Atheros hardware supports receiving frames that span multiple
descriptors and buffers. In this case, the rx status of every
descriptor except for the last one is invalid and may contain random
data. Because the driver does not support this, it needs to drop such
frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes the incomplete AMPDU implementation in ar9170usb.
The code in question is:
* too big and complex (more than 550 SLOC.)
This is enough to qualify for a new separate code file!
* unbalanced quantity & quality
over-engineered areas like:
* xmit scheduling and queuing frames for multiple HT peers
* redundant frame sorting
are confronted by gaping holes:
* accurate transmission feedback
* firmware error-handling and device reset
* HT rate control algorithm
* error-prone
Since its inclusion, hardly anything was done to fix
any of the outlined flaws from the initial commit message.
=> This also indicates poor maintainability.
* relies heavily on several spinlocks.
As a result of this shortcomings, the code is slow and does not
even support the most basic 11n requirement: HT station mode.
Therefore, I request to purge my heap of **** from the kernel:
"ar9170: implement transmit aggregation".
The next item on the agenda is: (re-)start from scratch with
an adequate design to accommodate the special requirements
and features of the available frameworks and tools.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a regression introduced by the following patch:
"ar9170: load firmware asynchronously"
When we kick off a firmware loading request and then unbind,
or disconnect the usb device right away, we get into trouble:
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at lib/kref.c:44 kref_get+0x1c/0x20()
> Hardware name: 18666GU
> Modules linked in: ar9170usb [...]
> Pid: 6588, comm: firmware/ar9170 Not tainted 2.6.34-rc5-wl #43
> Call Trace:
> [<c102b05e>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x6e/0xb0
> [<c117c93c>] ? kref_get+0x1c/0x20
> [<c102b0b3>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x13/0x20
> [<c117c93c>] ? kref_get+0x1c/0x20
> [<c117bb2f>] ? kobject_get+0xf/0x20
> [<c124d630>] ? get_device+0x10/0x20
> [<c124e5a0>] ? device_add+0x60/0x530
> [<c117b8b5>] ? kobject_init+0x25/0xa0
> [<c12569f9>] ? _request_firmware+0x139/0x3e0
> [<c1256cc0>] ? request_firmware_work_func+0x20/0x70
> [<c1256ca0>] ? request_firmware_work_func+0x0/0x70
> [<c103ff24>] ? kthread+0x74/0x80
> [<c103feb0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
> [<c1003136>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
>---[ end trace 2d50bd818f64a1b7 ]---
- followed by a random Oops -
Avoid that by waiting for the firmware loading to finish
(whether successfully or not) before the unbind in
ar9170_usb_disconnect.
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Bug-fixed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If bit 29 is set, MAC H/W can attempt to decrypt the received aggregate
with WEP or TKIP, eventhough the received frame may be a CRC failed
corrupted frame. If this bit is set, H/W obeys key type in keycache.
If it is not set and if the key type in keycache is neither open nor
AES, H/W forces key type to be open. But bit 29 should be set to 1
for AsyncFIFO feature to encrypt/decrypt the aggregate with WEP or TKIP.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Johan Hovold <johan.hovold@lundinova.se>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Ranga Rao Ravuri <ranga.ravuri@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
TX interrupt mitigation reduces the number of interrupts
by addressing several interrupt actions (AR_IMR_TXOK,
AR_IMR_TXDESC) all in one interrupt so when enabling
it discard setting the other interrupts.
Without this TX interrupt mitigation would actually
increase the number of interrupts two-fold. We still
leave TX interrupt mitigation disabled as it is still
being tested.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the noisefloor calibration times out, do not load -50 into
the registers, since this might cause rx issues. Instead, leave
enough time for the noise floor calibration to complete until
the next check.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since the new AR9003 EEPROM code does tune the card for the configured
tx power level, we need to fill in the correct power limits in the TPC
part of the DMA descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Combine multiple checks that were supposed to check for the same
conditions, but didn't. Always enable fast PLL clock on AR9280 2.0
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fast clock operation (44Mhz) is enabled for 5Ghz in ar9003, so
take care of the conversion from usec to hw clock.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Disable TX IQ calibration, it was prematurely enabled in
previous versions.
Cc: Paul Shaw <Paul.Shaw@Atheros.com>
Cc: Thomas Hammel <Thomas.Hammel@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This synchs up the initvals to the values used on the
Atheros HAL for AR9003. This specific change adds support
for a new high power module.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
A bunch of validation and processing in the RX IRQ handler
can be moved to the RX tasklet. The IRQ handler is
already heavy, with the memory allocation for handling
stream mode. Also, a memcpy of 40 bytes for every packet
can be avoided in the handler.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Check for the endpoint IDs when processing
TX completions and drop the unsupported EPIDs.
We can add other endpoints (UAPSD,..) when support
is added.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All commands to the target are disabled when the device
is unplugged, but a normal module unload has to be
differentiated from this case, as we could still receive
data in the RX endpoint. Fix this by checking if the
device is attached or not.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
My patch "ath9k_htc: Handle WMI timeouts properly" introduced
a race condition in WMI command processing. The last issued command
should be stored _before_ issuing a WMI command. Not doing this
would result in the WMI event IRQ dropping correct command responses
as invalid.
Fix this race by storing the command id correctly.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Completion of WMI commands take a longer time
on some platforms. Increase the timeout value
to handle this.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When handling the REGIN callback, processing
the incoming data first should be the preferred
mode of operation. Allocation of a new SKB may fail,
in which case, the URB will not be resubmitted.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
So, apparently there is a USB reboot command
that the target accepts. Using this instead of
usb_reset_device() fixes the issue of "descriptor read error"
that pops up on repeated load/unload.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the TX callback, the HTC layer has to pass the
priv pointer that was registered during service initialization.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is no reason to disable the PHY Error / MIB counters
when the module is being unloaded.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a code segment in configpciepowersave()
to make use of multiple register writes.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the USB device has been unplugged, there is
no point in trying to send commands to the target.
Fix this by denying all WMI commands in such a case.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch simplifies URB management for transmission,
by removing the 'FLUSH' variable (which is not needed,
since we can determine if the URB has been killed by
looking at the URB status), and also handling the STOP
case properly.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This makes ar5416Addac_9160 and ar5416Addac_9160 const
I guess we skipped them long ago.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Supported only for single stream rates by the hardware
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR9300 based hardware can 3x3 MCS rates, this should be set in the
HT capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of increasing bits_per_symbol for supporting more streams, keep
it single-stream only and multiply the values by the numer of streams.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Include MCS0-31 and also add SGI for HT20. This makes it
possible to support more different rate combinations with
newer hardware.
Based on a patch by Selvam. T.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds the first element of survey data, the noise floor figure.
Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When I set up multiple VAPs with ath9k, I encountered an issue that
the traffic may be lost after a while.
The detailed phenomenon is
1. After a while the clients connected to one of these VAPs will get
into a state that no broadcast/multicast packets can be transfered
successfully while the unicast packets can be transfered normally.
2. Minutes latter the unitcast packets transfer will fail as well,
because the ARP entry is expired and it can't be freshed due to the
broadcast trouble.
It's caused by the group key overwritten and someone discussed this
issue in ath9k-devel maillist before, but haven't work out a fix yet.
I referred the method in madwifi, and made a patch for ath9k.
The method is to set the high bit of the sender(AP)'s address, and
associated that mac and the group key. It requires the hardware
supports multicast frame key search. It seems true for AR9160.
Not sure whether it's the correct way to fix this issue. But it seems
to work in my test. The patch is attached, feel free to revise it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Yingqiang ma <yma.cool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a bunch of endian issues that
were exposed by sparse. It's a miracle that the driver
worked at all till now.
The Lord be praised.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If a WMI command has timed out for some reason,
a late WMI response would end up updating the
response region of a new WMI request that has been
issued in the meantime.
Fix this race condition by dropping a WMI response
if a new WMI command has been issued.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is no point in trying to set the LED pin
when the module is being unloaded. The target
would be reset anyway.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds macros at certain places
which could be optimized for multiple register writes.
The performance of ath9k_htc improves considerably,
especially reducing the latency involved in a scan run.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Programming the opmode in the HW can be done
before the assoc_id and STA_ID registers are
setup. This helps ath9k_htc when multiple register
writes are used.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds support for writing multiple registers
in a single USB command.
Specific calls from the HW code that performs multiple
register writes would be modified to make use of this
in subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is required to implement delayed/buffered
register writes in ath9k_htc.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch cleans up beacon configuration,
removing a redundant interface type check
and updating beacon interval in the correct place.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
According to tests, both TSF lower and upper registers kept counting, so
the higher part could have been updated after the lower part has been
read, as shown in the following log where the upper part is read first
and the lower part next.
tsf = {00000003-fffffffd}
tsf = {00000003-00000001}
tsf = {00000004-0000000b}
This patch corrects this by checking that the upper part has not been
changed while the lower part was read. It has been tested in an IBSS
network where artifical IBSS merges have been done in order to trigger
hundreds of rollover for the TSF lower part.
It follows the logic mentionned by Derek, with only 2 register reads
needed at each additional steps instead of 3 (the minimum number of
register reads is still 3).
Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The first AR9003 hardware family device supported is the
AR9300, which has the vendor:device id 168c:0030
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
LDPC is enabled by the rate control if the its determined
that the target peer supports LDPC. We would have already
intersected the HT capabilities so if our peer supports
LDPC so do we.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also add a function to clean up tx status ring.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Enable CRC check on the descriptor fetched from host on AR9003
upon reseting the TX queue.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also reset tx status ring suring chip reset.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The AR9002 hardware code enables aggregation for WEP but
mac80211 doesn't enable aggregation with WEP, and the AR9003
code family does not need this so skip it for now for AR9003
but leave the code and annotate we should eventually consider
how to remove this in consideration for the HAL unification
goals.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The asynch fifo code is specific to >= AR9287 so stuff it
into the AR9002 hardware family code and skip it for AR9003
cards.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is done depending on what the EEPROM settings indicates.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We add this now as OFDM spur mitigation required accessing
the EEPROM for the AR9003 devices.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Once upon a time the AR_EEPROM_MAC macro was added to let us
add a random attribute to the three 4-bytes of MAC addresses
entries we read from the EEPROM. This was good while a random
high-enough value was used which did not conflict with any
of the already existing enum eeprom_param values. With AR9003
support the enums overlap and it means we either increment
the random offset or just restore the reading logic to match
what the HAL has. I choose to do the later to synchronize
the logic on both code bases.
This should fix reading the MAC address from the EEPROM
on AR9003 hardware.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This goes with some new shiny TX IQ calibration that AR9003
hardware family supports.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is the last call on calib.c which acceses PHY stuff,
with this change we calib.c is now generic between both
all supported hardware families.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is so we can share routines which access this register
on calib.c
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also move interrupt related code to mac.c
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The AR9003 TX/RX gain is currently initialized with the other
components, so for now AR9003 does not implment this callback,
after hardware bring up we can test moving the TX/RX gain there
as well and if it works well move them to its own callback as
well.
Since all INI stuff is now moved out hw.c no longer needs to
include and touch any original INI headers/structs.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is specific to the AR9002 family only.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
