Cleanup aggregation start/stop function interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Update tx BA window and complete the frame as failed
one if we can't clone the holding descriptor due to
unavailability of descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
oops, this one should be part of the original patch
"ath9k: downgrade assert in ath_clone_txbuf()"
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
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>
We can easily run out of tx buf if there is any stuck in
transmission, so downgrade it to WARN_ON().
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 already has one to keep track of number of failure
addba attempts.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_AMPDU in tx control flags should be enough
to confirm BA is negotiated for that tid.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When we reclaim the tx desc, we always assume that the
last desc is a holding desc, which is not true, and skip it.
If the tx queue is drained during channel change, internal
reset and etc, the last descriptor may not be the holding
descriptor and we fail to reclaim them. This results in the
following two issues.
1. Tx stuck - We drop all the frames coming from upper layer
due to shortage in tx desc.
2. Crash - If we fail to reclaim a tx descriptor, we miss to
update the tx BA window with the seq number of the frame
associated to that desc, which, at some point, result in
the following crash due to an assert failure in ath_tx_addto_baw().
This patch fixes these two issues.
kernel BUG at ../drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:180!
[155064.304164] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Call Trace:
[<fbc6d83b>] ? ath9k_tx+0xeb/0x160 [ath9k]
[<fbbc9591>] ipv6? __ieee80211_tx+0x41/0x120 [mac80211]
[<fbbcb5ae>] ? aes_i586ieee80211_master_start_xmit+0x28e/0x560 [mac80211]
[<c037e501>] aes_generic? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x31/0x40
[<c02f347b>] ? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x16b/0x1c0
[<c03058b5>] ? __qdisc_run+0x1b5/0x200
[<fbbcda5a>] ? af_packetieee80211_select_queue+0xa/0x100 [mac80211]
[<c02f53b7>] ? i915dev_queue_xmit+0x2e7/0x3f0
[<fbbc9b49>] ? ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x369/0x7a0 [mac80211]
[<c031bc35>] ? ip_output+0x55/0xb0
[<c02e0188>] ? show_memcpy_count+0x18/0x60
[<c02eb186>] ? __kfree_skb+0x36/0x90
[<c02f2202>] ? binfmt_miscdev_queue_xmit_nit+0xd2/0x110
[<c02f347b>] ? dev_hard_start_xmit+0x16b/0x1c0
[<c03058b5>] ? __qdisc_run+0x1b5/0x200
[<c033bca7>] ? scoarp_create+0x57/0x2a0
[<c02f53b7>] ? bridgedev_queue_xmit+0x2e7/0x3f0
[<c03034a0>] ? eth_header+0x0/0xc0
[<c033b95f>] stp? arp_xmit+0x5f/0x70
[<c033bf4f>] ? arp_send+0x5f/0x70
[<c033c8f5>] bnep? arp_solicit+0x105/0x210
[<c02fa5aa>] ? neigh_timer_handler+0x19a/0x390
[<c013bf88>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x138/0x210
[<c02fa410>] ? ppdevneigh_timer_handler+0x0/0x390
[<c02fa410>] ? neigh_timer_handler+0x0/0x390
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch along with my previous patch in mac80211 "Fix the
way ADDBA count..", fixes hang in tx when connected to an HT
AP which rejects/times out on addba req.
AGGR_ADDBA_PROGRESS should be cleared in aggr state when addba
negotiation is terminated due to either addba response is timed out
or addba is denied by the AP. With out clearing this bit,
all frames are queued onto s/w queue for getting tx'd as aggr and
will never be scheduled onto hw queue.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When using timeout=0 (PS-Poll) with mac80211, the driver will need to
wake up for TX requests and remain awake until the TX has been
completed (ACK received or timeout) or until the buffer frame(s) have
been received (in case the TX is for a PS-Poll frame).
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On x86 this allows us to do the following small savings:
shave off 23 % off of the module's data, and
shave off 6 % off of the module's text.
We save 456 bytes, for those counting.
$ size ath9k.ko
text data bss dec hex filename
250794 3628 1600 256022 3e816 ath9k.ko
$ size ath9k-old.ko
text data bss dec hex filename
239114 15308 1600 256022 3e816 ath9k-old.ko
$ du -b ath9k.ko
4034244 ath9k.ko
$ du -b ath9k-old.ko
4033788 ath9k-old.ko
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We currently have two beacon interval configuration knobs:
hw.conf.beacon_int and vif.bss_info.beacon_int. This is
rather confusing, even though the former is used when we
beacon ourselves and the latter when we are associated to
an AP.
This just deprecates the hw.conf.beacon_int setting in favour
of always using vif.bss_info.beacon_int. Since it touches all
the beaconing IBSS code anyway, we can also add support for
the cfg80211 IBSS beacon interval configuration easily.
NOTE: The hw.conf.beacon_int setting is retained for now due
to drivers still using it -- I couldn't untangle all
drivers, some are updated in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The driver-specific region has to be freed in case
of a DMA mapping failure.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sujith