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>
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>
now the LED starts working for AR946/8x chipsets
Cc: "Balasubramanian, senthilkumar" <senthilb@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On MIMO chips this can be used to enable/disable hardware chains, ensuring
that the MCS information is updated accordingly.
On non-MIMO chips with rx diversity (e.g. 9285), this configures the rx
input antenna.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
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>
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>
Let us enable/disable interrupts based on reference count.
By doing this we can ensure that interrupts are never be
enabled in the middle of tasklet processing. Instead of
addressing corner cases like "ath9k: avoid enabling interrupts
while processing rx", this approach handles it in generic manner.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
* remove interrupt.g inclusion from netdevice.h -- not needed
* fixup fallout, add interrupt.h and hardirq.h back where needed.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
this helps the user to start/stop ANI dynamically.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
AR9285 belongs to diversity group 0 and AR9485 belongs to diversity
group 2. Based on the diversity group we configure certain antenna
diversity paramaters such as lna1_lna2_delta and fast diversity
bias values. For AR9485 we have some gain table parameter which
selects the gain table 0/1 for main and alternate antenna
Cc: Gabriel Tseng <Gabriel.Tseng@Atheros.com>
Cc: Senthilkumar Balasubramanian <Senthilkumar.Balasubramanian@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The assumsion is that while processing ath9k tasklet,
interrupts were already disabled and it will be enabled
at the completion of ath9k tasklet. But whenever TSFOOR is raised,
the driver configures the beacon timers after having received a
beacon frame from the AP which inturn enables the interrupts.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
There is no reason why pll work handler should be part of xmit
file. move it to main.c so that reading hw check routines are
all in the same place.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The LED gpio is incorrectly programmed for AR9300 and so the led
is not working propelry. AR93xx uses gpio 10 for LED and not the
default.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Frame filtering relies on having a valid destination index (keycache slot),
to keep track of the destination. Assigning a keycache slot (configured
to unencrypted, with no key data attached) improves powersave handling in
AP mode with no encryption.
The dummy keycache entry for a station is cleared, when a real key gets
added.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a long standing issue of pending packets in the queue being
sent (and retransmitted many times) to sleeping stations.
This was made worse by aggregation through driver-internal retransmitting
of A-MDPU subframes.
Previously the hardware tx filter was cleared unconditionally for every
single packet - with this patch it uses the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT
for unaggregated frames.
A sta_notify driver op is added to stop aggregation for stations when they
enter powersave mode. Subframes stay buffered inside the driver, to ensure
that the BlockAck window keeps a sane state.
Since the driver uses software aggregation, the clearing of the tx filter
needs to be handled by the driver instead of mac80211 for aggregated frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently ath9k only available in menuconfig if PCI bus
support is enabled. However the driver is required for
the built-in wireless MACs of the Atheros AR9130/AR9132
SoCs. These SoCs have no PCI controller, the wireless
MAC is connected to the AHB bus on them.
Introduce separated config options for the supported
buses, in order to allow building of ath9h without PCI
bus support.
As a bonus, this patch removes the cross-reference of
the ATHEROS_AR71XX option which is not present in the
kernel.
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Current ath9k code does not handle beacon timers on opmode
specific. One such example is that a STA beacon config overwrites
already configured AP vif's beacon timers during scan.
On multi station vif case, configure beacon timers beased
on primary vif selected. This also helps while moving back
to single STA vif from multi STA vifs, where the power save
is enabled and hw has to be reconfigured with proper
beacon and bssid/aid. Otherwise connection poll will be triggered
so frequently due to beacon loss.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As of now bssid/aid is overridden with recently changed vif's
bss config. This may cause improper beacon updation due to
bssid/aid mismatch. On station mode, select an associated
sta vif as primary vif and configure that vif's bss into hw.
Update the primary vif on interface change and bss info change.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove unused bssid from ath_vif and set av_bslot on beacon
alloc/return.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Stuck beacon detection is supposed to trigger when 9 consecutive beacons
could not be sent by the hardware. When the driver runs only one active
AP mode interface, it still configures the hardware beacon timer for
4 (ATH_BCBUF) beacon slots slots, which causes stuck beacon detection
to be reset if ath9k_hw_stoptxdma clears the stuck frames between
SWBA intervals.
Fix this by not resetting the missed beacon count for empty slots and
multiplying the threshold not by the maximum number of beacon slots
but by the configured number of beacon interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AP mode beacon timers in ath9k are configured in milliseconds, which breaks
when increasing ATH_BCBUF to 8 instead of 4 (due to rounding errors).
Since the hardware timers are actually configured in microseconds, it's
better to let the driver use that unit directly.
To be able to do that, the beacon interval parameter abuse for passing
certain flags needs to be removed. This is easy to do, because those flags
are completely unnecessary anyway. ATH9K_BEACON_ENA is ignored,
ATH9K_BEACON_RESET_TSF can be replaced with calling ath9k_hw_reset_tsf
from the driver directly.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch simplifies the flush op and reuses ath_drain_all_txq for
flushing out pending frames if necessary. It also uses a global timeout
of 200ms instead of the per-queue 60ms timeout.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR9485 doesn't use the default GPIO pin for LED and GPIO 6 is actually
used for this.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When op_flush() is called with no drop (drop=false), the driver
tries to tx as many frames as possible in about 100ms on every
hw queue. During this time period frames from sw queue are also
scheduled on to respective hw queue.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Beaconing should be disabled before stopping beacon queue.
Not doing so could queue up beacons in hw that causes
failure to stop Tx DMA, due to pending frames in hw
and also unnecessary beacon tasklet schedule.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The variable appears in both ath_softc and ath_beacon_config.
The struct ath_beacon_config is embedded in ath_softc. The redundant
variable was added by commit id 57c4d7b4c4.
Signed-off-by: Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>
Reviewed-by: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.ath9k@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since even with the latest changes the false positive issue of the baseband
hang check is not fully solved yet, additional checks are needed.
If the baseband hang occurs, the rx_clear signal will be stuck to high, so
we can use the cycle counters to confirm it.
With this patch, a hardware reset is only triggered if the baseband hang
check returned true three times in a row, with a beacon interval between
each check and if the busy time was also 99% or more during the check
intervals.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
