Some clients seem to rely upon the reception of BlockAckReqs to flush
their rx reorder buffer. In order to fix aggregation for these clients
carl9170 should set IEEE80211_TX_STAT_AMPDU_NO_BACK to generate a
BlockAckReq if the transmission of an AMPDU subframe fails.
This fixes aggregation problems with Intel 5100 Windows STAs (and maybe
others as well).
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The return value of the tx operation is commonly
misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers
will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and
they must also properly manage the queues (if they
didn't, mac80211 would already warn).
Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY
value also allows significant cleanups of the TX
TX handling code in mac80211.
Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the
old "return -1" there was wrong.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k]
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00]
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi]
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"AirLive X.USB now works perfectly under a Linux
environment!"
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a off-by-one bug which bugged
the driver's PS-POLL capability.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"mac80211 will properly assign sequence numbers to QoS-data
frames but cannot do so correctly for non-QoS-data and
management frames because beacons need them from that counter
as well and mac80211 cannot guarantee proper sequencing."
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch syncs up the header files with
the project's main firmware carl9170fw.git.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The aggregation code currently doesn't implement the
buffer size negotiation. It will always request a max
buffer size (which is fine, if a little pointless, as
the mac80211 code doesn't know and might just use 0
instead), but if the peer requests a smaller size it
isn't possible to honour this request.
In order to fix this, look at the buffer size in the
addBA response frame, keep track of it and pass it to
the driver in the ampdu_action callback when called
with the IEEE80211_AMPDU_TX_OPERATIONAL action. That
way the driver can limit the number of subframes in
aggregates appropriately.
Note that this doesn't fix any drivers apart from the
addition of the new argument -- they all need to be
updated separately to use this variable!
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch revamps some common code-paths which are
shared between (re-)initialization and suspend/resume
subroutines. It also adds some helpful comments
about quirks and associated difficulties.
It's quite big, but it should fix#25382:
<https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25382>
And hopefully the code is robust enough to deal with
all possible suspend/resume scenarios without requiring
the user to do any sort of manual and possibly
dangerous work.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
By removing two "safety" msleeps (and an echo nop), the
channel change delay is effectively halved. Previously,
the delay could be as long as 260 ms and the device
could not go off-channel without risking to miss the
next DTIM beacon [interval ~307 ms].
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds a forgotten bail-out path.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
commit: "carl9170: revamp carl9170_tx_prepare"
introduced a peculiar bug that would only show
up if the the module parameter noht is set to 1.
Then all outbound voice, video and background
frames would each invoke a (bogus) RTS/CTS
handshake.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With some upcoming changes we'd like to use
the interface types for P2P capability tests.
Enable them now so that when we add those
tests in wpa_supplicant, nothing will break.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using static const generally increases object text and decreases data size.
It also generally decreases overall object size.
text data bss dec hex filename
1897 56 672 2625 a41 drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.o.new
1897 56 672 2625 a41 drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.o.old
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit: "carl9170: tx path review" introduced a regression.
gcc (with -Winit-self):
tx.c:1264: warning: ‘super’ is used uninitialized in this function
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
usb_wait_anchor_empty_timeout's @timeout
wants milliseconds and not jiffies.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch replaces the handcrafted
sign extension cruft with a generic
bitop function.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a few shortcomings in the tx path.
* move temp. ampdu_[ack]_len out of txinfo->pad.
* fix WARN_ON from tx.c:line 300 when tx_ampdu_queue
fails to queue the frame.
* In tx_prepare, we already have a local pointer
to the station's ieee80211_sta struct.
* remove a second !sta check, tx_prepare already takes
care of that.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Previously, the beacon rate was fixed to either:
* 1Mb/s [2.4GHz band]
* 6Mb/s [5GHz band]
This limitation has been addressed and now the
beacon rate is selected by ieee80211_tx_info's
rate control info, almost like any ordinary
data frame.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a possible lengthy stall if the device
is operating as an experimental 11n AP and an STA
[during heavy txrx action] suddenly signalized to go
off-channel (old NetworkManager), or (sleep - which is
unlikely, because then it wouldn't be *active* at all!?).
Because the driver has to manage the BA Window, the
sudden PSM transition can leave active uplink BA
sessions to the STA in a bad state and a proper
cleanup is needed.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
RX Stress tests of unidirectional bulk traffic with
bitrates of up to 220Mbit/s have revealed that the
fatal-event recovery logic [which was solely triggered
by an out-of-rx-buffer situation] is too aggressive.
The new method now "pings" the device and then
decides - based on the response - whenever
a restart is needed or not.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch changes the initial aMPDU density and
factor settings to match those of Otus.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch imports all shared header changes
from carl9170fw.git.
* add some strategic __aligned(4).
This allows the compiler generate optimized code for
architectures which can't access (unaligned/packed)
data efficiently.
("ath9k_hw: optimize all descriptor access functions")
* add a forgotten __CARL9170FW__ ifdef around
a private firmware-internal struct.
* GET_VAL macro helper
Very useful for extracting data out of the
bit-packed PHY registers.
* cosmetic changes
e.g.: _CCA_MINCCA_ to just _CCA_MIN_.
* version bump 1.8.8.3 -> 1.9.0.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch includes the following updates:
* add D-Link DWA-130 Rev D
* Netgear has three WNDA3100 versions.
the original WNDA3100 is now called WNDA3100v1.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch continues where the previous commit:
"carl9170: fix async command buffer leak"
left off.
Similar to carl9170_reboot/carl9170_powersave, the
carl9170_async_regwrite* macros would leak the
temporary command buffer, if __carl9170_exec_cmd
fails to upload the command to the device.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If __carl9170_exec_cmd fails to upload an asynchronous
command to the device, the functions: carl9170_reboot
and carl9170_powersave will leak the temporary command
assembly buffer.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the past, carl9170 has been plagued by mysterious
ghosts.
e.g.:
wlan4: deauthenticated from 02:04:d8:3c:ac:c1 (Reason: 0)
Apparently, the AP sent us a bogus deauthentication
notification. But upon closer inspection the
"management frame" turned out to be a corrupted
scrap of an unsuccessful A-MPDU.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The total/fatal error bit was erroneously prefixed
with AR9170_RX_ERROR instead of AR9170_RX_STATUS.
Luckily, the hardware specification confirmed that
the 0x80 flag will never be set for mac->error.
So, it was always just a dead branch.
This patch also imports the latest version of
shared wlan.h header from the firmware git.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch replaces several identical frame drop
paths with a single shared rx frame error handler.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The hardware rx-filter was essentially disabled, because
of a serve, yet unidentifiable problem with iwlagn.
Due to these circumstances the driver and mac80211 were
left with the job of filtering.
This is very unfortunate and has proven to be expensive
in terms of latency, memory and load.
Therefore the new 1.8.8.3 firmware introduces a flexible
filtering infrastructure which allows the driver to
offload some of the checks (FCS & PLCP crc check,
RA match, control frame filter, etc...) whenever possible.
Note:
This patch also includes all changes to the
shared headers files since the inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes a bug in the driver which was
exposed by CONFIG_USB_DEBUG:
"usb 1-1.6.3: BOGUS urb flags, 40 --> 0"
The transfer flag "URB_ZERO_PACKET" is only valid
for bulk urbs.
Reported-by: André Erdmann
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
David Miller complained about the driver's excessive use
of variables in __packed structs. While I did not fully
agree with his sole "performance" argument on all accounts.
I do see some room for improvement in hot-paths on
architectures without an efficient access to unaligned
elements.
This first patch (dare I say?) optimizes an important tx
hot-path in the driver: carl9170_tx_prepare.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Broadcom's Windows driver for the 4313 advertises
an ampdu density of 7 => 16 us. The AR9170 MAC on
the other hand only supports densities up to 8 us.
This patch removes the noisy WARN_ON, because
there is nothing we can do about it.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
tx_ampdu_upload was not decreased when an a-MPDU
frame had to be kicked out from the tx_pending
queues.
This broke ampdu aggregation, because the scheduler
waits until tx_ampdu_upload drops to zero, before
making the next aggregate.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes some cruft, which survived
the RFC review phase.
Originally, carl9170_tx_ampdu_queue erroneously
dropped a lot of frames. As a result the ampdu
scheduler bogged down quite frequently and the
affected BA session timed out.
However this bug has been fixed and the WA and
its debugfs counter is no longer useful.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"The convention seems to be angle brackets around
URLS in Kconfig."
-- Finn Thain (to update web addresses in the kernel)
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
802.11n-2009 demands in 11.2.1: "
When a STA enters normal (non-APSD) PS mode, any downlink
Block ACK agreement without an associated schedule is
suspended for the duration of this PS mode."
The operative word is "suspended" and not terminated.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is a obvious bug, skb_queue_walk does not
work if the iterator gets removed from the queue.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
