The ath9k rate control algorithm has various architectural
issues that make it a poor fit in scenarios like congested
environments etc.
An example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927191
Change the default to minstrel which is more robust in such cases.
The ath9k RC code is left in the driver for now, maybe it can
be removed altogether later on.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Almost all the DMA issues which have plagued ath9k (in station mode)
for years are related to PS. Disabling PS usually "fixes" the user's
connection stablility. Reports of DMA problems are still trickling in
and are sitting in the kernel bugzilla. Until the PS code in ath9k is
given a thorough review, disbale it by default. The slight increase
in chip power consumption is a small price to pay for improved link
stability.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The only card with which WoW has been tested and verified is
AR9462. Do not enable it for all cards since WoW is really quirky
and needs to be tested properly with each chip.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch make use of STBC flag in DMA RX descriptor.
Only devices after ar9280 can provide this information.
If card support it we will set HAVE_STBC flag, to show
clint programm thet STBC is supported but not received.
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This option has not been enabled by default in any
distribution, has never been enabled in OpenWrt and no developer
has asked for this information in a bug report.
Dumping pages of random values doesn't help debugging,
remove this option (along with the vmalloc() abuse).
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The DFS pattern detector was initially planned to reside on
a higher layer and used generic pr_*() logging functions.
Being part of ath9k, use ath_dbg() instead and make DFS log
ouput selectable via ATH_DBG_DFS (0x20000) at runtime.
This patch does not contain functional modifications.
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These are the remaining knobs in ath9k to support DFS:
* mark AR9280 and AR9580 as DFS tested
* synchronize DFS regulatory domain to reg notifyer
* set required RX filter flags for radar detection
* process radar PHY errors at DFS detector
* notify DFS master on radar detection
DFS support requires CONFIG_ATH9K_DFS_CERTIFIED to be set.
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The relay file depends on relayfs. Trying to close this file without having
ATH9K_DEBUGFS (and therefore RELAY) activated causes build failures.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Export the various parameters to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The reg_notifier()'s return value need not be checked
as it is only supposed to do post regulatory work and
that should never fail. Any behaviour to regulatory
that needs to be considered before cfg80211 does work
to a driver should be specified by using the already
existing flags, the reg_notifier() just does post
processing should it find it needs to.
Also make lbs_reg_notifier static.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
[move lbs_reg_notifier to not break compile]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Adds the spectral scan feature for ath9k. AR92xx and AR93xx chips
are supported for now. The spectral scan is triggered by configuring
a mode through a debugfs control file. Samples can be gathered via
another relay debugfs file.
Essentially, to try it out:
echo chanscan > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/spectral_scan_ctl
iw dev wlan0 scan
cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/spectral_scan0 > samples
echo disable > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/spectral_scan_ctl
This feature is still experimental.
The special "chanscan" mode is used to perform spectral scan while
mac80211 is scanning for channels. To allow this,
sw_scan_start/complete() ops have been added.
The patch contains code snippets and information from Zefir Kurtisi and
information provided by Adrian Chadd and Felix Fietkau.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Due to my recent commit (ath9k: allow to load EEPROM
content via firmware API) smatch complains about that
the 'pdata' variable in 'ath9k_hw_init' can be NULL
and it is dereferenced before checking that. That is
absolutely correct.
Check the 'pdata' variable before using it to avoid
a NULL pointer dereference.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The calibration data for devices w/o a separate
EEPROM chip can be specified via the 'eeprom_data'
field of 'ath9k_platform_data'. The 'eeprom_data'
is usually filled from board specific setup
functions. It is easy if the EEPROM data is mapped
to the memory, but it can be complicated if it is
stored elsewhere.
The patch adds support for loading of the EEPROM
data via the firmware API to avoid this limitation.
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The 'stations' debugfs file has multiple issues. It doesn't scale
to an arbitrary number of associated stations and allocating
64K is not elegant either. Now that changes have been made in
mac80211 to support dynamic creation/deletion of driver-specific
debugfs files on station addition/removal, remove this file and
make use of the mac80211 hooks (which will be done in a sebsequent
patch).
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the macros provided by mac80211 and remove redundant
declarations inside the drivers.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently ath9k need to have beacon interval matched
between STA mode and beaconing mode. Advertize this
through interface combinations.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ensure that led pin is filled and set to OFF before starting
the driver. With recent changes, drv_start is being called even
before led_init is being completed. This is causing led is always
OFF on driver load when the interface is UP. This patch splits the
led init and fills the led pin before register hw.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove unused variables, use a helper function to choose
the slot and reset beaconing status at one place.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
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>
currently the code supports WoW triggers due to
*magic packet
*user defined patterns
*deauth and disassoc patterns
*disconnect - beacon miss, last beacon received timeout,
no ack for keeep alive frames.
Cc: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilb@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: vadivel@qca.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ASPM has to be disabled when BTCOEX is in use, do this properly
by calling the bus-specific ASPM init routine after the
BTCOEX scheme has been determined.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of cluttering ath9k_init_device() with 'ath_softc'
specific initialization code, use ath9k_init_softc() to
setup driver-specific work routines, timers etc.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Not all devices are really capable of implementing
remain-on-channel, even if it is implemented in SW,
as they can't necessarily deal with channel changes
while associated.
Remove the WIPHY_FLAG_HAS_REMAIN_ON_CHANNEL and add
it only if either the driver has remain_on_channel
implemented in the driver/device.
Also add it to all drivers that advertise P2P right
now since those definitely have to have it working.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use a more current logging style.
Make sure all output is prefixed appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the experiment with Azimuth ADEPT-n testbed where the APs transmit
power was reduced to 25% and the signal strength was futher attenuated
by 20dB and induced a path loss of ~7dB, the station was reporting
beacon losses and the following issue were observed.
* rx clear is stuck at low for more than 300ms
* dcu chain and complete state is stuck at one of the hang signature
This patch triggers the hang detection logic that recovers the chip
from any of the above conditions. As the issue was originally reported
in ChromeOs with AR9382 chips, this detection logic is enabled only for
AR9380/2 chips.
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Reported-by: Gary Morain <gmorain@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When we have downlink traffic alone and the station is going thru
bgscan, the client is out of operating channel for around 1000ms which
is too long. The mac80211 decides when to switch back to oper channel
based on tx queue, bad latency and listen time. As the station does not
have tx traffic, the bgscan can easily affect downlink throughput. By
reducing the listen time, it helps the associated AP to retain the
downstream rate.
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Tested-by: Gary Morain <gmorain@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
By checking for NR_CPUS, the compiler can optimize out register access
serialization code on non-SMP kernels
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The default antenna (as programmed by the INI file) is always 0 anyway.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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>
They're more expensive than some of the other debug options and only used
in very rare situations, so it sometimes makes sense to disable them while
leaving in debugfs support.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
all works need to be initialized before ieee80211_register_hw
to prevent mac80211 call backs such as drv_start, drv_config
getting started. otherwise we would queue/cancel works before
initializing them and it leads to kernel panic.
this issue can be recreated with the following script
in Chrome laptops with AR928X cards, with background scan
running (or) Network manager is running
while true
do
sudo modprobe -v ath9k
sleep 3
sudo modprobe -r ath9k
sleep 3
done
EIP: [<81040a47>] __cancel_work_timer+0xb8/0xe1 SS:ESP 0068:f6be9d70
---[ end trace 4f86d6139a9900ef ]---
Registered led device: ath9k-phy0
ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9280 Rev:2 mem=0xf88a0000,
irq=16
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Pid: 456, comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G D
3.0.13 #1
Call Trace:
[<81379e21>] panic+0x53/0x14a
[<81004a30>] oops_end+0x73/0x81
[<81004b53>] die+0x4c/0x55
[<81002710>] do_trap+0x7c/0x83
[<81002855>] ? do_bounds+0x58/0x58
[<810028cc>] do_invalid_op+0x77/0x81
[<81040a47>] ? __cancel_work_timer+0xb8/0xe1
[<810489ec>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x81/0x11f
[<8103f809>] ? wait_on_work+0xe2/0xf7
[<8137f807>] error_code+0x67/0x6c
[<810300d8>] ? wait_consider_task+0x4ba/0x84c
[<81040a47>] ? __cancel_work_timer+0xb8/0xe1
[<810380c9>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x5f/0x67
[<81040a91>] cancel_work_sync+0xf/0x11
[<f88d7b7c>] ath_set_channel+0x62/0x25c [ath9k]
[<f88d67d1>] ? ath9k_tx_last_beacon+0x26a/0x85c [ath9k]
[<f88d8899>] ath_radio_disable+0x3f1/0x68e [ath9k]
[<f90d0edb>] ieee80211_hw_config+0x111/0x116 [mac80211]
[<f90dd95c>] __ieee80211_recalc_idle+0x919/0xa37 [mac80211]
[<f90dda76>] __ieee80211_recalc_idle+0xa33/0xa37 [mac80211]
[<812dbed8>] __dev_open+0x82/0xab
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Gary Morain <gmorain@google.com>
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Many systems (e.g. embedded systems) do not have wifi modules connected to
bluetooth modules, so bluetooth coexistence is irrelevant there. With the
addition of MCI support, ath9k picked up quite a bit of extra code that
can be compiled out this way.
This patch redefines ATH9K_HW_CAP_MCI and adds an inline wrapper for
querying the bluetooth coexistence scheme, allowing the compiler to
eliminate code that uses it, with only very little use of #ifdef.
On MIPS this reduces the total size for the modules by about 20k.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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>
Whenever the regulatory got updated by country IE for the world
roaming cards, need to reconfigure the tx power immediately to
increase the power level.
Reviewed-by: Sam Leffler <sleffler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
max_streams for AR9462 is '2'. it does not fixes anything, but
improves the code readability
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
John W. Linville