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Johannes Berg ed1b6e99b5 iwlwifi: remove noise reporting
We go to great lengths to calculate this value
that is never used by mac80211. Additionally,
it is now deprecated by mac80211 and is causing
driver compilation to give warnings.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:20:44 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy 8d801080dd iwlwifi: more clean up to move agn only rx functions from iwlcore to iwlagn
Move more functions only used by agn driver from iwlcore to iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:19:54 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy 54b81550dd iwlwifi: move agn only rx functions from iwlcore to iwlagn
Identify the rx functions only used by agn driver and move those from
iwlcore to iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:19:33 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy 74bcdb33e9 iwlwifi: move agn only tx functions from iwlcore to iwlagn
Identify the tx functions only used by agn driver and move those from
iwlcore to iwlagn.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:19:27 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy 872c8ddcbe iwlwifi: iwl_good_ack_health() only apply to AGN device
iwl_good_ack_health() check for expected and actual ack count which only
apply to aggregation mode. Move the function to iwlagn module.

Reported-by: Chantry Xavier <chantry.xavier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:16:37 -07:00
Reinette Chatre e184f67d39 Revert "iwlwifi: fix build error for CONFIG_IWLAGN=n"
This reverts commit 76232ebf89.

iwl_good_ack_health only applies to aggregation and thus only to iwlagn. We
can thus move the function to iwlagn instead of modifying compile flags.
This is done in following patch.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-25 11:14:52 -07:00
John W. Linville 76232ebf89 iwlwifi: fix build error for CONFIG_IWLAGN=n
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c: In function 'iwl_good_ack_health':
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:647: error: 'struct iwl_priv' has no member named '_agn'

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-24 17:21:08 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy fa8f130c50 iwlwifi: code cleanup for connectivity recovery
Split the connectivity check and recovery routine into separated
functions based on the types
   1. iwl_good_ack_health() - check for ack count
   2. iwl_good_plcp_health() - check for plcp error

Based on the type of errors being detected, different recovery methods
will be used to bring the system back to normal operational state.

Because different NIC has different HW and uCode, the behavior is also
different; these functions thus now form part of the ops infrastructure,
so we can have more control on how to monitor and recover from error condition
case per device.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:26 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy d5a0ffa3ea iwlwifi: Recover TX flow failure
Monitors the tx statistics to detect the drop in throughput.
When the throughput drops, the ratio of the actual_ack_count and the
expected_ack_count also drops.  At the same time, the aggregated
ba_timeout (the number of ba timeout retries) also rises.  If the
actual_ack_count/expected_ack_count ratio is 0 and the number of ba
timeout retries rises to BA_TIMEOUT_MAX, no tx packets can be delivered.
Reloading the uCode and bring the system back to normal operational
state.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:26 -07:00
Wey-Yi Guy beac5498b7 iwlwifi: move plcp check to separated function
Move the plcp error checking into stand alone function and pointed by ops
to accommodate devices not needing this recovery.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-19 13:41:25 -07:00
Johannes Berg e99f168c7c iwlagn: remove write-only variables
Updating the variables last_rx_rssi, last_tsf
and last_beacon_time needs a lot of code but
they are not actually used in iwlagn (only in
3945) so we can move them to the 3945 specific
data.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-03-09 16:03:53 -08:00
John W. Linville 08b2cb0f06 Merge branch 'wireless-next-2.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6 2010-02-26 16:58:26 -05:00
John W. Linville 64463da913 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	net/mac80211/rate.c
2010-02-26 16:54:45 -05:00
Reinette Chatre ab9bdc34d6 Revert "iwlwifi: Monitor and recover the aggregation TX flow failure"
This reverts commit 1db5950f1d.

The goal of "iwlwifi: Monitor and recover the aggregation TX flow failure"
is to first detect when data transmission stalls and then to recover from
this situation with a reset of the radio or the firmware, depending on how
bad the transmission failures are.

Unfortunately we have found that this change causes excessive resets with
its current detection algorithm. It also performs its recovery action when
none is really needed, like when we are not associated.

Revert this change until the issues have been addressed.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-23 14:02:52 -08:00
Shanyu Zhao fafaf31bf9 iwlwifi: fix AMSDU Rx after paged Rx patch
Previous patch "use paged Rx" broke AMSDU Rx functionality. If an AP
sends out A-MSDU packets the station will crash.  Fix it by linearizing
skbuff for AMSDU packet before handing it to mac80211 since mac80211
doesn't support paged skbuff.

This fixes http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2155

Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Signed-off-by: Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@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>
2010-02-12 14:35:05 -05:00
Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen 1db5950f1d iwlwifi: Monitor and recover the aggregation TX flow failure
This change monitors the tx statistics to detect the drop in throughput.
When the throughput drops, the ratio of the actual_ack_count and the expected_
ack_count also drops.  At the same time, the aggregated ba_timeout (the number
of ba timeout retries) also rises.  If the actual_ack_count/expected_ack_count
ratio is 0 and the number of ba timeout retries rises to 16, no tx packets
(tcp, udp, or ping - icmp) can be delivered.  The driver recovers from this
situation by reseting the uCode firmware.  If the actual_ack_count/expected_
ack_count ratio drops below 50% (but not 0) and the aggregated ba_timeout
retries just exceed 5 (but not 16), then the driver can reset the radio to
bring the throughput up.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:27:41 -08:00
Stanislaw Gruszka f36d04abe6 iwlwifi: use dma_alloc_coherent
Change pci_alloc_consistent() to dma_alloc_coherent() so we can use
GFP_KERNEL flag.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:27:18 -08:00
Abhijeet Kolekar 7bfedc59ee iwlwifi: cleanup return values
Cleanup return values and removes unnecessary code.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:31 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy a93e7973d0 iwlwifi: multiple force reset mode
Provide the function to perform different type of uCode reset/reload operation.
When uCode detect error and can not fix itself, this iwl_force_reset()
function allow driver to perform the necessary reset/reload functions and help
to bring uCode back to normal operation state.

Currently only 2 type of force reset are available:
 - reset radio
 - reload firmware

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:24:12 -08:00
Reinette Chatre 81963d6857 iwlwifi: cleanup spectrum measurement command support
In iwlagn the support for spectrum measurement command has been
disabled since v2.6.29 without any requests for it. In addition to this
when this command is indeed enabled it has been found to trigger firmware
SYSASSERT on at least 4965 and 5100 hardware (see
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1952 ). Since then
this code has been bitrotting and cannot just be enabled without porting.

Remove support for spectrum measurement command from iwlagn. It can be
added back if there is a future need and the firmware problem it triggers
has been fixed. Support for the spectrim measurement notification remains
as it has been enabled all the time.

In addition to this remove the 3945 spectrum measurement command Kconfig
option and make this command always supported. The code added by this
enabling is minimal and only run when user triggers a spectrum measurement
request via sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:26 -05:00
Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen 3e4fb5faef iwlwifi: Tune radio to prevent unexpected behavior
We have seen the throughput dropped due to external noisy environment
and the radio is out of tune.  There are lot of plcp errors indicating
this condition. Eventually the station can get de-authenticated by the
Access Point.  By resetting and tuning the radio, the plcp errors are
reduced or eliminated and the throughput starts to rise.

To prevent unexpected behavior such as drop in throughput or deauthentication,
- The change provides the driver feature to monitor and tune the radio base on
the statistics notification from the uCode.
- It also allows the setting of the plcp error rate threshold via
the plcp_delta under debugfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Trieu 'Andrew' Nguyen <trieux.t.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:21 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy a13d276f1e iwlwifi: configure missed beacon threshold
Add support to configure missed beacon threshold, by default, if receive
"missed beacon" notification from uCode and has more than 5 consecutive
beacon missed, then perform sensitivity calibration; with this change,
allow user to adjust the missed beacon threshold from debugfs in case
more sensitivity calibration required for better performance in noisy
environment

The default value (=5) should be good enough for the normal condition,
but for very noisy environment, more sensitivity calibration could help
improve the throughput, so by setting the missed beacon threshold to
lower number, user might experience better performance result.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-25 16:36:19 -05:00
Reinette Chatre 1f44780827 iwlwifi: update copyright year to 2010
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:15 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy 2be76703a3 iwlwifi: set interrupt coalescing timer range and default
For interrupt coalescing timer, the CSR_INT_COALESCING is an 8 bit
register in 32-usec unit, the range can go from 0x00 - 0xFF. set the
range and default timeout value for both calibration mode and operation mode.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:11 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy e3ef216438 iwlwifi: format and show statistics counter from uCode
To help debug uCode related problem, adding "delta" and "max"
information in debugfs statistics counters display.

Those information show the delta between two statistics report from
uCode, user can monitor the counters for any "un-normal" behavior.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Sternberg<jay.e.sternberg@intel.com>
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>
2010-01-19 16:25:09 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy 9ed333e029 iwlwifi: fix clear statistics counter command
When receive reply statistics command with "clear" mask, just reset the
accumulated statistics counters, but not the current statistics counters,
so the accumulated statistics counter can provide the correct
information.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
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>
2010-01-19 16:25:08 -05:00
Johannes Berg 671adc93b6 wireless: remove remaining qual code
This removes the remaining users of the rx status
'qual' field and the field itself.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-28 16:19:45 -05:00
Zhu Yi 64a76b504b iwlwifi: allocated rx page accounting cleanup
In iwlwifi, priv->alloc_rxb_page is used to keep track of the Rx
pages allocated by the driver. This cleans up the page free routines
by introducing __iwl_free_pages/iwl_free_pages so that the accounting
is more accurate and less error prone. This also fixes two instances where
the counter was not updated.

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>
2009-12-21 11:31:55 -05:00
Ben Cahill 74ba67edfc iwlagn: Use iwl_write8() for CSR_INT_COALESCING register
CSR_INT_COALESCING previously had only one, but now has two single-byte fields.
With only one single-byte field (lowest order byte) it was okay to write via
iwl_write32(), but now with two, an iwl_write32() to the lower order field
clobbers the other field (odd-address CSR_INT_PERIODIC_REG, offset 0x5), and an
iwl_write32() to CSR_INT_PERIODIC_REG could clobber the lowest byte of the
next-higher register (CSR_INT, offset 0x8).

Fortunately, no bad side effects have been produced by the iwl_write32()
usage, due to order of execution (low order byte was always written before
higher order byte), and the fact that writing "0" to the low byte of the
next higher register has no effect (only action is when writing "1"s).

Nonetheless, this cleans up the accesses so no bad side effects might occur
in the future, if execution order changes, or more bit fields get added to
CSR_INT_COALESCING.

Add some comments regarding periodic interrupt usage.

Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-23 17:05:30 -05:00
Johannes Berg 6ab10ff873 iwlwifi: handle unicast PS buffering
Using the new mac80211 functionality, this makes
iwlwifi handle unicast PS buffering correctly.
The device works like this:

 * when a station goes to sleep, the microcode notices
   this and marks the station as asleep
 * when the station is marked asleep, the microcode
   refuses to transmit to the station and rejects all
   frames queued to it with the failure status code
   TX_STATUS_FAIL_DEST_PS (a previous patch handled
   this correctly)
 * when we need to send frames to the station _although_
   it is asleep, we need to tell the ucode how many,
   and this is asynchronous with sending so we cannot
   just send the frames, we need to wait for all other
   frames to be flushed, and then update the counter
   before sending out the poll response frames. This
   is handled partially in the driver and partially in
   mac80211.

In order to do all this correctly, we need to
 * keep track of how many frames are pending for each
   associated client station (avoid doing it for other
   stations to avoid the atomic ops)
 * tell mac80211 that we driver-block the PS status
   while there are still frames pending on the queues,
   and once they are all rejected (due to the dest sta
   being in PS) unblock mac80211

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:08 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy ef8d5529b0 iwlwifi: update reply_statistics_cmd with 'clear' parameter
When issue REPLY_STATISTICS_CMD to uCode, two possible flag
can be set in the configuration flags

bit 0: Clear statistics
       0: Do not clear Statistics counters
       1: Clear to zero Statistics counters

Allow "clear" parameter to be set from the caller.

Add debugfs file to clear the statistics counters to help monitor and
debug the uCode behavior.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:04 -05:00
Ben Cahill 309e731a61 iwlwifi: MAC_ACCESS_REQ cleanup
Add txq_id info to "Tx queue requesting wakeup" debug message

Add "Rx queue requesting wakeup" debug message

Move clear of CSR_GP_CNTRL_REG_FLAG_MAC_ACCESS_REQ to be after nearby
iwl_write_prph(), since iwl_write_prph() sets it and clears it.  Almost
removed it entirely, but just making sure in case someone removes the
iwl_write_prph()!  Also remove unneeded priv->lock usage; this is now
handled by priv->reg_lock within iwl_clear_bit().

Join a couple of lines that had unneeded line returns.

Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-11 15:23:48 -05:00
Zhu Yi a3b6bd5bf2 iwlwifi: allocate 128 bytes linear buffer for rx skb
Allocate 128 bytes linear buffer for rx skb. The first 64 bytes is
reserved for mac80211 usage (for radiotap header expansion, etc).
The frame header starts from the second 64 bytes.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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>
2009-11-11 15:23:41 -05:00
Zhu Yi 29b1b2688f iwlwifi: fix use after free bug for paged rx
In the paged rx patch (4854fde2), I introduced a bug that could possibly
touch an already freed page. It is fixed by avoiding the access in this
patch. I've also added some comments so that other people touching the
code won't make the same mistake. In the future, if we cannot avoid
access the page after being handled to the upper layer, we can use
get_page/put_page to handle it. For now, it's just not necessary.

It also fixed a debug message print bug reported by Stanislaw Gruszka
<sgruszka@redhat.com>.

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>
2009-10-27 16:50:01 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy 1ed2a3d29a iwlwifi: separate led function from statistic notification
Detach led background task from statistic notification routine. if led
blinking is required; the blink rate is based on the traffic condition.
It do not relate to statistics notification. In addition to that, there is
not a requirement for statistics notification has to occur all the time.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:49:59 -04:00
Zhu Yi 2f301227a1 iwlwifi: use paged Rx
This switches the iwlwifi driver to use paged skb from linear skb for Rx
buffer. So that it relieves some Rx buffer allocation pressure for the
memory subsystem. Currently iwlwifi (4K for 3945) requests 8K bytes for
Rx buffer. Due to the trailing skb_shared_info in the skb->data,
alloc_skb() will do the next order allocation, which is 16K bytes. This
is suboptimal and more likely to fail when the system is under memory
usage pressure. Switching to paged Rx skb lets us allocate the RXB
directly by alloc_pages(), so that only order 1 allocation is required.

It also adjusts the area spin_lock (with IRQ disabled) protected in the
tasklet because tasklet guarentees to run only on one CPU and the new
unprotected code can be preempted by the IRQ handler. This saves us from
spawning another workqueue to make skb_linearize/__pskb_pull_tail happy
(which cannot be called in hard irq context).

Finally, mac80211 doesn't support paged Rx yet. So we linearize the skb
for all the management frames and software decryption or defragmentation
required data frames before handed to mac80211. For all the other frames,
we __pskb_pull_tail 64 bytes in the linear area of the skb for mac80211
to handle them properly.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:06 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy 92a35bda79 iwlwifi: showing accumulative ucode statistics counters
Adding accumulative statistics counters in iwlwifi driver.
Statistics counters are reported by uCode every beacon interval; but can
be reset by uCode when needed. The accumulative statistics counters is
maintained by driver to keep track of the history of all the counters.

Update the ucode stats files in debugfs to display both latest and
accumulative counters.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:00 -04:00
Reinette Chatre 9024adf5c8 iwlwifi: fix compile warning
Fixes following on big endian systems:
  CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.o
  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c: In function ‘iwl_rx_reply_rx’:
  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:1029: warning: integer overflow in
  expression

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reported-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Tested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:33:50 -04:00
Reinette Chatre f82a924cc8 iwlwifi: reduce noise when skb allocation fails
Replenishment of receive buffers is done in the tasklet handling
received frames as well as in a workqueue. When we are in the tasklet
we cannot sleep and thus attempt atomic skb allocations. It is generally
not a big problem if this fails since iwl_rx_allocate is always followed
by a call to iwl_rx_queue_restock which will queue the work to replenish
the buffers at a time when sleeping is allowed.

We thus add the __GFP_NOWARN to the skb allocation in iwl_rx_allocate to
reduce the noise if such an allocation fails while we still have enough
buffers. We do maintain the warning and the error message when we are low
on buffers to communicate to the user that there is a potential problem with
memory availability on system

This addresses issue reported upstream in thread "iwlagn: order 2 page
allocation failures" in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/39187

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23 11:35:53 -04:00
Reinette Chatre de0bd50845 iwlwifi: fix potential rx buffer loss
RX handling maintains a few lists that keep track of the RX buffers.
Buffers move from one list to the other as they are used, replenished, and
again made available for usage. In one such instance, when a buffer is used
it enters the "rx_used" list. When buffers are replenished an skb is
attached to the buffer and it is moved to the "rx_free" list. The problem
here is that the buffer is first removed from the "rx_used" list _before_ the
skb is allocated. Thus, if the skb allocation fails this buffer remains
removed from the "rx_used" list and is thus lost for future usage.

Fix this by first allocating the skb before trying to attach it to a list.
We add an additional check to not do this unnecessarily.

Reported-by: Rick Farrington <rickdic@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-23 11:35:40 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin 31513be8a0 iwlwifi: use iwl_hwrate_get_mac80211_idx where appropriate
For HT packets, mac80211 expects the rate_idx to be an MCS number, which is the
lower byte of rate_n_flags.  However, iwl_hwrate_to_plcp_idx takes the MCS
number and reduces it down to the range 0-8 (6 to 60 Mbps), removing the bits
that signify multiply streams, HT40 Duplicate mode, or unequal modulation.
This version is used for various internal purposes through the driver.

Add the function iwl_hwrate_get_mac80211_idx, an alternate version which takes
the rate and the band and returns the mac80211 index (MCS, for HT packets, and
PLCP rate, for legacy packets).

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-31 14:42:10 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin c5f8cdb72e iwlwifi: set HT flags in ieee80211_rx_status for received packets
Add code to set the HT flags (HT, 40 MHz, Short guard interval) in
the ieee80211_rx_status field passed to mac80211.  This ensures that mac80211
processes these HT packets correctly.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:38 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin 396887a2b2 iwlwifi: fix erroneous use of iwl_rx_packet.len as a length
The field called 'len' in struct iwl_rx_packet is in fact not just a length
field but also includes some flags from the flow handler.  In several places
throughout the driver, this causes incorrect values to be interpreted as
lengths when the field is improperly masked.

In most situations the improper use is for debugging output, and simply results
in an erroneous message, such as:

[551933.070224] ieee80211 phy0: I iwl_rx_statistics Statistics notification received (480 vs -1367342620).

which should read '(480 vs 484)'.

In at least one case this could case bad things to happen:

void iwl_rx_pm_debug_statistics_notif(struct iwl_priv *priv,
                                      struct iwl_rx_mem_buffer *rxb)
{
        struct iwl_rx_packet *pkt = (struct iwl_rx_packet *)rxb->skb->data;
        IWL_DEBUG_RADIO(priv, "Dumping %d bytes of unhandled "
                        "notification for %s:\n",
                        le32_to_cpu(pkt->len), get_cmd_string(pkt->hdr.cmd));
        iwl_print_hex_dump(priv, IWL_DL_RADIO, pkt->u.raw, le32_to_cpu(pkt->len)
);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(iwl_rx_pm_debug_statistics_notif);

Given the rampant misuse of this field without proper masking throughout the
driver (every use but one), this patch renames the field from 'len' to
'len_n_flags' to reduce confusion.  It also adds the proper masking when
this field is used as a length value.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:33:13 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin 9f30e04e04 iwlwifi: refactor packet reception code
This patch fixes a number of issues in iwl_rx_reply_rx and
iwl_pass_packet_to_mac80211.  These issues stem from the complexities of
managing two different types of packet commands for different hardware.

- Unify code handling rx_phy_res in SKB or cached to eliminate redundancy and
remove potential NULL pointer accesses
- Replace magic number with proper constant
- Optimize functions by moving early exit conditions before computation
- Comment code and improve some variable names
- Remove redundant computation in iwl_pass_packet_to_mac80211 by passing in the
correct, already-computed arguments.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:33:11 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy 22fdf3c9e1 iwlwifi: Traffic type and counter for debugFs
Break down the traffic type and counter for both Tx and Rx.
Enhance the tx_statistics and rx_statistics debugfs function and move
to /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/iwlagn/debug directory to help
better debugging both driver and uCode related problems.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:47 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy 20594eb0da iwlwifi: new debugging feature for dumping data traffic
The traffic buffer will only beallocated and used if either bit 23
(IWL_DX_TX) or bit 24 (IWL_DL_RX) of "debug" is set;
example: "debug=0x800000" - log tx data traffic
         "debug=0x1000000" - log rx data traffic
         "debug=0x1800000" - log both tx and rx traffic

The traffic log will store the beginning portion (64 bytes)  of the
latest 256 of tx and rx packets in the round-robbin buffer for
debugging,
user can examine the log through debugfs file.

How to display the current logged tx/rx traffic and txfifo and rxfifo
read/write point:
"cat traffic_log" in /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/iwlagn/debug
directory

By echo "0" to traffic_log file will empty the traffic log buffer and
reset both tx and rx taffic log index to 0.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:46 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy 7aafef1c6e iwlwifi: name changed from "fat" to "ht40"
Rename "fat" to "ht40"
The term "fat channel" is deprecated in favor of "HT40"

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:46 -04:00
Reinette Chatre 3d816c77ec iwlwifi: re-introduce per device debugging
Commit "iwlwifi: make debug level more user friendly" cleaned up the
debug level handling. In doing so it created a single global debug
level for all devices. Some setups do consits of more that one iwlwifi
device and in these setups there is a requirement that debug levels
should be unique per device.

We now re-introduce the per device debugging while maintaining the
cleanup effort of the previous patch.

The maintain the global debug level and now introduce a per-device debug
level that will be used if it (the per-device debug level) is set. The
per-device debug level can be controlled via the debug_level sysfs file
while the global debug level is controlled by the debug module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:46 -04:00
Johannes Berg e46ab7f088 iwlwifi: don't export symbols not needed in other modules
Even with the split into iwlcore/agn/3945 not all symbols
that cross file boundaries are needed in other modules, a
few are only used within iwlcore, for example.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-04 16:44:15 -04:00
Reinette Chatre a562a9dda7 iwlwifi: make debug level more user friendly
* Deprecate the "debug50" module parameter used to obtain
  5000 series and up debugging. Replace it with "debug" module
  parameter to match with original driver and be consistent
  between them. The "debug50" module parameter can still be used,
  except that the module parameter is not writable in keeping
  with its previous state. We currently just mark it as "deprecated"
  and do not have it in the feature-removal-schedule. Some more
  cleanup of module parameters needs to be done and can then be
  entered together.

* Only make "debug" module parameters visible if the driver
  is compiled with CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG. This will eliminate
  a lot of confusion where users think they have set debug flags
  but yet cannot see any debug output.

* Make module parameters writable. This eliminates the need for the
  "debug_level" sysfs file, which can now also be deprecated and
  added to feature-removal-schedule. This file is in significant
  use though with many iwlwifi documents and text referring users
  to it. We can thus not take its removal lightly and keep it around.

With iwlcore shared between iwlagn and iwl3945 we really do not need
debug module parameters for each but can instead have one debug
module parameter for the iwlcore module. The same issue is here as
with the sysfs file - a lot of iwlwifi documentation and text (like
bug reports) rely on iwlagn and iwl3945 having this module parameter,
so changing this to a module parameter of iwlcore will have significant
impact and we do not do this for that reason.

One consequence of this patch is that if a user is running a system
with both 3945 and later hardware then the setting of the one module
parameter will affect the value of the other. The likelihood of this
seems low - and even if this setup is present it does not seem like an
issue for both modules to run with the same debug level.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:25 -04:00