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Author SHA1 Message Date
Adel Gadllah c8406ea8fa iwlwifi: Silence tfds_in_queue message
Commit a239a8b47c introduced a
noisy message, that fills up the log very fast.

The error seems not to be fatal (the connection is stable and
performance is ok), so make it IWL_DEBUG_TX rather than IWL_ERR.

Signed-off-by: Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-16 15:20:43 -04:00
John W. Linville be41f5c7e3 Merge branch 'wireless-2.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6 2010-02-26 16:58:18 -05:00
John W. Linville 64463da913 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	net/mac80211/rate.c
2010-02-26 16:54:45 -05:00
Abhijeet Kolekar 89612124d6 iwlwifi: increase command buffer size
Increase the buffer size for commands with "huge"
bit set. This has been recently observed for 6050 cards where
for even with huge bit set few commands were not properly allocated
memory with the command overwriting the buffer allocated for it..
Also add a check to see if command size exceeds the
maximum allowable size.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-23 14:59:12 -08:00
Stanislaw Gruszka a120e912eb iwlwifi: sanity check before counting number of tfds can be free
Check the frame control for ieee80211_is_data_qos() is true before
counting the number of tfds can be free, the tfds_in_queue only
increment when ieee80211_is_data_qos() is true before transmit; so it
should only decrement if the type match.

Remove ieee80211_is_data_qos check for frame_ctrl in tx_resp to avoid
invalid information pass from uCode.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-22 11:15:50 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy a239a8b47c iwlwifi: error checking for number of tfds in queue
When receive reply_tx and ready to decrement the count for number of
tfds in queue, do error checking to prevent error condition and
tfds_in_queue become negative number.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-22 11:15:50 -05:00
Reinette Chatre d2dfe6df75 iwlwifi: enable serialization of synchronous commands
Until now it was only possible to have one synchronous command running at
any time. If a synchronous command is in progress when a second request
arrives then the second command will fail. Create a new mutex specific for
this purpose to only allow one synchronous command at a time, but enable
other commands to wait instead of fail if a synchronous command is in
progress.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:49 -05:00
Stanislaw Gruszka f36d04abe6 iwlwifi: use dma_alloc_coherent
Change pci_alloc_consistent() to dma_alloc_coherent() so we can use
GFP_KERNEL flag.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:27:18 -08:00
Abhijeet Kolekar 7bfedc59ee iwlwifi: cleanup return values
Cleanup return values and removes unnecessary code.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:31 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy 45d427001b iwlwifi: check for aggregation frame and queue
Error checking for aggregation frames should go into aggregation queue,
if aggregation queue not available, use legacy queue instead.
Also make sure the aggregation queue is available to activate,
if driver and mac80211 is out-of-sync, try to disable the queue and
sync-up with mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
2010-02-11 10:26:10 -08:00
Reinette Chatre 1f44780827 iwlwifi: update copyright year to 2010
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-01-19 16:25:15 -05:00
akpm@linux-foundation.org 77ca7d9e2c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c: fix gcc-3.4.5 warning
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c: In function `iwl_hw_txq_ctx_free':
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c:410: warning: suggest explicit braces to avoid ambiguous `else'

Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21 11:32:22 -05:00
John W. Linville 9b1cb21c36 iwlwifi: fix warning from ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe argument change
CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.o
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c: In function ‘iwl_tx_agg_stop’:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c:1356: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe’ from incompatible pointer type
include/net/mac80211.h:2128: note: expected ‘struct ieee80211_vif *’ but argument is of type ‘struct ieee80211_hw *’

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-07 16:40:05 -05:00
David S. Miller ff9c38bba3 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/mac80211/ht.c
2009-12-01 22:13:38 -08:00
Johannes Berg 827d42c9ac mac80211: fix spurious delBA handling
Lennert Buytenhek noticed that delBA handling in mac80211
was broken and has remotely triggerable problems, some of
which are due to some code shuffling I did that ended up
changing the order in which things were done -- this was

  commit d75636ef9c
  Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
  Date:   Tue Feb 10 21:25:53 2009 +0100

    mac80211: RX aggregation: clean up stop session

and other parts were already present in the original

  commit d92684e660
  Author: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
  Date:   Mon Jan 28 14:07:22 2008 +0200

      mac80211: A-MPDU Tx add delBA from recipient support

The first problem is that I moved a BUG_ON before various
checks -- thereby making it possible to hit. As the comment
indicates, the BUG_ON can be removed since the ampdu_action
callback must already exist when the state is != IDLE.

The second problem isn't easily exploitable but there's a
race condition due to unconditionally setting the state to
OPERATIONAL when a delBA frame is received, even when no
aggregation session was ever initiated. All the drivers
accept stopping the session even then, but that opens a
race window where crashes could happen before the driver
accepts it. Right now, a WARN_ON may happen with non-HT
drivers, while the race opens only for HT drivers.

For this case, there are two things necessary to fix it:
 1) don't process spurious delBA frames, and be more careful
    about the session state; don't drop the lock

 2) HT drivers need to be prepared to handle a session stop
    even before the session was really started -- this is
    true for all drivers (that support aggregation) but
    iwlwifi which can be fixed easily. The other HT drivers
    (ath9k and ar9170) are behaving properly already.

Reported-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-30 13:55:51 -05:00
David S. Miller 4ba3eb034f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-11-24 15:01:29 -08:00
Wey-Yi Guy 2d237f71b0 iwlwifi: change message for cmd queue full error
Change error message for command queue full

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-23 17:05:37 -05:00
David S. Miller 3505d1a9fd Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/sfc/sfe4001.c
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c
	drivers/staging/Kconfig
	drivers/staging/Makefile
	drivers/staging/rtl8187se/Kconfig
	drivers/staging/rtl8192e/Kconfig
2009-11-18 22:19:03 -08:00
Johannes Berg c951ad3550 mac80211: convert aggregation to operate on vifs/stas
The entire aggregation code currently operates on the
hw pointer and station addresses, but that needs to
change to make stations purely per-vif; As one step
preparing for that make the aggregation code callable
with the station, or by the combination of virtual
interface and station address.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:15 -05:00
Johannes Berg 6ab10ff873 iwlwifi: handle unicast PS buffering
Using the new mac80211 functionality, this makes
iwlwifi handle unicast PS buffering correctly.
The device works like this:

 * when a station goes to sleep, the microcode notices
   this and marks the station as asleep
 * when the station is marked asleep, the microcode
   refuses to transmit to the station and rejects all
   frames queued to it with the failure status code
   TX_STATUS_FAIL_DEST_PS (a previous patch handled
   this correctly)
 * when we need to send frames to the station _although_
   it is asleep, we need to tell the ucode how many,
   and this is asynchronous with sending so we cannot
   just send the frames, we need to wait for all other
   frames to be flushed, and then update the counter
   before sending out the poll response frames. This
   is handled partially in the driver and partially in
   mac80211.

In order to do all this correctly, we need to
 * keep track of how many frames are pending for each
   associated client station (avoid doing it for other
   stations to avoid the atomic ops)
 * tell mac80211 that we driver-block the PS status
   while there are still frames pending on the queues,
   and once they are all rejected (due to the dest sta
   being in PS) unblock mac80211

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:08 -05:00
Ben Cahill 309e731a61 iwlwifi: MAC_ACCESS_REQ cleanup
Add txq_id info to "Tx queue requesting wakeup" debug message

Add "Rx queue requesting wakeup" debug message

Move clear of CSR_GP_CNTRL_REG_FLAG_MAC_ACCESS_REQ to be after nearby
iwl_write_prph(), since iwl_write_prph() sets it and clears it.  Almost
removed it entirely, but just making sure in case someone removes the
iwl_write_prph()!  Also remove unneeded priv->lock usage; this is now
handled by priv->reg_lock within iwl_clear_bit().

Join a couple of lines that had unneeded line returns.

Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-11 15:23:48 -05:00
Johannes Berg 1a716557a5 iwlwifi: fix FIFO vs. queue confusion
When I added that code setting the swq_id, I evidently
did not understand the distinction between FIFO and TX
queue yet and added code to compare a queue ID and a
FIFO number, which is bogus.

However, the code there need not be this specific, it
can just set all queues to the identity mapping which
will be overwritten by the aggregation queue code. As
a bit of defensive coding, don't assign an swq_id to
the command queue so that if we ever use it for frames
we notice quickly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-11 15:23:43 -05:00
Reinette Chatre f2f21b4928 iwlwifi: print warning when sending host command fails
More information than the "-EIO" return code will be useful here.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-02 15:39:47 -05:00
Reinette Chatre c33de6256a iwlwifi: unmap memory before use
Handling responses to driver originated commands include passing the
original command buffer to the caller. At this time it is possible for a
callback to be invoked that is passed this command buffer and thus likely
to access it.

We need to make sure that the memory associated with that buffer is not DMA
mapped at the time.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-02 15:39:46 -05:00
Wey-Yi Guy 71c55d90f9 iwlwifi: remove unused parameters
parameters "len" is not used in both iwl_tx_queue_free() and
iwl_cmd_queue_free() functions

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:50:02 -04:00
Zhu Yi 2f301227a1 iwlwifi: use paged Rx
This switches the iwlwifi driver to use paged skb from linear skb for Rx
buffer. So that it relieves some Rx buffer allocation pressure for the
memory subsystem. Currently iwlwifi (4K for 3945) requests 8K bytes for
Rx buffer. Due to the trailing skb_shared_info in the skb->data,
alloc_skb() will do the next order allocation, which is 16K bytes. This
is suboptimal and more likely to fail when the system is under memory
usage pressure. Switching to paged Rx skb lets us allocate the RXB
directly by alloc_pages(), so that only order 1 allocation is required.

It also adjusts the area spin_lock (with IRQ disabled) protected in the
tasklet because tasklet guarentees to run only on one CPU and the new
unprotected code can be preempted by the IRQ handler. This saves us from
spawning another workqueue to make skb_linearize/__pskb_pull_tail happy
(which cannot be called in hard irq context).

Finally, mac80211 doesn't support paged Rx yet. So we linearize the skb
for all the management frames and software decryption or defragmentation
required data frames before handed to mac80211. For all the other frames,
we __pskb_pull_tail 64 bytes in the linear area of the skb for mac80211
to handle them properly.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:06 -04:00
Abhijeet Kolekar 1f0436f470 iwlwifi/iwl3945: remove data_retry_limit
Remove the ununsed variable data_retry_limit
from priv.

Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kolekar <abhijeet.kolekar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:48:00 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy 88804e2b33 iwlwifi: dynamic allocate tx queue structure
Instead of always allocate the max number of tx queue structure,
use dynamic allocation based on the number of queues in device
configuration. With these changes, device does not have to allocate more
memory than the h/w can support.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-27 16:47:59 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan d43c36dc6b headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h
After m68k's task_thread_info() doesn't refer to current,
it's possible to remove sched.h from interrupt.h and not break m68k!
Many thanks to Heiko Carstens for allowing this.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
Johannes Berg be1a71a128 iwlwifi: device tracing
In order to have an easier way to debug issues, create
trace events (using the ftrace framework) that will
allow us to follow exactly what the driver is doing
with the device.

The text format isn't all that useful, but the binary
format can also be obtained easily via debugfs and
then analysed on the fly or offline with debugging
tools.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:44 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy 7812b16730 iwlwifi: reliable entering of critical temperature state
When uCode detects critical temperature it should send "card state
notification" interrupt to driver and then shut itself down to prevent
overheating. There is a race condition where uCode shuts down before it
can deliver the interrupt to driver.
Additional method provided here for driver to enter CT_KILL state based
on temperature reading.

How it works:
Method 1:
If driver receive "card state notification" interrupt from uCode; it
enters "CT_KILL" state immediately

Method 2:
If the last temperature report by Card reach Critical temperature,
driver will send "statistic notification" request to uCode to verify the
temperature reading, if driver can not get reply from uCode within
300ms, driver will enter CT_KILL state automatically.

Method 3:
If the last temperature report by Card did not reach Critical
temperature, but uCode already shut down due to critical temperature.
All the host commands send to uCode will not get process by uCode;
when command queue reach the limit, driver will check the last reported
temperature reading, if it is within pre-defined margin, enter "CT_KILL"
state immediately. In this case, when uCode ready to exit from "CT_KILL" state,
driver need to restart the adapter in order to reset all the queues and
resume normal operation.

One additional issue being address here, when system is in CT_KILL
state, both tx and rx already stopped, but driver still can send host
command to uCode, it will flood the command queue since card was not
responding; adding STATUS_CT_KILL flag to reject enqueue host commands
to uCode if it is in CT_KILL state, when uCode is ready to come out of
CT_KILL, driver will clear  the STATUS_CT_KILL bit and allow enqueue the host
commands to uCode to recover from CT_KILL state.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:44 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin 91a55ae601 iwlwifi: do not clear TX info flags when receiving BlockAckResponse
OR-in AMPDU flags rather than assigning them.  This lets the TX status for
aggregated packets be processed by rs_tx_status.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-07 16:39:34 -04:00
Reinette Chatre 2814298639 iwlwifi: fix memory leak in command queue handling
Also free the array of command pointers and meta data of each
command buffer when command queue is freed.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-28 16:55:04 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin b58ef214b7 iwlwifi: remove incorrect uses of ieee80211_get_tx_rate to prevent TX stall
Refactor and correct rate selection for outgoing transmitted
packets.

First, note that HT rates in the mac80211 rate table do not provide valid
indices when ieee80211_get_tx_rate is called; the check to see if we could to
abort a transmission early in iwl_tx_skb() would thus occasionally read invalid
memory and occasionally stall transmission (if the erroneous byte was 0xff).
We remove that code; the check wasn't valid anyway.

Second, iwl_tx_cmd_build_rate() also called ieee80211_get_tx_rate to be used
for sending management packets, which do not use the uCode station table.  This
patch refactors that function and adds comments to enhance legibility, replaces
the call to ieee80211_get_tx_rate() with a direct lookup, and adds error
handling in case the table entry is invalid.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-31 14:42:09 -04:00
Gábor Stefanik aa065263ec iwlwifi: Make injection of non-broadcast frames work again
Commit 1ccb84d87d04df3c76cd4352fe69786d8c7cf016 by Wey-Yi Guy
("iwlwifi: clean up unused NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR for Monitor mode")
broke injection of non-broadcast frames to unassociated stations
(causing a SYSASSERT for all such injected frames), due to injected
frames no longer automatically getting a broadcast station ID assigned.
This patch restores the old behavior, fixing the aforementioned
regression.

Also, consistently check for IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED instead of
iwl_is_monitor_mode in the TX path, as TX_CTL_INJECTED specifically
means that a given packet is coming from a monitor interface, while
iwl_is_monitor_mode only shows whether a monitor interface exists
on the device.

Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-28 14:40:36 -04:00
Reinette Chatre e6a6cf4c42 iwlwifi: prevent read outside array bounds
With EDCA and HCCA we have 16 potential tid values. This is accommodated by
mac80211, but iwlwifi only supports EDCA. With this implementation it is
thus possible for mac80211 to request a tid that will cause iwlwifi to read
outside array bounds. A similar problem exists if traffic is received in an
unsupported category.

We add error checking to catch these situations.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:33:09 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy 22fdf3c9e1 iwlwifi: Traffic type and counter for debugFs
Break down the traffic type and counter for both Tx and Rx.
Enhance the tx_statistics and rx_statistics debugfs function and move
to /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/iwlagn/debug directory to help
better debugging both driver and uCode related problems.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:47 -04:00
Wey-Yi Guy 20594eb0da iwlwifi: new debugging feature for dumping data traffic
The traffic buffer will only beallocated and used if either bit 23
(IWL_DX_TX) or bit 24 (IWL_DL_RX) of "debug" is set;
example: "debug=0x800000" - log tx data traffic
         "debug=0x1000000" - log rx data traffic
         "debug=0x1800000" - log both tx and rx traffic

The traffic log will store the beginning portion (64 bytes)  of the
latest 256 of tx and rx packets in the round-robbin buffer for
debugging,
user can examine the log through debugfs file.

How to display the current logged tx/rx traffic and txfifo and rxfifo
read/write point:
"cat traffic_log" in /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/iwlagn/debug
directory

By echo "0" to traffic_log file will empty the traffic log buffer and
reset both tx and rx taffic log index to 0.

Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:46 -04:00
Reinette Chatre 3d816c77ec iwlwifi: re-introduce per device debugging
Commit "iwlwifi: make debug level more user friendly" cleaned up the
debug level handling. In doing so it created a single global debug
level for all devices. Some setups do consits of more that one iwlwifi
device and in these setups there is a requirement that debug levels
should be unique per device.

We now re-introduce the per device debugging while maintaining the
cleanup effort of the previous patch.

The maintain the global debug level and now introduce a per-device debug
level that will be used if it (the per-device debug level) is set. The
per-device debug level can be controlled via the debug_level sysfs file
while the global debug level is controlled by the debug module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-14 09:13:46 -04:00
Daniel C Halperin 8ce73f3abd iwlwifi: clear iwl_cmd_meta structure before use
Resolve an issue in which out-dated fields in iwl_cmd_meta
could be used for later hardware commands.

Signed-off-by: Daniel C Halperin <daniel.c.halperin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-04 16:44:22 -04:00
David S. Miller 2f6d7c1b34 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2009-07-30 19:26:55 -07:00
David S. Miller df597efb57 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.h
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-tx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2009-07-30 19:22:43 -07:00
Reinette Chatre ec74116487 iwlwifi: print packet contents in error case
This data is more useful to debugging that the receive
buffer contents.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27 15:24:22 -04:00
Johannes Berg 5696aea6f2 iwlwifi: remove command callback return value
No existing callbacks use anything other than the return
value 1, which means that the caller should free the
reply skb, so it seems safer in terms of not introducing
memory leaks to simply remove the return value and let
the caller always free the skb.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27 15:24:22 -04:00
Johannes Berg c2acea8e9b iwlwifi: fix up command sending
The current command sending in iwlwifi is a bit of a mess:
 1) there is a struct, iwl_cmd, that contains both driver
    and device data in a single packed structure -- this
    is very confusing
 2) the on-stack data and the command metadata share a
    structure by embedding the latter in the former, which
    is also rather confusing because it leads to weird
    unions and similarly odd constructs
 3) each txq always has enough space for 256 commands,
    even if only 32 end up being used

This patch fixes these things:
 1) rename iwl_cmd to iwl_device_cmd and keep track of
    command metadata and device command separately, in
    two arrays in each tx queue
 2) remove the 'meta' member from iwl_host_cmd and only
    put in the required members
 3) allocate the cmd/meta arrays separately instead of
    embedding them into the txq structure

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27 15:24:21 -04:00
Roel Kluin 082e708acc iwlwifi: Read outside array bounds
tid is bounded (above) by the size of default_tid_to_tx_fifo (17 elements), but
the size of priv->stations[].tid[] is MAX_TID_COUNT (9) elements.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27 15:19:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg 3995bd9332 iwlwifi: fix TX queue race
I had a problem on 4965 hardware (well, probably other hardware too,
but others don't survive my stress testing right now, unfortunately)
where the driver was sending invalid commands to the device, but no
such thing could be seen from the driver's point of view. I could
reproduce this fairly easily by sending multiple TCP streams with
iperf on different TIDs, though sometimes a single iperf stream was
sufficient. It even happened with a single core, but I have forced
preemption turned on.

The culprit was a queue overrun, where we advanced the queue's write
pointer over the read pointer. After careful analysis I've come to
the conclusion that the cause is a race condition between iwlwifi
and mac80211.

mac80211, of course, checks whether the queue is stopped, before
transmitting a frame. This effectively looks like this:

        lock(queues)
        if (stopped(queue)) {
                unlock(queues)
                return busy;
	}
        unlock(queues)
        ...             <-- this place will be important
			    there is some more code here
        drv_tx(frame)

The driver, on the other hand, can stop and start queues, which does

        lock(queues)
        mark_running/stopped(queue)
        unlock(queues)

	[if marked running: wake up tasklet to send pending frames]

Now, however, once the driver starts the queue, mac80211 can see that
and end up at the marked place above, at which point for some reason the
driver seems to stop the queue again (I don't understand that) and then
we end up transmitting while the queue is actually full.

Now, this shouldn't actually matter much, but for some reason I've seen
it happen multiple times in a row and the queue actually overflows, at
which point the queue bites itself in the tail and things go completely
wrong.

This patch fixes this by just dropping the packet should this have
happened, and making the lock in iwlwifi cover everything so iwlwifi
can't race against itself (dropping the lock there might make it more
likely, but it did seem to happen without that too).

Since we can't hold the lock across drv_tx() above, I see no way to fix
this in mac80211, but I also don't understand why I haven't seen this
before -- maybe I just never stress tested it this badly.

With this patch, the device has survived many minutes of simultanously
sending two iperf streams on different TIDs with combined throughput
of about 60 Mbps.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-27 15:19:34 -04:00
Reinette Chatre 4c423a2b0c iwlwifi: inform user about rfkill state changes
rfkill state changes are mostly available through debug messages.
These are significant enough to always make user aware of so
we turn them into warnings.

Also insert a missing newline in some rfkill related debug message.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:26 -04:00
Reinette Chatre a562a9dda7 iwlwifi: make debug level more user friendly
* Deprecate the "debug50" module parameter used to obtain
  5000 series and up debugging. Replace it with "debug" module
  parameter to match with original driver and be consistent
  between them. The "debug50" module parameter can still be used,
  except that the module parameter is not writable in keeping
  with its previous state. We currently just mark it as "deprecated"
  and do not have it in the feature-removal-schedule. Some more
  cleanup of module parameters needs to be done and can then be
  entered together.

* Only make "debug" module parameters visible if the driver
  is compiled with CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG. This will eliminate
  a lot of confusion where users think they have set debug flags
  but yet cannot see any debug output.

* Make module parameters writable. This eliminates the need for the
  "debug_level" sysfs file, which can now also be deprecated and
  added to feature-removal-schedule. This file is in significant
  use though with many iwlwifi documents and text referring users
  to it. We can thus not take its removal lightly and keep it around.

With iwlcore shared between iwlagn and iwl3945 we really do not need
debug module parameters for each but can instead have one debug
module parameter for the iwlcore module. The same issue is here as
with the sysfs file - a lot of iwlwifi documentation and text (like
bug reports) rely on iwlagn and iwl3945 having this module parameter,
so changing this to a module parameter of iwlcore will have significant
impact and we do not do this for that reason.

One consequence of this patch is that if a user is running a system
with both 3945 and later hardware then the setting of the one module
parameter will affect the value of the other. The likelihood of this
seems low - and even if this setup is present it does not seem like an
issue for both modules to run with the same debug level.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-24 15:05:25 -04:00
David S. Miller 74d154189d Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/netdev.c
	net/wireless/scan.c
2009-07-23 19:03:51 -07:00