This feature chooses to transmit with antenna that has better signal
strength periodically under 1ss rate.
It can benefit connection quality in the following cases:
1. User is far away from the AP.
2. The far-field pattern of the antenna showed significant signal
strength difference.
Signed-off-by: Po-Hao Huang <phhuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210426013252.5665-2-pkshih@realtek.com
Adding this supports beacon filter and CQM.
Let firmware perform connection quality monitor and beacon processing.
This make host CPU wakeup less under power save mode.
To make mechanisms work as usual, fw will notify driver events such as
signal change and beacon loss.
This feature needs firmware 9.9.8 or newer to support it, and driver is
compatible with older firmware.
Signed-off-by: Po-Hao Huang <phhuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210426013252.5665-1-pkshih@realtek.com
One USB data buffer can contain multiple received network
packets. If that's the case, they're processed this way:
1. Original buffer is cloned
2. Original buffer is trimmed to contain only the first
network packet
3. This first network packet is passed to network stack
4. Cloned buffer is trimmed to eliminate the first network
packet
5. Repeat with the cloned buffer until there are no more
network packets inside
However, if the space remaining in original buffer after
the first network packet is not enough to contain at least
another network packet descriptor, it is not cloned.
The loop parsing this packets ended if remaining space == 0.
But if the remaining space was > 0 but < packet descriptor
size, another iteration of the loop was done, processing again
the previous packet because cloning didn't happen. Moreover,
the ownership of this packet had been passed to network
stack in the previous iteration.
This patch ensures that no extra iteration is done if the
remaining size is not enough for one packet, and also avoid
the first iteration for the same reason.
Probably this doesn't happen in practice, but can happen
theoretically.
Signed-off-by: Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210511071926.8951-1-ihuguet@redhat.com
Based on 2001:3319 and 2357:0109 which I used to test the fix and
0bda:818b and 2357:0108 for which I found efuse dumps online.
== 2357:0109 ==
=== Before ===
Vendor: Realtek
Product: \x03802.11n NI
Serial:
=== After ===
Vendor: Realtek
Product: 802.11n NIC
Serial not available.
== 2001:3319 ==
=== Before ===
Vendor: Realtek
Product: Wireless N
Serial: no USB Adap
=== After ===
Vendor: Realtek
Product: Wireless N Nano USB Adapter
Serial not available.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210424172959.1559890-1-pterjan@google.com
Variable ul_enc_algo is being initialized with a value that is never
read, it is being set again in the following switch statements in
all of the case and default paths. Hence the unitialization is
redundant and can be removed.
Clean up clang warning:
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/cam.c:170:6: warning: Value stored
to 'ul_enc_algo' during its initialization is never read
[clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores]
Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1621303199-1542-1-git-send-email-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com
The coexistence programmers preserve the same code of branches
intentionally to fine tune performance easier, because bandwidth and RSSI
strength are highly related to coexistence performance. The basic rule of
performance tuning is to assign most time slot to BT for realtime
application, and WiFi uses remaining time slot but don't lower than low
bound.
Reported-by: Inigo Huguet <ihuguet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210506013738.5943-1-pkshih@realtek.com
Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s):
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/mac.c:124: warning: expecting prototype for writeLLT(). Prototype was for rtl92c_llt_write() instead
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/mac.c:154: warning: expecting prototype for rtl92c_init_LLT_table(). Prototype was for rtl92c_init_llt_table() instead
Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shen <shenyang39@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210517050141.61488-9-shenyang39@huawei.com
This reverts commit 765976285a.
Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all
commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were
correct or not.
Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons
below, so it must be reverted. It will be fixed up "correctly" in a
later kernel change.
This commit is not correct, it should not have used unlikely() and is
not propagating the error properly to the calling function, so it should
be reverted at this point in time. Also, if the check failed, the
work queue was still assumed to be allocated, so further accesses would
have continued to fail, meaning this patch does nothing to solve the
root issues at all.
Cc: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Bryan Brattlof <hello@bryanbrattlof.com>
Fixes: 765976285a ("rtlwifi: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-13-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We used to stop napi before disabling irqs. And it turns out
to cause some problem when we try to stop device while interrupt arrives.
To safely stop pci, we do three steps:
1. disable interrupt
2. synchronize_irq
3. stop_napi
Since step 2 and 3 may not finish as expected when interrupt is enabled,
use rtwpci->running to decide whether interrupt should be re-enabled at
the time.
Fixes: 9e2fd29864 ("rtw88: add napi support")
Signed-off-by: Po-Hao Huang <phhuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415084703.27255-4-pkshih@realtek.com
If there are lots of packets to be transmitted, the driver would check
whether the available descriptors are sufficient according the read/write
point of tx queue. Once the available descriptor is not enough,
ieee80211_stop_queue is called.
TX ISR, meanwhile, is releasing the tx resources after the packets are
transmitted. This routine may call ieee80211_wake_queue by checking the
available descriptor.
The potential queue stop problem would occur when the tx queue is
stopped due to the heavy traffic. Then thare is no chance to wake the
queue up because the read point is not updated immediately, as a result,
no more packets coulde be transmitted in this queue.
This patch makes sure the ieee80211_wake_queue could be called properly
and avoids the race condition when ring->r.rp, ring->queue_stopped are
updated.
Signed-off-by: Yu-Yen Ting <steventing@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415084703.27255-3-pkshih@realtek.com
The value of GET_RX_DESC_SWDEC() indicates that if this RX
packet requires software decryption or not. And software
decryption is required when the packet was encrypted and the
hardware failed to decrypt it.
So, GET_RX_DESC_SWDEC() is negative does not mean that this
packet is decrypted, it might just have no encryption at all.
To actually see if the packet is decrypted, driver needs to
further check if the hardware has successfully decrypted it,
with a specific type of encryption algorithm.
Signed-off-by: Guo-Feng Fan <vincent_fann@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415084703.27255-2-pkshih@realtek.com
Using a kernel with the Undefined Behaviour Sanity Checker (UBSAN) enabled, the
following array overrun is logged:
================================================================================
UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in /home/finger/wireless-drivers-next/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/phy.c:1789:34
index 5 is out of range for type 'u8 [5]'
CPU: 2 PID: 84 Comm: kworker/u16:3 Tainted: G O 5.12.0-rc5-00086-gd88bba47038e-dirty #651
Hardware name: TOSHIBA TECRA A50-A/TECRA A50-A, BIOS Version 4.50 09/29/2014
Workqueue: phy0 ieee80211_scan_work [mac80211]
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x64/0x7c
ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x40
__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold+0x43/0x48
rtw_get_tx_power_params+0x83a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/0xad0 [rtw_core]
? rtw_pci_read16+0x20/0x20 [rtw_pci]
? check_hw_ready+0x50/0x90 [rtw_core]
rtw_phy_get_tx_power_index+0x4d/0xd0 [rtw_core]
rtw_phy_set_tx_power_level+0xee/0x1b0 [rtw_core]
rtw_set_channel+0xab/0x110 [rtw_core]
rtw_ops_config+0x87/0xc0 [rtw_core]
ieee80211_hw_config+0x9d/0x130 [mac80211]
ieee80211_scan_state_set_channel+0x81/0x170 [mac80211]
ieee80211_scan_work+0x19f/0x2a0 [mac80211]
process_one_work+0x1dd/0x3a0
worker_thread+0x49/0x330
? rescuer_thread+0x3a0/0x3a0
kthread+0x134/0x150
? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
================================================================================
The statement where an array is being overrun is shown in the following snippet:
if (rate <= DESC_RATE11M)
tx_power = pwr_idx_2g->cck_base[group];
else
====> tx_power = pwr_idx_2g->bw40_base[group];
The associated arrays are defined in main.h as follows:
struct rtw_2g_txpwr_idx {
u8 cck_base[6];
u8 bw40_base[5];
struct rtw_2g_1s_pwr_idx_diff ht_1s_diff;
struct rtw_2g_ns_pwr_idx_diff ht_2s_diff;
struct rtw_2g_ns_pwr_idx_diff ht_3s_diff;
struct rtw_2g_ns_pwr_idx_diff ht_4s_diff;
};
The problem arises because the value of group is 5 for channel 14. The trivial
increase in the dimension of bw40_base fails as this struct must match the layout of
efuse. The fix is to add the rate as an argument to rtw_get_channel_group() and set
the group for channel 14 to 4 if rate <= DESC_RATE11M.
This patch fixes commit fa6dfe6bff ("rtw88: resolve order of tx power setting routines")
Fixes: fa6dfe6bff ("rtw88: resolve order of tx power setting routines")
Reported-by: Богдан Пилипенко <bogdan.pylypenko107@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210401192717.28927-1-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
The signal strength of 5G is quite low, so user can't connect to an AP far
away. New parameters with new format and its parser are updated by the commit
84d26fda52 ("rtlwifi: Update 8821ae new phy parameters and its parser."), but
some parameters are missing. Use this commit to update to the novel parameters
that use new format.
Fixes: 84d26fda52 ("rtlwifi: Update 8821ae new phy parameters and its parser")
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Tested-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210219052607.7323-1-pkshih@realtek.com
While WL scan, WL is more high priority than BT. The packets from AP
will be a big interference to A2DP. It will lead to A2DP stutters. Stop
answering CTS to AP to decrease AP's packets Tx while WL scan + WL busy.
Enable BT AFH feature to make BT leave away from WL channel.
Desired BT firmware BT-COEX version: 0x1c
Desired WL firmware version: 9.9.x
Signed-off-by: Ching-Te Ku <ku920601@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210319054218.3319-8-pkshih@realtek.com
Although FW crash logs are already supported for dumping in driver, the
logs may not be sufficient to analyze field issues. To improve this part,
we add a support to dump FW memory.
When driver receives FW crash notifications, driver uses DDMA, which is a
HW ability, to copy specified FW memory to FW fifo. Driver can then dump
these information from FW fifo. With this support, not only FW crash log
but also specified FW memory will be dumped while FW crash. Besides,
specified registers are also dumped.
This feature is implemeted on 8822C first due to difference of FW layouts
between ICs. In addition, we add a debugfs to trigger FW crash. It can
simulate the process of crash, dump and reset. Through it, we can also
check if a reset is ongoing.
Signed-off-by: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309060121.9099-1-pkshih@realtek.com
Use napi to reduce overhead on rx interrupts.
Driver used to interrupt kernel for every Rx packet, this could
affect both system and network performance. NAPI is a mechanism that
uses polling when processing huge amount of traffic, by doing this
the number of interrupts can be decreased.
Network performance can also benefit from this patch. Since TCP
connection is bidirectional and acks are required for every several
packets. These ack packets occupie the PCI bus bandwidth and could
lead to performance degradation.
When napi is used, GRO receive is enabled by default in the mac80211
stack. So mac80211 won't pass every RX TCP packets to the kernel TCP
network stack immediately. Instead an aggregated large length TCP packet
will be delivered.
This reduces the tx acks sent and gains rx performance. After the patch,
the Rx throughput increases about 25Mbps in 11ac.
Signed-off-by: Po-Hao Huang <phhuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210209070755.23019-4-pkshih@realtek.com
