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Wey-Yi Guy
8d801080dd iwlwifi: more clean up to move agn only rx functions from iwlcore to iwlagn
Move more functions only used by agn driver from iwlcore to iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:19:54 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
54b81550dd iwlwifi: move agn only rx functions from iwlcore to iwlagn
Identify the rx functions only used by agn driver and move those from
iwlcore to iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:19:33 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
74bcdb33e9 iwlwifi: move agn only tx functions from iwlcore to iwlagn
Identify the tx functions only used by agn driver and move those from
iwlcore to iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:19:27 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
872c8ddcbe iwlwifi: iwl_good_ack_health() only apply to AGN device
iwl_good_ack_health() check for expected and actual ack count which only
apply to aggregation mode. Move the function to iwlagn module.

Reported-by: Chantry Xavier <chantry.xavier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:16:37 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
d5a0ffa3ea iwlwifi: Recover TX flow failure
Monitors the tx statistics to detect the drop in throughput.
When the throughput drops, the ratio of the actual_ack_count and the
expected_ack_count also drops.  At the same time, the aggregated
ba_timeout (the number of ba timeout retries) also rises.  If the
actual_ack_count/expected_ack_count ratio is 0 and the number of ba
timeout retries rises to BA_TIMEOUT_MAX, no tx packets can be delivered.
Reloading the uCode and bring the system back to normal operational
state.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:26 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy
b74e31a9bc iwlwifi: Recover TX flow stall due to stuck queue
Monitors the internal TX queues periodically.  When a queue is stuck
for some unknown conditions causing the throughput to drop and the
transfer is stop, the driver will force firmware reload and bring the
system back to normal operational state.

The iwlwifi devices behave differently in this regard so this feature is
made part of the ops infrastructure so we can have more control on how to
monitor and recover from tx queue stall case per device.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:25 -07:00
Shanyu Zhao
c11362c01b iwlwifi: clean up driver names for 1000/5000/6000
Align the driver names with official product names for 1000/5000/6000
series. This change mainly affects the debug messages show up in system
log. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:24 -07:00
Reinette Chatre
fe6b23dd36 iwlwifi: implement new mac80211 station add/remove calls
mac80211 recently implemented two new callbacks that are used to request
station add/remove from the driver. The benefot from these new callbacks
are that they enable the driver to sleep while performing this work.

This is a big patch since a few things need to be coordinated in this move.
First we need to decouple station management from rate scaling, which
caused a lot of code to be moved and/or deleted. Next we needed to tie in
with mac80211's station management callback and let it direct our station
management as well as trigger the rate scaling initialization.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:40:58 -07:00
Reinette Chatre
7e2461910e iwlwifi: only add broadcast station once
Currently the broadcast station is added after every RXON command. Change
this to only add the broadcast station when interface is added by mac80211.
With this we need some extra work to ensure broadcast station is always
present since station table is cleared when RXON without ASSOC bit set is
sent. To deal with this we re-add all driver known stations to uCode after
such an RXON command is sent.

We also do some cleanup and remove the various calls to clear the station
table. We now only clear the station table in two scenarios:
- only clear uCode portion of station table when RXON command without ASSOC
bit is sent
- clear uCode and driver portion when interface goes down or is removed.

We need to do this clearing when interface goes down to deal with the
device restart/reconfigure routines which do not remove the interface, but
do add the interface during reconfiguration.

Previously the keys were also cleared when station table in driver is
cleared, this is not done anymore since mac80211 will take care that keys
are set and cleared correctly.

There is a known issue with this change. Associating with different AP
without bringing interface down fails with a firmware error. This is
because of the lack of full station notification support and the later
patches in this series that complete the station notification support will
fix this.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:40:49 -07:00
Johannes Berg
72e15d71b0 iwlwifi: change WEP key protection to use mutex
For later station notification support we would like WEP key setting to be
done synchronously always. Currently all places from which WEP key is set
can sleep, but the usage of sta_lock prevents it to do so. Modify the
locking to use priv->mutex instead and thus enable this call to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:12:08 -08:00
Johannes Berg
60987206cb iwlagn: move sysfs flags and filter_flags files to debugfs
These files are incompatible with some changes
I'm making, and don't really belong into sysfs
anyway as they can only be used for debugging.
Since writing them will probably crash the
firmware, keep only the reading part and move
them into debugfs.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:10:38 -08:00
Johannes Berg
b55e75ed92 iwlwifi: remove STATUS_MODE_PENDING
Since rfkill integration, mac80211 can no
longer add an interface while the hardware
is not ready, so STATUS_MODE_PENDING can
never be set.

Also, remove another superfluous channel
sanity check and return the commit_rxon
return value in case it failed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:06:06 -08:00
Johannes Berg
76c9cc18fd iwlwifi: remove alive start adhoc restart
This code will never trigger, because when
we call this during interface start, neither
priv->vif nor priv->iw_mode conditions will
be true, and when it happens during reset
then priv->vif is also NULL. Also, in both
cases the same code will be executed as part
of iwl_bss_info_changed(), which contains a
copy of this code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:05:55 -08:00
Johannes Berg
4a02886bae iwlwifi: remove priv->active_rate_basic
This variable is assigned a default value,
but then assigned zero as soon as mac80211
calls a change channel (which will happen
right after the hw is started) and after
that it never changes again.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:04:54 -08:00
Johannes Berg
470ab2dd6a iwlwifi: remove never-changing priv->rates_mask variable
It's always just IWL_RATES_MASK.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:04:40 -08:00
Johannes Berg
a4c8b2a692 iwlwifi: move ICT data to agn part of union
Since the ICT data is all AGN specific, it can
be the first data to create the _agn part of the
device-specific union in the priv struct.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:03:37 -08:00
Johannes Berg
a1175124f3 iwlagn: move ICT code into separate file
All the ICT ISR code is iwlagn specific, and doesn't
need to be in iwlcore. So create a new iwl-agn.h
header file that will hold agn specific function
declarations etc., and move the ICT code into a new
iwl-agn-ict.c file that is linked into iwlagn. This
also gets rid of exporting those symbols.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:03:13 -08:00
Johannes Berg
b08dfd0435 iwlwifi: load firmware asynchronously before mac80211 registration
At the wireless summit in Portland we discussed a way of
loading firmware asynchronously from ->probe() before
registration to mac80211, in order to register with the
wireless subsystems with complete information in cases
where firmware is required to know parameters.

This is not yet the case in iwlwifi, but for some new
features we're working on it will be the case since
those will only be supported by new firmware images.

Hence, to start with, convert iwlwifi to load firmware
asynchronously from probe, unbinding the device when
firmware loading fails, and only registering with the
wireless subsystems after firmware has been loaded
successfully.

Future patches will hook into this to register the
new firmware capabilities, depending on the firmware
API version.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-02 14:31:51 -05:00
David S. Miller
ce300c7ffa Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-02-27 02:05:54 -08:00
David S. Miller
19bc291c99 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c
2010-02-25 23:26:21 -08:00
Reinette Chatre
ab9bdc34d6 Revert "iwlwifi: Monitor and recover the aggregation TX flow failure"
This reverts commit 1db5950f1d.

The goal of "iwlwifi: Monitor and recover the aggregation TX flow failure"
is to first detect when data transmission stalls and then to recover from
this situation with a reset of the radio or the firmware, depending on how
bad the transmission failures are.

Unfortunately we have found that this change causes excessive resets with
its current detection algorithm. It also performs its recovery action when
none is really needed, like when we are not associated.

Revert this change until the issues have been addressed.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-23 14:02:52 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
8a472da431 iwlwifi: separated time check for different type of force reset
Use different timing duration check for different type of force reset,
force reset request can come from different source and based on
different reason; one type of reset request should not block other type of
reset request.

Adding structure to keep track of different force reset request.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:50 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
d2dfe6df75 iwlwifi: enable serialization of synchronous commands
Until now it was only possible to have one synchronous command running at
any time. If a synchronous command is in progress when a second request
arrives then the second command will fail. Create a new mutex specific for
this purpose to only allow one synchronous command at a time, but enable
other commands to wait instead of fail if a synchronous command is in
progress.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:49 -05:00
David S. Miller
f6f223039c Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-02-14 17:45:59 -08:00
Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen
1db5950f1d iwlwifi: Monitor and recover the aggregation TX flow failure
This change monitors the tx statistics to detect the drop in throughput.
When the throughput drops, the ratio of the actual_ack_count and the expected_
ack_count also drops.  At the same time, the aggregated ba_timeout (the number
of ba timeout retries) also rises.  If the actual_ack_count/expected_ack_count
ratio is 0 and the number of ba timeout retries rises to 16, no tx packets
(tcp, udp, or ping - icmp) can be delivered.  The driver recovers from this
situation by reseting the uCode firmware.  If the actual_ack_count/expected_
ack_count ratio drops below 50% (but not 0) and the aggregated ba_timeout
retries just exceed 5 (but not 16), then the driver can reset the radio to
bring the throughput up.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:27:41 -08:00
Reinette Chatre
4843b5a731 iwlwifi: reset card during probe
To ensure that card is in a sane state during probe we add a reset call.
This change was prompted by users of kdump who was not able to bring up the
wireless driver in the kdump kernel. The problem here was that the primary
kernel, which is not running at the time, left the wireless card up and
running. When the kdump kernel starts it is thus possible to immediately
receive interrupts from firmware after registering interrupt, but without
being ready to deal with interrupts from firmware yet.

Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:55 -08:00
Kalle Valo
1296d47445 iwlwifi: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

Compile-tested only.

Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:01 -05:00
Samuel Ortiz
21b2d8bd2f iwlwifi: Send broadcast probe request only when asked to
When running directed active scans we currently end up sending both the SSID
probe requests and an additional broadcast one.
This is due to the fact that we always leave the probe request template SSID IE
length to 0. Instead we should set it to the first SSID to scan, and fill the
direct_scan array with the remaining SSIDs to scan for. This way we only send
what we've been asked to: a broadcast probe request when no directed scan is
requested, and directed probe requests otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:58 -05:00
David S. Miller
10be7eb36b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-02-04 08:58:14 -08:00
Johannes Berg
80676518da iwlwifi: remove bg_up work
There's no need to queue a work struct from
within a work struct, just move the code to
execute directly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:57 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a7fce6ee8d iwlwifi: sysassert identifier change
Change in uCode to include a unique identifier as part of sysassert,
in order to tell the difference, add the "ADVANCED SYSASSERT" description
when dump nic error to indicate the difference.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:33 -08:00
Daniel Halperin
49dcc819b0 iwlwifi: optimize power saving
In hostap AP mode, every time the client sends the AP
a packet the STA_NOTIFY_AWAKE code is sent from mac80211.
This results in a command being sent to the uCode even if
the client was not asleep.

The following simple patch has fixed the issue for me without any
degradation that I can find.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <dhalperi@cs.washington.edu>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-01-29 11:13:19 -08:00
Reinette Chatre
81963d6857 iwlwifi: cleanup spectrum measurement command support
In iwlagn the support for spectrum measurement command has been
disabled since v2.6.29 without any requests for it. In addition to this
when this command is indeed enabled it has been found to trigger firmware
SYSASSERT on at least 4965 and 5100 hardware (see
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1952 ). Since then
this code has been bitrotting and cannot just be enabled without porting.

Remove support for spectrum measurement command from iwlagn. It can be
added back if there is a future need and the firmware problem it triggers
has been fixed. Support for the spectrim measurement notification remains
as it has been enabled all the time.

In addition to this remove the 3945 spectrum measurement command Kconfig
option and make this command always supported. The code added by this
enabling is minimal and only run when user triggers a spectrum measurement
request via sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:26 -05:00
Johannes Berg
875295f183 iwlwifi: fix sparse warning
sparse correctly warns about symbol not
being static, make static to shut it up.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:26 -05:00
Johannes Berg
158bea07c6 iwlwifi: reorder device setup
It is better to first notify cfg80211 about the hw
rfkill state (so the rfkill device that will be
registered won't have the wrong state while being
registered), and the power/tt variable init can
(and probably should) also be done first.

Also rename iwl_setup_mac to
iwl_mac_setup_register to better describe what it
really does.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:24 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
3459ab5a1c iwlwifi: make broadcast station addition generic
Add function pointer for broadcast station addition so that we can call it
in from iwlcore at a later time. We only distinguish between iwlagn and
iwl3945 broadcast station addition. For the iwl3945 station addition we add
that function to iwlcore since that is where most station functionality
resides, making it part of iwl3945 will require significant code
reorganization that will dilute station management functionality. This
seems to be an efficient solution.

It may seem as though we are removing error checking when adding the 3945
broadcast station but this error checking was never really necessary since
the function returns the station id and the broadcast station id is always
set.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:22 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a13d276f1e iwlwifi: configure missed beacon threshold
Add support to configure missed beacon threshold, by default, if receive
"missed beacon" notification from uCode and has more than 5 consecutive
beacon missed, then perform sensitivity calibration; with this change,
allow user to adjust the missed beacon threshold from debugfs in case
more sensitivity calibration required for better performance in noisy
environment

The default value (=5) should be good enough for the normal condition,
but for very noisy environment, more sensitivity calibration could help
improve the throughput, so by setting the missed beacon threshold to
lower number, user might experience better performance result.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:19 -05:00
Johannes Berg
b3fbdcf49f mac80211: pass vif and station to update_tkip_key
When a TKIP key is updated, we should pass the station
pointer instead of just the address, since drivers can
use that to store their own data. We also need to pass
the virtual interface pointer.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-22 16:08:55 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
1f44780827 iwlwifi: update copyright year to 2010
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:15 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
937c397eb6 iwlwifi: correct return code for log_event
When dumping event log in debugfs, iwl_dump_nic_event_log()
should return the correct error code instead of let the calling
function makes it own assumption.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:10 -05:00
David S. Miller
6373464288 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
2010-01-19 11:43:42 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy
f05279711b iwlwifi: add IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL
mac80211 do not check the return code now, what if mac80211 does start
using the return code? IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL is a valid action,
just iwlwifi driver do not need to take any action for it; so instead of
return "-EINVAL", it is a good program practice to return "-EOPNOTSUPP"
to make sure mac80211 will not get wrong impression.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-12 14:02:11 -05:00
Alexey Dobriyan
a3aa18842a drivers/net/: use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE()
Use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE() so we get place PCI ids table into correct section
in every case.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-07 23:54:26 -08:00
John W. Linville
ea1e4b8420 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2009-12-28 15:09:11 -05:00
David S. Miller
d346f49d0b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-12-25 16:34:56 -08:00
Johannes Berg
ba37a3d039 iwlwifi: use new mac80211 SMPS
Instead of hard-coding the SM PS mode per hardware,
this makes iwlwifi support the new mac80211 API for
controlling the SM PS mode.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22 13:56:07 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
b03d7d0fd3 iwlwifi: on-screen event log dump
This feature enables the on-screen uCode event log dump. The original
method will append the event log to syslog; with this capability,
we also enable the user to write script to capture the
events which provide additional flexibility to help uCode debugging

Method
1) change to debugfs directory (sys/kernel/debug/phyX/iwlagn/data)
2) #cat log_event

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 18:56:18 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
a9e1cb6a78 iwlwifi: add continuous uCode event log capability
In order to help uCode debugging, adding the capability to provide
continuous uCode event logging function.

uCode events is located in round-robin event queue and filled by uCode,
by enable continuous event logging, driver check the write pointer
and log the newly added events in iwl_bg_ucode_trace() timer function.

There is still possibility of missing events if event queue being
wrapped before next event dump; but with this capability, we can have
much better understanding of the uCode behavior during runtime; it can
help to debug the uCode related issues.

Methods to enable/disable the continuous event log:
step 1: enable ucode trace timer
     "echo 1 >
/sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phyX/iwlagn/debug/ucode_tracing"
step 2: start ftrace
     sudo ./trace-cmd record -e iwlwifi_ucode:* sleep 1d
step 3: stop ftrace
     sudo ./trace-cmd report trace.dat
step 4: disable ucode trace timer
     "echo 0 >
/sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phyX/iwlagn/debug/ucode_tracing"

use "ucode_tracing" debugfs file to display number of event
queue wrapped when driver attempt the continuous event logging. If event
queue being wrapped more than once when driver has opportunity to log
the event; it indicated there are events missing in the event log trace.

This continuous event log function only available for 4965 and newer
NICs.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 18:56:16 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy
3a41bbd515 iwlwifi: log CT_CARD_DISABLED flag
Change name from RF_CARD_DISABLED to CT_CARD_DISABLED to match the
indication from uCode, also log the debug message when the condition
detected in iwl_rx_card_state_notif()

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 18:56:13 -05:00
Reinette Chatre
731a29b74a iwlwifi: initialize spinlock before use
Recent powersaving work resulted in power management ops being called
during EEPROM initialization. The lock used by these functions is not
initialized at this time. Ensure lock is initialized before it is used.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 11:32:10 -05:00