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>
The 'sc_flags' variable is being used in a number of places
with no locking whatsoever. This patch converts the usage
of sc_flags to atomic ops.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add link.c and move all the link/connection monitoring
code to it.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath_tx_setup_buffer() can fail if there is no ath_buf left, or if mapping DMA
failed. In this case it frees the skb passed to it.
If ath_tx_setup_buffer is called from ath_tx_form_aggr, the skb is still
linked into the tid buffer list and must be dequeued before being released.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Assigning sequence number for frames without taking care
of the fragment field breaks transmission of fragmented frames.
Fix this by assigning the fragment number properly.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
TXQ_FLAG_TXOKINT_ENABLE and TXQ_FLAG_TXERRINT_ENABLE are always set and
used together, and they share the same bitmask in enum ath9k_tx_queue_flags.
Simplify the code that tests for these flags.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 provides short preamble information and ERP protection
information on a per-BSS basis, which can be used. Remove flags
stored in the driver, which was incorrect since they were being used
in a global manner.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
SC_OP_TXAGGR and SC_OP_RXAGGR are not really needed.
The HT capabilities of the station and HW can be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes this rant from sparse:
CHECK drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:107:13: warning: context imbalance in 'ath_txq_lock' - wrong count at exit
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:112:13: warning: context imbalance in 'ath_txq_unlock' - unexpected unlock
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:123:30: warning: context imbalance in 'ath_txq_unlock_complete' - unexpected unlock
CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
DaveM said:
Please, this kind of stuff rots forever and not using bool properly
drives me crazy.
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> gave me the spatch script:
@@
bool b;
@@
-b = 0
+b = false
@@
bool b;
@@
-b = 1
+b = true
I merely installed coccinelle, read the documentation and took credit.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The commit "ath9k: simplify tx locking" introduced a soft lockup triggered
by mac80211 sending a BAR frame triggered by a driver call to
ieee80211_tx_send_bar or ieee80211_tx_status.
Fix these issues by queueing processed tx status skbs and submitting them
to mac80211 outside of the lock.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
Instead of releasing and taking back the lock over and over again in the
tx path, hold the lock a bit longer, requiring much fewer lock/unlock pairs.
This makes locking much easier to review and should not have any noticeable
performance/latency impact.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
tid->seq_next is initialized on A-MPDU start anyway, and the comment next
to this chunk of code seems to be bogus as well.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When processing A-MPDU tx status, only send a BAR for the failed packet
with the highest sequence number.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of limiting a subframe to 10 A-MPDU software transmission attempts,
count hardware retransmissions as well and raise the limit a bit. That way
there will be fewer software retransmission attempts when traffic suffers
from lots of hardware retransmissions.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After waking up from full sleep, registers are accessible, but rx/tx
typically fails. A fast channel change will not recover from this, so
ensure that a full-sleep -> wake transition is always followed by a full
reset.
The reason why this hasn't created any serious problems yet is that it's
hidden by the (wrong) behavior of enabling/disabling the radio when the
wiphy idle state changes.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When tx agg is being stopped TID is flushed using ath_tx_flush_tid. It
is possible that ath_tx_flush_tid completelly flushes TID (if all
packets in this TID have already been retried). If this happened
ath_tx_aggr_stop would leave TID in cleanup state permanently.
Fix this by making ath_tx_flush_tid remove AGGR_ADDBA_COMPLETE and
AGGR_CLEANUP flags from TID status if TID is empty.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AR9462 chips have the capabilities to provoide bluetooth
profile information. For non-AR9462 btcoex chips, the BT
priority traffic was identified by periodically polling
the respective registers and updated dutycycle, stomptype,
etc. As AR9462 chip offers the BT profile informations,
let us make use of that to update aggregation limit,
dutycycle, stomptype and wieghtages.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When tx is suspended temporarily and the queue is flushed, do not increase
the retry count or attempt to send out BAR frames. Instead simply retry
the affected subframes normally after the reset.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Do not increment the retry counter if packets to a sleeping station
were not sent because of tx failure, instead of only checking the filter
flag.
Clear the PS filter only after an A-MPDU was reported as filtered,
otherwise the hardware might do some unnecessary extra retransmissions.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Export how many times each of the reset triggers has fired through debugfs.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If "axq_qnum >= ARRAY_SIZE(sc->tx.txq)", then the call to
ath9k_hw_releasetxqueue() would read beyond the end of the ah->txq[]
array and possibly corrupt memory. Fortunately,
ath9k_hw_setuptxqueue() doesn't return high values of "axq_qnum" and
this code can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For uAPSD implementation, it is necessary to know on
which ACs frames are buffered. mac80211 obviously
knows about the frames it has buffered itself, but
with aggregation many drivers buffer frames. Thus,
mac80211 needs to be informed about this.
For now, since we don't have APSD in any form, this
will unconditionally set the TIM bit for the station
but later with uAPSD only some ACs might cause the
TIM bit to be set.
ath9k is the only driver using this API and I only
modify it in the most basic way, it won't be able
to implement uAPSD with this yet. But it can't do
that anyway since there's no way to selectively
release frames to the peer yet.
Since drivers will buffer frames per TID, let them
inform mac80211 on a per TID basis, mac80211 will
then sort out the AC mapping itself.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fill the ampdu_[ack]_len for both aggregation and normal frames.
So that we could avoid unnecesary conditional at tx status.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the driver inserts padding between the 802.11 header and data, it
needs to set the hdr variable to the new header location.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the new EDMA descriptor format, a single descriptor can contain up
to four buffer pointers. By splitting the buffer into two parts, we can
let the hardware add the padding internally instead of using memmove on
the skb data.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The only flag that needs to be set when ath_tx_rc_status is called with
rc_update == false is the IEEE80211_TX_STAT_TX_FILTERED flag. All other
data is ignored in that case.
This flag can be set from ath_tx_complete_buf instead, so that we can
drop a few redundant calls to ath_tx_rc_status and remove the rc_update
function parameter
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath_lookup_legacy now checks all the tx rate flags for MCS vs legacy
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the new API, tx descriptors can be written in one single pass
instead of having to re-read and rewrite fields from multiple places.
This makes the code easier to read and also slightly improves performance
on embedded MIPS hardware.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Makes it easier to clean up the ath9k_hw descriptor API
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This makes it much easier to add further rework to avoid race conditions
between reset and other work items.
Move other functions to make ath_reset static.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
we already have ah->{rx,tx}chainmask for the same purpose
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit "ath9k_hw: Fix exceed transmission burst-time of 5GHz" added
a padding of 60 delimiters on the first subframe to work around an issue
on AR9380, but it lacked the checks to prevent it from being applied to
pre-AR9380, enterprise AR9380 or AR9580+
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With sequence number and buffer allocation deferred to when they're needed
for the first time, it becomes much easier to start dropping packets from
the tid queue if necessary, e.g. when latency suddenly increases. This can
lead to some future improvements in buffer management for better latency.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is only necessary for BAW tracking and moving it to the ath_buf
makes it easier to add further improvements, such as deferring
seqno allocation in the aggregation path.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use a sk_buff_head instead containing skbs instead of a list_head
containing ath_bufs. This makes it easier to decouple the aggregation
code from the ath_buf struct
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The recent commit "ath9k: Send legacy rated frames as unaggregated"
introduced a check to ensure that packets with non-MCS rates set in
the rate series will not be aggregated. However, it failed to check
if the rate series is valid before testing the flags, thus breaking
aggregation for normal MCS-only packets if the last series is unset.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently the aggregation is formed till the aggregation limit
is reached and the rate lookup is done for the first frame alone.
But there can be a legacy rated frames in tid queue. This patch
limits the subframe addition based on presence of legacy rate and
sends the legacy rated frames as unaggregated one.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The WAR which adds extra delimiters when using RTS/CTS
with aggregation and non-enterprise AR9003 chips.
This extra padding is done after doing all the 4ms limit
checks and hence the total aggregate sizes are exceeding
the allowed duration. This patch limits the aggregate
sizes appropriately after including these extra delimiters.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If the driver gets a tx status report for an A-MPDU sent to a station that
just went to sleep, that leaves a race condition where this tx status can
trigger another A-MPDU transmission.
To fix this, check if the station is sleeping before queueing the tid.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch cleanups virtual wiphy specific frametype structure
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
While sending aggregated frames in AES, the AR5416 chips
required additional padding b/w subframes. This workaround
is not needed for edma (AR9003 family) chips. With this patch
~4Mbps thoughput improvement was observed in clear environment.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The received tx status of aggregated frame without BlockAck may
cause deaf state in AR5416 cards. So the driver does a reset to
recover. When this happens, we release the pcu_lock before doing
a reset as ath_rest acquires pcu_lock. This is ugly and also not
atomic. Fixing this addresses the TX DMA failure also.
ath_tx_complete_aggr can be called from different paths which
takes different variants of spin_lock. This patch also addresses
the following warning.
WARNING: at kernel/timer.c:1011 del_timer_sync+0x4e/0x50()
Call Trace:
<IRQ> [<ffffffff8104be3a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
[<ffffffff8104be85>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffff8105915e>] del_timer_sync+0x4e/0x50
[<ffffffffa03726be>] ath_reset+0x3e/0x210 [ath9k]
[<ffffffff8135cdaf>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1f/0x30
[<ffffffffa037760a>] ath_tx_complete_aggr.isra.26+0x54a/0xa40 [ath9k]
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove linux/mm.h inclusion from netdevice.h -- it's unused (I've checked manually).
To prevent mm.h inclusion via other channels also extract "enum dma_data_direction"
definition into separate header. This tiny piece is what gluing netdevice.h with mm.h
via "netdevice.h => dmaengine.h => dma-mapping.h => scatterlist.h => mm.h".
Removal of mm.h from scatterlist.h was tried and was found not feasible
on most archs, so the link was cutoff earlier.
Hope people are OK with tiny include file.
Note, that mm_types.h is still dragged in, but it is a separate story.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
EDMA based chips (AR9380+) have 8 Tx FIFO slots, which are used to fix the
tx queue start/stop race conditions which have to be worked around for
earlier chips by keeping the last descriptor in the queue. The current code
stores all frames that do not fit onto the 8 FIFO slots in a separate
list. Whenever a FIFO slot is freed up, the next frame (or A-MPDU) from the
pending queue gets moved to that slot.
This process is not only inefficient, but also unnecessary. The code can
be improved visibly by keeping the pending queue fully linked, and moving
the contents of the entire queue to a FIFO slot as it becomes available.
This patch makes the necessary changes for that and also merges some code
that was duplicated for EDMA vs non-EDMA. It changes txq->axq_link to point
to the last descriptor instead of the link pointer, so that
ath9k_hw_set_desc_link can be used, which works on all chips.
With this patch, a small performance increase for non-aggregated traffic
was observed on AR9380 based embedded hardware.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Only leave filtering enabled for AP or VLAN interfaces, clear the
destination mask for all other interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
when aggregation protection mode is enabled the hardware needs
to send RTS/CTS for each HT frame. Currently its disabled so
remove the unused call backs.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is no reason why pll work handler should be part of xmit
file. move it to main.c so that reading hw check routines are
all in the same place.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Frame filtering relies on having a valid destination index (keycache slot),
to keep track of the destination. Assigning a keycache slot (configured
to unencrypted, with no key data attached) improves powersave handling in
AP mode with no encryption.
The dummy keycache entry for a station is cleared, when a real key gets
added.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a long standing issue of pending packets in the queue being
sent (and retransmitted many times) to sleeping stations.
This was made worse by aggregation through driver-internal retransmitting
of A-MDPU subframes.
Previously the hardware tx filter was cleared unconditionally for every
single packet - with this patch it uses the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT
for unaggregated frames.
A sta_notify driver op is added to stop aggregation for stations when they
enter powersave mode. Subframes stay buffered inside the driver, to ensure
that the BlockAck window keeps a sane state.
Since the driver uses software aggregation, the clearing of the tx filter
needs to be handled by the driver instead of mac80211 for aggregated frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It has the same purpose (and value) as ah->config.max_txtrig_level
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This workaround called ath_txq_schedule whenever there were still pending
frames for a queue, but the queue depth was zero. Because of its its high
false positive probability (e.g. with paused TIDs) and because it is in
the way of other pending work (AP powersave fixes), it is better to remove
this code entirely.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some clients seems to keep track of their reorder window even after an
aggregation session has been disabled. This causes issues if there are
still retried but not completed frames pending for the TID.
To ensure that rx does not stall in such situations, set sendbar to 1
for any frame purged from the TID queue on teardown.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch simplifies the flush op and reuses ath_drain_all_txq for
flushing out pending frames if necessary. It also uses a global timeout
of 200ms instead of the per-queue 60ms timeout.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In some situations, stopping Tx DMA frequently fails, leading to messages
like this:
ath: Failed to stop TX DMA in 100 msec after killing last frame
ath: Failed to stop TX DMA!
This patch uses a few MAC features to abort DMA globally instead of iterating
over all hardware queues and attempting to stop them individually.
Not only is that faster and works with a shorter timeout, it also makes the
process much more reliable.
With this change, I can no longer trigger these messages on AR9380,
and on AR9280 they become much more rare.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When op_flush() is called with no drop (drop=false), the driver
tries to tx as many frames as possible in about 100ms on every
hw queue. During this time period frames from sw queue are also
scheduled on to respective hw queue.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The variable appears in both ath_softc and ath_beacon_config.
The struct ath_beacon_config is embedded in ath_softc. The redundant
variable was added by commit id 57c4d7b4c4.
Signed-off-by: Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>
Reviewed-by: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.ath9k@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Spin_lock has been tried to be acquired twice from ath9k_tasklet
to ath_reset which resulted in a machine freeze.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When this PLL hang issue is seen, both Rx and Tx fail to work.
The sqsum_dvc needs to be below 2000 for a good chip. During
this issue the sqsum_dvc value is beyond 80000 and only a
full reset can solve this problem.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Various places printing tx queue information used various different ways to
get a tx queue index for printing statistics. Most of these ways were wrong.
ATH_TXQ_AC_* cannot be used as an index for sc->tx.txq, because it is only
used internally for queue assignment.
One place used WME_AC_* as a queue index for sc->debug.stats.txstats, however
this array uses the ath9k_hw queue number as well.
Fix all of this by always using the ath9k_hw queue number as an index, and
always looking it up by going through sc->tx.txq_map.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of spreading ath_wake_mac80211_queue() calls over multiple places
in the tx path that process the tx queue for completion, call it only
where the pending frames counter gets decremented, eliminating some
redundant checks.
To prevent queue draining from waking the queues prematurely (e.g. during
a hardware reset), reset the queue stop state when draining all queues,
as the caller in main.c will run ieee80211_wake_queues(hw) anyway.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit 'ath9k: Add more information to debugfs xmit file.' added more
debug counters to ath9k and also added some lines of code to ath9k_hw.
Since ath9k_hw is also used by ath9k_htc, its code must not depend on ath9k
data structures. In this case it was not fatal, but it's still wrong, so
the code needs to be moved back to ath9k.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove unused macros and cleanup buffer_type enumeration
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Try all xmit queues until the hardware buffers are full.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The system can get into a state where the xmit queue
is stopped, but there are no packets pending, so
the queue will not be restarted.
Add logic to the xmit watchdog to attempt to restart
the xmit logic if this situation is detected.
Example 'dmesg' output:
ath: txq: f4e723e0 axq_qnum: 2, mac80211_qnum: 2 axq_link: f4e996c8 pending frames: 1 axq_acq empty: 1 stopped: 0 axq_depth: 0 Attempting to restart tx logic.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Show counters for pkts sent directly to hardware and
those queued in software.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If the txq->axq_q is empty, the code was breaking out
of the tx_processq logic without checking to see if it should
transmit other queued AMPDU frames (txq->axq_acq).
This patches ensures ath_txq_schedule is called.
This needs review.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Should help debug strange tx lockup type issues.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are several places where ath_reset() was called without proper
calls to ath9k_ps_wakeup/ath9k_ps_restore. To fix this, add those calls
directly to ath_reset and drop them from callers where it makes sense.
Also add them to the config callback around ath_update_txpow to fix a
crash that happens when the tx power changed before any vif is brought up.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Because the sendbar variable was not reset to zero, the stack would send
Block ACK requests for all subframes following the one that failed, which
could mess up the receiver side block ack window.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sometimes the first TID in the first AC's list is not available for forming
a new aggregate (the BAW might not allow it), however other TIDs may have
data available for sending.
Prevent a slowdown of other TIDs by going through multiple entries until
we've either hit the last one or enough AMPDUs are pending in the hardware
queue.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There might be some old stale data left, which could confuse tracking
of pending tx frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
txtid->seq_start may not always be up to date, when there is HT non-AMPDU
traffic just before starting an AMPDU session. Relying on txtid->seq_next
is better, since it is also used to generate the sequence numbers for
all QoS data frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When a tid pointer is passed to ath_tx_send_normal(), it increases the
starting sequence number for the next AMPDU action frame, which should
only be done if the sequence number assignment is fresh. In this case
it is clearly not.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To improve aggregation length, there should not be more than two fully formed
A-MPDU frames in the hardware queue. To ensure this, the code checks the tx
queue length before forming new A-MPDUs. This can reduce the throughput (or
maybe even starve out A-MPDU traffic) when too many non-aggregated frames are
in the queue.
Fix this by keeping track of pending A-MPDU frames (even when they're sent out
as single frames), but exclude rate control probing frames to improve
performance.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
wireless-testing commit 04caf86375
('ath9k: more tx setup cleanups') merged tx path code for HT vs
non-HT frames, however it did not pass the tid pointer to
ath_tx_send_normal, causing an inconsistency between AMPDU vs
non-AMPDU sequence number handling.
Fix this by always passing in the tid pointer for all QoS data frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It can be NULL according to docs, and logging showed it
to be NULL in practice.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.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>
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>
When ath_drain_all_txq fails to stop DMA, it issues a hw reset. This reset
happens at a very problematic point in time, when the hardware rx path has
not been stopped yet. This could lead to memory corruption, hardware hangs
or other issues.
To fix these issues, simply remove the reset entirely and check the tx DMA
stop status to prevent problems with fast channel changes.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
The recent tx path cleanups moved the software retry count tracking
from the ath_buf to the skb cb, however the actual counter update
referred to the wrong location, confusing block-ack window tracking.
Fix this by using the retries counter in the struct ath_frame_info.
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>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since the pointers after the rates in the tx info cannot be used anymore
after frames have been queued, this area can be used to store information
that was previously stored in the ath_buf. With these changes, we can delay
the ath_buf assignment in the aggregation code until aggregates are formed.
That will not only make it possible to simplify DMA descriptor setup to
do less rewriting of uncached memory, but will also make it easier to
move aggregation out of the core of the ath9k tx path.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
- remove the BUF_HT flag, and instead check for IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU
before calling ath_tx_send_ampdu.
- remove a few unused variables
- calculate frame length before adding the frame padding
- merge the misnamed ath_tx_start_dma function into ath_tx_start
- remove an unused argument for assign_aggr_tid_seqno
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
Merge ath_tx_send_normal and ath_tx_send_ht_normal.
Move the paprd state initialization and sequence number assignment
to reduce the number of redundant checks.
This not only simplifies buffer allocation error handling, but also
removes a small inconsistency in the buffer HT flag.
This flag should only be set if the frame is also a QoS data frame.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
This helps align resets / RX enable & disable / TX stop / start.
Locking around the PCU is important to ensure the hardware doesn't
get stale data when working with DMA'able data.
This is part of a series of patches which fix stopping
TX DMA completley when requested on the driver.
For more details about this issue refer to this thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The PCU lock should be used to contend TX DMA as well,
this will be done next.
This is part of a series of patches which fix stopping
TX DMA completley when requested on the driver.
For more details about this issue refer to this thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The new PCU lock is better placed so we can just contend
against that when trying to reset hardware.
This is part of a series of patches which fix stopping
TX DMA completley when requested on the driver.
For more details about this issue refer to this thread:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith Manoharan