The calibration period is now invoked by triggering a software
interrupt from within the ISR by ath5k_hw_calibration_poll()
instead of via a timer.
However, the calibration interval isn't initialized before
interrupts are enabled, so we can have a situation where an
interrupt occurs before the interval is assigned, so the
interval is actually negative. As a result, the ISR will
arm a software interrupt to schedule the tasklet, and then
rearm it when the SWI is processed, and so on, leading to a
softlockup at modprobe time.
Move the initialization order around so the calibration interval
is set before interrupts are active. Another possible fix
is to schedule the tasklet directly from the poll routine,
but I think there are additional plans for the SWI.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Disable the TX hang monitoring routine when doing a scan.
Monitoring for a hung situation is not really necessary during
a scan run.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cancel/restart the ANI timer directly.
With this patch, the ANI lock can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k currently supports only RX interrupt
mitigation.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a rather embarrassing typo.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch aggregates a bunch of small random changes
that won't fit really anywhere else properly.
1. move tid-locating macro into a separate function.
2. remove redundant NULL check.
3. add modulation mask definition
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The flags in question were once useful for debugging.
Time has passed and now they do nothing more than
duplicating txinfo->flags.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR9170 has the bad habit of choking when traffic builds up.
Tests have shown that this can partially be attributed to
a huge buildup of backlogged frames.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes dead infrastructure which was meant
for an out-of-tree rate control algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The MIB counters are disabled when doing a chip reset.
Since ANI depends on the MIB registers for its operation, relying
on the contents of said registers during HW reset results in sub-optimal
performance.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When TX DMA termination has failed, the HW has to be reset
completely. Doing a fast channel change in this case is insufficient.
Also, change the debug level of a couple of messages to FATAL.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The internal, driver-specific maintenance of sequence
numbers is applicable only for HT frames.
Also, remove comments that are not relevant anymore.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
First, we copy/paste the padding stuff from ath9k_tx to ath_tx_cabq since it
needs to same kind of padding, but for internally generated beacons.
Next, software padding done on TX needs to be removed before calling
ieee80211_tx_status. The code was already there in ath_tx_complete but it
was wrong. Fix it by using ath9k_cmn_padpos. This later code has been
tested by sending packets to a monitor interface and reading packets from the
same interface.
Signed-off-by: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Without this we have no gaurantee of the integrity of the
EEPROM and are likely to encounter a lot of bogus bug reports
due to actual issues on the EEPROM. With the EEPROM checksum
check in place we can easily rule those issues out.
If you run patch during a revert *you* have a card with a busted
EEPROM and only older kernel will support that concoction. This
patch is a trade off between not accepitng bogus EEPROMs and
avoiding bogus bug reports allowing developers to focus instead
on real concrete issues.
If stable keeps bogus bug reports because of a possibly busted EEPROM
feel free to apply this there too.
Tested on an AR5414
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: jirislaby@gmail.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Cc: me@bobcopeland.com
Cc: david.quan@atheros.com
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Adds support for the WiFi activity LED on the Dell Vostro A860 laptop.
Signed-off-by: Shahar Or <shahar@shahar-or.co.il>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a bug in ath9k's tx status check, which
caused mac80211 to consider regularly transmitted unicast frames
as un-acked.
When checking the ts_status field for errors, it needs to be masked
with ATH9K_TXERR_FILT, because this field also contains other fields
like ATH9K_TX_ACKED.
Without this patch, AP mode is pretty much unusable, as hostapd
checks the ACK status for the frames that it injects.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"Definition" is misspelled "defintion" in several comments; this
patch fixes them. No code changes.
Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Currently, the 2GHz band is enabled unconditionally, even if the device
does not support it.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
fix some typos and punctuation in comments
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
In my setups, ath9k's debugfs files are most of the time much more
useful than the messages generated by enabling CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG along
with the right debug flags.
Since CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG comes with a noticeable overhead on embedded
systems, this patch makes it possible to use the debugfs files without
that option.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Update the beacon queue parameters with best effort queue parameters for
IBSS mode. This reduces the number of beacons generated by ath9k and
ensures a fair beacon distribution when there are multiple IBSS stations.
Also CWmin is quadrupled to achieve the expected percentage of
distribution.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Atheros single stream AR9285 and AR9271 have half the PCU TX FIFO
buffer size of that of dual stream devices. Dual stream devices
have a max PCU TX FIFO size of 8 KB while single stream devices
have 4 KB. Single stream devices have an issue though and require
hardware only to use half of the amount of its capable PCU TX FIFO
size, 2 KB and this requires a change in software.
Technically a change would not have been required (except for frame
burst considerations of 128 bytes) if these devices would have been
able to use the full 4 KB of the PCU TX FIFO size but our systems
engineers recommend 2 KB to be used only. We enforce this through
software by reducing the max frame triggger level to 2 KB.
Fixing the max frame trigger level should then have a few benefits:
* The PER will now be adjusted as designed for underruns when the
max trigger level is reached. This should help alleviate the
bus as the rate control algorithm chooses a slower rate which
should ensure frames are transmitted properly under high system
bus load.
* The poll we use on our TX queues should now trigger and work
as designed for single stream devices. The hardware passes
data from each TX queue on the PCU TX FIFO queue respecting each
queue's priority. The new trigger level ensures this seeding of
the PCU TX FIFO queue occurs as designed which could mean avoiding
false resets and actually reseting hw correctly when a TX queue
is indeed stuck.
* Some undocumented / unsupported behaviour could have been triggered
when the max trigger level level was being set to 4 KB on single
stream devices. Its not clear what this issue was to me yet.
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Cc: Bennyam Malavazi <bennyam.malavazi@atheros.com>
Cc: Stephen Chen <stephen.chen@atheros.com>
Cc: Shan Palanisamy <shan.palanisamy@atheros.com>
Cc: Paul Shaw <paul.shaw@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Software padding is done on the TX path and software unpadding is done on the
RX path. This patch corrects the position where the padding occurs. A specific
function computes the pad position and this function is used in the TX and RX
path. This patch has been tested by generating every possible 802.11 frames
with every possible frame_control field and a varying length. This patch is
useful for analyzing non standard 802.11 frames going over the air
Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When mac80211 was telling us to go into Powersave we listened
and immediately turned RX off. This meant hardware would not
see the ACKs from the AP we're associated with and hardware
we'd end up retransmiting the null data frame in a loop
helplessly.
Fix this by keeping track of the transmitted nullfunc frames
and only when we are sure the AP has sent back an ACK do we
go ahead and shut RX off.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <Vivek.Natarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove some fields from struct ath_rate_table that are now unused.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch changes ath9k to pass proper MCS indexes and flags
between the RC and the rest of the driver code.
sc->cur_rate_table remains, as it's used by the RC code internally,
but the rest of the driver code no longer uses it, so a potential
new RC for ath9k would not have to update it.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.o
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c: In function `ath_rx_prepare':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:208: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:220: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Copied from original one-line patch here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14267#c26
(This is for 2.6.33 and beyond, where the bool was changed to a flag by
"cfg80211: convert bools into flags". -- JWL)
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The sign of correction coefficients was lost in the calculations, which
caused high packetloss in 802.11a mode after the results were applied.
Fixed by removing unneccesary and broken AND with a bit mask.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Turek <8an@praha12.net>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It has been tested with a 802.11 frame generator and by checking the FCS field
of each received frame with the value reported by the Atheros hardware. This
patch is useful if you are trying to analyze non standard 802.11 frame going
over the air.
Signed-off-by: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We've accumulated a number of options for wiphys
which make more sense as flags as we keep adding
more. Convert the existing ones.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
At least two revisions of the D-Link DWA 160 exist, called A1 and A2. A1
(USB-ID 07d1:3c10) is already listed in usb.c as D-Link DWA 160A. A2
(USB-ID 07d1:3a09) works if added to ar9170_usb_ids. I didn't do much
testing until now, but I was able to connect to APs using WPA or WEP and
transmit data.
Summary:
* Add model revision number to the comment for D-Link DWA 160 A1 (07d1:3c10)
* Add support for D-Link DWA 160 A2 (07d1:3a09)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Klute <thomas2.klute@uni-dortmund.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The entire aggregation code currently operates on the
hw pointer and station addresses, but that needs to
change to make stations purely per-vif; As one step
preparing for that make the aggregation code callable
with the station, or by the combination of virtual
interface and station address.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Check for AR5416 ver 1.0 before calibrating 3 chains
for multi-chain. This is a WAR for calibration
failure.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ATH9K_ANT_VARIABLE is the default diversity control used.
Consequently ath9k_hw_decrease_chain_power() does nothing.
ath9k_hw_setantennaswitch() is unused too.
Also, gbeacon_rate is unused.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
axq_linkbuf, axq_aggr_depth, axq_lastdsWithCTS and
axq_gatingds are unused.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Remove a code chunk dealing with operating mode changes.
As noted, all such policy changes are to be done in
add_interface.
* Remove pointless check for empty BSSID.
Also, remove mode checks - mac80211 does all the needed checks.
* Handle enabling/disabling beacon transmission properly.
* Handle beacon interval changes for AP mode.
The original code depended on config_interface() to update
the HW TSF. Since that callback has been removed, handle
it properly.
* Remove unneeded code dealing with key/privacy.
* Set the chainmasks to 1x1 for IBSS when the BSSID is set.
This was happening uncondionally before.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes the need for separately allocated private tx info
data in ath9k and brings the driver one small step closer to using the
mac80211 rate control API properly.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch enables the driver to process all incoming
dupofdm-modulated frames when operating in HT40 mode.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As a holdover from earlier code when we used to set
the power limit to '0' after a reset to configure the
default transmit power, ath5k interprets txpower=0 as
12.5 dBm. Fix that by just passing 0 through.
This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14567
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Daniel Folkers <daniel.folkers@task24.nl>
Tested-by: Daniel Folkers <daniel.folkers@task24.nl>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a regression introduced in
"ath9k: avoid the copy skb->cb on every RX'd skb"
With that change, the rx status in skb->cb was left uninitialized
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The bit value of AR_GPIO_INPUT_EN_VAL_BT_PRIORITY_BB is wrong, it should
be 0x400 and the number of bits to be right shifted is 10. Having this
wrong value in 0x4054 sometimes affects bt quality on btcoex environment.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Jumbograms are frames put together linked together through
more than one descriptor. For example ath9k_htc will use this
to send from the target a large frame split up into 2 or more
segments. The driver then would be in charge of putting the
frame back together.
When jumbograms are constructed the rx_stats->rs_more will
bet set and rx_stats->rs_status will not have any valid content
as the actual status will only be avialable at the end of
the chained descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bob Copeland