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2012-10-30ath9k: Test for TID only in BlockAcks while checking tx statusSven Eckelmann
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> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-10-29ath9k: fix stale pointers potentially causing access to free'd skbsFelix Fietkau
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> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-10-05ath9k: use ieee80211_free_txskbFelix Fietkau
Using ieee80211_free_txskb for tx frames is required, since mac80211 clones skbs for which socket tx status is requested. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-09-28ath9k: Fix chainmask selection for AR9462Sujith Manoharan
Force chain 1 to be used for CCK rates since the target power table stored in EEPROM is too high to transmit with both chains. This is needed to avoid regulatory violation. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-09-07Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
2012-09-07ath9k: Fix TX filter usageSujith Manoharan
The TX filter bit for a station would be set by the HW when a frame is not acked. A frame would be completed with ATH9K_TXERR_FILT status only when the corresponding filter bit for the destination station is already set. Currently, un-acknowledged packets are added to the pending queue and retried, but the "clear_dest_mask" bit in the descriptor is set only when the TX status has been ATH9K_TXERR_FILT. This results in packet loss and the log shows: wlan0: dropped TX filtered frame, queue_len=0 PS=0 @4309746071 wlan0: dropped TX filtered frame, queue_len=0 PS=0 @4309746076 wlan0: dropped TX filtered frame, queue_len=0 PS=0 @4309746377 ... ... This issue can be resolved by making sure that the destination mask is cleared when the packet is being retried and the earlier TX status is ATH9K_TXERR_XRETRY. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-09-05ath9k: fix PA linearization calibration related crashFelix Fietkau
Before PAPRD training can run, the card needs to have sent a packet for thermal calibration. Sending a dummy packet with the PAPRD training flag set causes a crash under some circumstance. Fix the code by replacing the dummy tx with a delay that waits for a real packet tx to have occurred. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-07-31mac80211: move TX station pointer and restructure TXThomas Huehn
Remove the control.sta pointer from ieee80211_tx_info to free up sufficient space in the TX skb control buffer for the upcoming Transmit Power Control (TPC). Instead, the pointer is now on the stack in a new control struct that is passed as a function parameter to the drivers' tx method. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> [reworded commit message] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-17ath9k: Fix race in reset-work usageRajkumar Manoharan
Using work_pending() to defer certain operations when a HW-reset work has been queued is racy since the check would return false when the work item is actually in execution. Use SC_OP_HW_RESET instead to fix this race. Also, unify the reset debug statistics maintenance. Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-07-17ath9k: Cleanup beacon queue configurationSujith Manoharan
Setup the beacon queue parameters after disabling interrupts. Also, remove the redundant call in conf_tx() for IBSS mode since the queue would be configured with the appropriate cwmin/cwmax values when beaconing is enabled. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-07-17ath9k: fix aggregate size limit based on queue TXOP limitFelix Fietkau
If the aggregate size exceeds the TXOP limit, it leads to lots of unnecessary hardware and software retries. The previous 4ms frame limit table was completely undocumented, the commit that updated it only vaguely referenced and equation from the standard, but I've been unable to replicate its results. Fix this by using a formula based on the code in ath_pkt_duration, which is more likely to be correct for this case. Reported-by: Dave Täht <dave.taht@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-07-17ath9k: make per-WMM-AC queue sizes configurable via debugfsFelix Fietkau
Prepare for using different queue size defaults for each AC. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-07-09Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless Conflicts: net/mac80211/mlme.c
2012-06-26ath9k: raise aggregation limit to 64k for HT IBSSSven Eckelmann
mac80211 adds stations in HT IBSS as soon as a frame comes by, even if the HT capabilities are not known yet (they are often received later, e.g. in beacons). So far, ampdu factor/density are only calculated when the station is initially added. This patch changes this to update ampdu factor/density settings when starting a blockack session. Using this patch, we had performance boosts from 60 to 150 MBit/s between two 2x2 Atheros devices in 5 GHz HT IBSS mode. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-19ath9k: fix invalid pointer access in the tx pathFelix Fietkau
After setup_frame_info has been called, only info->control.rates is still valid, other control fields have been overwritten by the ath_frame_info data. Move the access to info->control.vif for checking short preamble to setup_frame_info before it gets overwritten. This regression was introduced in commit d47a61aa "ath9k: Fix multi-VIF BSS handling" Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Reported-by: Thomas Hühn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> Acked-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.4] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-19ath9k: fix a tx rate duration calculation bugFelix Fietkau
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> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-06ath9k: Fix powersave lockingSujith Manoharan
The 'ps_flags' is used/accessed in a variety of contexts and requires proper locking. Use 'sc_pm_lock' appropriately. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-06ath9k: Use atomic operationsSujith Manoharan
The 'sc_flags' variable is being used in a number of places with no locking whatsoever. This patch converts the usage of sc_flags to atomic ops. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-06ath9k: Group link monitoring logicSujith Manoharan
Add link.c and move all the link/connection monitoring code to it. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-05-29ath9k: fix a use-after-free-bug when ath_tx_setup_buffer() failsFelix Fietkau
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> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-17ath9k: Fix TX fragmentationSujith Manoharan
Assigning sequence number for frames without taking care of the fragment field breaks transmission of fragmented frames. Fix this by assigning the fragment number properly. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-15ath9k_hw: remove ath9k_hw_gettxintrtxqsFelix Fietkau
The driver can just check the mask directly Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-15ath9k_hw: clean up tx completion interrupt handlingFelix Fietkau
TXQ_FLAG_TXOKINT_ENABLE and TXQ_FLAG_TXERRINT_ENABLE are always set and used together, and they share the same bitmask in enum ath9k_tx_queue_flags. Simplify the code that tests for these flags. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-15ath9k: Fix multi-VIF BSS handlingSujith Manoharan
mac80211 provides short preamble information and ERP protection information on a per-BSS basis, which can be used. Remove flags stored in the driver, which was incorrect since they were being used in a global manner. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-15ath9k: Remove aggregation flagsSujith Manoharan
SC_OP_TXAGGR and SC_OP_RXAGGR are not really needed. The HT capabilities of the station and HW can be used instead. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-05ath9k: fix drv_tx_last_beacon on AR9003 by processing beacon tx statusFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-27ath9k: Calculate ampdu limit using a helperSujith Manoharan
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/dma.c
2012-01-04ath9k: fix tx queue sparse complaintLuis R. Rodriguez
This fixes this rant from sparse: CHECK drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:107:13: warning: context imbalance in 'ath_txq_lock' - wrong count at exit drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:112:13: warning: context imbalance in 'ath_txq_unlock' - unexpected unlock drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:123:30: warning: context imbalance in 'ath_txq_unlock_complete' - unexpected unlock CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-03Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c
2011-12-19net: fix assignment of 0/1 to bool variables.Rusty Russell
DaveM said: Please, this kind of stuff rots forever and not using bool properly drives me crazy. Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> gave me the spatch script: @@ bool b; @@ -b = 0 +b = false @@ bool b; @@ -b = 1 +b = true I merely installed coccinelle, read the documentation and took credit. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-19ath9k: fix tx locking issuesFelix Fietkau
The commit "ath9k: simplify tx locking" introduced a soft lockup triggered by mac80211 sending a BAR frame triggered by a driver call to ieee80211_tx_send_bar or ieee80211_tx_status. Fix these issues by queueing processed tx status skbs and submitting them to mac80211 outside of the lock. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-19ath: Convert ath_dbg(bar, ATH_DBG_<FOO>, to ath_dbg(bar, FOOJoe Perches
Add ATH_DBG_ to macros to shorten the uses and reduce the line count. Coalesce ath_dbg formats. Add missing spaces to coalesced formats. Add missing newline terminations to ath_dbg formats. Align ath_dbg arguments where appropriate. Standardize ath_dbg formats without periods. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15ath9k: avoid retransmitting aggregation frames that a BAR was sent forFelix Fietkau
The receiver will discard them anyway. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15ath9k: simplify tx lockingFelix Fietkau
Instead of releasing and taking back the lock over and over again in the tx path, hold the lock a bit longer, requiring much fewer lock/unlock pairs. This makes locking much easier to review and should not have any noticeable performance/latency impact. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15ath9k: remove bogus sequence number incrementFelix Fietkau
tid->seq_next is initialized on A-MPDU start anyway, and the comment next to this chunk of code seems to be bogus as well. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15ath9k: reduce indentation level in a few placesFelix Fietkau
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15ath9k: reduce the number of unnecessary BAR tx packetsFelix Fietkau
When processing A-MPDU tx status, only send a BAR for the failed packet with the highest sequence number. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15ath9k: change maximum software retransmission handlingFelix Fietkau
Instead of limiting a subframe to 10 A-MPDU software transmission attempts, count hardware retransmissions as well and raise the limit a bit. That way there will be fewer software retransmission attempts when traffic suffers from lots of hardware retransmissions. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-07ath9k: always issue a full hw reset after waking up from full-sleep modeFelix Fietkau
After waking up from full sleep, registers are accessible, but rx/tx typically fails. A fast channel change will not recover from this, so ensure that a full-sleep -> wake transition is always followed by a full reset. The reason why this hasn't created any serious problems yet is that it's hidden by the (wrong) behavior of enabling/disabling the radio when the wiphy idle state changes. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28ath9k: improve ath_tx_aggr_stop to avoid TID stuck in cleanup stateNikolay Martynov
When tx agg is being stopped TID is flushed using ath_tx_flush_tid. It is possible that ath_tx_flush_tid completelly flushes TID (if all packets in this TID have already been retried). If this happened ath_tx_aggr_stop would leave TID in cleanup state permanently. Fix this by making ath_tx_flush_tid remove AGGR_ADDBA_COMPLETE and AGGR_CLEANUP flags from TID status if TID is empty. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-08ath9k: Add btcoex profile management support for AR9462Rajkumar Manoharan
AR9462 chips have the capabilities to provoide bluetooth profile information. For non-AR9462 btcoex chips, the BT priority traffic was identified by periodically polling the respective registers and updated dutycycle, stomptype, etc. As AR9462 chip offers the BT profile informations, let us make use of that to update aggregation limit, dutycycle, stomptype and wieghtages. Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>