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 spectral scan feature on HT40 channels for ath9k. This patch extends
previous capability added by Simon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>
Tested-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is not exposed as a configuration option anyway
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There's no shared code for handling both rx and tx buffers, and tx
buffers require a lot more metadata than rx buffers.
Using a separate data structure for rx reduces memory usage and improves
cache footprint.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Whenever the return value of snprintf() is used to calculate
remaining buffer-space, we wanted to use sncprintf() instead.
Indentation is adapted where possible. Some lines exceed the
line width limit, either they did it already before, or
since they can not be broken reasonably well.
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are 2 types of WB335 cards, 1-antenna and 2-antenna.
Identify them based on PCI subsystem IDs, this will be used
for MCI/BTCOEX tweaks.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These cards are based on WB335/AR9565.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The PCIE Workaround register (AR_WA/0x4004) is used to handle
various hardware quirks. For AR9002 chips, AR_WA_D3_L1_DISABLE
is used to prevent the HW from automatically entering L1 state
when D3 is enforced.
AR_WA_D3_L1_DISABLE has to be enabled for a few AR9280 based
cards, mark them based on their PCI subdevice/subvendor IDs
and enforce it in ar9002_hw_configpcipowersave().
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CSA is only enabled for one interface, but the same limitation applies
for mac80211 too. It checks whether the beacon has been sent (different
approaches for non-EDMA-enabled and EDMA-enabled devices), and completes
the channel switch after that.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 uses debugfs_remove_recursive, so there's no need for the
driver to do an explicit cleanup of its sta debugfs entry.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also reduce the size of a few fields where possible
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Similar to a race condition that exists in the tx path, the hardware
might re-read the 'next' pointer of a descriptor of the last completed
frame. This only affects non-EDMA (pre-AR93xx) devices.
To deal with this race, defer clearing and re-linking a completed rx
descriptor until the next one has been processed.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Create a per-vif dummy node entry for keeping the multicast software
queues. This helps in setups with a lot of mulitcast traffic that could
otherwise potentially drown out unicast traffic to stations.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is a first step for improving fairness between legacy and 802.11n
traffic, and it should also improve reliability of resets and channel
changes by keeping the hardware queue depth very short.
When an aggregation session is torn down, all packets in the retry queue
will be removed from the BAW and freed.
For all subframes that have not been transmitted yet, the A-MPDU flag
will be cleared, and a sequence number allocated. This ensures that the
next A-MPDU session will get the correct initial sequence number.
This happens both on aggregation session start and stop.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When a packet has been tracked as part of the BlockAck window and added
to the hardware queue, it can end up back in the TID queue again with
fi->retries still set to 0 (e.g. if the frame was filtered). Keep an
extra bit for the BAW tracking status to fix this corner case.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The check for ATH_AMPDU_SUBFRAME_DEFAULT is unnecessary, since it's set
to half the maximum BlockAck Window size, which is already the maximum
value that h_baw could possibly have. Also remove unnecessary variables.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Improves packet retry order and helps with further tx queueing
improvements.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
During a HW reset, the diversity config is programmed
in the set_board_values() eeprom callback, there is no
need to do it again by calling ath_ant_comb_update().
Fixed antenna support is not fully handled for 1-stream
cards, it can be done later.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make use of this capability to restrict the usage of the
debugfs file and modparam using which this feature can
be enabled.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CUS198/CUS230 need a few tweaks in the antenna diversity
algorithm to accomodate RSSI variation. Add a couple
of knobs to control low RSSI threshold and fast antenna
diversity bias values.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Right now, it is being done for all cases.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When antenna diversity combining is enabled in the EEPROM,
the initial values for the MAIN/ALT config have to be
programmed correctly. This patch adds it for AR9285.
Since the diversity combining macros are common to all chip
families, remove the redundant AR9285 macros and move the
definitions to phy.h.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since platform support is required for WoW, identify and
and enable Wow only for supported cards.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CUS198 and CUS230 are similar cards, both
are AR9485 + xLNA solutions. But, the subsystem IDs
differ - identify CUS230 explicitly to make things
clearer.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CUS198 is a card based on AR9485. There are differences
between the base reference design HB125 and CUS198.
Identify such cards based on the PCI subsystem IDs and
set HW parameters appropriately.
Addresses this bug - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49201
Cc: jkp@iki.fi
Cc: gfmichaud@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
This adds support for PS-Poll and U-APSD driver-buffered frames (part of
an aggregation session).
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the UAPSD hardware queue to get PS-Poll responses out as fast as
possible and without backoff.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Waiting for all subframes of an existing aggregation session to drain
before allowing mac80211 to start a new one is fragile and deadlocks
caused by this behavior have been observed.
Since mac80211 has proper synchronization for aggregation session
start/stop handling, a better approach to session handling is to simply
allow mac80211 to start a new session at any time. This requires
changing the code to discard any packets outside of the BlockAck window
in the A-MPDU software retry code.
This patch implements the above and also simplifies the code.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When aggregation stop is requested, don't run the mac80211 aggregation
stop callback yet, while the session is still blocked.
Also, when aggregation flush is requested, don't run the callback at all.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In some cases it can be useful to change the MAC address of a virtual
interface to something that's completely different from the EEPROM
stored MAC address. In this case it is a bad idea to use the EEPROM MAC
address for calculating the BSSID mask, as that would make it too wide.
In one case a few devices have been observed to send ACKs for many
packets on the channel not directed at them, which results in a neat
Denial of Service attack on the channel.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As the comment in ath_get_next_rx_buf indicates, if a descriptor with
the done bit set follows one with the done bit cleared, both descriptors
should be discarded, however the driver is not doing that yet.
To fix this, use the rs->rs_more flag as an indicator that the following
frame should be discarded. This also helps with the split buffer case:
if the first part of the frame is discarded, the following parts need to
be discarded as well, since they contain no valid header or usable data.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.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>
The ath9k hardware reports whenever an frame was part
of an A-MPDU. MAC80211 already provides the necessary
API to pass this additional information along to
whomever needs it.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The sample data received through the spectral scan can be either in big or
little endian byteorder. This information isn't stored in the output file.
Therefore it is not possible for the analyzer software to find the correct byte
order.
It is relative common to get the data from a low end AP in big endian mode and
transfer it to another computer in little endian mode to analyze it. Therefore,
it would be better to store it in network (big endian) byte order.
The extension of the 8 bit bins for each bin to 16 bit is not necessary. This
operation can be done in userspace or on a different machine. Instead the
max_exp defining the amount of shifting required for each bin is exported to
userspace.
The change of the output format requires a change of the type in the sample
tlv to allow the userspace program to correctly detect the bin format.
Reported-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@open-mesh.com>
[siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de: squashed patches, update commit message, rebase, fix endianess bug]
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Export the various parameters to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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>
The commit "ath9k: fix rx flush handling" added a deadlock that happens
because ath_rx_tasklet is called in a section that has already taken the
rx buffer lock.
It seems that the only purpose of the rxbuflock was a band-aid fix to the
reset vs rx tasklet race, which has been properly fixed in the commit
"ath9k: add a better fix for the rx tasklet vs rx flush race".
Now that the fix is in, we can safely remove the lock to avoid such issues.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Right now the rx flush is not doing anything useful on AR9003+, as it only
works if the buffers in the rx FIFO have not been purged yet, as is done
by ath_stoprecv.
To fix this, always call ath_flushrecv from within ath_stoprecv before
the FIFO is emptied, but still after the hw receive path has been stopped.
This ensures that frames received (and ACKed by the hardware) shortly before
a reset will be seen by the software, which should improve A-MPDU session
stability.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ensure that the rx tasklet is no longer running when entering the reset path.
Also remove the distinction between flush and no-flush frame processing.
If a frame has been received and ACKed by the hardware, the stack needs to see
it, so that the BA receive window does not go out of sync.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Adds the spectral scan feature for ath9k. AR92xx and AR93xx chips
are supported for now. The spectral scan is triggered by configuring
a mode through a debugfs control file. Samples can be gathered via
another relay debugfs file.
Essentially, to try it out:
echo chanscan > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/spectral_scan_ctl
iw dev wlan0 scan
cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/spectral_scan0 > samples
echo disable > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/spectral_scan_ctl
This feature is still experimental.
The special "chanscan" mode is used to perform spectral scan while
mac80211 is scanning for channels. To allow this,
sw_scan_start/complete() ops have been added.
The patch contains code snippets and information from Zefir Kurtisi and
information provided by Adrian Chadd and Felix Fietkau.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
