Instead of allocating a scatter-gather table for every transmit
reuse a pre-allocated table. The transmit path will be faster by
taking out this allocation.
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is a mismatch between the mcs index(0-7) reported to cfg80211
and the actual mcs index(0-15) in use. This patch resolves the mismatch
by setting mcs info with the number of chains read from FW.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Deauth is sent to AP when the device is acting as station at
shutdown time. Similarly we should stop AP operation also.
mwifiex_deauthenticate() takes care closing the connection
based on provided interface type.
Add a new function to simplify the code.
Reported-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We skip downloading other commands after FUNC_SHUTDOWN is queued
during driver unload. Main thread should be woken up each time
after freeing skipped command so that FUNC_SHUTDOWN gets served
in case if there are other pending commands before FUNC_SHUTDOWN.
Also, call mwifiex_complete_cmd() only for synchronous commands.
Reported-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Maithili Hinge <maithili@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mwifiex_cancel_pending_ioctl() and
mwifiex_cancel_all_pending_cmd() are called in command timeout
and driver unload paths respectively.
If scan operation is in progress, we should abort it smoothly.
Reported-by: Tim Shepard <shep@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently default Tx buffer size configured to firmware is 2K
for all chipsets. This patch changes it to 4K for SD/PCIe/USB
8897 chipsets as per firmware requirements.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is a race condition while queuing synchronous command and
asynchronous command requested from different threads, because
the wait_q_enabled flag is set based on a global variable
cmd_wait_q_required.
The issue is fixed by removing this global variable and using a
unified function with an argument 'sync' passed into the
function.
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Groupcast frames are not subject for BACK reordering because they are not
ACK'ed and one can't request re-transmitt
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
implement del_station() method in the struct cfg80211_ops
It allows to disconnect single peer from the AP
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When notifying about Rx mgmt (ex: during scan), extract
signal strength reported by the hardware.
signal is not MBM, it is arbitrary units 0..100
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Need to fill translation table before calling WMI with WMI_VRING_CFG_CMDID
since firmware may generate events during this call; and events need translation
table filled to be properly dispatched
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Disconnect event reported by the FW, should lead to disconnection
of only requested peer. Find for the appropriate CID and disconnect
only it
For AP-like interface, notify cfg80211 with del_sta(),
for the client type interface, disconnect and turn link off.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Calculate statistics per connection, report with "iw station dump"
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rx stats is not calculated per STA - just give some number
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When FW notifies about BACK status change, it provides ring ID.
Process BA status for requested connection only. As for now, FW
don't report Rx BACK status, it reports Tx one instead.
As per current algorithm used in the firmware, imply Rx BACK
state is in sync with Tx one
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Hardware do not support "real" broadcast on the air.
Use method similar to the Directed Multicast Service (DMS) as
described in the 10.23.15.2 "DMS procedures"
This service copies frame and delivers unicast for each associated peer
Do the following: send original frame to 1-st Tx vring, and send copies
to all other active vrings.
As currently hardware/firmware don't support A-MSDU, convert broadcast
frame to unicast instead of wrapping it in A-MSDU
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are 24 possible Tx vrings; when doind multiple connections, more then
one vring has to be used. Search for free one and select it.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When running multiple connections, hardware can't do BACK reordering
and it should be done on the host.
Model after mac80211's implementation. Drop RCU for now;
to be re-added when BACK will be stabilized
BACK handshaking is not implemented yet in the hardware,
pretend it was done to support the way FW operating
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Enable multiple (up to 8 - HW/FW limitation) simultaneous connections.
Each connection has its own CID (connection ID) that describes chip's
beam-forming entity. Tx Vring should refer to correct CID for frame to reach
its destination.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Print '_' for the 'idle' descriptors - this makes vring representation more visible.
Also, for the Tx side, differentiate descriptors having associated skb's - print ones
with skb as 'H' and without as 'h'. Good to represent scattered frames.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Expand debug capabilities to query all Tx/Rx descriptors. Usefull to analyse
various hardware/software stall situations. Printed is whole descriptor content
and the frame itself.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Implement management frame passing. In order to receive frame on the other
side, remain_on_channel() should be implemented as well
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The intstatus in sdio code can be updated from different
threads. To protect intstatus access, atomic functions are
used. The loop was replaced using atomic_set_mask().
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some stations reset the sequence number for traffic-ids (TIDs)
as they initiate a block-ACK session. In order to detect such
behavior, mwifiex must note the starting sequence number given
during the ADDBA request. If the first received sequence number
after the ADDBA falls outside the receive window for this TID but
after the the ADDBA starting sequence number, we can assume that
this AP has reset its sequence number during the ADDBA. In this
case we must adjust the input window backward to incorporate this
received sequence number instead of ignoring it. Otherwise, we
could fail to successfully retrieve an arbitrarily large number
of downstream frames at the beginning of the block-ACK session.
Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In time some of the code got redundant, without being noticed.
This patch does not change any functionality, just removes
redundant code.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Immediate sleep support is an aggressive power saving option
that has not been enabled in brcmfmac and is removed to
simplify code.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
SDIO dpc scheduling is done (repeated) when counter is set. This
counter gets decreased when dpc is finished. It is more efficient
to set counter to 0 before the dpc is actullay run. This will
minimize the frequency with which dpc is executed.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
First clean up fw signalling, before cleaning up the bus and
proto layer. Old order can cause oops in some circumstances.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The local variable data_len is assigned but never used so get rid
of it.
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The SDIO driver has a 16-bit field defined in the skbuff control buffer.
However, it is accessed as a u32 overwriting other control info. Another
issue is that the field is not initialized for networking packets, but
the control buffer content is unspecified as other networking layers can
use it.
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Internal firmware roaming is enabled by default. This patch
makes it possible to disable internal firmware roaming by
specifying roamoff=1 as module param.
Reviewed-by: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel (Deognyoun) Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
and rename it to ath9k_cmn_setup_ht_cap
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
and rename it to ath9k_cmn_init_channels_rates.
sbands are move to ath_common as well.
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Survey stats such as channel busy time, rx busy time
and noise are collected when sw_scan starts for every
switched new channel. This happens till sw_scan stops.
All the collected stats are shared up when get_survey()
is called.
This implements support for ACS feature from Hostapd.
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Implement sw_scan start and stop callbacks.
Reset BBP registers for channel, RX busy and
average noise stats which clear on read.
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Adding AP firmware command to access BBP
regs. This will be used for retrieving
different counters CCA/RX needed for ACS
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Function ieee80211_{dsss_chan_to_freq, freq_to_dsss_chan} have been
replaced with ieee80211_{channel_to_frequency, frequency_to_channel}.
There should be no users of the two functions now. So remove them.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamerh2o@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Replace ieee80211_{dsss_chan_to_freq, freq_to_dsss_chan} with more
generic ieee80211_{channel_to_frequency, frequency_to_channel}.
File <net/cfg80211.h> has already been included. It's safe to use
IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ here.
This change is a preparation for the removal of function
ieee80211_{dsss_chan_to_freq, freq_to_dsss_chan}.
Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamerh2o@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
