It looks like there are some issues in the current ath9k version as
far as staggered Beacon frame scheduling is concerned. This results in
Beacon frame timestamp being off by 25 milliseconds or so which can
cause issues with multicast power save buffering in AP mode. Some
client stations fail to receive multicast frames when there is this
large an offset between TBTT and actual Beacon transmission time.
Since ath9k does not yet support multiple BSSes anyway, the staggered
Beacon frame scheduling is just increasing the number of interrupts at
this point. The easiest fix for the timestamp offset is to disable
staggered Beacon frames for now. We need to redesign beacon.c anyway
when adding multi-BSS support with mac80211 since the existing code
depends on different mechanism for Beacon frame transmission.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix a memory leak where AP mode did not free transmitted Beacon frame
skbs.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Pat Erley <pat-lkml@erley.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using GFP_KERNEL was wrong and produces a 'scheduling while atomic'
bug as we're in a tasklet. Also, check for proper return values
now, in case allocation fails and be sure to stop the TX queue
in case of memory issues but gaurantee the TX queue will
eventually be woken up.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
pci_map_single() can fail so detect those errors with
pci_dma_mapping_error() and deal with them accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In preparation for the introduction of a generic swap() macro.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Cc: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ANI can't be turned on/off dynamically yet, but the calculation
of the calibration period is wrong anyway. This patch fixes it.
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch kills ath9k's ath9k_opmode enum by replacing it with nl80211_iftype.
Signed-off-by: Colin McCabe <colin@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make debugging configurable, and add a module parameter
to give the debug mask.
Add debug.c to hold all debug specific code.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove all the useless __func__ prefixes in debug messages,
and replace the DPRINTF macro with a function.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Hostapd now passes the HT parameters through the config()
callback, use these to set the appropriate channel in AP mode.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The TX channel width of the BSS can be obtained only after association.
In all cases, default to HT20 if HT is enabled, and set
chan width to HT40 only if the BSS supports it.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We would get an oops on RX on -ENOMEM by passing
NULL to the hardware on ath_rx_buf_link(). The oops
would look something like this:
ath_rx_tasklet+0x515/0x53b
ath9k_tasklet+0x48
tasklet_action
__do_softirq
irq_exit
do_IRQ
RIP: ath_rx_buf_link+0x3a
We correct this by handling the requeue directly on
the ath_rx_tasklet() and trying to allocate an skb
*prior* to sending up the last hardware processed
skb. If we run out of memory this gauranteees we have
skbs to work with while it simply drops new received
frames.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Update the rate control only with the tx status of first
AMPDU of an aggregation. This patch fixes frequent drops
in throughput.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CHANNEL_CCK flag is set for all 2 Ghz channels, so IS_CHAN_CCK() would
turn out to be true for all channles in that band.
Use IS_CHAN_B() now, which checks the channel mode and not the channel
flags.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also, use a helper function to setup RC status data
when processing completed TX descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Break down huge functions, use helper functions or
macros instead.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Replace TRUE/FALSE macros with VALID/INVALID macros.
Follow a consistent variable convention.
Remove unnecessary comments.
Add all RC phy macros into a single enum.
Merge functions into reasonably sized entities.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Maintaining two sets of rate tables is redundant, remove one
and use struct ath_rate_table exclusively.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove the hack using vif, and use rate_driver_data within
skb->cb to hold driver specific rate information.
Setup the rate series in the skb's tx control area and remove
all references to ath9k specific rate series ( using struct ath_rc_series ).
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Move the hw rate tables to ath_softc, and access them directly.
tx_triglevel_max is global, move it to ath_rate_node.
Now that ath_rate_softc is gone, rate control attach becomes simpler.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rate control init is now confined to itself, using the
HT capabilites of the STA from rate_init().
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove a lot of old, crufty code and make
RX status reporting a bit sane and clean.
Do not do anything to the RX skb before unmapping.
So in ath_rx_tasklet(), move the skb_put() after PCI unmap.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Half/Quarter rate tables are needed only for legacy chipsets.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Setup legacy rates in ath_rate_init() itself.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Avoid casting of ath_tx_ratctrl and access the elements directly.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes the poor wireless connection which happens even
if we are very well in the range.
Signed-off-by: Don.breslin@atheros.com
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make the DMAable mameory consistent with pci_set_consistent_dma_mask().
The DMA-mapping.txt Documentation recommends this but for PCI-X
considerations and on strange architecture like SGI SN2, not sure
why it would fix an issue but lets see if it does, just in case.
Before this, this driver was tested with x86_64 with about
7 GB of RAM, not sure if this is really needed.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use DMA_32BIT_MASK to clarify we only want 32-bit DMA
memory. What was there before is also 32-bit but this makes it
clearer
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Race condition causes RX buffers to be accessed even before it is
initialized. The RX and TX buffers are initialized immediately after
the hardware is registered with mac80211. The mac80211 start callback
is ready to be fired once the device is registered for a case when the
wpa_supplicant is also running at the same time.
The same race condition is also possible for RKFILL registration
as RFKILL init happens after the device registration with mac80211
and it is possible that rfkill_register would be called even before
it is initialized.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k frees irq even before IRQs are disabled and existing IRQs
are flushed when rfkill_register() fails.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently, ath9k builds RFKILL feature only when the RFKILL subsystem
is built part of the kernel. Build RFKILL feature regardless of whether
RFKILL subsystem is built as a MODULE or part of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
init values update for various atheros chipsets.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We should only tell the hardware its capable of DMA'ing
to us only what we asked dev_alloc_skb(). Prior to this
it is possible a large RX'd frame could have corrupted
DMA data but for us but we were saved only because we
were previously also pci_map_single()'ing the same large
value. The issue prior to this though was we were unmapping
a smaller amount which the prior DMA patch fixed.
Signed-off-by: Bennyam Malavazi <Bennyam.Malavazi@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This should fix the SW-IOMMU bounce buffer starvation
seen ok kernel.org bugzilla 11811:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811
Users on MacBook Pro 3.1/MacBook v2 would see something like:
DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space for 4224 bytes at device 0000:0b:00.0
Unfortunately its only easy to trigger on MacBook Pro 3.1/MacBook v2
so far so its difficult to debug (even with swiotlb=force).
We were pci_unmap_single()'ing less bytes than what we called
for with pci_map_single() and as such we were starving
the swiotlb from its 64MB amount of bounce buffers. We remain
consistent and now always use sc->rxbufsize for RX. While at
it we update the beacon DMA maps as well to only use the data
portion of the skb, previous to this we were pci_map_single()'ing
more data for beaconing than what we tell the hardware it can use,
therefore pushing more iotlb abuse.
Still not sure why this is so easily triggerable on
MacBook Pro 3.1, it may be the hardware configuration
tends to use more memory > 3GB mark for DMA.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Zenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bennyam Malavazi <Bennyam.Malavazi@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ARRAY_SIZE is more concise to use when the size of an array is divided by
the size of its type or the size of its first element.
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@i@
@@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
@depends on i using "paren.iso"@
type T;
T[] E;
@@
- (sizeof(E)/sizeof(E[...]))
+ ARRAY_SIZE(E)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This enables beacons to come through on STA/IBSS.
It should fix sporadic connection issues. Right now
mac80211 expect beacons so give it beacons.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch decodes the MAC/BB version (for instance: AR5416) and the RF
part version (for instance: AR5133). It has been tested on AR5416/AR5133
which is a 2.4/5GHz 11n device. It also makes the differences between
AR5416 (PCI) and AR5418 (PCI Express). Both are named AR5416 in
the register definitions.
Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
