Reusing the configured retry counts from the skb cb is more efficient than
reloading the data from uncached memory.
Replace ts_longretry (unused) with ts_final_retry which contains the retry
count for the final rate only
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use ACCESS_ONCE to reduce the number of redundant loads on uncached memory
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use ACCESS_ONCE to reduce the number of variable reloads on uncached memory
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is no longer necessary for preparing mac80211 tx status
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use local variables to reduce the number of load/store operations on uncached
memory.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Set the slot time based on the mac80211 short slot vs long slot setting
instead of just forcing long slot for all CCK-enabled channels.
This slightly improves 802.11g mode performance in in my tests.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath5k uses 8 usec as a sifs time, extracted from the initvals, whereas the
standard requires a sifs time of 10. The difference originates from the fact
that the SIFS register has an offset of 2 usec.
Fix the SIFS time definition to use the standard value of 10 usec and subtract
2 usecs when writing the SIFS register.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subtract the difference in preamble duration (in usec) from the value
returned by ieee80211_generic_frame_duration.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
During normal operation, minstrel was showing suspicious EWMA probabilities
exceeding 100%. It looks like the tx status reporting in ath5k was not
properly clearing the rate index for rates which were never attempted.
This is caused by uninitialized stale data in the on-stack tx status
information, which is reused when more frames are received.
To fix this, rely on ts->ts_final_idx to select the last attempted rate,
instead of checking whether ts->ts_rate is set.
Additionally, the conversion from the driver rate index back to the
mac80211 rate index can be dropped, as the mac80211 tx status will still
have the original rate index which was used to set up the descriptor.
Additionally, one more inaccuracy was fixed - the final rate attempt
count only needs to be increased by one if the transmission attempt was
successful.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The ath5k driver does kmalloc allocations for pcal info in a loop.
But, if one fails it was simply returning -ENOMEM without freeing
already allocated memory. This patch corrects that oversight.
Reported-by: Eugene A. Shatokhin <dame_eugene@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Fix checkpatch errors and warnings comprising of indent errors, spaces and
__packed warnings. Also fix 'make C = 2' warnings.
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Older versions have not been sold and the driver does not explicitly
check for them anyway, so we can simply ignore the macRev here.
Reduces ath9k_hw size on mips by more than 2 KB.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add station connected time in debugfs. This will be helpful to get a
measure of stability of the connection and for debugging stress issues
Cc: Senthilkumar Balasubramanian <Senthilkumar.Balasubramanian@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit "ath9k: configure beacons based on hw opmode" introduced
a regression which leads to kernel panic. Failed to stop ani timer
during the driver unload while any of the beaconing vif is running.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Update Tx gain 23 for all tx gain table.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Export RSSI information from all the control and extension
channel chains to debugfs. Also add rx antenna information
to debugfs. This will be useful for debugging purpose.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also, advertise support for mesh authentication.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Notify userspace when a beacon/presp is received from a suitable mesh
peer candidate for whom no sta information exists. Userspace can then
decide to create a sta info for the candidate. If userspace is not
ready to authenticate the peer right away, it can create the sta info
with the authenticated flag unset and set it later.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Modify the NEW_STATION command to accept PLINK_ACTIONS, in case
userspace wants to create stations and initiate a peer link right away
(for authenticated stations) or create a blocked station (for
debugging).
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
During mesh setup, use NL80211_MESH_SETUP_USERSPACE_AUTH flag to create
a secure mesh and route management frames to userspace.
Also, NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY now returns a flag NL80211_SUPPORT_MESH_AUTH
if the wiphy's mesh implementation supports routing of mesh auth frames
to userspace. This is useful for forward compatibility between old
kernels and new userspace tools.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To NL80211_MESH_SETUP_IE. This reflects our ability to insert any ie
into a mesh beacon, not simply path selection ies.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
iwl4965_rate_control_register() prints a message at KERN_ERR level. It
looks like it's just a debugging message, so pr_err() seems to be
overdone. But none of the similar functions in drivers/net/wireless
print a message, so let's just drop it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
rx should only be enabled after enough rx buffers have been given to the
hardware, however ath_rx_buf_link was calling ath9k_hw_rxena after every
single added buffer.
Fix this by calling ath9k_hw_rxena directly from the rx tasklet after
completion instead.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I can't find any valid reason for not setting the ATH9K_RX_FILTER_PSPOLL
flag on older hardware and neither the documentation nor the reference
code mention any reason for excluding older hardware here.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of having separate key information definitions for
each type of key, a common key information bitmap is used.
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Before calling host_to_card() to send the cmd to firmware,
we use skb_push() to add 4 bytes SDIO interface header at
the start of the data buffer. Since cmd_skb data structure
will be re-used at a later time, we need to restore its
headroom by removing the 4 bytes header.
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Yang <yangyang@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The problem is that when the attenuation is increased,
the rate will start to drop from MCS7 -> MCS6, and finally
will see MCS1 -> CCK_11Mbps. When the rate is changed b/w
CCK and OFDM, it will use register desired_scale to calculate
how much tx gain need to change.
The output power with the same tx gain for CCK and OFDM modulated
signals are different. This difference is constant for AR9280
but not AR9285/AR9271. It has different PA architecture
a constant. So it should be calibrated against this PA
characteristic.
The driver has to read the calibrated values from EEPROM and set
the tx power registers accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This function returns true if there is atleast one frame
in any one of the tx queues.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In a highly noisy environment, the tx rate of the driver drops and
the application slows down since it has not yet received ACKs for
the frames already queued in the hardware. Since this ACK may take
more than 100ms, stopping the dev queues for entering PS at this
stage breaks applications, WMM test cases in my testing.
If there are frames already pending in the tx queue, postponing the
PS logic helps to avoid redundant queue stops. When power save is
enabled by default and in a noisy environment, this API certainly
helps in improving the average throughput.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If we maintain API properly, then there isn't
really a reason to warn about this since we'll
just be adding things that are safe to ignore,
so downgrade the warning to debug info level.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
There's no need to keep both normal and BT statistics
versions around all the time in memory when we only
use a subset of both. So keep only the subsets that
we need in memory, depending on the debug config).
Also, in doing so, we can remove all the calls to
iwl_bt_statistics() in the driver as we'll just
access the copied statistics now.
Finally, also remove this call from the one place
where it might still be needed and automatically
detect what kind of statistics the device is sending
based on their size. This way, we don't need to keep
track of which devices do what any more, which is
good since this is subject to change based on the
ucode version (as some ucode even for non-BT devices
will in fact use BT statistics).
Warn upon encountering a statistics command from the
ucode that isn't known, so we will find such issues
earlier in the future.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
If change_interface gets invoked during a firmware
restart, it may crash; prevent that from happening
by checking if ctx->vif is assigned.
Additionally, in my initial commit I forgot to set
the vif->p2p variable correctly, so fix that too.
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The microcode may sometimes reject TX frames when
on a radar channel even after we associated as it
clears information during association and needs to
receive a new beacon before allowing that channel
again. This manifests itself as a TX status value
of TX_STATUS_FAIL_PASSIVE_NO_RX. So in this case,
stop the corresponding queue and give the frame
back to mac80211 for retransmission. We start the
queue again when a beacon from the AP is received
which will make the regulatory enforcement in the
device allow transmitting again.
Signed-off-by: Garen Tamrazian <garenx.tamrazian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
define of firmware filenames use extra macro to build the files name.
Signed-off-by: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Felix Fietkau