When issuing two consecutive scans you could often end up
getting in the logs:
"ath9k: Two wiphys trying to scan at the same time"
This message is due to a race in mac80211 but addressing
that race requires some more major changes on the driver
and perhaps optimizations on mac80211 like removing the
scan complete callback alltogether. Its too late to address
this this kernel release so supress the complaint and annotate
this needs fixing for later.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
base index is not used anymore and so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The user ratekbs of MCS15 ShortGI is incorrect and can not be lesser
than MCS15 rate. This incorrect rate may affect switching to higher
rates as the rate control algorithm always finds MCS15 is better
than MCS15 ShortGI and results in lower throughput. Fix this by
feeding the correct user ratekbs for MCS15 ShortGI rate.
This issue affects 3 stream case very badly as the 3 stream rates are
not used at all once we scale down to MCS15 from 3 stream rates.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds 3 stream rate control support for AR938X family
chipsets which supports 3 streams.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
replace valid and valid_single_stream in rate table with bit masks
and reorganize the code so adding 3x3 rate control would be easier.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The noisefloor array index always corresponds to the rx chain number it
belongs to (with an offset of 3 for the extension chain).
It's much simpler (and actually more correct) to directly use the
chainmask to calculate the bitmask for the noisefloor array, instead of
using these weird chip revision checks and hardcoded mask values.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the noisefloor array, the extension channel values start at index 3
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the hardware is configured in HT20 mode, noise floor readings for
the extension channel often return invalid values, which keep the
values in the NF history buffer at the hardware-specific maximum limit.
Fix this by discarding the extension channel values when in HT20 mode.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
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>
snprintf() returns the number of characters that would have been written
(not counting the NUL character). So we can't use it as the limiter to
simple_read_from_buffer() without capping it first at sizeof(buf).
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The snprintf() function returns the number of characters that would have
been written (not counting the NUL character on the end). It could
potentially be larger than the size of the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:282:26: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:282:26: expected restricted __le16 [usertype] duration_id
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:282:26: got int
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
An A-MPDU may contain several subframes each containing its own
CRC for the data. Each subframe also has a respective CRC for the
MPDU length and 4 reserved bits (aka delimeter CRC). AR9003 will
ACK frames that have a valid data CRC but have failed to pass the
CRC for the MPDU length, if and only if the subframe is not the
last subframe in an A-MPDU and if an OFDM phy OFDM reset error has
been caught. Discarding those subframes results in packet loss under
heavy stress conditions, an example being UDP video. Since the
frames are ACK'd by hardware we need to let these frames through
and process them as valid frames.
Cc: Tushit Jain <tushit.jain@atheros.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes this sparse complaint:
CHECK drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c:441:5:
warning: symbol 'ath9k_htc_tx_aggr_oper'
was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There were a few places where the sc->rxlink pointer was set to NULL "just in
case". This helps nothing - quite to the contrary it is problematic since it
can create self-linked rx descriptors in the middle of the list of receive
buffers.
Here is an example how this could happen (thanks Bob!):
cpu 0: cpu 1:
ath5k_rx_stop
ath5k_tasklet_rx
sc->rxlink = NULL; /* just in case */
// following doesn't link used
// buffer to prev.
ath5k_rxbuf_setup()
In the case of ath5k_rx_stop() and ath5k_stop_locked() buffers/descriptors are
not changed so rxlink should not be changed as well.
In ath5k_intr() we seem to try to work around a hardware bug, as the comment
(which is copied 1:1 from the HAL) suggests. I don't see how this could help.
Also the HAL does not set rxlink in this case (So where does this code come
from? It has been there since the first import of ath5k). Changed to just
increment a statistics counter.
After this patch rxlink is only set to NULL before we initialize rx descriptors
and updated when the descriptors are linked together.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Based on a patch from Bruno Randolf, attempting useful
work while we are resetting the chip just leads to interface
lockups and bad descriptor data, and possibly DMAing to
freed buffers. Let's suspend all tasklets while
reprogramming the registers in the card to avoid such
problems.
In the future we can convert the tasklets to threaded
interrupt handlers to simplify things.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We currently trigger a reset via a tasklet when certain error
conditions are detected so that the card will (eventually)
restart. Unfortunately this makes locking complicated since
reset can also be called in process context (e.g. for channel
change). Currently nothing protects against concurrent resets,
which can be the source of corruption bugs.
Reset takes too long to spinlock the whole thing, so this
patch moves deferred resets into the mac80211 workqueue to
enable use of sc->lock mutex.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
According to documentation, The following chip revisions were never sold:
- AR9280 v1.0
- AR9285 v1.0
- AR9285 v1.1
- AR9287 v1.0
Removing initvals specific to these chip revisions saves around 30k in
binary size (tested on MIPS).
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
num_sec_wiphy means max secondary wifis that the driver can accomudate.
So cancelling wiphy work should be based on the presence of
secondary wifis.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove tMinCalPower from ath9k_hw_set_def_power_cal_table(), as it's
never used. Remove corresponding arguments of the functions calculating
that value.
Original patch by Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
LED should be ON when the radio is put into FULL SLEEP mode during the idle
unassociated state.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR5008+ and AR9003 currently use two separate implementations of the
ath9k_hw_loadnf function. There are three main differences:
- PHY registers for AR9003 are different
- AR9003 always uses 3 chains, earlier versions are more selective
- The AR9003 variant contains a fix for NF load timeouts
This patch merges the two implementations into one, storing the
register array in the ath_hw struct. The fix for NF load timeouts is
not just relevant for AR9003, but also important for earlier hardware,
so it's better to just keep one common implementation.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Occasionally the hardware can send out tx status information with the wrong
TID. In that case, the BA status cannot be trusted and the aggregate
must be retransmitted.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If the receive path gets stuck, a full hardware reset is necessary to
recover from it. If this happens during a scan, the whole scan might fail,
as each channel change bypasses the full reset sequence.
Fix this by resetting the fast channel change flag if stopping the
receive path fails.
This will reduce the number of error messages that look like this:
ath: DMA failed to stop in 10 ms AR_CR=0x00000024 AR_DIAG_SW=0x40000020
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
PDADC values were only generated for values surrounding the target
index, however not for the target index itself, leading to a minor
error in the generated curve.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On AR9285, the antenna switch configuration register uses more than just
16 bits. Because of an arbitrary mask applied to the EEPROM value that
stores this configuration, diversity was broken in some cases, leading
to a significant degradation in signal strength.
Fix this by changing the callback to return a 32 bit value and remove
the arbitrary mask.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When ath_tx_complete_aggr() is called, it's responsible for returning
all buffers in the linked list. This was not done when the STA lookup
failed, leading to a race condition that could leak a few buffers when
a STA just disconnected.
Fix this by immediately returning all buffers to the free list in this case.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It looks like it might be possible for a TID to be paused, while still
holding some queued buffers, however ath_tx_node_cleanup currently only
iterates over active TIDs.
Fix this by always checking every allocated TID for the STA that is being
cleaned up.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Failure cases within ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_urbs are failed
to release allocated memory.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Commit eed8e22f01 added support for using
multicast key lookup to support per-vif/sta keys for AP and ad-hoc.
Unfortunately, it also introduced a crash in ad-hoc mode when the sta
pointer is NULL, which happens when setting up an interface with WEP
keys. This patch fixes it by falling back to the assigned key index.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_hw_check_alive() occasionally returns false, as the hardware
is still processing data in a specific state. Fix this issue by
repeating the test a few times with longer delay inbetween attempts.
This gets rid of excessive hardware resets that appear frequently on
some AR9132 based devices, but could also happen on AR9280.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This refactors the noise floor range checks to make them generic,
and adds proper ranges for each supported chip type.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This includes the following changes/fixes:
- a bugfix for stuck beacon issues
- timing changes for improved performance
- AGC setting improvements
- fixes for high temperature issues on some chips
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This format is generated by the initval tool, available at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/initvals-tool.git
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When issuing a reset, the TSF value is lost in the hardware because of
the 913x specific cold reset. As with some AR9280 cards, the TSF needs
to be preserved in software here.
Additionally, there's an issue that frequently prevents a successful
TSF write directly after the chip reset. In this case, repeating the
TSF write after the initval-writes usually works.
This patch detects failed TSF writes and recovers from them, taking
into account the delay caused by the initval writes.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The 'bf_retries' field of the ath_buf structure was used for both
software retries (AMPDU subframes) and hardware retries (legacy
frames). This led to a wrong retry count being reported for the A-MPDU
rate control stats.
This patch changes the code to no longer use bf_retries for reporting
retry counts, but instead always using the real on-chip retry count
from the ath_tx_status.
Additionally, if the first subframe of an A-MPDU was not acked, the tx
status report is submitted along with the first acked subframe, which
may not contain the correct rates in the tx info.
This is easily corrected by saving the tx rate info before looping over
subframes, and then copying it back once the A-MPDU status report is
submitted.
In my tests this change improves throughput visibly.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In commit 39d5b2c83c "ath5k: update
AR5K_PHY_RESTART_DIV_GC values to match masks" i introduced a regression on PHY
chips older than AR5K_SREV_PHY_5413, which caused signal values to be about
10dB less that before. This patch reverts the AR5K_PHY_RESTART_DIV_GC values to
the same values which were effectively used before (without the bitmask
mistake). This brings signal levels back to normal on these PHY chips.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
