interface in mgt-data loop.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ben Greear [Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:44:36 +0000 (09:44 -0700)]
mac80211/ath9k: Support AMPDU with multiple VIFs.
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>
Ben Greear [Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:29:01 +0000 (20:29 -0700)]
mac80211: Support multiple VIFS per AP in debugfs.
Create 'stations' sub-directory under each netdev:[vif-name]
directory to hold all stations for that network device.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:34:52 +0000 (12:34 +0200)]
ath9k_hw: simplify revision checks for AR9280
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>
Due to miscalculation of nvs_len, excessive data was sent to the
firmware.
Fix this by first setting nvs_ptr to point to the first NVS table,
and computing the total size of all NVS tables accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com> Tested-By: Tuomas Katila <ext-tuomas.2.katila@nokia.com> Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Paprd needs to be done only on active chains(not for all the chains
that hw can support). The paprd training frames which are sent
for inactive chains would be hanging on the hw queue without
getting transmitted and would make the connection so unstable.
This issue happens only with the hw which supports paprd cal(ar9003).
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes stale mac80211_tx_control_flags for
filtered / retried frames.
Because ieee80211_handle_filtered_frame feeds skbs back
into the tx path, they have to be stripped of some tx
flags so they won't confuse the stack, driver or device.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Dan Carpenter [Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:48:33 +0000 (01:48 +0200)]
airo: remove "basic_rate" module option
The "basic_rate" module option is not implemented correctly. If the
rate was set to zero it was supposed to set it to "basic_rate | 0x80".
Unfortunately the check to see if what zero was wrong and it checked
"!ai->config.rates" (which is always false) instead of
"!ai->config.rates[i]".
This option was just used for development and it wasn't documented
anywhere. Instead of fixing it, we can just remove it.
Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Jouni Malinen [Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:37:51 +0000 (19:37 +0300)]
mac80211: Add DS Parameter Set into Probe Request on 2.4 GHz
IEEE Std 802.11k-2008 added DS Parameter Set information element into
Probe Request frames as an optional information on 2.4 GHz band (and
mandatory, if radio measurements are enabled). This allows APs to
filter out Probe Request frames that may be received from neighboring
overlapping channels and by doing so, reduce the number of unnecessary
frames in the air. Make mac80211 add this IE into Probe Request frames
whenever the channel is known (i.e., whenever hwscan is not used).
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Jouni Malinen [Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:36:10 +0000 (19:36 +0300)]
mac80211: Filter ProbeReq SuppRates based on TX rate mask
If the TX rate set has been masked, the removed rates can also be
removed from the Supported Rates and Extended Supported Rates IEs in
Probe Request frames.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
moved the CMTR flag into the skb's status, and
in doing so introduced a use-after-free -- when
the skb has been handed to cooked monitors the
status setting will touch now invalid memory.
Additionally, moving it there has effectively
discarded the optimisation -- since the bit is
only ever set on freed SKBs, and those were a
copy, it could never be checked.
For the current release, fixing this properly
is a bit too involved, so let's just remove the
problematic code and leave userspace with one
copy of each frame for each virtual interface.
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.33+] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:45:38 +0000 (13:45 +0200)]
ath9k: clean up / fix aggregation session flush
The tid aggregation cleanup is a bit fragile, as it discards failed
subframes in some places, and retransmits them in others. This could
block the cleanup of an existing aggregation session, if a retransmission
for a tid is issued, yet the tid is never scheduled again because of
the cleanup state.
Fix this by getting rid of as many subframes as possible, as early
as possible, and immediately transmitting pending subframes as regular
HT frames instead of waiting for the cleanup to complete.
Drop all pending subframes while keeping track of the Block ACK window
during aggregate tx completion to prevent sending out stale subframes,
which could confuse the receiver side.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:35:28 +0000 (19:35 +0200)]
ath9k: fix an aggregation start related race condition
A new aggregation session start can be issued by mac80211, even when the
cleanup of the previous session has not completed yet. Since the data structure
for the session is not recreated, this could corrupt the block ack window
and lock up the aggregation session. Fix this by delaying the new session
until the old one has been cleaned up.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:45:36 +0000 (13:45 +0200)]
ath9k: clean up block ack window handling
There's no reason to keep pointers to pending tx buffers around, if they're
only used to keep track of which frames are still pending. Use a bitfield
instead.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
carl9170: reinit phy after HT settings have changed
The driver has a set of different initvals for 20 MHz
vs dynamic HT2040 operation. Because we can't change
some of the registers "in-flight", the driver needs to
perform a warm reset.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don't mark the device as completely dead just yet.
If all goes to plan and carl9170_reboot succeeds
then we can skip the expensive userspace-driven
reinitialization anyway.
And if it doesn't and carl9170_reboot fails,
then carl9170_usb_cancel_urbs will do the
necessary steps.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ever since carl9170 gained support to read the noisefloor,
the reported noisefloor level was pretty poor.
Initially I assumed that something was wrong in the PHY
setup and it would be impossible to fix without any
guidances. But this was not the case. In fact the nf
readings were correct and the thing that was broken
was the "simple" sign extension code!
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bruno Randolf [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:37:12 +0000 (11:37 +0900)]
ath5k: Simplify cw_min/max and AIFS configuration
Get rid of overly complicated cw_min/max and AIFS configuration:
* Validate values in ath5k_hw_set_tx_queueprops(), so we can use them directly
without further checks or computation in ath5k_hw_reset_tx_queue().
* Simplifiy by using AR5K_TUNE_AIFS|CWMIN|CWMAX variables directly since we
don't support XR or B channels. That way we can also remove
AR5K_TXQ_USEDEFAULT and the confusing logic around it.
* Update data types: AIFS is u8, CW's are u16.
* Remove now unneeded variables in ath5k_hw.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bruno Randolf [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:37:07 +0000 (11:37 +0900)]
ath5k: Keep last descriptor in queue
If we return a TX descriptor to the pool of available descriptors, while a
queues TXDP still points to it we could potentially run into all sorts of
troube.
It has been suggested that there is hardware which can set the descriptors
done bit before it reads ds_link and moves on to the next descriptor. While the
documentation says this is not true for newer chipsets (the descriptor contents
are copied to some internal memory), we don't know about older hardware.
To be safe, we always keep the last descriptor in the queue, and avoid dangling
TXDP pointers. Unfortunately this does not fully resolve the problem - queues
still get stuck!
This is similar to what ath9k does.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bruno Randolf [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:36:56 +0000 (11:36 +0900)]
ath5k: Add watchdog for stuck TX queues
Since we do not know any better solution to the problem that TX queues can get
stuck, this adds a timer-based watchdog, which will check for stuck queues and
reset the hardware if necessary.
Bruno Randolf [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:36:35 +0000 (11:36 +0900)]
ath5k: Use four hardware queues
Prepare ath5k for WME by using four hardware queues.
The way we set up our queues matches the mac80211 queue priority 1:1, so we
don't have to do any mapping for queue numbers.
Every queue uses 50 of the total 200 available transmit buffers, so the DMA
memory usage does not increase with this patch, but it might be good to
fine-tune the number of buffers per queue later (depending on the CPU speed and
load, and the speed of the medium access, it might not be big enough).
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bob Copeland [Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:45:07 +0000 (12:45 +0900)]
ath5k: reorder base.c to remove fwd decls
This change reorganizes the main ath5k file in order to re-group
related functions and remove most of the forward declarations
(from 61 down to 3). This is, unfortunately, a lot of churn, but
there should be no functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove unneeded ath_crypt_caps flags, as per "ath9k_hw: remove useless hw
capability flags" (364734fafbba0c3133e482db78149b9a823ae7a5), but set the
AESCCM flag for ath9k. common ath code still needs a flag for this because
there is ath5k hardware which can't do AES in hardware.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add a simple mechanism to pass platform data to the
SDIO instances of wl12xx.
This way there is no confusion over who owns the 'embedded data',
typechecking is preserved, and no possibility for the wrong driver to
pick up the data.
Originally proposed by Russell King.
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make it possible for the set power method to indicate a
success/failure return value. This is needed to support
more complex power on/off operations such as SDIO
power manipulations.
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When a driver doesn't fill the entire buffer, old
heap contents may remain, and if it also doesn't
update the length properly, this old heap content
will be copied back to userspace.
It is very unlikely that this happens in any of
the drivers using private ioctls since it would
show up as junk being reported by iwpriv, but it
seems better to be safe here, so use kzalloc.
Reported-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Jay Sternberg [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 16:42:35 +0000 (09:42 -0700)]
iwlwifi: corrections to debug output of ucode statistics
remove duplicate header and clean up format so it is defined once
making changes consolicated ensuring consistancy of output.
no function change to date displayed.
Signed-off-by: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Wey-Yi Guy [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 17:49:42 +0000 (10:49 -0700)]
iwlagn: keep track of failure tx status
Tx command response sent to host by uCode after completed
the transmission attempt. The status parameter indicates
whether the transmission was successful, or else why if failed.
Here we keep the counters to help understand the different failure
cases.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The patch titled "ath9k: Add new file init.c" shuffled some code
around but in dong so for some reason also removed the revision
check for disablign power save. Add this revision check again
so we can get power save re-enabled again by default on cards
newer than AR5416 and AR5418.
This patch has fixes for stable kernels [2.6.34+].
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>
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