To achieve maximal throughput, it is very important to react to
interrupts as soon as possible. Currently the interrupt handler wakes up
a worker for handling interrupts in process context. A cleaner and more
efficient design would be to request a threaded interrupt handler. This
handler's priority is very high, and can do blocking operations such as
SDIO/SPI transactions.
Some work can be deferred, mostly calls to mac80211 APIs
(ieee80211_rx_ni and ieee80211_tx_status). By deferring such work to a
different worker, we can keep the irq handler thread more I/O
responsive. In addition, on multi-core systems the two threads can be
scheduled on different cores, which will improve overall performance.
The use of WL1271_FLAG_IRQ_PENDING & WL1271_FLAG_IRQ_RUNNING was
changed. For simplicity, always query the FW for more pending
interrupts. Since there are relatively long bursts of interrupts, the
extra FW status read overhead is negligible. In addition, this enables
registering the IRQ handler with the ONESHOT option.
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
On newer hardware revisions, there is no need to write the host's
counter at the end of a RX transaction. The same applies to writing the
number of packets at the end of a TX transaction.
It is generally a good idea to avoid unnecessary SDIO/SPI transfers.
Throughput and CPU usage are improved when avoiding these.
Send the host's RX counter and the TX packet count only if needed, based
on the hardware revision.
[Changed WL12XX_QUIRK_END_OF_TRANSACTION to use BIT(0) -- Luca]
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
The FW has a limited amount of memory for holding frames. In case it
runs out of memory reserved for RX frames, it'll have no other choice
but to drop packets received from the AP. Thus, it is important to
handle RX data interrupts as soon as possible, before handling anything
else.
In addition, since there are enough TX descriptors to go around, it is
better to first send TX frames, and only then handle TX completions.
Fix this by changing the order of function calls in wl1271_irq_work.
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
The return value of the tx operation is commonly
misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers
will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and
they must also properly manage the queues (if they
didn't, mac80211 would already warn).
Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY
value also allows significant cleanups of the TX
TX handling code in mac80211.
Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the
old "return -1" there was wrong.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k]
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00]
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi]
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Update the PS mode of each link according to a bitmap polled from
fw_status. Manually notify mac80211 about PS mode changes in connected
stations.
mac80211 will only be notified about PS start when the station is in PS
and there is a small number of TX blocks from this link ready in HW.
This is required for waking up the remote station since the TIM is
updated entirely by FW.
When a station enters mac80211-PS-mode, we drop all the skbs in the
low-level TX queues belonging to this sta with STAT_TX_FILTERED
to keep our queues clean.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Count the number of FW TX blocks allocated per link. We add blocks to a
link counter when allocated for a TX descriptor. We remove blocks
according to counters in fw_status indicating the number of freed blocks
in FW. These counters are polled after each IRQ.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Remove an active hlid when chip wakeup fails. In addition rename the
involved functions.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
When operating in AP mode the wl1271 hardware filters out null-data
packets as well as management packets. This makes it impossible for
mac80211 to monitor the PS mode by using the PM bit of incoming frames.
Disable mac80211 automatic link PS-mode handling by supporting
IEEE80211_HW_AP_LINK_PS in HW flags.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
When operating in AP-mode we require a per link tx-queue.
This allows us to implement HW assisted PS mode for links,
as well as regulate per-link FW TX blocks consumption.
Split each link into ACs to support future QoS for AP-mode.
AC queues are emptied in priority and per-link queues are
scheduled in a simple round-robin fashion.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Check the conditions for the high/low TX queue watermarks when the
spin-lock is taken. This prevents race conditions as tx_queue_count and
the flag checked are only modified when the spin-lock is taken.
The following race was in mind:
- Queues are almost full and wl1271_op_tx() will stop the queues, but it
doesn't get the spin-lock yet.
- (on another CPU) tx_work_locked() dequeues 15 skbs from this queue and
tx_queue_count is updated to reflect this
- wl1271_op_tx() does not check tx_queue_count after taking the
spin-lock and incorrectly stops the queue.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
The wl12xx fw supports ack status reporting for tx frames, so
add the IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS flag to our supported
features.
Since we do the rate control in the fw, we'll probably want
to adjust the STA_LOST_PKT_THRESHOLD heuristics in the future, to
account for retransmissions as well.
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Some blocking functions were called while holding the rcu lock for
accessing STA information. This can lead to a deadlock.
Save the required info beforehand and release the rcu without
blocking.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
In revision > 6.1.3.0.0 the firmware expects memory configuration command
as part of boot. This was missing if driver boots in PLT mode.
The patch adds the memory configuration command, which fixes PLT commands
tx continuous and rx statistics.
Signed-off-by: Gery Kahn <geryk@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Instead of looking for supported_rates change on every tx packet,
just extract the supported_rates after association completes (station only).
Remove wl1271.sta_rate_set and WL1271_FLAG_STA_RATES_CHANGED which are
not used anymore.
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
make the configuration management more flexible by using the
conf struct, rather than predefined macros.
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
This patch adds support for the new wl12xx firmware (Rev 6.1.3.50.49)
Since this fw is not backward compatible with previous fw versions,
a new fw (with different name) is being fetched.
(the patch is big because it contains all the required fw api changes.
splitting it into multiple patches will result in corrupted intermediate
commits)
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
mcp2.5 uses this acx to configure the fw only once, rather than
passing the params in every enter psm command.
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Commit 0b01f030d3 added a new argument
to the ampdu_action operation. The ampdu_action operation in the
wl12xx driver currently doesn't have that argument and this generates
a warning. This happened during merging of the latest mac80211
patches with the wl12xx BA patches.
CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.o
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c:3035: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
The wl12xx driver doesn't need to do anything about the buf_size
argument since the AMPDU TX is fully handled by the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The auto-arp feature sometimes has unexpected side effects (e.g. firmware
crashes, no ARP replies, etc.)
disable it until it will be solved.
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
The passive scan channel dwell time currently used is 30-60TU. A typical
beacon interval for AP's is 100TU. This leads to a ~30% worst-case probability
of finding an AP via passive scanning.
For 5GHz bands for DFS frequencies passive scanning is the only scanning
option. Hence for these, the probability of finding an AP is very low.
To fix this, increase the passive channel scan dwell times (also the early
leave value, as 5GHz channels are still typically very silent.) Use a value
of 100TU, because that covers most typical AP configurations.
Based on testing the probability of finding an AP (100TU beacon interval) on
a single scan round are as follows (based on 100 iterations):
dwell min/max (TU) | probability
---------------------+------------
30/60 | 35%
60/60 | 56%
80/80 | 77%
100/100 | 100%
Total scan times now and after the change:
Region | Before (s) | After (s)
-------+------------+----------
00 | 0.77 | 1.48
FI | 0.95 | 2.01
US | 0.91 | 1.76
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Add new ampdu_action ops to support receiver BA.
The BA initiator session management in FW independently.
Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Add 80211n BA initiator session support wl1271 driver.
Include BA supported FW version auto detection mechanism.
BA initiator session management included in FW independently.
Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Channel 14 is only supported in Japan (JP country code in regdb). The
FW limits tranmissions to CCK only on this channel.
Tested in both STA and AP modes to work correctly.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
PLT mode start/stop is controlled from userspace. When removing module, the
PLT mode state is however not checked, and not cleared. There is the possibility
of some unwanted state to left linger and there is even the possiblity of a
kernel crash if for instance IRQ work is running when the module is removed.
Fix this by stopping PLT mode on module removal, if still running.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
The wl12xx chips do the AMDPU aggregation work in the firmware, but it
supports a maximum of 8 frames per block. Configure the mac80211 hw
structure accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Tested-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
changed the visibility of the debug_level module parameter
in the filesystem to be readable and writable to the root user.
It is now accessible under /sys/module/wl12xx/parameters
removed the debug_level debugfs file that was created under
/sys/kernel/debug/...
Signed-off-by: Guy Eilam <guy@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
We were calling ieee80211_find_sta() and the sta returned by it
without locking the RCU, which is required by mac80211.
Fix this and reorganize slightly the area of the code where the sta is
used.
Reported-by: Jonathan DE CESCO <jonathanc@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
When 11a is not supported, we were modifying the global structure that
contains the bands supported by the driver. This causes problems when
having more one wl12xx device in the same system because they all use
the same global. This also causes problems when the wl12xx_sdio
module is removed and the wl12xx module remains.
Fix this problem by copying the band structure into the wl12xx
instance.
Reported-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
wl12xx "rejoins" upon every BSS_CHANGED_BSSID notification.
However, there is no need to rejoin after disassociation, so just
filter out the case when the new bssid is 00:00:00:00:00:00.
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Indicate support for the NL80211_IFTYPE_AP interface mode to enable AP
mode operation.
Disable 11a when operating in AP-mode (unsupported for now).
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Try to read the MAC address from the on-disk NVS file.
A non-zero MAC address is required to add an AP interface.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
AP and STA modes use different firmwares.
Differentiate the firmware files by name and fetch the appropriate one
when add_interface is called by mac80211. The STA firmware is chosen for
PLT mode.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Encryption key configuration is different for AP/STA modes.
AP encryption keys are recorded when the BSS is not started. On BSS
start they are propagated to the AP (in wl1271_ap_init_hwenc).
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Record TX configuration settings in the "conf" member of our global
structure (struct wl1271) if conf_tx is called when the firmware is
not loaded.
Later on when the firmware is loaded, we apply the tx conf as part of
the init sequence.
Important for AP mode since conf_tx is called before add_interface
(where the firmware is initialized).
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
When in AP mode set appropriate HLID and rate policy for each skb.
Respond to supported-rates related changes in op_tx only when acting
as STA.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Allocate and free host link IDs (HLIDs) for each link. A per-STA
data structure keeps the HLID of each STA.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Do not configure a group address table in AP mode
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Separate configuration according to mode. AP has different rate
set configuration and no handling of idle-state.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Configure AP-specific beacon and probe response templates.
Start the AP when beaconing is enabled.
The wl1271_bss_info_changed() function has been split into AP/STA
specific handlers.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Set filters according to the mode of operation.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Split HW init sequence into AP/STA specific parts
The AP specific init sequence includes configuration of templates, rate
classes, power mode, etc. Also unmask AP specific events in the event mbox.
Separate the differences between AP and STA init into mode
specific functions called from wl1271_hw_init. The first is called after
radio configuration and the second after memory configuration.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Add commands to start/stop BSS, add/remove STA and configure encryption
keys. Split the encryption commands "set key" and "set default key" into
AP and STA specific versions.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Rate class configuration has been split up for AP and STA modes.
Template related configuration likewise separated.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
With the current single-queue implementation traffic priorization is not
working correctly - when using multiple BE streams and one, say VI stream,
the VI stream will share bandwidth almost equally with the BE streams.
To fix the issue, implement per AC queues, which are emptied in priority
order to the firmware. To keep it relatively simple, maintain a global
buffer count and global queue stop/wake instead of per-AC.
With these changes, priorization appears to work just fine.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Currently, the debug level is set in compilation time (by the DEBUG_LEVEL
const). This method has the advantage of compiling only the relevant
messages, while optimizing out the unused ones.
In order to allow runtime control over the debug_level, while optimizing
out messages when debug messages are not needed, we combine some methods:
1. use dynamic_debug (pr_debug) rather then printk.
2. add debug_level module param in order to set debug level during insmod.
3. add debug_level sysfs file in order to allow dynamic control over the
debug level.
Since patches for pr_debug_hex_dump() implementation haven't been applied yet,
we are still temporarly using print_hex_dump().
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Inclusion of a WPS IE in probe requests caused a problem
in the driver due to the maximum size of the probe request
template and the max_scan_ie_len values at initialization.
Increased the size of probe request template
to the maximum size allowed by the firmware.
Struct wl12xx_probe_req_template, which was only used
for calculating the max size of the probe request template,
is no longer used and needed.
max_scan_ie_len is used for validating the size of
additional IEs in scan requests.
Initialized the max_scan_ie_len field to the maximum size
of the probe request template minus the ieee80211 header size.
Signed-off-by: Guy Eilam <guy@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
The auto-arp feature of wl12xx allows the firmware to automatically
response to arp requests asking for its ip.
in order to use it, we configure the arp response template and
enable the corresponding bit in wl1271_acx_arp_filter (along with
passing its ip)
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Disabling the 11a channels when not supported in the reg_notify function was
not working as it should, because when the driver is initiailizing (and
registering itself with mac80211), it would get the reg notification too
early. At that point the driver wouldn't have received the NVS yet, so it
wouldn't know whether 11a was supported.
To fix this, we disable 11a channels when we read the NVS instead. Also, it
is easier (and still safe) to set n_channels to zero instead of setting the
disabled flag on every 11a channel.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
