When the amount of noise fluctuates strongly, low immunity settings
can sometimes disrupt signal detection on AR913x chips. When that
happens, no OFDM/CCK errors are reported anymore, and ANI tunes the
radio to the lowest immunity settings.
Usually rx/tx fails as well in that case.
To fix this, keep noise immunity settings at or above ANI default level,
which will keep radio parameters at or above INI values.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The primary purpose of this piece of code was to selectively disable
OFDM weak signal detection. The checks for this are elsewhere, and an
earlier commit relaxed the restrictions for older chips, which are more
sensitive to interference.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Older chipsets are more sensitive to high PHY error counts, and the
current noise immunity thresholds were based on tests run at QCA with
newer chipsets.
This patch brings back the values from the old ANI implementation for
old chipsets, and it also disables weak signal detection on an earlier
noise immunity level, to improve overall radio stability on affected
devices.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit 80b4205b "ath9k: Fix OFDM weak signal detection for AP mode"
prevented weak signal detection changes from taking effect in AP mode on
all chipsets, claiming it is "not allowed".
The main reason for not disabling weak signal detection in AP mode is
that typically beacon RSSI is used to track whether it is needed to
boost range, and this is unavailable in AP mode for obvious reasons.
The problem with not disabling weak signal detection is that older
chipsets are very sensitive to high PHY error counts. When faced with
heavy noise, this can lead to an excessive amount of "Failed to stop
TX DMA" errors in the field.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use wrappers where available. Simplifies code and helps with further
improvements to the channel data structure
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit "ath9k: Fix ANI monitoring" reverted an earlier
commit that adjusted ANI to improve performance. But, this causes
adverse effects in AP mode (as reported by Felix based on an OpenWrt
report). Use the older INI/period configuration for now until more
testing is done.
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: 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>
The phy error mask registers are programmed already
in ath9k_ani_restart(), so there is no need to set them
in ath9k_ani_reset().
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit, "ath9k_hw: improve ANI processing and rx desensitizing parameters"
modified the immunity level tables for both CCK and OFDM. Fix them
so that the tables are in sync with the internal driver/codebase.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit "ath9k_hw: improve ANI processing and rx desensitizing parameters"
changed various ANI operational parameters to address a specific
card/environment. This is not really applicable for other cards
in general usage.
As per internal documentation, lowering the immunity level can be
done only after 5 periods have passed and the CCK/OFDM errors are
below the low watermak threshold - which have been fixed at 300 and
400 respectively by the sytems team.
Raising the immunity level can be done when CCK/OFDM errors exceed
600 and 1000 (per second).
Set these values once during attach.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit "ath9k_hw: improve ANI processing and rx desensitizing parameters"
changed the OFDM weak signal detection logic to disable it
for AP mode, which is not allowed. Fix this and enable it always
for AP mode.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ANI state can be maintained globally instead of per-channel.
This reduces memory usage and since default values are used
during a scan run, per-channel state is not required.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The macros ATH9K_ANI_USE_OFDM_WEAK_SIG can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The check "enable_ani" is not required since it is always
set to true and the logic for disabling/enabling ANI via
debugfs is done at a higher layer.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is kept per-channel, so removing unnecessary (or constant) fields from
it can save quite a bit of memory.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
They are no longer needed for ANI functionality
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Various parts of the code require AR9565 checks,
this patch adds them.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k_ani_reset (which is called at reset time) uses a state variable
ani->update_ani to prevent the ANI noise immunity state on the operating
channel from being overwritten by background scans. Unfortunately this
is also being set for AP mode, since it's mixed with code that is only
supposed to change the default settings after a reset.
In AP mode this has the side effect of having ANI run, but being unable to
change its runtime noise immunity level, making it effectively useless.
Fix this by getting rid of ani->update_ani and passing a parameter to
ath9k_hw_set_ofdm_nil and ath9k_hw_set_cck_nil instead.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rename mrcCCKOff for better code readability and also fixes
the smatch warning.
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_phy.c:982
ar9003_hw_ani_control() Error invalid range 1 to 0.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Adjust ah->config.ofdm_trig_{high,low} when setting noise immunity values
to simplify threshold checks in ath9k_hw_ani_monitor
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Commit af1e8a6f "ath9k: reset noiseimmunity level to default" was supposed
to ensure that the default noise immunity level is above the INI
values, however it prevents setting lower noise immunity values altogether.
Fix this by moving the checks to the right function.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It was found to be buggy on a variety of chipsets from AR913x to AR928x.
The new version (which was introduced along with AR93xx support) is more
reliable in preventing connectivity dropouts and also fixes MIB interrupt
storm issues.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Beacon RSSI is only meaningful in station mode - in ad-hoc mode it
fluctuates, depending on which peer last sent a beacon, and in other
modes it is not set at all.
Fix places in ANI where the beacon RSSI is used to limit their use
to station mode only.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Code using this had already triggered smatch complaints, so remove it before
it gets fixed the wrong way.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Commit "ath9k_hw: improve ANI processing and rx desensitizing parameters"
was unifying some code related to overriding OFDM weak signal detection,
but seems to have gotten some of the original intent wrong, probably
because of a misnamed variable.
The beacon RSSI is only valid in station mode, and the main reason to check
it in ath9k_hw_set_ofdm_nil is to make sure that OFDM weak signal detection
stays enabled if the RSSI is low, even when the OFDM noise immunity entry
is supposed to disable it.
The above commit removed the mode checks and changed the code so that
OFDM weak signal detection would only be changed if the rssi is high, which
is wrong for everything but client mode.
This patch restores the old behavior in a simplified form.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I don't know why somebody decided to keep a cached copy of beacon rssi in a
variable called 'noiseFloor', but the caching is unnecessary and the variable
name is confusing, so let's just get rid of it entirely.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After the chip reset, the noise immunity levels are restored with
history values. If the immunity levels are lower than the defaults,
lets start with the optimal values.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch improves ANI operations by switching among the immunity
levels based on PHY errors and beacon rssi which will adjust receiver
desensitizing parameters. The changes are
* Configure the Weak Signal Detection based on current immunity value.
* At highest OFDM immunity level poor performance was observed with
strong interference. By tuning the FIR step and spur immunity levels
and not changing any weak signal detection thresholds at any level
helped to improve the performance.
* ANI took long time to recover back to lower immunity levels on heavy
data load. As the listen time got reset to zero before reaching to
the 5x of aniperiod, the immunity level is not lowering back even
without any interference. This patch fix that.
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Susinder Gulasekaran <susinder@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Chandrasekaran <csuresh@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Booleans should not be compared to true or false
but be directly tested or tested with !.
Done via cocci script:
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bool t;
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- t == true
+ t
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bool t;
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- t != true
+ !t
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bool t;
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- t == false
+ !t
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bool t;
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- t != false
+ t
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add ATH_DBG_ to macros to shorten the uses and
reduce the line count.
Coalesce ath_dbg formats.
Add missing spaces to coalesced formats.
Add missing newline terminations to ath_dbg formats.
Align ath_dbg arguments where appropriate.
Standardize ath_dbg formats without periods.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These were getting the macros from an implicit module.h
include via device.h, but we are planning to clean that up.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
drivers/net: Add export.h to wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
This relatively recently added file uses EXPORT_SYMBOL and hence
needs export.h included so that it is compatible with the module.h
split up work.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
PHY errors relevant for ANI are always tracked by hardware counters, the
bits that allow them to pass through the rx filter are independent of that.
Enabling PHY errors in the rx filter often creates lots of useless DMA traffic
and might be responsible for some of the rx dma stop failure warnings.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CCK/OFDM noise immunilty values are always reset to defaults
during bgscan. This could affect the link quality and
performance when the STA is associated in a noisy channel.
So do not override the learned values across the scanning.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
removed a function declaration, removed a variable, renamed a variable
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
PHY counter overflows need to be checked for the old ANI version,
because of its use of interrupt based counter overflow reports when
the counters exceed the configured thresholds.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit "ath9k_hw: remove code duplication in phy error counter handling"
split off some duplicate code into a separate function, but did not have a
return code for aborting ANI processing based on counter values.
This introduced a divide by zero issue.
This patch adds the missing return code check in ath9k_hw_ani_monitor
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of keeping track of wraparound, clear the counters on every
access and keep separate deltas for ANI and later survey use.
Also moves the function for calculating the 'listen time' for ANI
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After the last rounds of cleanup, these functions are now functionally
equivalent and can thus be merged.
Also get rid of some excessive (and redundant) debug messages.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The code gets more concise and readable when making the new ANI functions
fall back to the old ones if ANI v2 is disabled. This also makes further code
cleanup easier.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Split out the PHY error counter update from ath9k_hw_ani_monitor_*, reuse
it in ath9k_hw_proc_mib_event (merged from ath9k_hw_proc_mib_event_old
and ath9k_hw_proc_mib_event_new).
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ANI state is kept per channel, so instead of keeping an array of ANI states
with an arbitrary size of 255, move the ANI state into the channel struct.
Move some config settings that are not per-channel out of
the per-channel struct to save some memory.
With those changes, ath9k_ani_restart_old and ath9k_ani_restart_new can
be merged into a single function.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau