Commit c7ab5ef9bc entitled "b43: implement
short slot and basic rate handling" reduced the transmit throughput for
my BCM4311 device from 18 Mb/s to 0.7 Mb/s. The basic rate handling
portion is OK, the problem is in the short slot handling.
Prior to this change, the short slot enable/disable routines were never
called. Experimentation showed that the critical part was changing the
value at offset 0x0010 in the shared memory. This is supposed to contain
the 802.11 Slot Time in usec, but if it is changed from its initial value
of zero, performance is destroyed. On the other hand, changing the value
in the MMIO register corresponding to the Interframe Slot Time increased
performance from 18 to 22 Mb/s. A BCM4306/3 also shows dramatic
improvement of the transmit rate from 5.3 to 19.0 Mb/s.
Other changes in the patch include removal of the magic number for the
MMIO register, and allowing the slot time to be set for any PHY operating
in the 2.4 GHz band. Previously, the routine was executed only for G PHYs.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org> [Any stable version back through 2.6.28]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The TKIP key update callback is called from the RX path, where the driver
mutex is already locked. This results in a circular locking bug.
Avoid this by removing the lock.
Johannes noted that there is a separate bug: The callback still breaks on SDIO
hardware, because SDIO hardware access needs to sleep, but we are not allowed
to sleep in the callback due to mac80211's RCU locking.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Reported-by: kecsa@kutfo.hit.bme.hu
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When a TKIP key is updated, we should pass the station
pointer instead of just the address, since drivers can
use that to store their own data. We also need to pass
the virtual interface pointer.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Following line shows my BCM4328 detected on SSB. We didn't include 0x0C rev.
ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x0C, vendor 0x4243)
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488636
Enhances module information with the names of the firmware files
that could be used by this driver. This helps tools like Jockey to
correctly detect and/or install the firmware files relevant to
this driver.
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All its members (vif, mac_addr, type) are now available
in the vif struct directly, so we can pass that instead
of the conf struct. I generated this patch (except the
mac80211 and header file changes) with this semantic
patch:
@@
identifier conf, fn, hw;
type tp;
@@
tp fn(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
-struct ieee80211_if_init_conf *conf)
+struct ieee80211_vif *vif)
{
<...
(
-conf->type
+vif->type
|
-conf->mac_addr
+vif->addr
|
-conf->vif
+vif
)
...>
}
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If userencounter the "Fatal DMA Problem" with a BCM43XX device, and
still wish to use b43 as the driver, their only option is to rebuild
the kernel with CONFIG_B43_FORCE_PIO. This patch removes this option and
allows PIO mode to be selected with a load-time parameter for the module.
Note that the configuration variable CONFIG_B43_PIO is also removed.
Once the DMA problem with the BCM4312 devices is solved, this patch will
likely be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: John Daiker <daikerjohn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As shown in Kernel Bugzilla #14761, doing a controller restart after a
fatal DMA error does not accomplish anything other than consume the CPU
on an affected system. Accordingly, substitute a meaningful message for
the restart.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.32]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ops->set_tim() must be atomic, so b43 trying to acquire a mutex leads
to a kernel crash. This patch trades an easy to trigger crash in AP
mode for an unlikely race condition. According to Michael, the real
fix would be to allow set_tim() to sleep, since b43 is not the only
driver that needs to sleep in all callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
While there may be a case for a driver adding its
own bits of radiotap information, none currently
does. Also, drivers would have to copy the code
to generate the radiotap bits that now mac80211
generates. If some driver in the future needs to
add some driver-specific information I'd expect
that to be in a radiotap vendor namespace and we
can add a different way of passing such data up
and having mac80211 include it.
Additionally, rename IEEE80211_CONF_RADIOTAP to
IEEE80211_CONF_MONITOR since it's still used by
b43(legacy) to obtain per-frame timestamps.
The purpose of this patch is to simplify the RX
code in mac80211 to make it easier to add paged
skb support.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We must check the bustype before using the host_pci pointer.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"b43: Fix PPC crash in rfkill polling on unload" fixed the bug reported
in Bugzilla No. 14181; however, it introduced a new bug. Whenever the
radio switch was turned off, it was necessary to unload and reload
the driver for it to recognize the switch again.
This patch fixes both the original bug in #14181 and the bug introduced by
the previous patch. It must be stated, however, that if there is a BCM4306/3
with an rfkill switch (not yet proven), then the driver will need an
unload/reload cycle to turn the device back on.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In Bugzilla No. 14181, a PowerMac G4 crashes on ifdown or
module unload because the rfkill polling has not been stopped.
For the x86 architectures, the attempt to reach a now unmapped
register is not fatal as it is on PPC.
(Includes "b43: Fix locking problem when stopping rfkill polling". -- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix IRQ mask sanity check for physically pulled device.
Tested-by: Andrew Price <andy@andrewprice.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don't use struct wldev after detach. This fixes an oops on access.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix the following build error when CONFIG_B43_LEDS is not selected:
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c: In function 'b43_remove':
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:4990: error: 'struct b43_leds' has no member named 'stop'
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:4991: error: 'struct b43_leds' has no member named 'work'
make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don't abuse wl->current_dev in the LED work for checking whether we're
going down. Add an explicit variable.
This fixes a crash on rmmod dereferencing the wl->current_dev NULL pointer
in various other places of the driver.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This reduces IRQ pressure by about one third on a saturated link
by disabling the PMQ mechanism. We currently don't use that mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds support for verbose runtime statistics.
It defaults to off and must be enabled in debugfs, if desired.
The first measurement may be incorrect, because statistics are not cleared
after they got enabled through debugfs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
synchronize_irq is meaningless for SDIO. sdio_release_irq will
sync the IRQ thread for us.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We need to release the SDIO host before locking the driver mutex.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds support for Soft-MAC SDIO devices to b43.
The driver still lacks some fixes for SDIO devices, so it's currently
marked as BROKEN.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes most of the b43 suspend/resume code (it's handled by mac80211)
and moves the registration of devices to the attachment phase. This is
required, because we must not register/unregister devices on suspend/resume.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes a resume failure where a signal is pending on resume
so the firmware upload fails.
This removes the interruptible sleep, because we don't really need it.
In the worst case (with broken firmware) the sleep loop will take 1 second.
In the common case (working firmware), it will only take a few milliseconds.
So we don't really need to be interruptible.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Force wake the mac80211 queues on init.
Under rare circumstances they may be stopped, if a DMA error or
something else causes a device reset while a queue was stopped.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes a resume failure where a signal is pending on resume
so the firmware upload fails.
This removes the interruptible sleep, because we don't really need it.
In the worst case (with broken firmware) the sleep loop will take 1 second.
In the common case (working firmware), it will only take a few milliseconds.
So we don't really need to be interruptible.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Force wake the mac80211 queues on init.
Under rare circumstances they may be stopped, if a DMA error or
something else causes a device reset while a queue was stopped.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes some gcc warnings for switch statements.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently, when QoS-disable is requested, we would leave QoS enabled
in firmware, but only queue frames on one queue.
Change that and also tell firmware about disabled QoS, so it
completely ignores all the QoS parameters. Also don't upload the parameters,
if QoS is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes the SHM spinlock.
SHM is protected by wl->mutex.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes the PIO RX work. It's not needed anymore, because
we can sleep in the threaded interrupt handler.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes the TX spinlock and defers TX to a workqueue to allow
locking wl->mutex instead and to allow sleeping for register accesses.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use a threaded IRQ handler to allow locking the mutex and
sleeping while executing an interrupt.
This removes usage of the irq_lock spinlock, but introduces
a new hardirq_lock, which is _only_ used for the PCI/SSB lowlevel
hard-irq handler. Sleeping busses (SDIO) will use mutex instead.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also mark the LP-PHY driver "802.11a/g" instead of "802.11g",
as LP-PHY is capable of both 2GHz and 5GHz operation.
Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The A/G-PHY changes are fallout fixes from the enum change,
which in turn allows the LP-PHY code to be much simpler.
The antenna_to_phyctl change is a fix for a potential
existing bug that this patch may otherwise trigger.
Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This add hardware tkip for b43.
Signed-off-by: Gregor Kowski <gregor.kowski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Over time, a whole bunch of drivers have come up
with their own scheme to delay the configure_filter
operation to a workqueue. To be able to simplify
things, allow configure_filter to sleep, and add
a new prepare_multicast callback that drivers that
need the multicast address list implement. This new
callback must be atomic, but most drivers either
don't care or just calculate a hash which can be
done atomically and then uploaded to the hardware
non-atomically.
A cursory look suggests that at76c50x-usb, ar9170,
mwl8k (which is actually very broken now), rt2x00,
wl1251, wl1271 and zd1211 should make use of this
new capability.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry has reported success getting scan data with an LP-PHY device,
so it's probably time to release LP-PHY support for testing.
Also disable 802.11a support for now, as 802.11a currently causes
the driver to panic on startup (NULL pointer dereference).
Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-Enable rate memory init for LP-PHY (same as G and N-PHY).
-Mark rev.2 LP-PHYs with the B2063 radio as supported.
-Allow using the 5GHz band on LP-PHYs.
Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add support for loading LP-PHY firmware to b43_try_request_fw.
Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The V4 dummy transmission has two extra bools in its prototype,
so update all callers with the 2 bools.
Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes the hardware encryption keys index and array size handling.
Thanks to Gregor Kowski for reporting this issue.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The tkip hw support uncovered a bug in b43_write_probe_resp_template : it is
writing at the wrong shm offset, it is in the B43_SHM_SH_TKIPTSCTTAK
zone. Remove b43_write_probe_resp_template, b43_write_probe_resp_plcp
and b43_write_probe_resp_plcp because the probe response offload is
currently not supported by mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Gregor Kowski <gregor.kowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The tkip hw support uncovered a bug in b43_write_probe_resp_template : it is
writing at the wrong shm offset, it is in the B43_SHM_SH_TKIPTSCTTAK zone. This
patch comments these writes.
Signed-off-by: Gregor Kowski <gregor.kowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
John W. Linville