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771 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Zhu Yi
f3f911d177 iwlwifi: fix DMA channel number in iwl_txq_ctx_stop
The patch fixes the misuse of DMA channel number by Tx queue number in
iwl_tx_ctx_stop().

The problem was originally reported by Wu Fengguang who complains
iwlagn driver takes too long time when issuing `ifconfig wlan0 down`.
The patch now decreases the interface bring down time from 2 seconds
to 0.8 second.

This fixes bugs:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11956
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1790

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:55 -05:00
Abbas, Mohamed
74221d0740 iwl3945: Fix iwl3945 rate scaling.
3945 rate scaling was broken in recent tree. This patch fix the following:
	1- Get TX response info and update rates window.
	2- Rate scaling selection.
	3- Flush window timer.

Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:55 -05:00
Abbas, Mohamed
c30e30e17d iwl3945: add debugfs support
Add debugfs support to 3945 driver to display rs info.

Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:55 -05:00
Winkler, Tomas
d366df5abb iwlwifi: move channels sysfs to debugfs
This patch moves channels info display from sysfs to debugfs.
This shows channel information as stored in NIC EEPROM. This
is useful in debugging CRDA or iwl goes setting so it belongs
rather to debugfs then to sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:54 -05:00
Winkler, Tomas
0ad91a35bc iwlwifi: move disable/enable interrupts to iwl-core.c
This patch moves iwl_enable_interrupts and iwl_disable_interrupts
functions to iwl-core.c

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:53 -05:00
Samuel Ortiz
c93007efaa iwl3945: Select correct sta ID from find_station()
The find_station routine needs to look at the IWL_AP_ID entry if we're a STA.
Currently, it only looks for STA entries which causes HW crypto to fail.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:52 -05:00
Zhu Yi
99df630c34 iwlwifi: fix printk size format error
The patch fixes a printk size format error.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:51 -05:00
Winkler, Tomas
8f5c87dcf6 iwlwifi: move host command check function into separate file
This patch moves iwl_check_rxon_cmd into iwl-agn-hcmd-check.c
This function compiled out in none debugging or non development
mode and more. We haven't decided which one yet hence preserving the
current 'always compile' state.
More functions will be added to the file namely for checking TX and LQ
commands.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:51 -05:00
Winkler, Tomas
7470d7f540 iwlwifi: 5150 enable LO, TXIQ and BB calibrations
This patch enables LO, TXIQ, and BB calibrations for 5150

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:49 -05:00
Tomas Winkler
fd63edba43 iwlwifi: 5150 parametrize eeprom versions
Add support for 5150 eeprom versions

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:49 -05:00
Tomas Winkler
339afc893d iwlwifi: 5150 compute ct kill threshold
This patch adds computation of ct kill threshold
for 5150. Threshold is computed from calibration
data in the EEPROM.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:49 -05:00
Tomas Winkler
819500c589 iwlwifi: 5150 enable DC calibration
This patch enables DC calibration for 5150

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:48 -05:00
Tomas Winkler
7100e92466 iwlwifi: 5150 add support for 5150
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:47 -05:00
Johannes Berg
33fd819552 iwlwifi: disable AP mode
iwlwifi does not support AP mode in any way. For one, it doesn't even
buffer multicast/broadcast frames properly. We didn't allow zd1211rw AP
mode to be enabled without this, so iwlwifi shouldn't be allowed to
advertise AP mode either.

It also doesn't work at all, it doesn't even answer to probe requests,
I'm guessing the packet injection code was disabled again.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:47 -05:00
Helmut Schaa
c58f9f635a iwl3945: remove obsolete irq handling
3945 hardware does not emit the interrupts CSR_INT_BIT_RF_KILL (rfkill
toggled) and CSR_INT_BIT_CT_KILL (adapter too hot). Hence this part of code
can be removed since iwl3945_irq_tasklet does not handle 4965 hw at all.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:35:46 -05:00
Harvey Harrison
51e9bf5d79 iwlwifi: remove uses of __constant_{endian} helpers
The base versions handle constant folding just fine.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:32:12 -05:00
Tomas Winkler
0d950d84d9 iwlwifi: properly initialize calibration command header
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-12-05 09:32:11 -05:00
David S. Miller
5b9ab2ec04 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/hp-plus.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/recv.c
	net/wireless/reg.c
2008-11-26 23:48:40 -08:00
Winkler, Tomas
40fc95d57c iwlwifi: TX update chicken bits
This instructs FH to increment the retry count of a packet when
it is brought from the memory to TX-FIFO to save transactions
during aggregation flow.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:39 -05:00
Winkler, Tomas
31a73fe4f3 iwlwifi: TX setup fix confusion between TX queue and TX DMA channel
This patch configures correctly TX DMA channel. It is not
the same as TX queue.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:39 -05:00
Winkler, Tomas
25e35a56d5 iwlwifi: 4965 define firmware file name once
Apply same idiom as in 5000 introduced by
'iwlwifi: define firmware file name once'

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:38 -05:00
Tomas Winkler
201706ac0b iwlwifi: enable base band calibration in 5000 HW
This patch adds base band calibration support.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:37 -05:00
Winkler, Tomas
83dde8c905 iwlwifi: move iwl_clear_stations_table to iwl-sta.c
This patch moves iwl_clear_stations_table into iwl-sta.c

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:37 -05:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
ce546fd2ea iwl3945 : Fix ad-hoc mode for 3945
Patch fixes the ad-hoc mode by
1) Removing redundant clear_stations_table which prevented generation of
beacons.
2) Setting assoc_id to 1. It was never set so preventing tx flow
in iwl3945_tx_skb.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-26 09:47:36 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
ea4a82dcee iwlwifi: enable custom fw regulatory solution
This enables the custom firmware regulatory solution option
on iwlwifi drivers. These devices are uncapable of mapping their
EEPROM regulatory domain to a specific ISO / IEC alpha2.
Although the new 11n devices (>= iwl 5000) have only
3 regultaory SKUs -- MOW, ABG (no N) and BG -- the older
devices (3945 and 4965) have a more complex SKU arrangement
and therefore its not practical to move this to the driver.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:27 -05:00
Tomas Winkler
e0737a77d6 iwlwifi: iwl-fh.h cleanup
This patch fix value of upper FH register bound plus
it reorders and groups registers in more readable way

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:20 -05:00
Zhu, Yi
34faf780cf iwlwifi: some fh document fix and cleanup
This patch cleans up some flow handler related document. It also
removes some blank lines.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:20 -05:00
Zhu, Yi
352bc8de19 iwlwifi: configure_filter rewrite
The patch rewrites the mac80211 configure_filter handler to better mapping
mac80211 filter flags to iwlwifi hardware filter flags. We now can support
5 mac80211 filter flags: FIF_OTHER_BSS, FIF_ALLMULTI, FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS,
FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC and FIF_CONTROL. This patch also avoids reconnecting
if the filter flags are changed when the STA is associated. Because rx_assoc
is used when full rxon is not necessary.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:19 -05:00
Abhijeet Kolekar
c305606540 iwlwifi : fix checkpatch.pl errors
Patch fixes checkpatch.pl errors for iwlwifi.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:18 -05:00
Chatre, Reinette
dbce56a456 iwlwifi: replace magic constants with define
use IWL_CCK_RATES_MASK and IWL_OFDM_RATES_MASK instead of
their values directly.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:18 -05:00
Tomas Winkler
417f114bf2 iwlwifi: rs: remove fc variable and other cleanups
This patch
1. Removes use once use only fc variables, they are useless after refactoring
ieee80211 frame control handlers
2. Other trivial cleanups

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:17 -05:00
Tomas Winkler
9f58671e8d iwlwifi: consolidate station management code
This patch moves code around and group most of the station
management code into iwl-sta.c

No functional changes (yet)

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:41:06 -05:00
Kolekar, Abhijeet
cee53ddb46 iwl3945 : Simplify iwl3945_pci_probe
Patch aligns iwl3945_pci_probe with iwlwifi's iwl_pci_probe.
Added few comments and code simplified to make readable.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:35:20 -05:00
Johannes Berg
e91af0af86 iwlagn: fix DMA sync
For the RX DMA fix for iwlwifi ("iwlagn: fix RX skb alignment") Luis
pointed out:

> aligned_dma_addr can obviously be > real_dma_addr at this point, what
> guarantees we can use it on our own whim?

I asked around, and he's right, there may be platforms that do not allow
passing such such an address to the DMA API functions. This patch
changes it by using the proper dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu API
invented for this purpose.

Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-25 16:13:08 -05:00
Zhu, Yi
e4e58cf8cc iwlwifi: use Rx single frame mode (one Rx frame per RB)
The RCSR default value for single frame mode is off (a RB contains more than
one frames). But the driver assumes single frame mode apparently. This patch
enables single frame mode for the hardware. It also adds a BUG_ON to make sure
the allocated skb satisfies the hardware alignment requirement and removes
a useless check.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:08:15 -05:00
Winkler, Tomas
01ef932341 iwlwifi: get some more information about command failure
This patch adds additional info about wrong command queue bug

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:07:23 -05:00
Kolekar, Abhijeet
c24f081745 iwl3945 : Simplify iwl3945_send_beacon_cmd
Moved rate_msk calculation to iwl3945_rate_get_lowest_plcp.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:07:23 -05:00
Winkler, Tomas
cb299bae89 iwlwifi: move iwl_print_hex_dump to iwl-debug.h
This patch moves iwl_print_hex_dump to iwl-debug.h
where it belongs

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:07:23 -05:00
Kolekar, Abhijeet
e720ce9d15 iwl3945 : Fix Sparse Warnings
Patch fixes sparse warnings. No need to convert u8 variable
to 32.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:07:23 -05:00
Tomas Winkler
21c339bf51 iwlwifi: move spectrum measurement code to iwl-spectrum.c file
This patch moves spectrum measurement code into iwl-sepctrum.c file.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:07:23 -05:00
Tomas Winkler
4ddbb7d060 iwlwifi: revamp tx scheduler byte count tables handling
This moves byte count tables to tx domain removing completely
ambivalent shared data. Changes handling of allocation
byte count tables and keep warm consistent memory
Moves general tx scheduler definitions from iwl-4956-hw.h
to iwl-fh.h

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:07:23 -05:00
Winkler, Tomas
8d86422a83 iwlwifi: move rx queue read pointer into rxq
This patch moves rx status/read registers into
iwl_rx_queue structures. This solution is more memory
hungry but is more structured and provides needed RX/TX
separation

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:07:22 -05:00
Halperin, Daniel C
5c5aa3f13a iwlwifi: update iwl-commands.h for 3 stream support
This patch updates comments and constants to support 1, 2, or 3 spatial streams
in rate_n_flags .

Signed-off-by: Daniel Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:06:08 -05:00
Winkler, Tomas
a71c8f62d4 iwlwifi: don't fail power set when calibration is not done yet
This patch doesn't fail power save setting when calibration is
not done yet. The new power index is registered and will
be evaluated again anyway upon calibration completion.

This patch also eliminates WARN_ON in mac80211 hw_config during
initialization

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:06:07 -05:00
Winkler, Tomas
1933577489 iwlwifi: trivial fix in includes
This patch removes one FIXME: in rearranging includes

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:06:07 -05:00
Mohamed Abbas
9bdf5ecabf iwl3945: fix resume for ADHOC network
ieee80211_notify_mac only reconnect BSS networks. Since IBSS does
 not need any auth or assoc steps we can just resume to the same
 condition before suspend. This patch will reestablish the ad-hoc
 network once it comes back from resume.

http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1774

Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:06:07 -05:00
Mohamed Abbas
ada1751346 iwlagn: fix resume for ADHOC network
ieee80211_notify_mac only reconnect BSS networks. Since IBSS does
 not need any auth or assoc steps we can just resume to the same
 condition before suspend. This patch will reestablish the ad-hoc
 network once it comes back from resume.

http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1774

Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:06:07 -05:00
David S. Miller
6ab33d5171 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
	include/net/mac80211.h
	net/phonet/af_phonet.c
2008-11-20 16:44:00 -08:00
Johannes Berg
4018517a1a iwlagn: fix RX skb alignment
So I dug deeper into the DMA problems I had with iwlagn and a kind soul
helped me in that he said something about pci-e alignment and mentioned
the iwl_rx_allocate function to check for crossing 4KB boundaries. Since
there's 8KB A-MPDU support, crossing 4k boundaries didn't seem like
something the device would fail with, but when I looked into the
function for a minute anyway I stumbled over this little gem:

	BUG_ON(rxb->dma_addr & (~DMA_BIT_MASK(36) & 0xff));

Clearly, that is a totally bogus check, one would hope the compiler
removes it entirely. (Think about it)

After fixing it, I obviously ran into it, nothing guarantees the
alignment the way you want it,  because of the way skbs and their
headroom are allocated. I won't explain that here nor double-check that
I'm right, that goes beyond what most of the CC'ed people care about.

So then I came up with the patch below, and so far my system has
survived minutes with 64K pages, when it would previously fail in
seconds. And I haven't seen a single instance of the TX bug either. But
when you see the patch it'll be pretty obvious to you why.

This should fix the following reported kernel bugs:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11596
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11393
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11983

I haven't checked if there are any elsewhere, but I suppose RHBZ will
have a few instances too...

I'd like to ask anyone who is CC'ed (those are people I know ran into
the bug) to try this patch.

I am convinced that this patch is correct in spirit, but I haven't
understood why, for example, there are so many unmap calls. I'm not
entirely convinced that this is the only bug leading to the TX reply
errors.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-18 17:26:26 -05:00
Johannes Berg
8e3bad65a5 mac80211: remove ieee80211_notify_mac
Before ieee80211_notify_mac() was added, it was presented with the
use case of using it to tell mac80211 that the association may
have been lost because the firmware crashed/reset.

Since then, it has also been used by iwlwifi to (slightly) speed
up re-association after resume, a workaround around the fact that
mac80211 has no suspend/resume handling yet. It is also not used
by any other drivers, so clearly it cannot be necessary for "good
enough" suspend/resume.

Unfortunately, the callback suffers from a severe problem: It only
works for station mode. If suspend/resume happens while in IBSS or
any other mode (but station), then the callback is pointless.

Recently, it has created a number of locking issues, first because
it required rtnl locking rather than RCU due to calling sleeping
functions within the critical section, and now because it's called
by iwlwifi from the mac80211 workqueue that may not use the rtnl
because it is flushed under rtnl.
(cf. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12046)

I think, therefore, that we should take a step back, remove it
entirely for now and add the small feature it provided properly.
For suspend and resume we will need to introduce new hooks, and for
the case where the firmware was reset the driver will probably
simply just pretend it has done a suspend/resume cycle to get
mac80211 to reprogram the hardware completely, not just try to
connect to the current AP again in station mode. When doing so, we
will need to take into account locking issues and possibly defer
to schedule_work from within mac80211 for the resume operation,
while the suspend operation must be done directly.

Proper suspend/resume should also not necessarily try to reconnect
to the current AP, the time spent in suspend may have been short
enough to not be disconnected from the AP, mac80211 will detect
that the AP went out of range quickly if it did, and if the
association is lost then the AP will disassoc as soon as a data
frame is sent. We might also take into account WWOL then, and
have mac80211 program the hardware into such a mode where it is
available and requested.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-18 17:26:26 -05:00