Instead of retrieving one packet at a time from the firmware, try to
retrieve all available packets at once.
This optimization decreases the number of transactions, which saves
CPU cycles and increases network throughput.
Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Tested-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
copy the rx_status directly to skb->cb (control buffer) instead of copying
it to a local struct and then copying it again (for each rx packet)
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add functionality to pass the current TSF (mac time) to the mac80211. This is
needed for ad-hoc merging.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The current frame length used by the driver for RX frames is the SPI bus
transfer length. This length has padding bytes, which do not belong to the
WLAN frame.
As there is no other length information in the WLAN frame except the skb
length this problem caused for instance extra ESSID's to be listed at the
end of scan results (IE id 0) with zero length.
Fix the frame length by removing padding.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The noise element in the ieee80211_rx_status struct has been deprecated in
commit "mac80211: deprecate RX status noise". Remove the usage of this
element from wl1271_rx.c to avoid warnings.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Clean up the code to convert a firmware rate class index into an index
for the rate configuration table.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
This patch will ack RX frames read from the firmware in one single write,
instead of acking all the frames separately. This will reduce the amount of
required communication per frame.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Most probably patch "wl1271: add most of the normal initialization commands
to PLT mode" enabled the RX path in firmware so that now driver received
frames and passed them to mac80211, which warned about them.
Workaround this by not retrieving frames from the hardware, just ignore them.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Removed wl1271_spi.h header as there's no more need to access functions
declared there outside of wl1271_spi.c. Also made those SPI access
functions static.
Signed-off-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In preparation for integration of SDIO implementation renamed some IO
functions from wl1271_spi_* form to wl1271_*.
Signed-off-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of acking RX packets read from the FW once all (of several possible)
buffered packets are retrieved, ack packets one by one as they are read. This
enables the FW to start receiving more packets from the network while the
host read operation is still ongoing.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
RX is handled in a workqueue therefore allocating for GFP_ATOMIC
is overkill and not required.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the new ieee80211_rx_ni() function instead of ieee80211_rx(). Since we
use a workqueue to handle the RX path, we need to call the new function,
which disables bottom half handling. This patch fixes the NOHZ:
local_softirq_pending messages.
CC: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We were not handling endianess correctly. The wl1271 chip runs on
little-endian values. This patch makes sure that all the communication with
the wl1271 firmware is done in little-endian by using cpu_to_le* and
le*_to_cpu where appropriate.
Also, all the struct definitions for data exchanged with the firmware has
been changed to use __le16/32 types instead of u16/32.
This fixes a few sparse warnings, such as these:
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c:554:42: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c:555:42: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c:577:58: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c:579:58: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c:676:18: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c:787:22: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c:789:21: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_tx.c:98:47: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_acx.c:932:32: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_boot.c:191:32: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_boot.c:197:38: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_boot.c:199:37: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_init.c:255:40: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_init.c:275:53: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fixed checking of status of the received packet. On wl1251 status is in the
flags field of the descriptor, on wl1271 there is a separate status field.
Signed-off-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Added support to assiociate and use connection on 5 GHz band (802.11a).
Signed-off-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Added support to scan 802.11a access points on 5 GHz band when using
wl1273 chip.
Signed-off-by: Teemu Paasikivi <ext-teemu.3.paasikivi@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the change to the new firmware, there was a change to firmware memory
partitioning. Along with that change, the translation of all partitions was
unified, and separate functions for reg and mem access became unnecessary.
Cleanup the unnecessary functions.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove RX workaround which is not needed with newer firmware revisions. This
will reduce one SPI register transaction per RX packet.
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The qual element in ieee80211_rx_status is not used anymore, so we don't need
to set it in the wl1271_rx_status() function. This saves a bit of time in
the RX path.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This driver supports the wl1271 chipset from Texas Instruments based on the
WiLink(tm) 6.0 mobile platform. Support for wl1273 should be relatively easy
to add. This chipset is designed for embedded devices, with good powersaving
capabilities. The wl1271 chipset is the successor of wl1251 and supports the
802.11b/g/n standards, but currently this driver supports only b/g.
More information about this chipset can be found here:
http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12762&contentId=29993
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
