WiFi throughput drops drastically when BT is turned on, BT and WiFi
are simultaneously transmitting/receiving traffic. This is particularly true
when BT has higher priority over WiFi, and hence the device defers TX frames.
The AP assumes that the channel is bad and reduces the data rate, implying
longer airtime, which exacerbates the problem further, resulting ultimately
in what is popularly called the "death-spiral" phenomenon. The use of PS-poll
in such scenarios guarantees a low but consistent throughput.
Since the death-spiral phenomenon is observed only when the RSSI is low, use
PS-poll only when RSSI is low and disable when high, with a known hysterisis.
This feature specifies the high and low thresholds and implements the
callbacks registered with mac80211, which will be called when threshold events
occur.
iwlwifi: dynamic pspoll: optimize rssi monitor code
Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Now, there are only two functions to send a host command:
* send_cmd that receives a iwl_host_cmd
* send_cmd_pdu that builds the iwl_host_cmd itself and received flags
The flags CMD_ASYNC / CMD_SYNC / CMD_WANT_SKB are not changed by the API
functions.
Kill the unused flags CMD_SIZE_NORMAL / CMD_NO_SKB on the way.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tx stop moves to transport layer.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rx stop moves to transport layer.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tx free functions move to the transport layer. Unify the functions that deal with tx queues and cmd queue.
Since the CMD queue is not fully allocated, but uses the q->n_bd / q->window trick, the release flow of TX queue and CMD queue was different.
iwlagn_txq_free_tfd receives now the index of the TFD to be freed, which allows to unify the release flow for all the queues.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is uneeded since Johannes removed the HUGE flag. The DMA mapping is always held in the same index as the command.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These functions allocate all the Tx context. Only the simple tx_init is exported as API.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The transport layer ness to release all rx ressources. This function is an API for it.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The transport layer is responsible for all the queues, DMA rings etc...
This is the beginning of the separation of all the code that is tighly
related to HW design to the aforementioned transport layer.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Emmanuel noticed that there's no explicit checking
that prevents the driver from attempting to issue
multiple synchronous commands at the same time and
wrote a patch to check. However, his patch warns
only if a collision actually happened, an unlikely
thing since the driver mutex should be held for
synchronous command submissions.
So instead of checking that a collision happened
add a check that the mutex is held which ensures
that collisions can't happen.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Since the irq number is just an unsigned int, store it inside iwl_bus
instead of calling the get_irq ops every time it is needed.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Since there is no protection around SYNC host command mechanism, at least WARN
when collision happens between two SYNC host comamnds. I am not sure there is a
real issue (beyond the HCMD_ACTIVE flag maintenance) with having two SYNC host
commands at the same time, but at least now, we will know about it.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
All pci related stuff is in iwl-pci.c.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
In order to remove a few more dereference to priv->pdev that will be killed
[Asoon, there is now a method to get the IRQ number.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Continue to popule the PCI layer and the iwl_bus_ops with the power related
stuff.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Since we have now a PCI layer, all the init and deinit code that is PCI
related should move to there.
Also move the IO functions: read8/read32/write32. They need hw_base which
is killed from priv.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Bus specific layer must know how to return the struct device* of the device.
Implement that as a callback of iwl_bus_ops and use that callback instead of
using the priv->pdev pointer which is meant to disappear soon.
Since the struct device * is needed in hot path, iwl_bus holds a pointer to it
instead of calling get_dev all the time.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
iwl_bus will represent a bus, and iwl_bus_ops all the operations that can be
done on this bus.
For the moment only set_prv_data is implemented. More to come...
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Move some PCI functionality to the new iwl_pci.[ch] files:
* the PCI_DEVICE_TABLE
* the pci_driver struct definition
* the PCI probe / remove functions
* the PCI suspend / resume functions
All these functions are now split: the trigger comes from the PCI layer which
calls to the bus generic code located in the other files.
This is the beginning only. There are still a lot of PCI related code needs
to be gathered.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The ucode subtypes keep changing, and there's no
particular reason to be checking them (other than
a paranoid sanity check). Since the numbers are
also in conflict between different ucode images
now, simply don't check them any more and rely on
the images being built correctly.
Also, to indicate that, rename the constants and
the enum, moving it to a different file.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
For testmode trace function, huge amout of data need to pass to userspace.
Use the build-in nl80211 dumpt it function
Require nl80211 testmode dumpit support patch.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
We use priv->mutex to avoid race conditions between iwl_chswitch_done()
and iwlagn_mac_channel_switch(), when marking channel switch in
progress. But iwl_chswitch_done() can be called in atomic context
from iwl_rx_csa() or with mutex already taken from iwlagn_commit_rxon().
These bugs were introduced by:
commit 79d0732550
Author: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Date: Thu May 6 08:54:11 2010 -0700
iwlwifi: support channel switch offload in driver
To fix remove mutex from iwl_chswitch_done() and use atomic bitops for
marking channel switch pending.
Also remove iwl2030_hw_channel_switch() since 2000 series adapters are
2.4GHz only devices.
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.36+
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the PAN context is active, but unused, it
may still block scans that take more dwell time
than its beacon interval (which is odd). Work
around this problem by using a default beacon
interval of 200 so scans will fit between.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The current "huge" command handling is a bit
confusing, and very limited since only one
command may be huge at a time. Additionally,
we often copy data around quite pointlessly
since we could instead map the existing scan
buffer for example and use it directly.
This patch makes that possible. The first
change is that multiple buffers may be given
to each command (this change was prepared
earlier so callsites don't need to change).
Each of those can be mapped attached to a TB
in the TFD, and the command header can use a
TB (the first one) in the TFD as well.
Doing this allows getting rid of huge commands
in favour of mapping existing buffers. The
beacon transmission is also optimised to not
copy the SKB at all but use multiple TBs.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The pad argument to iwlagn_txq_free_tfd
isn't used, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
In a subsequent patch, I want to make commands use
multiple TBs in a TFD. This is a simple change to
prepare the data structures for this, with as of
now still just a single TB supported.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The function iwl_is_any_associated() was intended
to check both contexts, but due to an oversight
it only checks the BSS context. This leads to a
problem with scanning since the passive dwell
time isn't restricted appropriately and a scan
that includes passive channels will never finish
if only the PAN context is associated since the
default dwell time of 120ms won't fit into the
normal 100 TU DTIM interval.
Fix the function by using for_each_context() and
also reorganise the other functions a bit to take
advantage of each other making the code easier to
read.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The frame pre-allocation is quite a bit of complex
code, all to avoid a single allocation. Remove it
and consolidate the beacon sending code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
This patch adds the feature to support the test mode operation through
the generic netlink channel NL80211_CMD_TESTMODE between intel
wireless device iwlwifi and the user space application svtool.
The main purpose is to create a transportation layer between the iwlwifi
device and the user space application so that the interaction between the
user space application svtool and the iwlwifi device in the kernel space is
in a way of generic netlink messaging.
The detail specific functions are:
1. The function iwl_testmode_cmd() is added to digest the svtool test command
from the user space application. The svtool test commands are categorized to
three types : commands to be processed by the device ucode, commands to access
the registers, and commands to be processed at the driver level(such as reload
the ucode). iwl_testmode_cmd() dispatches the commands the corresponding handlers
and reply to user space regarding the command execution status. Extra data is
returned to the user space application if there's any.
2. The function iwl_testmode_ucode_rx_pkt() is added to multicast all the spontaneous
messages from the iwlwifi device to the user space. Regardless the message types,
whenever there is a valid spontaneous message received by the iwlwifi ISR,
iwl_testmode_ucode_rx_pkt() is invoked to multicast the message content to user
space. The message content is not attacked and the message parsing is left to
the user space application.
Implementation guidelines:
1. The generic netlink messaging for iwliwif test mode is through NL80211_CMD_TESTMODE
channel, therefore, the codes need to follow the regulations set by cfg80211.ko
to get the actual device instance ieee80211_ops via cfg80211.ko, so that the iwlwifi
device is indicated with ieee80211_ops and can be actually accessed.
Therefore, a callback iwl_testmode_cmd() is added to the structure
iwlagn_hw_ops in iwl-agn.c.
2. It intends to utilize those low level device access APIs from iwlwifi device driver
(ie. iwlagn.ko) rather than creating it's own set of device access functions.
For example, iwl_send_cmd(), iwl_read32(), iwl_write8(), and iwl_write32() are reused.
3. The main functions are maintained in new files instead of spreading all over the
existing iwlwifi driver files.
The new files added are :
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sv-open.c
- to handle the user space test mode application command
and reply the respective command status to the user space application.
- to multicast the spontaneous messages from device to user space.
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-testmode.h
- the commonly referenced definitions for the TLVs used in
the generic netlink messages
Signed-off-by: Cindy H. Kao <cindy.h.kao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
New microcode versions use the good CRC threshold
field differently, as a flag, and in that case we
should set it to 1/0 instead of 1/65535 for an
active/passive scan.
The new behaviour is advertised by the uCode with
a feature flag.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
This variable is only ever checked right after
the function that sets it, but the same function
will also return the status, so we can pass it
through instead of checking hw_ready later.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
On new hardware, ucode images always come in
pairs: code and data. Therefore, combine the
variables into an appropriate struct and use
that when both code and data are needed.
Also, combine allocation and copying so that
we have less code in total.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The current firmware loading mechanism in
iwlwifi is very hard to follow, and thus
hard to maintain. To make it easier, make
the firmware loading synchronous.
For now, as a side effect, this removes a
number of retry possibilities we had. It
isn't typical for this to fail, but if it
does happen we restart from scratch which
this also makes easier to do should it be
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
When the firmware encounters an error while the
driver is waiting for a notification, it will
never get that notification. Therefore, instead
of timing out, bail out on errors when waiting
for notifications.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
A notification wait function is called with the
command, but currently has no way of passing
data back to the caller -- fix that by adding a
void pointer to the function that can be used
between the caller and the function.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
There's no need to keep both normal and BT statistics
versions around all the time in memory when we only
use a subset of both. So keep only the subsets that
we need in memory, depending on the debug config).
Also, in doing so, we can remove all the calls to
iwl_bt_statistics() in the driver as we'll just
access the copied statistics now.
Finally, also remove this call from the one place
where it might still be needed and automatically
detect what kind of statistics the device is sending
based on their size. This way, we don't need to keep
track of which devices do what any more, which is
good since this is subject to change based on the
ucode version (as some ucode even for non-BT devices
will in fact use BT statistics).
Warn upon encountering a statistics command from the
ucode that isn't known, so we will find such issues
earlier in the future.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The microcode may sometimes reject TX frames when
on a radar channel even after we associated as it
clears information during association and needs to
receive a new beacon before allowing that channel
again. This manifests itself as a TX status value
of TX_STATUS_FAIL_PASSIVE_NO_RX. So in this case,
stop the corresponding queue and give the frame
back to mac80211 for retransmission. We start the
queue again when a beacon from the AP is received
which will make the regulatory enforcement in the
device allow transmitting again.
Signed-off-by: Garen Tamrazian <garenx.tamrazian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
We never use the value in alloc_rxb_page,
so there's no point in keeping it either.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The rev_id variable is only printed, we
don't need to store it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The hw_rev variable is used only during init,
so there's no need to keep it around.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The variable is never used.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Devices newer than 4965 don't actually send
two different versions of the ALIVE command,
so we always had a bug here since before this
patch we copy more data than we got. Remove
the iwl_init_alive_resp struct and don't use
it.
Since we also really don't need to track all
the data received in ALIVE as we only use the
error and log event tables later, we can also
save space by just keeping those and not more
data around in memory.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some new devices and microcode files will a greater
variety of features, so the TLV-per-feature approach
we took before will quickly make things harder to
manage and increase the file size.
Add a new TLV that has feature flags. Currently, it
will contain:
1) a PAN feature flag, which moves from a separate
TLV
2) a new BT stats bit that indicates whether the
microcode image uses bluetooth statistics
3) a new MFP flag for management frame protection
which can be enabled once the device/microcode
supports it
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
