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Felix Fietkau d7e86c3219 ath9k: remove a bogus error message
When beacons are being added or removed for an interface, ieee80211_beacon_get
will sometimes not return a beacon. This is normal and should not result in
useless logspam.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-21 16:21:36 -05:00
Ben Greear 4801416c76 ath9k: Fix up hardware mode and beacons with multiple vifs.
When using a mixture of AP and Station interfaces,
the hardware mode was using the type of the
last VIF registered.  Instead, we should keep track
of the number of different types of vifs and set the
mode accordingly.

In addtion, use the vif type instead of hardware opmode
when dealing with beacons.

Attempt to move some of the common setup code into smaller
methods so we can re-use it when changing vif mode as
well as adding/deleting vifs.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-19 11:36:11 -05:00
Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan ee832d3e9e ath9k: Few clean ups in beacon config parameters
Some minor clean ups in assigning values to beacon config parameters

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-01-04 14:35:15 -05:00
Joe Perches 226afe68fd ath: Convert ath_print to ath_dbg
Remove ath/debug.h and the includes of these files.
Coalesce long formats.
Correct a few misspellings and missing "\n"s from these logging messages.
Remove unnecessary trailing space before a newline.
Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07 16:34:48 -05:00
Joe Perches 3800276a40 ath: Convert ath_print(.., ATH_DBG_FATAL to ath_err
So these errors are always emitted at KERN_ERR level.
Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07 16:34:47 -05:00
Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan ea066d5a91 ath9k: Add support for Adaptive Power Management
This feature is to mitigate the problem of certain 3
stream chips that exceed the PCIe power requirements.An EEPROM flag
controls which chips have APM enabled which is basically read from
miscellaneous configuration element of the EEPROM header.

This workaround will reduce power consumption by using 2 Tx chains for
Single and Double stream rates (5 GHz only).All self generated frames
(regardless of rate) are sent on 2 chains when this feature is
enabled(Chip Limitation).

Cc: Paul Shaw <paul.shaw@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-30 13:49:13 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 28d1670862 ath9k: clean up code duplication around ath_tx_start
Merge initial processing for the CAB queue and regular tx.
Also move ath_tx_cabq() to beacon.c and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17 16:19:23 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 066dae93bd ath9k: rework tx queue selection and fix queue stopping/waking
The current ath9k tx queue handling code showed a few issues that could
lead to locking issues, tx stalls due to stopped queues, and maybe even
DMA issues.

The main source of these issues is that in some places the queue is
selected via skb queue mapping in places where this mapping may no
longer be valid. One such place is when data frames are transmitted via
the CAB queue (for powersave buffered frames). This is made even worse
by a lookup WMM AC values from the assigned tx queue (which is
undefined for the CAB queue).

This messed up the pending frame counting, which in turn caused issues
with queues getting stopped, but not woken again.

To fix these issues, this patch removes an unnecessary abstraction
separating a driver internal queue number from the skb queue number
(not to be confused with the hardware queue number).

It seems that this abstraction may have been necessary because of tx
queue preinitialization from the initvals. This patch avoids breakage
here by pushing the software <-> hardware queue mapping to the function
that assigns the tx queues and redefining the WMM AC definitions to
match the numbers used by mac80211 (also affects ath9k_htc).

To ensure consistency wrt. pending frame count tracking, these counters
are moved to the ath_txq struct, updated with the txq lock held, but
only where the tx queue selected by the skb queue map actually matches
the tx queue used by the driver for the frame.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15 13:25:54 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 4df3071ebd ath9k_hw: optimize interrupt mask changes
OProfile showed that ath9k was spending way too much time in
ath9k_hw_set_interrupts. Since most of the interrupt mask changes only
need to globally enable/disable interrupts, it makes sense to split
this part into separate functions, replacing all calls to
ath9k_hw_set_interrupts(ah, 0) with ath9k_hw_disable_interrupts(ah).

ath9k_hw_set_interrupts(ah, ah->imask) only gets changed to
ath9k_hw_enable_interrupts(ah), whenever ah->imask was not changed
since the point where interrupts were disabled.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-09 16:13:24 -05:00
Felix Fietkau fac6b6a065 ath9k: resume aggregation immediately after a hardware reset
Since aggregation is usually triggered by tx completion, a hardware
reset (because of beacon stuck, tx hang or baseband hang) can
significantly delay the transmission of the next AMPDU (until the next
tx completion event).
Fix this by rescheduling aggregation after such a reset.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-25 14:45:56 -04:00
Ben Greear 6cf9e995f9 ath9k: Null out references to stale pointers.
This doesn't fix any problem that I'm aware of, but should
make it harder to add use-after-free type bugs in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-15 15:57:42 -04:00
Ben Greear c1739eb3e6 ath9k: Remove bf_dmacontext.
The bf_dmacontext seems to be totally useless and duplicated
by bf_buf_addr.  Remove it entirely, use bf_buf_addr in its
place.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-15 15:57:41 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 70cf15335e ath9k: use AP beacon miss as a trigger for fast recalibration
When beacons get stuck in AP mode, the most likely cause is interference.
Such interference can often go on for a while, and too many consecutive
beacon misses can lead to connected clients getting dropped.

Since connected clients might not be subjected to the same interference
if that happens to be very local, the AP should try to deal with it as
good as it can. One way to do this is to trigger an NF calibration with
automatic baseband update right after the beacon miss. In my tests with
very strong interference, this allowed the AP to continue transmitting
beacons after only 2-3 misses, which allows a normal client to stay
connected.

With some of the newer - really sensitive - chips, the maximum noise
floor limit is very low, which can be problematic during very strong
interference. To avoid an endless loop of stuck beacons -> nfcal ->
periodic calibration -> stuck beacons, the beacon miss event also sets
a flag, which allows the calibration code to bypass the chip specific
maximum NF value. This flag is automatically cleared, as soon as the
first NF median goes back below the limits for all chains.

In my tests, this allowed an ath9k AP to survive very strong interference
(measured NF: -68, or sometimes even higher) without losing connectivity
to its clients. Even under these conditions, I was able to transmit
several mbits/s through the interface.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:39 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 6252fcb9f8 ath9k: add a separate debug level for stuck beacons
Stuck beacons are a useful indicator for debugging various PHY
issues such as calibration. Putting them on the same debug level
as the other beacon stuff makes it hard to spot them in huge amounts
of spam.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 15:26:38 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 1d2231e2e2 ath9k: remove duplicate WMM AC definitions
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14 15:39:30 -04:00
Felix Fietkau a65e4cb402 ath9k: remove VEOL support for ad-hoc
With VEOL, Beacon transmission in ad-hoc does not currently work.
I believe for larger ad-hoc networks, VEOL is too unreliable, as
it can get beacon transmissions stuck during synchronization.
Use SWBA based beacon trasmission similar to AP mode instead.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Benoit Papillault <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-25 11:12:54 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 774610e4f2 ath9k: change beacon allocation to prefer the first beacon slot
This fixes IBSS beacon transmissions without VEOL enabled

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-25 11:12:54 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan cc610ac055 ath9k_hw: Define abstraction for tx desc access
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-16 15:43:44 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan 3f3a1c8031 ath9k_hw: Move code which populates ds_data to ath9k_hw
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-16 15:43:25 -04:00
Pavel Roskin 3069168c82 ath9k: move imask from sc to ah
Add ah variable in the functions that didn't have it and used sc->imask.
Replace sc->sc_ah with ah in those functions.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-06 16:55:08 -04:00
Felix Fietkau d8728ee919 ath9k: fix beacon timer restart after a card reset
In AP mode, ath_beacon_config_ap only restarts the timer if a TSF
restart is requested. Apparently this was added, because this function
unconditionally sets the flag for TSF reset.

The problem with this is, that ath9k_hw_reset() clobbers the timer
registers (specified in the initvals), thus effectively disabling the
SWBA interrupt whenever a card reset without TSF reset is issued
(happens in a few places in the code).

This patch fixes ath_beacon_config_ap to only issue the TSF reset flag
when necessary, but reinitialize the timer unconditionally. Tests show,
that this is enough to keep the SWBA interrupt going after a call to
ath_reset()

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:50 -05:00
Jouni Malinen 64b84010f9 ath9k: Use the Beacon TX rate from mac80211
Instead of hardcoding the lowest rate for Beacon frames, use the rate
index specified in the mac80211 TX info in AP mode.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-16 14:16:24 -05:00
Senthil Balasubramanian 1a20034a73 ath9k: configure the beacon only if the STA is associated
beacons configuration SHOULD be done only if the STA is associated.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:50:53 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 0005baf4a3 ath9k: cleanup slot time and ack/cts timeout handling
Previously ath9k left the initialization of slot timing and ACK/CTS
timeout to the mode specific initvals. This does not handle short vs
long slot in 2.4 GHz and uses a rather strange value for the 2.4 GHz
ACK timeout (64 usec).
This patch uses the proper ath9k_hw functions for setting slot time and
timeouts and also implements the switch between short and long slot
time in 2.4 GHz

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-15 17:02:08 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan 94db29368a ath9k: Ensure a fair beacon distribution in IBSS mode.
Update the beacon queue parameters with best effort queue parameters for
IBSS mode. This reduces the number of beacons generated by ath9k and
ensures a fair beacon distribution when there are multiple IBSS stations.
Also CWmin is quadrupled to achieve the expected percentage of
distribution.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-28 15:04:52 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 545750d36f ath9k: properly use the mac80211 rate control api
This patch changes ath9k to pass proper MCS indexes and flags
between the RC and the rest of the driver code.
sc->cur_rate_table remains, as it's used by the RC code internally,
but the rest of the driver code no longer uses it, so a potential
new RC for ath9k would not have to update it.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-28 15:04:24 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 536b3a7a10 ath9k: rename ath_beaconq_setup() to ath9k_hw_beaconq_setup()
And move it to hw code on mac.c where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:53 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 43c2761364 atheros: move tx/rx chainmask to ath_common
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:29 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez c46917bb53 atheros: add common debug printing
ath9k uses this for now, ath9k_htc is expected to re-use this
as well. We lave ath5k as is, but it certainly can also be
converted later.

The ath9k module parameter and debugfs entry is kept.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:29 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 21526d57ad ath9k: move ps helpers onto core driver when reseting tsf
When the TSF is reset power save state is disabled and
then restored. The helpers to disable power save and restore
it use a lock provided by the driver core. Move the callers
of the helpers outside of the hw code.

We reset the TSF when mac80211 tells us and on the beacon.c
helper ath9k_hw_beaconinit() when it is made explicitly required.
Add a helper on beacon.c which will deal with ps awake/restore
if we need to reset the TSF upon ath9k_hw_beaconinit().

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:23 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 4d6b228d84 ath9k: use ath_hw for DPRINTF() and debug init/exit
DPRINTF() is used in hw specific related code, as such
ensure we don't rely on the private driver core ath_softc
struct when calling it. Drivers can then implement their
own DPRINTF() as they see fit.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:19 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan c4f9f16b30 ath9k: Make sure we configure a non-zero beacon interval
This patch moves the sanity check on beacon interval
which was done only for mesh mode to all operating
modes just to be safe.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10 14:57:41 -04:00
Jouni Malinen 546256fbd0 ath9k: Add sanity check for beacon_int in adhoc/mesh case
It looks like mac80211 can request the driver to start beaconing with
a beacon interval of zero in some cases (at least for mesh point). This
does not sound correct and something may need to be fixed in
mac80211. However, taken into account the unpleasantness of getting
stuck in an infinite busy loop with rtnl_lock held, let's add a quick
workaround in the driver to avoid the worst symptom while someone more
familiar with the mesh implementation can figure out what should be done
with mac80211 as far as beacon interval configuration is concerned.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:05:11 -04:00
Jeff Hansen b74444f8a9 ath9k: Reset SC_OP_TSF_RESET flag after stuck beacon
I have a TrendNet 652-BRP running OpenWRT + ath9k very well.  The only
problem is that the beacon gets stuck maybe once a day.  After
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan's "ath9k: cleanup beacon parameters
configuration" patch, ath9k would nearly re-configure the beacons after it
detected the stuck beacon, and did a reset.  But it would fail the
SC_OP_TSF_RESET check in ath_beacon_config_ap.  This patch gets the beacon
fully reconfigured after the reset.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hansen <x@jeffhansen.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:05:11 -04:00
Jouni Malinen 267a901274 ath9k: Optimize TBTT/DTIM calculation for timers
The previous version used a simple loop to go through all Beacon
frames when determining the next TBTT and DTIM count. This is not too
bad for the case where the setup happens before timesync (i.e., very
small TSF), but this can become very heavy operation if a short Beacon
interval is used and the current TSF is large.

In preparation for a patch to update timer setup based on Beacon
timestamp, optimize this routine to take fixed time regardless of the
actual TSF value.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-22 14:06:01 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan 6b96f93e96 ath9k: cleanup beacon parameters configuration
This patch configures the beacon timers with beacon interval
and beacon period passed through vif.bss_conf. Also cache the
currecnt beacon configuration which will be used to configure
the beacon timers when the driver triggers it after reset.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:26 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan d31e20af9f ath9k: Remove unused parameters which are passed to ath_beacon_config_X()
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-20 14:46:25 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 4f0fc7c39f ath9k: make private driver rate tables const
On x86 this allows us to do the following small savings:
shave off 23 % off of the module's data, and
shave off 6  % off of the module's text.

We save 456 bytes, for those counting.

$ size ath9k.ko
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 250794    3628    1600  256022   3e816 ath9k.ko
$ size ath9k-old.ko
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 239114   15308    1600  256022   3e816 ath9k-old.ko

$ du -b ath9k.ko
4034244 ath9k.ko
$ du -b ath9k-old.ko
4033788 ath9k-old.ko

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06 15:15:05 -04:00
Johannes Berg 57c4d7b4c4 mac80211: clean up beacon interval settings
We currently have two beacon interval configuration knobs:
hw.conf.beacon_int and vif.bss_info.beacon_int. This is
rather confusing, even though the former is used when we
beacon ourselves and the latter when we are associated to
an AP.

This just deprecates the hw.conf.beacon_int setting in favour
of always using vif.bss_info.beacon_int. Since it touches all
the beaconing IBSS code anyway, we can also add support for
the cfg80211 IBSS beacon interval configuration easily.

NOTE: The hw.conf.beacon_int setting is retained for now due
      to drivers still using it -- I couldn't untangle all
      drivers, some are updated in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-05-06 15:14:33 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 203c4805e9 atheros: put atheros wireless drivers into ath/
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22 16:54:38 -04:00