With a significant number of deployed APs, enabling uAPSD leads to the
AP never using aggregation sessions (likely due to the complexities
involved in handling uAPSD in those.) This obviously results in a large
drop in throughput with such APs.
On the other hand, uAPSD can result in some power consumption benefits,
but for now just disable it to get performance with affected APs back
up.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
This allows to use the firmware monitor. This capability
uses a lot of contiguous memory (up to 64MB), so make its
usage module parameter dependent.
The driver will try to allocate as much contiguous memory
as possible downgrading its requirements until the
allocation succeeds.
Dump this data into the fw-error dump file when an error
happens.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
This can be useful later for parsing since the parsing may
differ based on the device's family / bus.
Also add the human readable version of the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Use num of scan channels as advertised by fw TLV.
Signed-off-by: David Spinadel <david.spinadel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Some APs (e.g. TP-LINK TL-WA801N) are disabling aggregation (downlink
to station) when U-APSD is enabled, resulting in low throughput.
Add a module parameter to allow disabling U-APSD support in the driver.
Also re-enable U-APSD for -9 firmware since the firmare issues were
fixed in this release.
There are devices that won't support U-APSD even with newer
firmware, so bring the TLV flag back to detect those.
Signed-off-by: Matt Chen <matt.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
We use the TLV flags as a handshake between the firmware
and the driver. These flags allow the firmware to advertise
its capabilities and API version.
Since we are running short of bits, we add a new
infrastructure which is more scalable, yet backward
compatible.
We make now the difference between API changes and the
capabilities. Both can have an index which allows to scale
at will.
Signed-off-by: Eran Harary <eran.harary@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
NICs supported by iwldvm don't handle well TX AMPDU.
Disable it by default, still leave the possibility to
the user to force enable it with a debug parameter.
NICs supported by iwlmvm don't suffer from the same issue,
leave TX AMPDU enabled by default for these.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Support the changes below:
- Fields and sections structure were changed.
- the NVM file built from DWord instead of Words.
- sections header format was changed.
Signed-off-by: Eran Harary <eran.harary@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Fix a potential buffer overrun when creating the fw name
in drv->firmware_name by setting a maximal length to the
char array copied to it.
The maximal length is also updated to 32 rather than 25 to
keep both 32bit and 64bit alignment without requiring
padding to the struct it is in.
Signed-off-by: Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
This patch adds a cipher scheme support to extend a set of
the supported ciphers. The driver reads a cipher scheme list TLV
from FW image and passes it to mac80211 on hw registration.
After the cipher schemes are registered the driver handles key
installation and Tx/Rx calls related to the new ciphers.
Signed-off-by: Max Stepanov <Max.Stepanov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Support Signed firmware based on code signing system (CSS)
protocol and dual CPUs download,
the code recognize if there are more than one CPU and
if we need to operate the signed protocol according to
the ucode binary image
Signed-off-by: Eran Harary <eran.harary@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The callers of iwl_drv_start() are probe functions. If a probe
function returns 0, it means it succeeded. So if NULL was returned by
iwl_drv_start(), it would be considered as a success.
Fix this by returning -ENOMEM if the driver struct allocation fails in
iwl_drv_start().
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Instead of assigning the default max probe length to 200 in the main
code, create a macro for consistency and clarity.
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
If someone wants to disable AMPDU, there is the 11n_disable
module parameter.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Nobody will ever wants to run without this. Make it true always.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This parameter is really not useful, remove it.
Leave the variable in priv in case someone wants
to play with it.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
If the opmode modules aren't modular, there's no point in
printing an error message that request_module() failed.
This will happen because the probe runs during iwlwifi's
init and the opmode is only added during its init.
Reported-by: Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Some newer devices will be integrated into the platform more
deeply and will not have embedded NVM (EEPROM/OTP). To support
such devices the NVM data must be provided by the platform,
allow loading the data via request_firmware() and then send it
to the device as needed.
Signed-off-by: Eran Harary <eran.harary@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
If request_module() failed then we didn't have the correct
opmode module that the driver needs to function, so print
a warning in this case to make it more obvious what could
be wrong. This still won't catch the case where the module
simply doesn't exist because it wasn't compiled though.
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
5ghz_disable has no effect any longer, that was changed during
refactoring of EEPROM reading/parsing. Remove it, wpa_supplicant
allow now to specify frequencies, on which device will operate.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This allows to test fw restart flow. The hook in transport
layer doesn't really make the fw assert. Moving this hook
to the op_mode allows to use the fw API to actually send a
host command that will make the fw assert.
Change the restart_fw module parameter to be a boolean on
the way.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
If all the pieces of iwlwifi are built into the kernel
then there's no need for it to export its symbols to
other modules, so prevent that.
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
7000.c was released as GPL only by mistake: it should be
dual licensed - GPL / BSD.
The file that contains the license in the kernel is COPYING
and not LICENSE.GPL.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Supporting 8K A-MSDU means that we need to allocate order 1
pages for every Rx packet. Even when there is no traffic.
This adds stress on the memory manager. The handling of
compound pages is also less trivial for the memory manager
and not using them will make the allocation code run faster
although I didn't really measure.
Eric also pointed out that having huge buffers with little
data in them is not very nice towards the TCP stack since
the truesize of the skb is huge. This doesn't allow TCP
to have a big Rx window.
See https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2167711/ for details.
Note that very few vendors will actually send A-MSDU.
Disable this feature by default.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Newer firmware revisions have a completely new
firmware API. This is the new driver for this
new API.
I've listed the people who directly contributed
code, but many others from various teams have
contributed in other ways.
Cc: Alexander Bondar <alexander.bondar@intel.com>
Cc: Amit Beka <amit.beka@intel.com>
Cc: Amnon Paz <amnonx.paz@intel.com>
Cc: Assaf Krauss <assaf.krauss@intel.com>
Cc: David Spinadel <david.spinadel@intel.com>
Cc: Dor Shaish <dor.shaish@intel.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Cc: Eytan Lifshitz <eytan.lifshitz@intel.com>
Cc: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The firmware TLV for calibration data isn't
really a u64, but two u32 values. Define a
struct for that and change the parser.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Don't return a hard coded -EFAULT, but rather the error
that occurred in the flow.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Instead of allocating one big chunk of DMA-coherent
memory for the firmware and keeping it around, only
vmalloc() the firmware and copy it into a single
page of DMA-coherent memory for the upload.
The advantage is that we don't need DMA memory for
the firmware image that is stored while the driver
is operating, we only need it while uploading.
This will make it easier for the driver to work if
the system has fragmented memory.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
The generic part of the driver now creates all debugfs
directories. It creates a root directory directly in
the the root of the debugfs filesystem and within that
directories for each device, named after the device ID
of the devices iwlwifi is attached to.
In the cfg80211/mac80211 directory there's now a link
to the toplevel iwlwifi debugfs directory to make it
easier to find the debugfs files.
Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This name emphasizes more the role of the function: the
callback called when the ASYNC call to request_firmware
completes.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
I saw that when the watchdog triggers, the packets do go
through if we wait enough time. So we still have an issue
where packets are blocked in the Tx queue for a short while
and this needs to be debugged separately. For now, don't
restart the driver when it is not needed.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
We introduced a lock here in ff1ffb850b ("iwlwifi: fix dynamic
loading"). But we missed an error path which needs an unlock.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since request_module_nowait() can't be backported
use request_module() instead -- we don't need the
asynchronous behaviour of request_module_nowait()
here since we're running in the firmware request
work struct.
Tested-by: Donald H Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Donald H Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Add locking to the dynamic loading code to prevent
corrupting the list if multiple device ever init at
the same time (which cannot happen for multiple PCI
devices, but could happen when different busses init
concurrently.)
Also remove a device from the list when it stops so
the list isn't left corrupted, including a fix from
Don to not crash when it was never added.
Reviewed-by: Donald H Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com>
Tested-by: Donald H Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This is the next step in splitting up the driver,
making the uCode API dependent pieces of it live
in separate modules. Right now there's only one
so it's not user-selectable, but we're actively
working on more.
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Linus reported that due to mac80211 failing to register
the device (due to WoWLAN) his machine crashed etc. as
we double-freed the vmalloc() firmware area. His patch
to fix it was very similar to this one but I noticed
that there's another bug in the area: we complete the
completion before starting, so since we're running in
a work struct context stop() could be called while in
the middle of start() which will almost certainly lead
to issues.
Make a modification similar to his to avoid the double-
free but also move the completion to another spot so it
is only done after start() either finished or failed so
that stop() can have a consistent state.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If drv->op_mode is NULL after trying to init the
opmode, we go to the wrong label. Fix this, and
clean up the code a bit.
Reviewed-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Guy Cohen <guy.cohen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are various problems happened on 5GHz band not observed on
2.4 GHz (microcode errors, queue stuck, etc... ) . Also roaming
between 5GHz AP and 2GHz does not work very well. To workaround
the problems add option to disable 5GHz support. This will help
on environments where APs are dual-band, and devices will not try
to associate on band where issues happen.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Also remove a debug print when allocation error occurred.
The kernel will complain anyway.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
