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>
axq_linkbuf, axq_aggr_depth, axq_lastdsWithCTS and
axq_gatingds are unused.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k and ath9k_htc share a lot of common hardware characteristics.
They only differ in that ath9k_htc works with a target CPU and ath9k
works directly with the hardware. ath9k_htc will do *some* things in
the firmware, but a lot of others on the host.
The common 802.11n hardware code is already shared through the ath9k_hw
module. Common helpers amongst all Atheros drivers can use the ath module,
this includes ath5k and ar9170 as users. But there is some common driver
specific helpers which are not exactly hardware code which ath9k and
ath9k_htc can share. We'll be using ath9k_common for this to avoid
bloating the ath module and the common 802.11n hardware module ath9k_hw.
We start by sharing skb pre and post processing in preparation for a hand
off to mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This will make sharing code easier between ath9k and ath9k_htc.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This will also be used by ath9k_htc.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This can be shared between ath9k and ath9k_htc. It will also
help with sharing routine helpers on the RX path.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath9k virtual wiphys all share the same internal buffer space
for TX but they do not share the mac80211 skb queues. When
ath9k detects it is running low on buffer space to TX it tells
mac80211 to stop sending it skbs its way but it always does
this only for the primary wiphy. This means mac80211 won't know
its best to avoid sending ath9k more skbs on a separate virtual
wiphy. The same issue is present for reliving the skb queue.
Since ath9k does not keep track of which virtual wiphy is hammering
on TX silence all wiphy's TX when we're low on buffer space. When
we're free on buffer space only bother informing the virtual wiphy
which is active that we have free buffers.
Cc: Jouni.Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We use the ieee80211_hw for radio enable/disable but the wrong
structure hw was being used in consideration for virtual wiphys
as each virtual wiphy has its own ieee80211_hw struct.
Just pass the hw struct to ensure we use the right one. This should
fix the hw used and passed for radio enable/disable. This includes
the stoping / starting of the software TX queues so mac80211 doesn't
send us data for a specific virtual wiphy. ath9k already takes care
of pausing virtual wiphys and stopping the respective queues on its
own, but this should handle the idle mac80211 conf calls as well.
Cc: Jouni.Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The way idle configuration detection was implemented as
busted due to the fact that it assumed the ath9k virtual wiphy,
the aphy, would be marked as inactive if it was not used but
it turns out an aphy is always active if its the only wiphy
present. We need to distinguish between aphy activity and
idleness so we now add an idle bool for the aphy and mark
it as such based on the passed IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_IDLE
from mac80211.
Previous to all_wiphys_idle would never be true when using
only one device so we never really were using
IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_IDLE -- we never turned the radio
off or on upon IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_IDLE changes as radio
changes depended on all_wiphys_idle being true either to
turn the radio on or off. Since it was always false for
one device this code was doing nothing.
Cc: Jouni.Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@atheros.com>
Reported-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
This is the last part to make ath9k hw code core driver agnostic.
I believe ath9k_htc can now use use the hw code unmodified.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac.c is now core driver independent.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
hw code will be shared between ath9k and ath9k_htc.
Just a few more files are left to clean up, mark them as well.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is used just to determine how to program the MAC,
either for 20 MHz operation of 40 MHz so just use conf_is_ht40()
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This was for supporting 25 MHz spacing for HT40, this is not used
as we use 20 MHz spacing instead for HT40 as per 802.11n. The hardware
is capable of it though so we leave the phymode definition and EEPROM
parsing for it. If some experimenter wants to work on this stuff stuff
you can add an extension enabling bool on ath_common and perhaps some
debugfs knob to enable it. Keep in mind you'll also need to update the
phymode with the AR_PHY_FC_DYN2040_EXT_CH which has been left on the
driver.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
In an effort to make hw code driver core agnostic read
and write operations are defined on the ath_common structure.
This patch adds that and makes ath9k use it. This allows
drivers like ath9k_htc to define its own read/write ops and
still rely on the same hw code. This also paves the way for
sharing code between ath9k/ath5k/ath9k_htc.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We disable ASPM when enabling bluetooth coexistance. Disabling
ASPM is a bus specific operation. In the future other buses may
support bluetooth coexistance, an example is USB. To this end
move the current routine which disables ASPM into pci.c, and declare
it the PCI bt_coex_prep() helper. Additionally, since ASPM is
a PCI-Express primitive ensure we don't ever try to muck with ASPM
registers on non PCI-express devices.
This also cleans up hw.c to not include bus specific headers or
utilities.
Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Cc: Stephen Chen <stephen.chen@atheros.com>
Cc: Zhifeng Cai <zhifeng.cai@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This ensures that we can access common on hw related code
independent of the driver core.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These are common amongst ath9k and ath5k, so put them into the
common structure and make ath9k to use it. ar9170 can use macaddr,
and curbssid. We'll change ath5k and ar9170 separately.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is used by both ath5k and ath9k to set the first bssid mask.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The bt_stomp_type defines the bt coex weight, it has a one-to-one
mapping. In the future we may want to just use the weight directly.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Whether or not bluetooth coex has been enabled is a hardware
state and only the hardware helpers will be able to set this.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Keep on btcoex.c only hardware access helpers, move the
driver core specific code to main.c. To accomplish
this we had to split ath_init_btcoex_info() into two parts,
the driver core part -- ath_init_btcoex_timer() and the hw
specific part -- ath9k_hw_init_btcoex_hw_info(). This
highlights how ath_gen_timer is part of the driver core, not
hw related, so stuff that into ath_btcoex struct.
The ath9k_hw_btcoex_init() code is now put inline on
ath_init_softc() through a switch to it easier to follow,
since we did that we can now call ath_tx_get_qnum() from
the main.c instead of btcoex.c
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since we now access it via the ath_hw declare the ath_hw pointer
at the header of some routines and se it. ath9k.h no longer needs to
access btcoex.h and to adjust for this move ath_btcoex_set_weight()
into btcoex.h and instead give main.c a helper for setting initial
values upon drv_start()
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is some bluetooth coexistance data which is driver
specific, stuff that into its own structure.
Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This subsystem id will be used later to turn on the btcoex
support.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds 3-wire bluetooth coex support for AR9285.
This support can be enabled through btcoex_enable modparam.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also define macros for wlanactive and btactive (5 & 6) gpios.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This function currently does initialization + enable the
btcoex support. Split it into two logical functions which
does the above operations separately. Btcoex initialization
is done during attach time and enabling this feature is done
in start(). Also, add code to disable btcoex support in stop().
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Other than ns_avgbrssi (Average beacon rssi) no data of
ath9k_node_stats is being used anywhere. Nuke this structure
and move its only useful member to ar5416Anistate. Also cleanup
this redundant data in ath_softc.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This moves the shared regulatory structure into the
common structure. We will use this ongoing for common
data.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Turns out ath5k and ath9k can share the same helper to
allocates RX skbs. We allocate skbs aligned to the cache line
size. This requirement seems to have come from AR5210; when
this was not done it seems sometimes we'd get bogus data. I'm
also told it may have been a performance enhancement
consideration. In the end I can't be sure we can remove this
on new hardware so just keep this and start sharing it through
ath.ko.
Make ath9k start using this, ath5k is next.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We re-label the device driver initialization routines from the
ath_softc, the "Software Carrier" fillers. This should make it
clearer what each of these do.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is a small window where the mac80211 changes the IEEE80211_CONF_PS
flag, and then informs the driver about the change. We have a race
condition if we are checking the flag in the same time. Avoid it by
introducing a local variable, and using that instead of checking the
IEEE80211_CONF_PS flag directly.
This fix the problem reported by Luis:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/34363
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cleanup aggregation start/stop function interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This uses the new configuration changes indicated up by
mac80211 when all interfaces are marked idle. We need to do
a little more work as we have our own set of virtual
wiphys within ath9k.
Only when all virtual wiphys are inactive do we allow an idle
state change for a wiphy to trigger disabling the radio.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These functions are changing the power mode of the chip, but this may
have unpredictable effects, if another code are trying to set the power
mode via 'ath9k_hw_setpower' in the same time from another context.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Uninline these functions before we add functional changes to them.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Because ath9k_setpower is called from various contexts, we have to
protect it against concurrent calls.
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The hardware doesn't generate interrupts in some cases and so work
around this by monitoring the TX status periodically and reset the
chip if required.
This behavior of the hardware not generating the TX interrupts can
be noticed through ath9k debugfs interrupt statistics when heavy
traffic is being sent from STA to AP. One can easily see this behavior
when the STA is transmitting at a higher rates. The interrupt statistics
in the debugfs interface clearly shows that only RX interrupts alone
being generated and TX being stuck.
TX should be monitored through a timer and reset the chip only when
frames are queued to the hardware but TX interrupts are not generated
for the same even after one second. Also, we shouldn't remove holding
descriptor from AC queue if it happens to be the only descriptor and
schedule TX aggregation regarless of queue depth as it improves
scheduling of AMPDUs from software to hardware queue.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
RSSI reported by the RX descriptor requires little manipulation.
Manipulate and report the correct RSSI to the stack. This will
fix the improper signal levels reported by iwconfig iw dev wlanX
station dump. Also the Link Quality reported seems to be varying
(falls to zero also sometimes) when iperf is run from STA to AP.
Also use the default noise floor for now as the one reported
during the caliberation seems to be wrong.
The Signal and Link Quality before this patch (taken while TX is
in progress from STA to AP)
09:59:13.285428037 Link Quality=29/70 Signal level=-81 dBm
09:59:13.410660084 Link Quality=20/70 Signal level=-90 dBm
09:59:13.586864392 Link Quality=21/70 Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:13.710296281 Link Quality=21/70 Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:13.821683064 Link Quality=25/70 Signal level=-85 dBm
09:59:13.933402989 Link Quality=24/70 Signal level=-86 dBm
09:59:14.045839276 Link Quality=26/70 Signal level=-84 dBm
09:59:14.193926673 Link Quality=23/70 Signal level=-87 dBm
09:59:14.306230262 Link Quality=31/70 Signal level=-79 dBm
09:59:14.419459667 Link Quality=26/70 Signal level=-84 dBm
09:59:14.530711167 Link Quality=37/70 Signal level=-73 dBm
09:59:14.642593962 Link Quality=29/70 Signal level=-81 dBm
09:59:14.754361169 Link Quality=21/70 Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:14.866217355 Link Quality=21/70 Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:14.976963623 Link Quality=28/70 Signal level=-82 dBm
09:59:15.089149809 Link Quality=26/70 Signal level=-84 dBm
09:59:15.205039887 Link Quality=27/70 Signal level=-83 dBm
09:59:15.316368003 Link Quality=23/70 Signal level=-87 dBm
09:59:15.427684036 Link Quality=36/70 Signal level=-74 dBm
09:59:15.539756380 Link Quality=21/70 Signal level=-89 dBm
09:59:15.650549093 Link Quality=22/70 Signal level=-88 dBm
09:59:15.761171672 Link Quality=32/70 Signal level=-78 dBm
09:59:15.872793750 Link Quality=23/70 Signal level=-87 dBm
09:59:15.984421694 Link Quality=22/70 Signal level=-88 dBm
09:59:16.097315093 Link Quality=21/70 Signal level=-89 dBm
The link quality and signal level after this patch (take while
TX is in progress from STA to AP)
17:21:25.627848091 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:25.762805607 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:25.875521888 Link Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44 dBm
17:21:25.987468448 Link Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44 dBm
17:21:26.100628151 Link Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44 dBm
17:21:26.213129671 Link Quality=66/70 Signal level=-44 dBm
17:21:26.324923070 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:26.436831357 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:26.610356973 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:26.723340047 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:26.835715293 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:26.949542748 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.062261613 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:27.174511563 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.287616232 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.400598119 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.511381404 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.624530421 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:27.737807109 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:27.850861352 Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
17:21:27.963369436 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
17:21:28.076582289 Link Quality=64/70 Signal level=-46 dBm
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau