Following Rafal request, we verified that on "modern" CPUs using one
or more workers is equivalent. Here is patch V3 that addresses the
packet loss bug in the dma engine using only one worker.
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This patch addresses a bug in the dma worker code that keeps draining
packets even when the hardware queues are full. In such cases packets
can not be passed down to the device and are erroneusly dropped by the
code.
This problem was already discussed here
http://www.mail-archive.com/b43-dev@lists.infradead.org/msg01413.html
and acknowledged by Michael.
Number of hardware queues is now defined in b43.h (B43_QOS_QUEUE_NUM).
Acknowledgements to Riccardo Paolillo <riccardo.paolillo@gmail.com> and
Michele Orru <michele.orru@hotmail.it>
Signed-off-by: Francesco Gringoli <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The biggest change is reversing order of reading 32-bit table value.
MMIO dumps has shown it's done that way for LCN-PHY.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We have module param called use_pio which is much easier to use.
Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes the "FWxx" ID strings from the b43 and b43legacy
drivers. They were once used to match a specific driver revision
to a set of firmware files. However, this is hardly useful today.
Additionally, the IDs are not updated and maintained properly, so
they might mislead users.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <m@bues.ch>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some hardware with 64-bit DMA uses lower address word for setting
routing (translation) bit. Add workaround for such boards.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Analyze of MMIO dumps from BCM43224, BCM43225, BCM4313 and BCM4331 has
shown that wl disables parity check for all that cards. This is required
for receiving any packets from the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It does nothing useful yet, so it is matched as BROKEN.
For now this is just an option for b43, in future we may want to make
b43 support SSB or BCMA (note: or, not xor).
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Recent trivial fix corrected 'occured', but left 'reqest'.
codespell needs another dictionary entry.
cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
We free name "dev" for something generic (like dev abstraction layer).
Additionaly code is cleaner now, especially magic dev->dev-dev chains.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As discussed we do not know band width at core reset time and it is not a good
idea to reset whole just to change band. So just set unconditionally 20 MHz
band width as default during core reset.
As for defines PHY clock changed to band width in specs and it makes much more
sens to call defines by band width which is self-explainable. Updated specs do
not mention 0 value, but comparing to old ones you can notice lineral relation
between PHY clock speed and band width. So it makes sense for 0x0 value to be
10 MHz band width.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cleanup patch.
Use new __packed annotation in drivers/net/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This makes the b43 driver just automatically fall back to PIO mode when
DMA doesn't work.
The driver already told the user to do it, so rather than have the user
reload the module with a new flag, just make the driver do it
automatically. We keep the message as an indication that something is
wrong, but now just automatically fall back to the hopefully working PIO
case.
(Some post-2.6.33 merge fixups by Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
and yours truly... -- JWL)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Commit c7ab5ef9bc entitled "b43: implement
short slot and basic rate handling" reduced the transmit throughput for
my BCM4311 device from 18 Mb/s to 0.7 Mb/s. The basic rate handling
portion is OK, the problem is in the short slot handling.
Prior to this change, the short slot enable/disable routines were never
called. Experimentation showed that the critical part was changing the
value at offset 0x0010 in the shared memory. This is supposed to contain
the 802.11 Slot Time in usec, but if it is changed from its initial value
of zero, performance is destroyed. On the other hand, changing the value
in the MMIO register corresponding to the Interframe Slot Time increased
performance from 18 to 22 Mb/s. A BCM4306/3 also shows dramatic
improvement of the transmit rate from 5.3 to 19.0 Mb/s.
Other changes in the patch include removal of the magic number for the
MMIO register, and allowing the slot time to be set for any PHY operating
in the 2.4 GHz band. Previously, the routine was executed only for G PHYs.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org> [Any stable version back through 2.6.28]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If userencounter the "Fatal DMA Problem" with a BCM43XX device, and
still wish to use b43 as the driver, their only option is to rebuild
the kernel with CONFIG_B43_FORCE_PIO. This patch removes this option and
allows PIO mode to be selected with a load-time parameter for the module.
Note that the configuration variable CONFIG_B43_PIO is also removed.
Once the DMA problem with the BCM4312 devices is solved, this patch will
likely be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: John Daiker <daikerjohn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the deprecation of the qual member of ieee80211_rx_status, that
calculation and an associated constant can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The DMA-API debugging facility complains about b43 mapping memory from
stack for SDIO-based cards.
Indeed, b43 currently allocates the PIO RX/TX header and tail buffers
from stack. The solution here is to use heap-allocated buffers instead.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds support for verbose runtime statistics.
It defaults to off and must be enabled in debugfs, if desired.
The first measurement may be incorrect, because statistics are not cleared
after they got enabled through debugfs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes most of the b43 suspend/resume code (it's handled by mac80211)
and moves the registration of devices to the attachment phase. This is
required, because we must not register/unregister devices on suspend/resume.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes the SHM spinlock.
SHM is protected by wl->mutex.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This removes the TX spinlock and defers TX to a workqueue to allow
locking wl->mutex instead and to allow sleeping for register accesses.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use a threaded IRQ handler to allow locking the mutex and
sleeping while executing an interrupt.
This removes usage of the irq_lock spinlock, but introduces
a new hardirq_lock, which is _only_ used for the PCI/SSB lowlevel
hard-irq handler. Sleeping busses (SDIO) will use mutex instead.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes the hardware encryption keys index and array size handling.
Thanks to Gregor Kowski for reporting this issue.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Update a comment that still says IEEE80211_IF_TYPE instead of NL80211_IFTYPE.
Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make use of HostFlags defines in the LP-PHY code.
Fix fallout from the IEEE80211_IF_TYPE to NL80211_IFTYPE change.
Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Implement baseband init for rev.0 and rev.1 LP PHYs. Convert boardflags_hi values to defines.
Implement b43_phy_copy for easier copying between registers, as needed by LP-PHY init.
Signed-off-by: Gábor Stefanik<netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch<mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Larry Finger<larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix condition in which radio LED did not initialize correctly, and remove
4 compilation warnings.
After the recent changes in rfkill, the radio LED used by b43/b43legacy
did not always initialize correctly.
Both b43 and b43legacy used the deprecated variable radio_enabled in
struct ieee80211_conf.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add automagic feature flags, so the firmware can tell the driver
about supported features and the driver can switch features on/off as
needed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
