The ath9k rate control algorithm has various architectural
issues that make it a poor fit in scenarios like congested
environments etc.
An example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927191
Change the default to minstrel which is more robust in such cases.
The ath9k RC code is left in the driver for now, maybe it can
be removed altogether later on.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This reverts commit 68d9e1fa24
This change reduces rx sensitivity with no apparent extra benefit.
It looks like it was meant for testing in a specific scenario,
but it was never properly validated.
Cc: rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Almost all the DMA issues which have plagued ath9k (in station mode)
for years are related to PS. Disabling PS usually "fixes" the user's
connection stablility. Reports of DMA problems are still trickling in
and are sitting in the kernel bugzilla. Until the PS code in ath9k is
given a thorough review, disbale it by default. The slight increase
in chip power consumption is a small price to pay for improved link
stability.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR934x v1.3 no longer needs the DCU backoff reduction workaround for
preventing rx overruns, but in turn needs the number of usable Tx
buffers to be reduced slightly.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If a local bus timeout has been detected, the host interface needs to be
reset to clear the errors. AR934x uses a different synchronous interrupt
bit to indicate this, so the check needs to be fixed.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Do not subtract spur power from noise floor on this chip, as it can lead
to packet loss and other connectivity issues.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Waiting for all subframes of an existing aggregation session to drain
before allowing mac80211 to start a new one is fragile and deadlocks
caused by this behavior have been observed.
Since mac80211 has proper synchronization for aggregation session
start/stop handling, a better approach to session handling is to simply
allow mac80211 to start a new session at any time. This requires
changing the code to discard any packets outside of the BlockAck window
in the A-MPDU software retry code.
This patch implements the above and also simplifies the code.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After a tx attempt, an A-MPDU subframe can still have fi->retries at 0
(if the retry count wasn't incremented due to powersave).
In that case it is still tracked as part of the block ack window, so
when draining the tid queue, its sequence number needs to be cleared
from the pending frame bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes some issues introduced in the rate control API rework.
When not running aggregation, copy bf->rates into info->control.rates
before applying the rate control status to it.
In ath_lookup_rate, the rates need to be pulled from bf->rates, not the
tx info.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When aggregation stop is requested, don't run the mac80211 aggregation
stop callback yet, while the session is still blocked.
Also, when aggregation flush is requested, don't run the callback at all.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Manual peak calibration is currently enabled only for
AR9462 and AR9565. This is also required for AR9485.
The initvals are also modified to disable HW peak calibration.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If NO_DMA=y:
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath9k_beacon_generate':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c:146: undefined reference to `dma_unmap_single'
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c:174: undefined reference to `dma_map_single'
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c:176: undefined reference to `dma_mapping_error'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath9k_beacon_remove_slot':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c:252: undefined reference to `dma_unmap_single'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_descdma_setup':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/init.c:382: undefined reference to `dmam_alloc_coherent'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_edma_get_buffers':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:616: undefined reference to `dma_sync_single_for_cpu'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_get_next_rx_buf':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:740: undefined reference to `dma_sync_single_for_cpu'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_rx_edma_cleanup':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:176: undefined reference to `dma_unmap_single'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_rx_cleanup':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:340: undefined reference to `dma_unmap_single'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_rx_edma_buf_link':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:122: undefined reference to `dma_sync_single_for_cpu'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_rx_tasklet':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:1275: undefined reference to `dma_map_single'
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:1277: undefined reference to `dma_mapping_error'
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:1283: undefined reference to `dma_unmap_single'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_rx_edma_init':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:226: undefined reference to `dma_map_single'
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:229: undefined reference to `dma_mapping_error'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_rx_init':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:303: undefined reference to `dma_map_single'
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c:306: undefined reference to `dma_mapping_error'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_tx_complete_buf':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:2088: undefined reference to `dma_unmap_single'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_txstatus_setup':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:2344: undefined reference to `dmam_alloc_coherent'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_tx_set_retry':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:307: undefined reference to `dma_sync_single_for_cpu'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ath_tx_setup_buffer':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:1887: undefined reference to `dma_map_single'
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:1889: undefined reference to `dma_mapping_error'
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Register Modification for xLNA board.
* TX gain table modification for zero calibration.
* AUX chain (LNA2) sensitivity enhancement
* Modify diversity bias default setting in INI.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When a reset or a channel-change happens, for managed mode,
the HW beacon timers have to be programmed after the TSF has
been synchronized. This is handled via the sync flags.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If no keycache slots are available, ath_key_config can return -ENOSPC.
If the key index is not checked for errors, it can lead to logspam that
looks like this: "ath: wiphy0: keyreset: keycache entry 228 out of range"
This can cause follow-up errors if the invalid keycache index gets
used for tx.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The RX fifo can be accessed from the common tasklet or it can
be reaped/cleaned when RX is stopped, which is done when doing
a reset or channel change - this happens in process context.
Since it is ensured that there are no pending tasklets when
stopping RX and cleaning the FIFO, there is no need to use
SKB queue functions which take internal locks.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The EDMA case is handled first, so the else condition
can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The split makes no sense and merging the functions makes further changes
easier to implement
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
According to 802.11-2007 17.3.8.6 (slot time), the slot time should
be increased by 3 us * coverage class. The code only increased the
ack timeout, which is fixed by this patch.
We have noticed in our long shot scenario that we see less collisions
with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
[add standard reference and commit message]
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In some cases it can be useful to change the MAC address of a virtual
interface to something that's completely different from the EEPROM
stored MAC address. In this case it is a bad idea to use the EEPROM MAC
address for calculating the BSSID mask, as that would make it too wide.
In one case a few devices have been observed to send ACKs for many
packets on the channel not directed at them, which results in a neat
Denial of Service attack on the channel.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Preparation for updating common->macaddr along with virtual interface
MAC address changes.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is called with spinlocks held so we have to use GFP_ATOMIC. It's
the sc_pcu_lock in ath9k_stop() that's the issue. The call tree looks
like this:
ath9k_stop()
ath_prepare_reset()
ath_stoprecv()
ath_flushrecv()
ath_rx_tasklet()
ath9k_dfs_process_phyerr()
pd->add_pulse() => dpd_add_pulse()
channel_detector_get()
channel_detector_create()
pri_detector_init()
channel_detector_create() uses GFP_ATOMIC as well.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Acked-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The DFS pattern detector was initially planned to reside on
a higher layer and used generic pr_*() logging functions.
Being part of ath9k, use ath_dbg() instead and make DFS log
ouput selectable via ATH_DBG_DFS (0x20000) at runtime.
This patch does not contain functional modifications.
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The hardware parsing of Control Wrapper Frames needs to be disabled, as
it has been causing spurious decryption error reports. The initvals for
other chips have been updated to disable it, but AR9580 was left out for
some reason.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Inside one FIFO slot queue, EDMA chipsets have the same link pointer
re-read race condition as older chipsets, so the same buffer holding
logic needs to be used in order to avoid use-after-free bugs.
Unlike on older chips, it can be skipped for the end of the queue.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If AR_CRCErr, AR_PHYErr, AR_DecryptCRCErr or AR_MichaelErr is indicated
in the rx status word, but AR_RxFrameOK is also set, the descriptor
contents are typically invalid. This can show up as a warning about
invalid MCS rates in a frame. Even with those checks in place, a
descriptor with invalid MCS rates can still sometimes make it through to
the driver (mostly on older hardware like AR91xx).
Detect such errors in the last descriptor of a frame and discard the
whole frame if present.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As the comment in ath_get_next_rx_buf indicates, if a descriptor with
the done bit set follows one with the done bit cleared, both descriptors
should be discarded, however the driver is not doing that yet.
To fix this, use the rs->rs_more flag as an indicator that the following
frame should be discarded. This also helps with the split buffer case:
if the first part of the frame is discarded, the following parts need to
be discarded as well, since they contain no valid header or usable data.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of leaving the buffer without skb and breaking out of the loop
(which could leak the rx buffer), use the common error path.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Banks 0-3,7 are neither modified at run time, nor SREV dependent.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are two sets of initvals for this RF bank, one with TPC support and
one without.
The TPC one always gets used, so remove the other one to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These are the remaining knobs in ath9k to support DFS:
* mark AR9280 and AR9580 as DFS tested
* synchronize DFS regulatory domain to reg notifyer
* set required RX filter flags for radar detection
* process radar PHY errors at DFS detector
* notify DFS master on radar detection
DFS support requires CONFIG_ATH9K_DFS_CERTIFIED to be set.
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This helps testing DFS without radar generating
equipment and is required for certification.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since the firmware has been open sourced, the minor version has been
bumped to 1.4 and the API/ABI will stay compatible across further 1.x
releases.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath_complete_reset will not be called if ath9k_hw_reset
is unsuccessful, so we need to re-enable intertupts to
balence the previous ath_prepare_reset call. Also schedule a
reset as a best effort method to recover the chip from
whatever state caused the channel change failure.
Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55771
Signed-off-by: Robert Shade <robert.shade@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The messages are currently hard coding "1ms", which does not match
the actual timeout being used.
Signed-off-by: Robert Shade <robert.shade@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The spectral data provided via relay-fs introduces a buffering
latency given by the subbuf_size. To meet the requirements for
delay-sensitive applications (like real-time spectral plotter),
reduce subbuf_size and increase n_subbufs.
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The following issue was reported.
WARNING: at net/mac80211/util.c:599 ieee80211_can_queue_work.isra.7+0x32/0x40 [mac80211]()
Hardware name: iMac12,1
queueing ieee80211 work while going to suspend
Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: PF O 3.8.2-206.fc18.x86_64 #1
Call Trace: Mar 16 09:39:17 Parags-iMac kernel: [ 3993.642992] <IRQ>
[<ffffffff8105e61f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[<ffffffffa0581420>] ? ath_start_rx_poll+0x70/0x70 [ath9k]
<ffffffff8105e716>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[<ffffffffa045b542>] ieee80211_can_queue_work.isra.7+0x32/0x40
Fix this by avoiding to queue the work if our device has
already been marked as suspended or stopped.
Reported-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
