Otherwise in some cases, EAPOL frames might be filtered during the
initial handshake, causing delays and assoc failures.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the tid aggregation state has been marked as inactive, free
completed tx packets immediately. When a new aggregation session has not
been initialized yet, the BAW checks do not recognize it as expired.
Might fix potential stalls in setting up a new aggregation session.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
- Allow ath_tx_get_tid_subframe to return non-AMPDU subframes.
- Reset the tid paused state on aggregation stop
- Initialize software queues even when HT is not supported
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When a packet has been tracked as part of the BlockAck window and added
to the hardware queue, it can end up back in the TID queue again with
fi->retries still set to 0 (e.g. if the frame was filtered). Keep an
extra bit for the BAW tracking status to fix this corner case.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The check for ATH_AMPDU_SUBFRAME_DEFAULT is unnecessary, since it's set
to half the maximum BlockAck Window size, which is already the maximum
value that h_baw could possibly have. Also remove unnecessary variables.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Improves packet retry order and helps with further tx queueing
improvements.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently, RTS threshold is not handled for HT. Handle
user-specified threshold values for both aggregated
and unaggregated frames. Use the wiphy's threshold
parameter for now, it can be made per-VIF later on.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When dropping packets that have gone far enough into the tx path, the
pending frame counter needs to be decreased.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath_tx_txqaddbuf assumes that all the linked buffers in the queue passed
to it are part of the same A-MPDU or MPDU. The CAB queue rework violates
this assumption, which can cause the internal queue depth to go
negative.
Fix this by increasing the counter for all slots of [bf, bf->bf_lastbf]
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath_txq_schedule is called outside of the drv_tx call, so it needs RCU
protection.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The CAB (Content after Beacon) queue is used for beacon-triggered
transmission of buffered multicast frames. If lots of multicast frames
were buffered and this queue fills up, it drowns out all regular
traffic. To limit the damage that buffered traffic can do, try to limit
the queued data to becaon_interval / 8.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds support for PS-Poll and U-APSD driver-buffered frames (part of
an aggregation session).
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the UAPSD hardware queue to get PS-Poll responses out as fast as
possible and without backoff.
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>
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>
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>
There are a few places where the station's HT capabilities
should be checked instead of ATH9K_HW_CAP_HT, which is a global
feature for the driver. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Dropping packets from aggregation sessions is usually not a good idea, as
it might upset the synchronization of the BlockAck receive window of the
remote node. The use of the retry_tx parameter to reset/tx-drain functions
also seemed a bit arbitrary.
This patch removes this parameter altogether and ensures that pending tx
frames are not dropped for no good reason.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
'bf_next' is cleared using ATH_TXBUF_RESET() in both the
callsites of ath_tx_get_buffer().
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The 'xmit' debugfs file has become big and unwieldy, fix
multiple issues with its usage:
* Store TX counters/statistics only for the 4 Access Categories.
Use IEEE80211_NUM_ACS instead of ATH9K_NUM_TX_QUEUES.
* Move various utility macros to debug.h, they can be reused
elsewhere.
* Remove tx_complete_poll_work_seen.
* Remove code that accesses various internal queue-specific
variables without any locking whatsoever. HW/SW queue details
will be handled in a subsequent patch.
* Do not print internal values like txq_headidx and txq_headidx.
They were mostly unused anyway, considering code like:
PRX("txq_tailidx: ", txq_headidx);
* Handle 'txprocdesc' for EDMA too.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the macros provided by mac80211 and remove redundant
declarations inside the drivers.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The ath9k xmit functions for AMPDUs can send frames as non-aggregate in case
only one frame is currently available. The client will then answer using a
normal Ack instead of a BlockAck. This acknowledgement has no TID stored and
therefore the hardware is not able to provide us the corresponding TID.
The TID set by the hardware in the tx status descriptor has to be seen as
undefined and not as a valid TID value for normal acknowledgements. Doing
otherwise results in a massive amount of retransmissions and stalls of
connections.
Users may experience low bandwidth and complete connection stalls in
environments with transfers using multiple TIDs.
This regression was introduced in b11b160def
("ath9k: validate the TID in the tx status information").
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
bf->bf_next is only while buffers are chained as part of an A-MPDU
in the tx queue. When a tid queue is flushed (e.g. on tearing down
an aggregation session), frames can be enqueued again as normal
transmission, without bf_next being cleared. This can lead to the
old pointer being dereferenced again later.
This patch might fix crashes and "Failed to stop TX DMA!" messages.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using ieee80211_free_txskb for tx frames is required, since mac80211 clones
skbs for which socket tx status is requested.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Force chain 1 to be used for CCK rates since the target power
table stored in EEPROM is too high to transmit with both chains.
This is needed to avoid regulatory violation.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The TX filter bit for a station would be set by the HW
when a frame is not acked. A frame would be completed with
ATH9K_TXERR_FILT status only when the corresponding filter bit
for the destination station is already set.
Currently, un-acknowledged packets are added to the pending queue
and retried, but the "clear_dest_mask" bit in the descriptor is
set only when the TX status has been ATH9K_TXERR_FILT. This results
in packet loss and the log shows:
wlan0: dropped TX filtered frame, queue_len=0 PS=0 @4309746071
wlan0: dropped TX filtered frame, queue_len=0 PS=0 @4309746076
wlan0: dropped TX filtered frame, queue_len=0 PS=0 @4309746377
...
...
This issue can be resolved by making sure that the destination
mask is cleared when the packet is being retried and the earlier
TX status is ATH9K_TXERR_XRETRY.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Before PAPRD training can run, the card needs to have sent a packet for
thermal calibration. Sending a dummy packet with the PAPRD training flag
set causes a crash under some circumstance.
Fix the code by replacing the dummy tx with a delay that waits for a
real packet tx to have occurred.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove the control.sta pointer from ieee80211_tx_info to free up
sufficient space in the TX skb control buffer for the upcoming
Transmit Power Control (TPC).
Instead, the pointer is now on the stack in a new control struct
that is passed as a function parameter to the drivers' tx method.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huehn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Alina Friedrichsen <x-alina@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[reworded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Using work_pending() to defer certain operations when
a HW-reset work has been queued is racy since the check
would return false when the work item is actually in
execution. Use SC_OP_HW_RESET instead to fix this race.
Also, unify the reset debug statistics maintenance.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Setup the beacon queue parameters after disabling
interrupts. Also, remove the redundant call in conf_tx()
for IBSS mode since the queue would be configured
with the appropriate cwmin/cwmax values when beaconing
is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If the aggregate size exceeds the TXOP limit, it leads to lots of unnecessary
hardware and software retries.
The previous 4ms frame limit table was completely undocumented, the commit
that updated it only vaguely referenced and equation from the standard,
but I've been unable to replicate its results.
Fix this by using a formula based on the code in ath_pkt_duration, which is
more likely to be correct for this case.
Reported-by: Dave Täht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Prepare for using different queue size defaults for each AC.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 adds stations in HT IBSS as soon as a frame comes by,
even if the HT capabilities are not known yet (they are often
received later, e.g. in beacons). So far, ampdu factor/density
are only calculated when the station is initially added.
This patch changes this to update ampdu factor/density settings
when starting a blockack session.
Using this patch, we had performance boosts from 60 to 150 MBit/s
between two 2x2 Atheros devices in 5 GHz HT IBSS mode.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After setup_frame_info has been called, only info->control.rates is still
valid, other control fields have been overwritten by the ath_frame_info
data. Move the access to info->control.vif for checking short preamble
to setup_frame_info before it gets overwritten.
This regression was introduced in commit d47a61aa
"ath9k: Fix multi-VIF BSS handling"
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Thomas Hühn <thomas@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.4]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The rate pointer variable for a rate series is used in a loop before it is
initialized. This went unnoticed because it was used earlier for the RTS/CTS
rate. This bug can lead to the wrong PHY type being passed to the
duration calculation function.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The 'ps_flags' is used/accessed in a variety of contexts
and requires proper locking. Use 'sc_pm_lock' appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau