This has no functional change and just cleans up the code
to be more legible and removes a useless variable for
Multi Rate Retry.
For regular frames we use 2 retries for MRR segments [0-2].
For the last MRR segment [3] we use 4.
MRR[0] = 2
MRR[1] = 2
MRR[2] = 2
MRR[3] = 4
Cc: Derek Smithies <derek@indranet.co.nz>
Cc: Chittajit Mitra <Chittajit.Mitra@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The case where no vaid rate is found should not happen now
but to help debugging and downgrade this to a warn.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For AP mode we must tune ANI specially for 2 GHz and
for 5 GHz. We mask in only the flags we want to toggle
on ath9k_hw_ani_control() through the ah->ani_function
bitmask, this will take care of ignoring changes during
ANI reset which we were disabling before.
Testedy-by: Steven Luo <steven@steven676.net>
Cc: Bennyam Malavazi <bennyam.malavazi@atheros.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don't allow users to open debugfs files, because it can cause oopses.
When a user opens some file, driver unlinks it and frees the
corresponding structure, we will dereference freed memory.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes an issue when the TX and RX streams are different.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ANI calibration shouldn't be done when we are not on our home channel.
This is already verified. However, it is racy. Fix this by proper
spin locks.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ANI is not required when the STA is disconnected. So stop it and enable
ANI for adhoc and monitor mode.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove unncessary STATION mode check in ath9k_bss_assoc_info() as
it is called only for STATION mode.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We were not differentiating quality between legacy and HT
configurations. We change this to consider the differences.
New theory for reporting quality:
At a hardware RSSI of 45 you will be able to use MCS 7 reliably.
At a hardware RSSI of 45 you will be able to use MCS 15 reliably.
At a hardware RSSI of 35 you should be able use 54 Mbps reliably.
MCS 7 is the highets MCS index usable by a 1-stream device.
MCS 15 is the highest MCS index usable by a 2-stream device.
All ath9k devices are either 1-stream or 2-stream.
How many bars you see is derived from the qual reporting.
A more elaborate scheme can be used here but it requires tables
of SNR/throughput for each possible mode used. For the MCS table
you can refer to the wireless wiki:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/ieee80211/802.11n
This should fix this bug report:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13537
Cc: Janath.Peiris@atheros.com
Cc: Matt.Smith@atheros.com
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This helper only clears the SC_OP_WAIT_FOR_{BEACON,CAB} flags.
Remove it and clear these flags directly in the approptiate
places instead.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All SC_OP_WAIT_* flags will be cleared in 'ath9k_conf' when PS mode
is disabled, so we don't have to clear it here.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Within mac80211, we often need to copy the rx status into
skb->cb. This is wasteful, as drivers could be building it
in there to start with. This patch changes the API so that
drivers are expected to pass the RX status in skb->cb, now
accessible as IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb). It also updates all
drivers to pass the rx status in there, but only by making
them memcpy() it into place before the call to the receive
function (ieee80211_rx(_irqsafe)). Each driver can now be
optimised on its own schedule.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch moves the sanity check on beacon interval
which was done only for mesh mode to all operating
modes just to be safe.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We can easily run out of tx buf if there is any stuck in
transmission, so downgrade it to WARN_ON().
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 already has one to keep track of number of failure
addba attempts.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU in tx control flags should be enough
to confirm BA is negotiated for that tid.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When we reclaim the tx desc, we always assume that the
last desc is a holding desc, which is not true, and skip it.
If the tx queue is drained during channel change, internal
reset and etc, the last descriptor may not be the holding
descriptor and we fail to reclaim them. This results in the
following two issues.
1. Tx stuck - We drop all the frames coming from upper layer
due to shortage in tx desc.
2. Crash - If we fail to reclaim a tx descriptor, we miss to
update the tx BA window with the seq number of the frame
associated to that desc, which, at some point, result in
the following crash due to an assert failure in ath_tx_addto_baw().
This patch fixes these two issues.
kernel BUG at ../drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:180!
[155064.304164] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Call Trace:
[<fbc6d83b>] ? ath9k_tx+0xeb/0x160 [ath9k]
[<fbbc9591>] ipv6? __ieee80211_tx+0x41/0x120 [mac80211]
[<fbbcb5ae>] ? aes_i586ieee80211_master_start_xmit+0x28e/0x560 [mac80211]
[<c037e501>] aes_generic? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x31/0x40
[<c02f347b>] ? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x16b/0x1c0
[<c03058b5>] ? __qdisc_run+0x1b5/0x200
[<fbbcda5a>] ? af_packetieee80211_select_queue+0xa/0x100 [mac80211]
[<c02f53b7>] ? i915dev_queue_xmit+0x2e7/0x3f0
[<fbbc9b49>] ? ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x369/0x7a0 [mac80211]
[<c031bc35>] ? ip_output+0x55/0xb0
[<c02e0188>] ? show_memcpy_count+0x18/0x60
[<c02eb186>] ? __kfree_skb+0x36/0x90
[<c02f2202>] ? binfmt_miscdev_queue_xmit_nit+0xd2/0x110
[<c02f347b>] ? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x16b/0x1c0
[<c03058b5>] ? __qdisc_run+0x1b5/0x200
[<c033bca7>] ? scoarp_create+0x57/0x2a0
[<c02f53b7>] ? bridgedev_queue_xmit+0x2e7/0x3f0
[<c03034a0>] ? eth_header+0x0/0xc0
[<c033b95f>] stp? arp_xmit+0x5f/0x70
[<c033bf4f>] ? arp_send+0x5f/0x70
[<c033c8f5>] bnep? arp_solicit+0x105/0x210
[<c02fa5aa>] ? neigh_timer_handler+0x19a/0x390
[<c013bf88>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x138/0x210
[<c02fa410>] ? ppdevneigh_timer_handler+0x0/0x390
[<c02fa410>] ? neigh_timer_handler+0x0/0x390
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We want to put the chip into FULL SLEEP state, when we are disabling the
radio, but the the current code always change it to AWAKE/NETWORK SLEEP.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
An earlier commit, 'ath9k: remove dummy PCI "retry timeout" fix', removed
code that was documented to disable RETRY_TIMEOUT register (PCI reg
0x41) since it was claimed to be a no-op. However, it turns out that
there are some combinations of hosts and ath9k-supported cards for
which this is not a no-op (reg 0x41 has value 0x80, not 0) and this
code (or something similar) is needed. In such cases, the driver may
be next to unusable due to very frequent PCI FATAL interrupts from the
card.
Reverting the earlier commit, i.e., restoring the RETRY_TIMEOUT
disabling, seems to resolve the issue. Since the removal of this code
was not based on any known issue and was purely a cleanup change, the
safest option here is to just revert that commit. Should there be
desire to clean this up in the future, the change will need to be
tested with a more complete coverage of cards and host systems.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13483
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If we are in PS mode, we have to process the received frame if
the SC_OP_WAIT_FOR_CAB bit is set.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We have to remain awake if the SC_OP_WAIT_FOR_CAB flag is set.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The ath9k_ps_{wakeup,restore} calls must be in balance.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This ports the ath9k rfkill code to the new API offered by
cfg80211 and thus removes a lot of useless stuff.
("With this series a kernel panic, which is a regression, during module
unload disappears." -- Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Other patches in the series:
ath9k: Add helper to get ath9k specific current channel
ath9k: Make sure we have current channel in ah_curchan before rf
disable/enable
-- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Luis Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch along with my previous patch in mac80211 "Fix the
way ADDBA count..", fixes hang in tx when connected to an HT
AP which rejects/times out on addba req.
AGGR_ADDBA_PROGRESS should be cleared in aggr state when addba
negotiation is terminated due to either addba response is timed out
or addba is denied by the AP. With out clearing this bit,
all frames are queued onto s/w queue for getting tx'd as aggr and
will never be scheduled onto hw queue.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Handle error condition on copy_from_user() properly and
make sure a NUL terminated char[] is sent to strict_strtoul()
for proper conversion.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address
the following deficiencies:
* all rfkill drivers need to implement polling where necessary
rather than having one central implementation
* updating the rfkill state cannot be done from arbitrary
contexts, forcing drivers to use schedule_work and requiring
lots of code
* rfkill drivers need to keep track of soft/hard blocked
internally -- the core should do this
* the rfkill API has many unexpected quirks, for example being
asymmetric wrt. alloc/free and register/unregister
* rfkill can call back into a driver from within a function the
driver called -- this is prone to deadlocks and generally
should be avoided
* rfkill-input pointlessly is a separate module
* drivers need to #ifdef rfkill functions (unless they want to
depend on or select RFKILL) -- rfkill should provide inlines
that do nothing if it isn't compiled in
* the rfkill structure is not opaque -- drivers need to initialise
it correctly (lots of sanity checking code required) -- instead
force drivers to pass the right variables to rfkill_alloc()
* the documentation is hard to read because it always assumes the
reader is completely clueless and contains way TOO MANY CAPS
* the rfkill code needlessly uses a lot of locks and atomic
operations in locked sections
* fix LED trigger to actually change the LED when the radio state
changes -- this wasn't done before
Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> [thinkpad]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It looks like mac80211 can request the driver to start beaconing with
a beacon interval of zero in some cases (at least for mesh point). This
does not sound correct and something may need to be fixed in
mac80211. However, taken into account the unpleasantness of getting
stuck in an infinite busy loop with rtnl_lock held, let's add a quick
workaround in the driver to avoid the worst symptom while someone more
familiar with the mesh implementation can figure out what should be done
with mac80211 as far as beacon interval configuration is concerned.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds the debug file to the ath9k debugfs, which lets you modify
the debug_mask at runtime, without having to reload the ath9k module.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hansen <x@jeffhansen.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch combines the legacy and 11n rcstats into one, using the normal
rate table indices instead of two separate indices for each mode. Legacy
rates also get all of the PER and retry information, now, too.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hansen <x@jeffhansen.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I have a TrendNet 652-BRP running OpenWRT + ath9k very well. The only
problem is that the beacon gets stuck maybe once a day. After
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan's "ath9k: cleanup beacon parameters
configuration" patch, ath9k would nearly re-configure the beacons after it
detected the stuck beacon, and did a reset. But it would fail the
SC_OP_TSF_RESET check in ath_beacon_config_ap. This patch gets the beacon
fully reconfigured after the reset.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hansen <x@jeffhansen.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch moves some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211.
Because these functions are doing generic 802.11 operations so they
are not mac80211 specific. The moving allows some fullmac drivers
to be also benefit from these utility functions.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some APs seem to drift away from the expected TBTT (timestamp %
beacon_int_in_usec differs quite a bit from zero) which can result in
us waking up way too early to receive a Beacon frame. In order to work
around this, re-configure the Beacon timers after having received a
Beacon frame from the AP (i.e., when we know the offset between the
expected TBTT and the actual time the AP is sending out the Beacon
frame).
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The previous version used a simple loop to go through all Beacon
frames when determining the next TBTT and DTIM count. This is not too
bad for the case where the setup happens before timesync (i.e., very
small TSF), but this can become very heavy operation if a short Beacon
interval is used and the current TSF is large.
In preparation for a patch to update timer setup based on Beacon
timestamp, optimize this routine to take fixed time regardless of the
actual TSF value.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is always discarded anyway but lets just set this to our
safest lowest.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath_regd_init() needs to be called with the wiphy already
properly set with the bands. Without this the custom regulatory
settings were not taking effect, and the device would get
the default channel settings from ath9k_[25]ghz_chantable.
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 does not set PM field for normal data frames, so we need to
update that based on the current PS mode when using PS-Poll
(timeout=0) power save mode.
This allows the AP to remain in sync with our PS state. However, there
is still a potential race condition between PS state changes when
multiple TX queues are used and nullfunc and PS-Poll frames use
different queue. That corner case may need to be handled separately by
changing which queue is used either in ath9k or mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We must make sure the chip is awake when changing the RX filter
parameters. This could have caused problems, e.g., when changing the
interface to promiscuous mode while in sleep mode.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If the chip complains about TSF sync, make sure we remain awake to
sync with the next Beacon frame. In theory, this should not be needed
since we are currently trying to receive all Beacon frames, anyway,
better have this code ready should we ever change that.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the chip is in sleep mode, there is no point trying to calibrate
the radio since it will just results in incorrect values being read
from registers and other potential issues. In addition, if we actually
start processing calibrate, do not allow the chip to be put into sleep
until we have completed the calibration step.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When using timeout=0 (PS-Poll) with mac80211, the driver will need to
wake up for TX requests and remain awake until the TX has been
completed (ACK received or timeout) or until the buffer frame(s) have
been received (in case the TX is for a PS-Poll frame).
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We do not need to do this in ath_isr() and it looks like the modified
version ends up being more stable as far as being able receive beacon
frames is concerned. Furthermore, this reduces need to move between
AWAKE and NETWORK SLEEP states when processing some unrelated
interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch configures the beacon timers with beacon interval
and beacon period passed through vif.bss_conf. Also cache the
currecnt beacon configuration which will be used to configure
the beacon timers when the driver triggers it after reset.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The previous implementation was moving back to NETWORK SLEEP state
immediately after receiving a Beacon frame. This means that we are
unlikely to receive all the buffered broadcast/multicast frames that
would be sent after DTIM Beacon frames. Fix this by parsing the Beacon
frame and remaining awake, if needed, to receive the buffered
broadcast/multicast frames. The last buffered frame will trigger the
move back into NETWORK SLEEP state.
If the last broadcast/multicast frame is not received properly (or if
the AP fails to send it), the next Beacon frame will work as a backup
trigger for returning into NETWORK SLEEP.
A new debug type, PS (debug=0x800 module parameter), is added to make
it easier to debug potential power save issues in the
future. Currently, this is only used for the Beacon frame and buffered
broadcast/multicast receiving.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
