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2010-12-20ath9k: fix queue depth check for forming new aggregatesFelix Fietkau
To improve aggregation length, there should not be more than two fully formed A-MPDU frames in the hardware queue. To ensure this, the code checks the tx queue length before forming new A-MPDUs. This can reduce the throughput (or maybe even starve out A-MPDU traffic) when too many non-aggregated frames are in the queue. Fix this by keeping track of pending A-MPDU frames (even when they're sent out as single frames), but exclude rate control probing frames to improve performance. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-13ath9k: fix sequence number assigment for non-AMPDU QoS data framesFelix Fietkau
wireless-testing commit 04caf863750bc7e042d1e8d57e5ce9d6326ab435 ('ath9k: more tx setup cleanups') merged tx path code for HT vs non-HT frames, however it did not pass the tid pointer to ath_tx_send_normal, causing an inconsistency between AMPDU vs non-AMPDU sequence number handling. Fix this by always passing in the tid pointer for all QoS data frames. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-08Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
2010-12-08ath9k: Check for NULL sta in ath_tx_startBen Greear
It can be NULL according to docs, and logging showed it to be NULL in practice. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07ath: Convert ath_print to ath_dbgJoe Perches
Remove ath/debug.h and the includes of these files. Coalesce long formats. Correct a few misspellings and missing "\n"s from these logging messages. Remove unnecessary trailing space before a newline. Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07ath: Convert ath_print(.., ATH_DBG_FATAL to ath_errJoe Perches
So these errors are always emitted at KERN_ERR level. Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07ath9k: fix a DMA related race condition on resetFelix Fietkau
When ath_drain_all_txq fails to stop DMA, it issues a hw reset. This reset happens at a very problematic point in time, when the hardware rx path has not been stopped yet. This could lead to memory corruption, hardware hangs or other issues. To fix these issues, simply remove the reset entirely and check the tx DMA stop status to prevent problems with fast channel changes. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-30ath9k: Add support for Adaptive Power ManagementMohammed Shafi Shajakhan
This feature is to mitigate the problem of certain 3 stream chips that exceed the PCIe power requirements.An EEPROM flag controls which chips have APM enabled which is basically read from miscellaneous configuration element of the EEPROM header. This workaround will reduce power consumption by using 2 Tx chains for Single and Double stream rates (5 GHz only).All self generated frames (regardless of rate) are sent on 2 chains when this feature is enabled(Chip Limitation). Cc: Paul Shaw <paul.shaw@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Tested-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-29ath9k: fix software retry counter trackingFelix Fietkau
The recent tx path cleanups moved the software retry count tracking from the ath_buf to the skb cb, however the actual counter update referred to the wrong location, confusing block-ack window tracking. Fix this by using the retries counter in the struct ath_frame_info. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-22ath9k: fix recursive locking in the tx flush pathFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: store frame information used by aggregation inside the skb tx infoFelix Fietkau
Since the pointers after the rates in the tx info cannot be used anymore after frames have been queued, this area can be used to store information that was previously stored in the ath_buf. With these changes, we can delay the ath_buf assignment in the aggregation code until aggregates are formed. That will not only make it possible to simplify DMA descriptor setup to do less rewriting of uncached memory, but will also make it easier to move aggregation out of the core of the ath9k tx path. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: more tx setup cleanupsFelix Fietkau
- remove the BUF_HT flag, and instead check for IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU before calling ath_tx_send_ampdu. - remove a few unused variables - calculate frame length before adding the frame padding - merge the misnamed ath_tx_start_dma function into ath_tx_start - remove an unused argument for assign_aggr_tid_seqno Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: clean up code duplication around ath_tx_startFelix Fietkau
Merge initial processing for the CAB queue and regular tx. Also move ath_tx_cabq() to beacon.c and make it static. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: remove bf_tx_aborted from struct ath_bufFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: remove bfs_frmlen from struct ath_buf_stateFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: remove bfs_nframes from struct ath_buf_stateFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: remove bfs_al from struct ath_buf_stateFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: remove bfs_keyix from struct ath_buf_stateFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: remove bfs_paprd_timestamp from struct ath_buf_stateFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: remove bfs_keytype from struct ath_buf_stateFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: remove bfs_tidno from struct ath_buf_stateFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: remove bfs_seqno from struct ath_buf_stateFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17ath9k: fix PA predistortion training frame setupFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-16ath9k: clean up tx buffer setupFelix Fietkau
Merge ath_tx_send_normal and ath_tx_send_ht_normal. Move the paprd state initialization and sequence number assignment to reduce the number of redundant checks. This not only simplifies buffer allocation error handling, but also removes a small inconsistency in the buffer HT flag. This flag should only be set if the frame is also a QoS data frame. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-16ath9k: remove the tx info padding byte abuseFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-16ath9k: handle tx underrun in the driver instead of rate controlFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-16ath9k: remove the unnecessary private xretry tx flagFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15ath9k: rework tx queue selection and fix queue stopping/wakingFelix Fietkau
The current ath9k tx queue handling code showed a few issues that could lead to locking issues, tx stalls due to stopped queues, and maybe even DMA issues. The main source of these issues is that in some places the queue is selected via skb queue mapping in places where this mapping may no longer be valid. One such place is when data frames are transmitted via the CAB queue (for powersave buffered frames). This is made even worse by a lookup WMM AC values from the assigned tx queue (which is undefined for the CAB queue). This messed up the pending frame counting, which in turn caused issues with queues getting stopped, but not woken again. To fix these issues, this patch removes an unnecessary abstraction separating a driver internal queue number from the skb queue number (not to be confused with the hardware queue number). It seems that this abstraction may have been necessary because of tx queue preinitialization from the initvals. This patch avoids breakage here by pushing the software <-> hardware queue mapping to the function that assigns the tx queues and redefining the WMM AC definitions to match the numbers used by mac80211 (also affects ath9k_htc). To ensure consistency wrt. pending frame count tracking, these counters are moved to the ath_txq struct, updated with the txq lock held, but only where the tx queue selected by the skb queue map actually matches the tx queue used by the driver for the frame. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Reported-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15ath9k: content DMA start / stop through the PCU lockLuis R. Rodriguez
This helps align resets / RX enable & disable / TX stop / start. Locking around the PCU is important to ensure the hardware doesn't get stale data when working with DMA'able data. This is part of a series of patches which fix stopping TX DMA completley when requested on the driver. For more details about this issue refer to this thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2 Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15ath9k: move the PCU lock to the sc structureLuis R. Rodriguez
The PCU lock should be used to contend TX DMA as well, this will be done next. This is part of a series of patches which fix stopping TX DMA completley when requested on the driver. For more details about this issue refer to this thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2 Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15ath9k: simplify hw reset lockingLuis R. Rodriguez
The new PCU lock is better placed so we can just contend against that when trying to reset hardware. This is part of a series of patches which fix stopping TX DMA completley when requested on the driver. For more details about this issue refer to this thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2 Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-27ath9k: fix tx aggregation flush on AR9003Felix Fietkau
Completing aggregate frames can lead to new buffers being pushed into the tid queues due to software retransmission. When the tx queues are being drained, all pending aggregates must be completed before the tid queues get drained, otherwise buffers might be leaked. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-25ath9k: resume aggregation immediately after a hardware resetFelix Fietkau
Since aggregation is usually triggered by tx completion, a hardware reset (because of beacon stuck, tx hang or baseband hang) can significantly delay the transmission of the next AMPDU (until the next tx completion event). Fix this by rescheduling aggregation after such a reset. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-25ath9k: fix handling of rate control probe framesFelix Fietkau
The ath9k aggregation code was already checking the rate control probe flag to prevent starting an aggregate frame with a sampling rate. What was missing was closing an aggregate before adding a probing frame to it. Without that, rate control cannot have precise control over probing, which delays using faster rates when the channel conditions improve. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-15ath9k: Null out references to stale pointers.Ben Greear
This doesn't fix any problem that I'm aware of, but should make it harder to add use-after-free type bugs in the future. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-15ath9k: Remove bf_dmacontext.Ben Greear
The bf_dmacontext seems to be totally useless and duplicated by bf_buf_addr. Remove it entirely, use bf_buf_addr in its place. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-13ath9k: Fix potential use-after-free.Ben Greear
The ath_debug_stat_tx references bf->bf_mpdu, which is the skb consumed by ath_tx_complete. So, call the ath_debug_stat_tx method first. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-11ath9k: A-MPDU rate control info fixBjörn Smedman
This patch fixes the following problems with the rate control feedback generated by ath9k for A-MPDU frames: 1. Rate control feedback is carried on the first frame of an aggregate that is either ACKed, or has execeeded the software retry count and is considered failed. However, ath9k would incorrectly assume the aggregate had the length 1 if one of these conditions did not apply to the first frame of the aggregate, but instead a later frame. This fix therefor copies the bf_nframes field of the buffer in the same manner as the rates field of the tx status. 2. Sometimes the ampdu_len and ampdu_ack_len fields of the tx status was left uninitialized eventhough the IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU flag was set. This is now avoid by setting flag and fields in the same place. 3. Even if a frame has been selected for aggregation by mac80211 and marked with the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU flag it can sometimes happen that ath9k transmits the frame without aggregation. In these cases the ampdu_ack_len field could be incorrectly computed because the nbad parameter to ath_tx_rc_status was incorrect. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-06ath9k: remove unnecessary power save flags.Senthil Balasubramanian
drv_config callback is called only after the ack for the nullframe is received and so driver need not do anything special for this. So remove NULLFUNC_COMPLETED, PS_ENABLED flags and bf_isnullfunc flags from ath9k as mac80211 already handles them properly. Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-27mac80211/ath9k: Support AMPDU with multiple VIFs.Ben Greear
The old ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw method didn't properly find VIFS when there was more than one per AP. This caused AMPDU logic in ath9k to get the wrong VIF when trying to account for transmitted SKBs. This patch changes ieee80211_find_sta_by_hw to take a localaddr argument to distinguish between VIFs with the same AP but different local addresses. The method name is changed to ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21ath9k: move ath_tx_aggr_check() to the rate control moduleFelix Fietkau
It is not used anywhere else and can be made static Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21ath9k: clean up / fix aggregation session flushFelix Fietkau
The tid aggregation cleanup is a bit fragile, as it discards failed subframes in some places, and retransmits them in others. This could block the cleanup of an existing aggregation session, if a retransmission for a tid is issued, yet the tid is never scheduled again because of the cleanup state. Fix this by getting rid of as many subframes as possible, as early as possible, and immediately transmitting pending subframes as regular HT frames instead of waiting for the cleanup to complete. Drop all pending subframes while keeping track of the Block ACK window during aggregate tx completion to prevent sending out stale subframes, which could confuse the receiver side. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21ath9k: fix an aggregation start related race conditionFelix Fietkau
A new aggregation session start can be issued by mac80211, even when the cleanup of the previous session has not completed yet. Since the data structure for the session is not recreated, this could corrupt the block ack window and lock up the aggregation session. Fix this by delaying the new session until the old one has been cleaned up. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21ath9k: clean up block ack window handlingFelix Fietkau
There's no reason to keep pointers to pending tx buffers around, if they're only used to keep track of which frames are still pending. Use a bitfield instead. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16ath9k: remove duplicate get_hw_crypto_keytype()Luis R. Rodriguez
Use ath9k_cmn_get_hw_crypto_keytype() instead which is already exported and shared, and does exactly the same thing. 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>
2010-08-04ath9k: fix an issue in ath_atx_tid paused flag managementLorenzo Bianconi
I noticed a possible issue in the paused flag management of the ath_atx_tid data structure. In particular, in a noisy environment and under heavy load, I observed that the AGGR session establishment could fail several times consecutively causing values of the paused flag greater than one for this TID (ath_tx_pause_tid is called more than once from ath_tx_aggr_start). Considering that the session for this TID can not be established also after the mac80211 stack calls the ieee80211_agg_tx_operational() since the ath_tx_aggr_resume() lowers the paused flag only by one. This patch also replaces some BUG_ON calls with WARN_ON, as even if these unlikely conditions happen, it's not fatal enough to justify a BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-04ath9k_hw: clean up per-channel calibration dataFelix Fietkau
The noise floor history buffer is currently not kept per channel, which can lead to problems when changing channels from a clean channel to a noisy one. Also when switching from HT20 to HT40, the noise floor history buffer is full of measurements, but none of them contain data for the extension channel, which it needs quite a bit of time to recover from. This patch puts all the per-channel calibration data into a single data structure, and gives the the driver control over whether that is used per-channel or even not used for some channels. For ath9k_htc, I decided to keep this per-channel in order to avoid creating regressions. For ath9k, the data is kept only for the operating channel, which saves some space. ath9k_hw takes care of wiping old data when the operating channel or its channel flags change. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-26ath9k: fix yet another buffer leak in the tx aggregation codeFelix Fietkau
When an aggregation session is being cleaned up, while the tx status for some frames is being processed, the TID is flushed and its buffers are sent out. Unfortunately that left the pending un-acked frames unprocessed, thus leaking buffers. Fix this by reordering the code so that those frames are processed first, before the TID is flushed. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-26ath9k: Fix inconsistency between txq->stopped and the actual queue stateVasanthakumar Thiagarajan
Sometimes txq state(txq->stopped) can be marked as started but the actual queue may not be started (in ATH_WIPHY_SCAN state, for example). Fix this. Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-07-14ath9k: another fix for the A-MPDU buffer leakFelix Fietkau
The patch 'ath9k: fix a buffer leak in A-MPDU completion' addressed the issue of running out of buffers/descriptors in the tx path if a STA is deleted while tx status feedback is still pending. The remaining issue is that the skbs of the buffers are not reclaimed, leaving a memory leak. This patch fixes this issue by running the buffers through ath_tx_complete_buf(), ensuring that the pending frames counter is also updated. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>