Sometimes, the network manager is failing to connect to the AP due
to the below kernel crash message. The reason behind this,
after issuing the connect command to the chip, the chip is sending
disconnect event and then immediately one connect event to the host
in some random cases.
The host driver resets all states (including cfg80211 state machine)
when it receives disconnect event from the chip. But, still the host
driver reports the next received connect event to cfg80211, at that time
cfg80211 SME state would have been in IDLE state, which was causing
the below kernel crash.
Now, host driver's sme state machine is checked every time before
delivering connect event to cfg80211
WARNING: at net/wireless/sme.c:517 cfg80211_connect_result+0x10d/0x120()
[..]
Call Trace:
[<c0145732>] warn_slowpath_common+0x72/0xa0
[<c05d676d>] ? cfg80211_connect_result+0x10d/0x120
[<c05d676d>] ? cfg80211_connect_result+0x10d/0x120
[<c0145782>] warn_slowpath_null+0x22/0x30
[<c05d676d>] cfg80211_connect_result+0x10d/0x120
[<f83ff497>] ath6kl_cfg80211_connect_event+0x427/0x4f0 [ath6kl]
[<c035d26a>] ? put_dec+0x2a/0xa0
[<c035d645>] ? number+0x365/0x380
[<c0154675>] ? mod_timer+0x135/0x260
[<c035e00e>] ? format_decode+0x2fe/0x370
[<c01263c8>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x8/0x10
[<c05fd91f>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2f/0x50
[<c0146032>] ? console_unlock+0x172/0x1c0
[<f8402659>] ath6kl_connect_event+0x89/0x400 [ath6kl]
[<f840826e>] ath6kl_wmi_control_rx+0x98e/0x1d60 [ath6kl]
[<c01335b5>] ? __wake_up+0x45/0x60
[<f84053aa>] ath6kl_rx+0x56a/0x770 [ath6kl]
[<c04d0242>] ? mmc_release_host+0x22/0x40
[<c04d9329>] ? sdio_release_host+0x19/0x30
[<f840a27a>] ? ath6kl_sdio_read_write_sync+0x7a/0xc0 [ath6kl]
[<f83f82b1>] do_rx_completion+0x41/0x50 [ath6kl]
[<f83faa6a>] htc_rxmsg_pending_handler+0x6ba/0xbd0 [ath6kl]
[<f8404bb0>] ? ath6kl_tx_data_cleanup+0x30/0x30 [ath6kl]
[<f840a1c0>] ? ath6kl_sdio_irq_handler+0x30/0x70 [ath6kl]
[<f83f7cd5>] ath6kldev_intr_bh_handler+0x2a5/0x630 [ath6kl]
[<f840a1c0>] ath6kl_sdio_irq_handler+0x30/0x70 [ath6kl]
[<c04d97c7>] sdio_irq_thread+0xc7/0x2d0
[<c013aeb0>] ? default_wake_function+0x10/0x20
[<c012fc98>] ? __wake_up_common+0x48/0x70
[<c04d9700>] ? sdio_claim_irq+0x200/0x200
[<c0163854>] kthread+0x74/0x80
[<c01637e0>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x160/0x160
[<c0604c06>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
Signed-off-by: Raja Mani <rmani@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Use wlan_iterate_nodes() directly.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
By having scan_table in struct ath6kl, it makes sense to move initialization
to ath6kl_init() and deinitialization to ath6kl_destroy().
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Use the bssid from ath6kl directly.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
This is nothing but bssid of struct ath6kl.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
And remove the reference to wmi in ath6kl_node_table.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
When I connect to my Linksys WT610N AP supporting 11n I see a lot of
aggreation timeout errors:
[ 408.885053] ath6kl: aggr timeout (st 3109 end 3140)
[ 463.872108] ath6kl: aggr timeout (st 3671 end 3702)
[ 495.010060] ath6kl: aggr timeout (st 3983 end 4014)
[ 503.604047] ath6kl: aggr timeout (st 4065 end 0)
[ 518.963047] ath6kl: aggr timeout (st 141 end 172)
[ 525.014066] ath6kl: aggr timeout (st 205 end 236)
[ 573.957051] ath6kl: aggr timeout (st 701 end 732)
[ 585.019067] ath6kl: aggr timeout (st 816 end 847)
But still the connection seems to work. To not clutter the logs change
the error message to a debug message. But add a fixme comment so that
this will be investigated.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
ath6kl Kconfig still had dependencies to wext, remove those as they are
not needed anymore.
Now ath6kl should not have any wext code left. Time to have a beer and
celebrate this.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
When ath6kl module was removed while a scan was ongoing the driver would
crash in ath6kl_cfg80211_scan_complete_event().
Fix the function not to iterate nodes when the scan is aborted. The nodes
are already freed when the module is being unloaded. This patch removes the
null check entirely as the wmi structure is not accessed anymore during
module unload.
Also fix a bug where the status was checked as a bitfield with '&' operator.
But it's not a bitfield, just a regular error code.
This is a port of my patch from ath6kl staging with the same title.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
ath6kl_cfg80211_scan_node() was calling cfg80211_inform_bss_frame()
with CFP_KERNEL but the function is executed with a spin lock taken.
This is wrong and the function must use GFP_ATOMIC instead.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
In my setup data transfer stalls when there's data transmission during
scan. After some testing I found out that using background scan
when connected to makes the problem go away. This is more like
a workaround than a proper fix, but as the stall is so severe the
workaround is justified.
With a dual band card this increases scan time when connected from
1.9s to 4.4s. When not connected the scan time is not affected and
is the same 1.9s.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Use appropriate hif function directly.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Endpoint id ffrom htc_packet can be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Define a hook in ath6kl_hif_ops for hif scatter gather mechanism.
When virtual scatter gather is used, call the respective function
directly.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Last May we started working on cleaning up ath6kl driver which is
currently in staging. The work has happened in a separate
ath6kl-cleanup tree:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath6kl-cleanup.git;a=summary
After over 1100 (!) patches we have now reached a state where I would
like to start discussing about pushing the driver to the wireless
trees and replacing the staging driver.
The driver is now a lot smaller and looks like a proper Linux driver.
The size of the driver (measured with simple wc -l) dropped from 49
kLOC to 18 kLOC and the number of the .c and .h files dropped from 107
to 22. Most importantly the number of subdirectories reduced from 26
to zero :)
There are two remaining checkpatch warnings in the driver which we
decided to omit for now:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/debug.c:31:
WARNING: printk() should include KERN_ facility level
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/sdio.c:527:
WARNING: msleep < 20ms can sleep for up to 20ms;
see Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt
The driver has endian annotations for all the hardware specific
structures and there are no sparse errors. Unfortunately I don't have
any big endian hardware to test that right now.
We have been testing the driver both on x86 and arm platforms. The
code is also compiled with sparc and parisc cross compilers.
Notable missing features compared to the current staging driver are:
o HCI over SDIO support
o nl80211 testmode
o firmware logging
o suspend support
Testmode, firmware logging and suspend support will be added soon. HCI
over SDIO support will be more difficult as the HCI driver needs to
share code with the wifi driver. This is something we need to research
more.
Also I want to point out the changes I did for signed endian support.
As I wasn't able to find any support for signed endian annotations I
decided to follow what NTFS has done and added my own. Grep for sle16
and sle32, especially from wmi.h.
Various people have been working on the cleanup, the hall of
fame based on number of patches is:
543 Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
403 Raja Mani
252 Kalle Valo
16 Vivek Natarajan
12 Suraj Sumangala
3 Joe Perches
2 Jouni Malinen
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Raja Mani <rmani@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <nataraja@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suraj Sumangala <surajs@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Currently ath9k presents the internal calibrated noise floor as channel
noise measurement, however this results in highly chip specific values
that are only useful as relative measurements but do not resemble any
real channel noise values.
In order to give a much better approximation of the real channel noise,
add the difference between the measured noise floor and the nominal
chip specific noise floor to the default minimum channel noise value,
which is currently used to calculate the signal strength from the RSSI
value. This may not be 100% accurate, but it's much better than what's
there before.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
OLPC power management code has recently gone upstream. This piece
completes the puzzle for libertas_usb, which now programs the OLPC EC
for wlan wakeups when they have been requested.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When testing for tx power, bypass the default limits.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the previously calculated maximum of all rates instead of just the one
from the lowest rate of the selected PHY mode.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
