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130 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruno Randolf
e0f8c2a9b8 ath5k: Use common ath key management functions
Use common ath key management functions in ath5k. This fixes problems with HW
encryption in AP mode, which was broken in the ath5k implementation.

Before (with the ath5k implementation) only one client could connect to the AP
using HW encryption and WPA. When a second client connected, the first client
was not able to send/receive any more packets. Because of the problems with HW
encryption, software encryption was always used in AP mode, which resulted in a
high CPU load (and/or low thruput) on embedded devices. Instead of trying to
fix the implementation in ath5k it makes more sense to share the code with
ath9k.

This also enables HW encryption for AP mode again.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16 15:19:45 -04:00
Dan Carpenter
df1c2986c4 ath5k: re-order one of the frees on unwind
There was a small misordering here.  In the original code, if we were to
go to err_free_ah then it wouldn't free the irq.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-27 13:27:05 -04:00
Bob Copeland
30bf4169ad ath5k: don't enable probe request rx for STAs
AR5K_RX_FILTER_PROBEREQ enables reception of probe requests,
but the filter flag FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC is actually about
receiving beacons and probe _responses_, so we shouldn't
turn on the filter when scanning.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24 16:28:04 -04:00
Bob Copeland
4afd89d9cf ath5k: remove all mention of monitor iftype
Monitor interfaces are never seen by the driver so these
cases are never reached.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24 16:28:03 -04:00
Bob Copeland
23538c268c ath5k: remove monitor check in receive_frame_ok filter
Monitor interfaces are never seen by the driver, so tests based on
that opmode don't make sense.  Also, we already pass all mic
failure packets.

Consequently this code is actually accepting any frames with just
crypto errors and rejecting those with CRC, FIFO, and PHY errors for
all interface types.  Adjust the code and comment accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24 16:28:01 -04:00
Bob Copeland
a180a13081 ath5k: clean up some comments
This fixes a few misspellings, word repetitions, and some grammar
nits in ath5k comments.  No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24 16:28:00 -04:00
Nick Kossifidis
b612798098 ath5k: remove own (wrong) IEEE80211_MAX_LEN
Use the version already supplied in include/linux/ieee80211.h.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24 16:27:59 -04:00
Nick Kossifidis
418de6d955 ath5k: rename ath5k_hw_set_associd to _set_bssid
Although the named function also sets the aid, its main
purpose is configuring the bssid and we use that
everywhere else.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-24 16:27:58 -04:00
Johannes Berg
97359d1235 mac80211: use cipher suite selectors
Currently, mac80211 translates the cfg80211
cipher suite selectors into ALG_* values.
That isn't all too useful, and some drivers
benefit from the distinction between WEP40
and WEP104 as well. Therefore, convert it
all to use the cipher suite selectors.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 16:45:11 -04:00
Maxim Levitsky
6ccf15a1a7 ath5k: disable ASPM L0s for all cards
Atheros PCIe wireless cards handled by ath5k do require L0s disabled.
For distributions shipping with CONFIG_PCIEASPM (this will be enabled
by default in the future in 2.6.36) this will also mean both L1 and L0s
will be disabled when a pre 1.1 PCIe device is detected. We do know L1
works correctly even for all ath5k pre 1.1 PCIe devices though but cannot
currently undue the effect of a blacklist, for details you can read
pcie_aspm_sanity_check() and see how it adjusts the device link
capability.

It may be possible in the future to implement some PCI API to allow
drivers to override blacklists for pre 1.1 PCIe but for now it is
best to accept that both L0s and L1 will be disabled completely for
distributions shipping with CONFIG_PCIEASPM rather than having this
issue present. Motivation for adding this new API will be to help
with power consumption for some of these devices.

Example of issues you'd see:

  - On the Acer Aspire One (AOA150, Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001
    Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)) doesn't work well
    with ASPM enabled, the card will eventually stall on heavy traffic
    with often 'unsupported jumbo' warnings appearing. Disabling
    ASPM L0s in ath5k fixes these problems.

  - On the same card you would see a storm of RXORN interrupts
    even though medium is idle.

Credit for root causing and fixing the bug goes to Jussi Kivilinna.

Cc: David Quan <David.Quan@atheros.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-13 13:46:20 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
b3f194e54b ath5k: clean up rxlink handling
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>
2010-07-14 13:52:46 -04:00
Bob Copeland
450464def7 ath5k: disable tasklets during reset
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>
2010-07-14 13:52:46 -04:00
Bob Copeland
5faaff7477 ath5k: move reset to mac80211 workqueue
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>
2010-07-14 13:52:46 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
a666819354 ath5k: use direct function calls for descriptors when possible
Use direct function calls for ath5k_hw_setup_rx_desc() and
ath5k_hw_setup_mrr_tx_desc() instead of a function pointer which always pointed
to the same function in the case of ath5k_hw_setup_rx_desc() and which is
easily unified in the case of ath5k_hw_setup_mrr_tx_desc().

Also simplify the initialization function for the remaining function pointers.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:03 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
02a78b42f8 ath5k: move checks and stats into new function
Create a new function ath5k_receive_frame_ok() which checks for errors, updates
error statistics and tells us if we want to further "receive" this frame or
not. This way we can avoid a goto and have a cleaner separation between buffer
handling and other things.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:03 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
8a89f063e7 ath5k: split descriptor handling and frame receive
Move frame reception into it's own function to have a clearer separation
between buffer and descriptor handling and things that are done when we
actually receive a frame.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:02 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
b16062facb ath5k: unify rx descriptor error handling
There is no reason for a special handling (return) here, just break like we do
with the checks before.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:02 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
39d63f2a3f ath5k: reset more pointers after we free skbs
After we free skbs for receive or transmit descriptors, make sure we have no
pointers to the now invalid memory address.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:01 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
0452d4a508 ath5k: print more errors when decriptor setup fails
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:59:00 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
beade6363c ath5k: fix some comment typos
Fix comment about dma sizes, brackets were missing. Replace 'insure' with
'ensure'.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:58:59 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
9e4e43f20f ath5k: rename ath5k_txbuf_free() to ath5k_txbuf_free_skb()
Rename ath5k_txbuf_free() to ath5k_txbuf_free_skb() since this is what it does:
it frees the skb and not the buf. Same for ath5k_rxbuf_free().

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:58:58 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
8d67a0310f ath5k: more debug prints for resets
Add a debug print for every case of reset.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-16 14:58:58 -04:00
John W. Linville
9d88477c41 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
2010-06-07 15:13:46 -04:00
Bob Copeland
6b5dcccb49 ath5k: retain promiscuous setting
Commit 56d1de0a21, "ath5k: clean up
filter flags setting" introduced a regression in monitor mode such
that the promisc filter flag would get lost.

Although we set the promisc flag when it changed, we did not
preserve it across subsequent calls to configure_filter.  This patch
restores the original functionality.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Bisected-by: weedy2887@gmail.com
Tested-by: weedy2887@gmail.com
Tested-by: Rick Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-04 15:50:52 -04:00
Tobias Doerffel
e307139d7a ath5k: depend on CONFIG_PM_SLEEP for suspend/resume functions
When building a kernel with CONFIG_PM=y but neither suspend nor
hibernate support, the compiler complains about the static functions
ath5k_pci_suspend() and ath5k_pci_resume() not being used:

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c:713:12: warning: ‘ath5k_pci_suspend’ defined but not used
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c:722:12: warning: ‘ath5k_pci_resume’ defined but not used

Depending on CONFIG_PM_SLEEP rather than CONFIG_PM fixes the issue.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Doerffel <tobias.doerffel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-04 15:50:52 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
40ca22eafe ath5k: add sysfs files for ANI parameters
/sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/device/ani/ani_mode
/sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/device/ani/noise_immunity_level
/sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/device/ani/spur_level
/sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/device/ani/firstep_level
/sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/device/ani/ofdm_weak_signal_detection
/sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/device/ani/cck_weak_signal_detection
/sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/device/ani/noise_immunity_level_max
/sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/device/ani/spur_level_max
/sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/device/ani/firstep_level_max

sysfs has a lot of symlinks, so you can find the files also in other locations,
like (by PCI ID) /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/ani and others.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:13:26 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
6673e2e8e0 ath5k: use ath5k_softc as driver data
It's our "private driver data"... It's used more often and hw is the mac80211
part. This makes more sense with the next (sysfs) patch.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:13:25 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
afe86286a1 ath5k: run NF calibration only every 60 seconds
Since NF calibration interferes with TX and RX and also has been the cause of
other problems (when it's run concurrently with ath5k_reset) we want to run it
less often - every 60 seconds for now.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:13:23 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
0e8e02dddc ath5k: Stop queues only for NF calibration
As far as we know, only NF calibration interferes with RX/TX so we can
leave the queues enabled for the other calibrations.

BTW: Stopping the queues is not enough for avoiding transmissions, since there
might be packets in the queue + beacons are also sent regularly! But i leave it
like this until we have a better solution (stopping TX DMA?).

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:13:23 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
9e04a7eb1f ath5k: move noise floor calibration into tasklet
Seperate noise floor calibration from other PHY calibration and move it to the
tasklet. This is the first step to more separation of different calibrations.

Also move out ath5k_hw_request_rfgain_probe(ah) so we have one clean function
for I/Q calibration on 5111x parts.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:13:22 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
ac55952633 ath5k: initialize calibration timers
Initialize calibration timers on reset, since otherwise they might be in the
future and the calibration tasklet might not be scheduled for a long time.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-02 16:13:21 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
397f385bdb ath5k: wake queues on reset
We can wake all queues after a chip reset since everything should be set up and
we are ready to transmit. If we don't do that we might end up starting up with
stopped queues, not beeing able to transmit. (This started to happen after
"ath5k: clean up queue manipulation" but since periodic calibration also
stopped and started the queues this effect was hidden most of the time).

This way we can also get rid of the superfluous ath5k_reset_wake() function.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-01 14:33:00 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
b5eae9ff5b ath5k: consistently use rx_bufsize for RX DMA
We should use the same buffer size we set up for DMA also in the hardware
descriptor. Previously we used common->rx_bufsize for setting up the DMA
mapping, but used skb_tailroom(skb) for the size we tell to the hardware in the
descriptor itself. The problem is that skb_tailroom(skb) can give us a larger
value than the size we set up for DMA before. This allows the hardware to write
into memory locations not set up for DMA. In practice this should rarely happen
because all packets should be smaller than the maximum 802.11 packet size.

On the tested platform rx_bufsize is 2528, and we allocated an skb of 2559
bytes length (including padding for cache alignment) but sbk_tailroom() was
2592. Just consistently use rx_bufsize for all RX DMA memory sizes.

Also use the return value of the descriptor setup function.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-24 14:59:23 -04:00
John W. Linville
6fe70aae0d Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2010-05-17 13:57:43 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
9637e516d1 ath5k: drop warning on jumbo frames
Jumbo frames are not supported, and if they are seen it is likely
a bogus frame so just silently discard them instead of warning on
them all time. Also, instead of dropping them immediately though
move the check *after* we check for all sort of frame errors. This
should enable us to discard these frames if the hardware picks
other bogus items first. Lets see if we still get those jumbo
counters increasing still with this.

Jumbo frames would happen if we tell hardware we can support
a small 802.11 chunks of DMA'd frame, hardware would split RX'd
frames into parts and we'd have to reconstruct them in software.
This is done with USB due to the bulk size but with ath5k we
already provide a good limit to hardware and this should not be
happening.

This is reported quite often and if it fills the logs then this
needs to be addressed and to avoid spurious reports.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-11 15:14:20 -04:00
John W. Linville
83163244f8 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/main.c
2010-05-05 16:14:16 -04:00
John W. Linville
f5c044e53a mac80211: remove deprecated noise field from ieee80211_rx_status
Also remove associated IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM from ieee80211_hw_flags.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-30 15:38:13 -04:00
John W. Linville
54c7c91e65 ath5k: remove usage of deprecated noise value
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-28 16:48:20 -04:00
John W. Linville
3b51cc996e Merge branch 'master' into for-davem
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debugfs.c
2010-04-23 14:43:45 -04:00
Holger Schurig
55ee82b500 ath5k: basic support for survey
This adds the first element of survey data, the noise floor figure.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-20 11:50:52 -04:00
John W. Linville
5c01d56693 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
2010-04-15 16:21:34 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
87d77c4ef1 ath5k: treat RXORN as non-fatal
We get RXORN interrupts when all receive buffers are full. This is not
necessarily a fatal situation. It can also happen when the bus is busy or the
CPU is not fast enough to process all frames.

Older chipsets apparently need a reset to come out of this situration, but on
newer chips we can treat RXORN like RX, as going thru a full reset does more
harm than good, there.

The exact chip revisions which need a reset are unknown - this guess
AR5K_SREV_AR5212 ("venice") is copied from the HAL.

Inspired by openwrt 413-rxorn.patch:
"treat rxorn like rx, reset after rxorn seems to do more harm than good"

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-14 14:52:42 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
0edc9a6709 ath5k: Use high bitrates for ACK/CTS
There was a confusion in the usage of the bits AR5K_STA_ID1_ACKCTS_6MB and
AR5K_STA_ID1_BASE_RATE_11B. If they are set (1), we will get lower bitrates for
ACK and CTS. Therefore ath5k_hw_set_ack_bitrate_high(ah, false) actually
resulted in high bitrates, which i think is what we want anyways. Cleared the
confusion and added some documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-14 14:52:41 -04:00
David S. Miller
871039f02f Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
	net/core/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
Bob Copeland
a05988bbbe ath5k: fix race condition in tx desc processing
As pointed out by Benoit Papillault, there is a potential
race condition between the host and the hardware in reading
the next link in the transmit descriptor list:

cpu0              hw
                  tx for buf completed
                  raise tx_ok interrupt
process buf
buf->ds_link = 0
                  read buf->ds_link

This change checks txdp before processing a descriptor
(if there are any subsequent descriptors) to see if
hardware moved on.  We'll then process this descriptor on
the next tasklet.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-08 15:24:16 -04:00
Bob Copeland
6b5d117edd ath5k: clean up queue manipulation
Review spotted a couple of strange invocations to
ieee80211_wake_queues that could potentially cause problems:

 - queues are awakened in the calibration tasklet before
   phy calibration, and then again after calibration

 - queues are awakened inside reset when we're trying to
   drain the ath5k transmit queues, and again after
   reset is completed (in callers to ath5k_reset_wake).

In both cases the first wake is unnecessary, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-08 15:24:15 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
2111ac0d88 ath5k: Adaptive Noise Immunity (ANI) Implementation
This is an Adaptive Noise Imunity (ANI) implementation for ath5k. I have looked
at both ath9k and HAL sources (they are nearly the same), and even though i
have implemented some things differently, the basic algorithm is practically
the same, for now. I hope that this can serve as a clean start to improve the
algorithm later.

This also adds a possibility to manually control ANI settings, right now only
thru a debugfs file:
  * set lowest sensitivity (=highest noise immunity):
	echo sens-low > /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
  * set highest sensitivity (=lowest noise immunity):
	echo sens-high > /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
  * automatically control immunity (default):
	echo ani-on > /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
  * to see the parameters in use and watch them change:
	cat /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani

Manually setting sensitivity will turn the automatic control off. You can also
control each of the five immunity parameters (noise immunity, spur immunity,
firstep, ofdm weak signal detection, cck weak signal detection) manually thru
the debugfs file.

This is tested on AR5414 and nearly doubles the thruput in a noisy 2GHz band.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07 14:37:53 -04:00
Jiri Pirko
22bedad3ce net: convert multicast list to list_head
Converts the list and the core manipulating with it to be the same as uc_list.

+uses two functions for adding/removing mc address (normal and "global"
 variant) instead of a function parameter.
+removes dev_mcast.c completely.
+exposes netdev_hw_addr_list_* macros along with __hw_addr_* functions for
 manipulation with lists on a sandbox (used in bonding and 80211 drivers)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-03 14:22:15 -07:00
Bruno Randolf
da35111ad9 ath5k: update phy errors codes
Update PHY error codes from the HAL, and keep them in statistics for debugging
via the 'frameerrors' file. This will also be used by ANI.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:39:10 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
495391d715 ath5k: simplify MIB counters
Let's keep MIB counter statistics in our own statistics structure and only
convert it to ieee80211_low_level_stats when needed by mac80211. Also we don't
need to read profile count registers in the MIB interrupt (they don't trigger
MIB interrupts).

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-31 14:39:09 -04:00