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2013-10-26ath9k: always clear ps filter bit on new assocFelix Fietkau
commit 026d5b07c03458f9c0ccd19c3850564a5409c325 upstream. Otherwise in some cases, EAPOL frames might be filtered during the initial handshake, causing delays and assoc failures. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-11-16ath9k: Test for TID only in BlockAcks while checking tx statusSven Eckelmann
commit 6fe7cc71bbf3a0bc28c9cec3c00bc11e81344412 upstream. The ath9k xmit functions for AMPDUs can send frames as non-aggregate in case only one frame is currently available. The client will then answer using a normal Ack instead of a BlockAck. This acknowledgement has no TID stored and therefore the hardware is not able to provide us the corresponding TID. The TID set by the hardware in the tx status descriptor has to be seen as undefined and not as a valid TID value for normal acknowledgements. Doing otherwise results in a massive amount of retransmissions and stalls of connections. Users may experience low bandwidth and complete connection stalls in environments with transfers using multiple TIDs. This regression was introduced in b11b160defc48e4daa283f785192ea3a23a51f8e ("ath9k: validate the TID in the tx status information"). Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-11-16ath9k: fix stale pointers potentially causing access to free'd skbsFelix Fietkau
commit 8c6e30936a7893a85f6222084f0f26aceb81137a upstream. bf->bf_next is only while buffers are chained as part of an A-MPDU in the tx queue. When a tid queue is flushed (e.g. on tearing down an aggregation session), frames can be enqueued again as normal transmission, without bf_next being cleared. This can lead to the old pointer being dereferenced again later. This patch might fix crashes and "Failed to stop TX DMA!" messages. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-07-04ath9k: fix a tx rate duration calculation bugFelix Fietkau
commit 76591bea9714a58d8924154068c78d702eb2cb17 upstream. The rate pointer variable for a rate series is used in a loop before it is initialized. This went unnoticed because it was used earlier for the RTS/CTS rate. This bug can lead to the wrong PHY type being passed to the duration calculation function. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-06-10ath9k: fix a use-after-free-bug when ath_tx_setup_buffer() failsFelix Fietkau
commit 81357a281dcc454841532c46b30e6f2ba12b73ea upstream. ath_tx_setup_buffer() can fail if there is no ath_buf left, or if mapping DMA failed. In this case it frees the skb passed to it. If ath_tx_setup_buffer is called from ath_tx_form_aggr, the skb is still linked into the tid buffer list and must be dequeued before being released. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2011-10-11ath9k: fix retry counting / BAR handling during queue flushFelix Fietkau
When tx is suspended temporarily and the queue is flushed, do not increase the retry count or attempt to send out BAR frames. Instead simply retry the affected subframes normally after the reset. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11ath9k: improve PS filter clearing and retry counting for A-MPDUFelix Fietkau
Do not increment the retry counter if packets to a sleeping station were not sent because of tx failure, instead of only checking the filter flag. Clear the PS filter only after an A-MPDU was reported as filtered, otherwise the hardware might do some unnecessary extra retransmissions. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11ath9k: keep track of what's triggering hardware resetsFelix Fietkau
Export how many times each of the reset triggers has fired through debugfs. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11ath9k: indicate which queues are blocked when stopping tx failsFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11ath9k: remove some bogus error handling codeDan Carpenter
If "axq_qnum >= ARRAY_SIZE(sc->tx.txq)", then the call to ath9k_hw_releasetxqueue() would read beyond the end of the ah->txq[] array and possibly corrupt memory. Fortunately, ath9k_hw_setuptxqueue() doesn't return high values of "axq_qnum" and this code can be removed. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: let drivers inform it about per TID buffered framesJohannes Berg
For uAPSD implementation, it is necessary to know on which ACs frames are buffered. mac80211 obviously knows about the frames it has buffered itself, but with aggregation many drivers buffer frames. Thus, mac80211 needs to be informed about this. For now, since we don't have APSD in any form, this will unconditionally set the TIM bit for the station but later with uAPSD only some ACs might cause the TIM bit to be set. ath9k is the only driver using this API and I only modify it in the most basic way, it won't be able to implement uAPSD with this yet. But it can't do that anyway since there's no way to selectively release frames to the peer yet. Since drivers will buffer frames per TID, let them inform mac80211 on a per TID basis, mac80211 will then sort out the AC mapping itself. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30ath9k: Remove unnecessary AMPDU check at tx statusRajkumar Manoharan
Fill the ampdu_[ack]_len for both aggregation and normal frames. So that we could avoid unnecesary conditional at tx status. Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-19ath9k: sync the dma buffer after changing the retry flagFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-19ath9k: fix setting the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT flagFelix Fietkau
When the driver inserts padding between the 802.11 header and data, it needs to set the hdr variable to the new header location. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-19Revert "ath9k: do not insert padding into tx buffers on AR9380+"John W. Linville
This reverts commit 4245d31347bdc99a608dc1d1cfe64e44aa3d1771.
2011-09-16ath9k: do not insert padding into tx buffers on AR9380+Felix Fietkau
With the new EDMA descriptor format, a single descriptor can contain up to four buffer pointers. By splitting the buffer into two parts, we can let the hardware add the padding internally instead of using memmove on the skb data. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-16ath9k: optimize ath_tx_rc_status usageFelix Fietkau
The only flag that needs to be set when ath_tx_rc_status is called with rc_update == false is the IEEE80211_TX_STAT_TX_FILTERED flag. All other data is ignored in that case. This flag can be set from ath_tx_complete_buf instead, so that we can drop a few redundant calls to ath_tx_rc_status and remove the rc_update function parameter Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-16ath9k: remove a redundant check in ath_tx_form_aggrFelix Fietkau
ath_lookup_legacy now checks all the tx rate flags for MCS vs legacy Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-16ath9k: use the new API for setting tx descriptorsFelix Fietkau
With the new API, tx descriptors can be written in one single pass instead of having to re-read and rewrite fields from multiple places. This makes the code easier to read and also slightly improves performance on embedded MIPS hardware. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-16ath9k: move ath_buf_set_rate to remove a forward declarationFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-16ath9k: reduce the number of functions that access the tx descriptorFelix Fietkau
Makes it easier to clean up the ath9k_hw descriptor API Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-16ath9k: remove ATH_TX_XRETRY and BUF_XRETRY flagsFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-14ath9k: always call ath_reset from workqueue contextFelix Fietkau
This makes it much easier to add further rework to avoid race conditions between reset and other work items. Move other functions to make ath_reset static. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-14ath9k: eliminate common->{rx,tx}_chainmaskFelix Fietkau
we already have ah->{rx,tx}chainmask for the same purpose Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-13ath9k: fix checks for first subframe delimiter paddingFelix Fietkau
The commit "ath9k_hw: Fix exceed transmission burst-time of 5GHz" added a padding of 60 delimiters on the first subframe to work around an issue on AR9380, but it lacked the checks to prevent it from being applied to pre-AR9380, enterprise AR9380 or AR9580+ Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-30ath9k: defer ath_tx_setup_buffer setup to the first tx attempt during aggrFelix Fietkau
With sequence number and buffer allocation deferred to when they're needed for the first time, it becomes much easier to start dropping packets from the tid queue if necessary, e.g. when latency suddenly increases. This can lead to some future improvements in buffer management for better latency. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-30ath9k: move seqno allocation in the tx path to ath_tx_setup_bufferFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-30ath9k: move the sequence number from ath_frame_info to ath_bufFelix Fietkau
It is only necessary for BAW tracking and moving it to the ath_buf makes it easier to add further improvements, such as deferring seqno allocation in the aggregation path. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-30ath9k: clean up the aggregation tid queueFelix Fietkau
Use a sk_buff_head instead containing skbs instead of a list_head containing ath_bufs. This makes it easier to decouple the aggregation code from the ath_buf struct Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-29ath9k: fix regression in sending aggregated packetsFelix Fietkau
The recent commit "ath9k: Send legacy rated frames as unaggregated" introduced a check to ensure that packets with non-MCS rates set in the rate series will not be aggregated. However, it failed to check if the rate series is valid before testing the flags, thus breaking aggregation for normal MCS-only packets if the last series is unset. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-26ath9k: Send legacy rated frames as unaggregatedRajkumar Manoharan
Currently the aggregation is formed till the aggregation limit is reached and the rate lookup is done for the first frame alone. But there can be a legacy rated frames in tid queue. This patch limits the subframe addition based on presence of legacy rate and sends the legacy rated frames as unaggregated one. Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-24ath9k: Remove SC_OP_ENABLE_APMRajkumar Manoharan
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-24ath9k_hw: Fix exceed transmission burst-time of 5GHzRajkumar Manoharan
The WAR which adds extra delimiters when using RTS/CTS with aggregation and non-enterprise AR9003 chips. This extra padding is done after doing all the 4ms limit checks and hence the total aggregate sizes are exceeding the allowed duration. This patch limits the aggregate sizes appropriately after including these extra delimiters. Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-12ath9k: avoid sending a-mpdu packets to sleeping stationsFelix Fietkau
If the driver gets a tx status report for an A-MPDU sent to a station that just went to sleep, that leaves a race condition where this tx status can trigger another A-MPDU transmission. To fix this, check if the station is sleeping before queueing the tid. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-09ath9k: Remove virtual wiphy specific frame typeRajkumar Manoharan
This patch cleanups virtual wiphy specific frametype structure Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-22Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
2011-07-18ath9k: Fix sparse warningsRajkumar Manoharan
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c:199:21: warning: context imbalance in 'ath9k_reg_rmw' - different lock contexts for basic block drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:1175:31: warning: context imbalance in 'ath_drain_txq_list' - unexpected unlock drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:2047:23: warning: context imbalance in 'ath_tx_process_buffer' - unexpected unlock drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c:3041:24: warning: cast to restricted __le32 Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
2011-07-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/sysfs.c net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c net/mac80211/wpa.c
2011-07-05ath9k: Fix tx throughput drops for AR9003 chips with AES encryptionRajkumar Manoharan
While sending aggregated frames in AES, the AR5416 chips required additional padding b/w subframes. This workaround is not needed for edma (AR9003 family) chips. With this patch ~4Mbps thoughput improvement was observed in clear environment. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-30Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
2011-06-27ath9k: Fix locking issue during tx completionRajkumar Manoharan
The received tx status of aggregated frame without BlockAck may cause deaf state in AR5416 cards. So the driver does a reset to recover. When this happens, we release the pcu_lock before doing a reset as ath_rest acquires pcu_lock. This is ugly and also not atomic. Fixing this addresses the TX DMA failure also. ath_tx_complete_aggr can be called from different paths which takes different variants of spin_lock. This patch also addresses the following warning. WARNING: at kernel/timer.c:1011 del_timer_sync+0x4e/0x50() Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff8104be3a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0 [<ffffffff8104be85>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffff8105915e>] del_timer_sync+0x4e/0x50 [<ffffffffa03726be>] ath_reset+0x3e/0x210 [ath9k] [<ffffffff8135cdaf>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1f/0x30 [<ffffffffa037760a>] ath_tx_complete_aggr.isra.26+0x54a/0xa40 [ath9k] Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-21net: remove mm.h inclusion from netdevice.hAlexey Dobriyan
Remove linux/mm.h inclusion from netdevice.h -- it's unused (I've checked manually). To prevent mm.h inclusion via other channels also extract "enum dma_data_direction" definition into separate header. This tiny piece is what gluing netdevice.h with mm.h via "netdevice.h => dmaengine.h => dma-mapping.h => scatterlist.h => mm.h". Removal of mm.h from scatterlist.h was tried and was found not feasible on most archs, so the link was cutoff earlier. Hope people are OK with tiny include file. Note, that mm_types.h is still dragged in, but it is a separate story. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-01ath9k: unify edma and non-edma tx code, improve tx fifo handlingFelix Fietkau
EDMA based chips (AR9380+) have 8 Tx FIFO slots, which are used to fix the tx queue start/stop race conditions which have to be worked around for earlier chips by keeping the last descriptor in the queue. The current code stores all frames that do not fit onto the 8 FIFO slots in a separate list. Whenever a FIFO slot is freed up, the next frame (or A-MPDU) from the pending queue gets moved to that slot. This process is not only inefficient, but also unnecessary. The code can be improved visibly by keeping the pending queue fully linked, and moving the contents of the entire queue to a FIFO slot as it becomes available. This patch makes the necessary changes for that and also merges some code that was duplicated for EDMA vs non-EDMA. It changes txq->axq_link to point to the last descriptor instead of the link pointer, so that ath9k_hw_set_desc_link can be used, which works on all chips. With this patch, a small performance increase for non-aggregated traffic was observed on AR9380 based embedded hardware. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-24Merge ↵John W. Linville
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
2011-05-19ath9k: Drag the driver to the year 2011Sujith Manoharan
The Times They Are a-Changin'. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-tx.c net/mac80211/sta_info.h
2011-05-11ath9k: fix a regression in PS frame filter handlingFelix Fietkau
Only leave filtering enabled for AP or VLAN interfaces, clear the destination mask for all other interfaces. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-05ath9k_hw: remove aggregation protection modeMohammed Shafi Shajakhan
when aggregation protection mode is enabled the hardware needs to send RTS/CTS for each HT frame. Currently its disabled so remove the unused call backs. Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_cs.c drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c