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>
This patch improves ANI operations by switching among the immunity
levels based on PHY errors and beacon rssi which will adjust receiver
desensitizing parameters. The changes are
* Configure the Weak Signal Detection based on current immunity value.
* At highest OFDM immunity level poor performance was observed with
strong interference. By tuning the FIR step and spur immunity levels
and not changing any weak signal detection thresholds at any level
helped to improve the performance.
* ANI took long time to recover back to lower immunity levels on heavy
data load. As the listen time got reset to zero before reaching to
the 5x of aniperiod, the immunity level is not lowering back even
without any interference. This patch fix that.
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Susinder Gulasekaran <susinder@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Chandrasekaran <csuresh@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
commit 0d95521ea7 (ath9k: use split rx buffers to get rid of order-1 skb
allocations) added in memory leak in error path.
sc->rx.frag should be cleared after the pskb_expand_head() call, or else
we jump to requeue_drop_frag and leak an skb.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Trond Wuellner <trond@chromium.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
Currently the maximum noise floor limit is set as too high (-60dB). The
assumption of having a higher threshold limit is that it would help
de-sensitize the receiver (reduce phy errors) from continuous
interference. But when we have a bursty interference where there are
collisions and then free air time and if the receiver is desensitized too
much, it will miss the normal packets too. Lets make use of chips
specific min, nom and max limits always. This patch helps to improve the
connection stability in congested networks.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Tested-by: Gary Morain <gmorain@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhan Jaganathan <madhanj@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Program tx gain through iniModesTxGain like on AR9287
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
use iniModesFastClock for 5 ghz fast clock specific settings, and
iniAdditional for clock/chip specific initval overrides
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Program the ah->ini_japan2484 INI values which were left out by accident
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The ATH9K_HW_CAP_AUTOSLEEP check is bogus, the rx status area needs to be
cleared on all non-EDMA PCI/AHB based chipsets anyway.
Limit the memset to the rx status area to improve performance.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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>
Automatically set the ah->htc_reset_init on init and after PHY disable.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
TXQ_FLAG_TXOKINT_ENABLE and TXQ_FLAG_TXERRINT_ENABLE are always set and
used together, and they share the same bitmask in enum ath9k_tx_queue_flags.
Simplify the code that tests for these flags.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211 provides short preamble information and ERP protection
information on a per-BSS basis, which can be used. Remove flags
stored in the driver, which was incorrect since they were being used
in a global manner.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
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>
The logic to determine whether to use FCC is a bit convoluted.
Use a small helper function to decide whether FCC is to be
used.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is not needed and will not be used anyway since
unsupported interfaces are not allowed to be created.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There is no need to mask out SWBA/BMISS from the
interrupt mask in start().
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The check for PS_WAIT_FOR_TX_ACK was inverted, the hardware should only go
to full sleep if no tx is pending.
Reported-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mactime was being overwritten by the function ath9k_rx_skb_preprocess. Fixed by
memsetting rx_status in ath_rx_tasklet.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The proper place to configure bss info is at assoc notification. So that
ath9k continues to work if the supirous bssid notification will be
removed in future.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reported-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
tested in AR9462 Rev:2, both hardware capability flag are set
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On A-MPDU frames, the hardware only reports valid signal strength data for
the last subframe. The driver also mangled rx_stats->rs_rssi using the
ATH_EP_RND macro in a way that may make sense for ANI, but definitely
not for reporting to mac80211.
This patch changes the code to calculate the signal strength from the rssi
directly instead of taking the average value, and flag everything but
the last subframe in an A-MPDU to tell mac80211 to ignore the signal strength
entirely, fixing signal strength fluctuation issues reported by various
users.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Process rx status directly instead of separating the completion test from
the actual rx status processing.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The way this is implemented (simply storing the last value) is absolutely
worthless for debugging anything, and the same information is also available
through the MAC sample feature, so there's no point in keeping this around.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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>
Cold reset is more reliable for getting the hardware out of some specific
stuck states.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
this does the same thing as the previous code
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
its better to zero initialize the 'valid_phy_rate_idx' array completely
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Not doing so could cause the tx status queue to overflow during longer
periods of time without non-beacon tx. These events are also required
for proper drv_tx_last_beacon handling.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since AR9003 uses a global tx status queue, processing tx status outside of
the regular tx tasklet is dangerous and messes up hardware/software
synchronization of tx status events.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The approach of this change is flawed, as it triggers tx status processing
from more callsites, yet the chips only have one global tx status queue.
Subsequent patches will properly fix the issue that this one tried to address.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c
Conflicts in the statistics regression bug fix from 'net',
but happily Matt Carlson originally posted the fix against
'net-next' so I used that to resolve this.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Previous RX error checking was done exclusive-or for different error
types and caused DFS pulse events to be dropped when other error
flags (e.g. CRC) were set simultaneously.
This patch decouples PHY error processing from other types and ensures
that all pulses detected by HW are accounted by the pattern detector.
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cleanup whitespace, fix indentation and coding style.
Also remove debug messages that were flooding the log.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes indentation and the general coding style
in ar9003_mci.c. Also, minimize the amount of debug log
output generated by MCI.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
They are not needed since MCI will be enabled only for
AR9462 v2.0
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
