Reduces the number of calls to register ops. On MIPS this reduces the
ath9k_hw binary size from 321k down to 310k
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With this change, loading the address to a register read/write function
costs only one pointer dereference instead of two. On MIPS this reduces
ath9k_hw binary size from 326k down to 321k.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Indicate an NL80211_CMD_DEL_STATION event when a station entry in
mac80211 is deleted to match with the NL80211_CMD_NEW_STATION event
that is used when the entry was added. This is needed, e.g., to allow
user space to remove a peer from RSN IBSS Authenticator state machine
to avoid re-authentication and re-keying delays when the peer is not
reachable anymore.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add support for using RSN IBSS with ath9k. For now, this uses software
crypto for group addressed frames in RSN IBSS, but that may be
optimized in the future by extending the key cache design to support
per-STA RX GTK.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Stuck beacon detection is supposed to trigger when 9 consecutive beacons
could not be sent by the hardware. When the driver runs only one active
AP mode interface, it still configures the hardware beacon timer for
4 (ATH_BCBUF) beacon slots slots, which causes stuck beacon detection
to be reset if ath9k_hw_stoptxdma clears the stuck frames between
SWBA intervals.
Fix this by not resetting the missed beacon count for empty slots and
multiplying the threshold not by the maximum number of beacon slots
but by the configured number of beacon interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Single missed (i.e. not transmitted) beacons in AP mode are not very rare
and not necessarily an indicator of strong interference, so only trigger
noise floor recalibration when multiple consecutive beacons could not
be transmitted.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
AP mode beacon timers in ath9k are configured in milliseconds, which breaks
when increasing ATH_BCBUF to 8 instead of 4 (due to rounding errors).
Since the hardware timers are actually configured in microseconds, it's
better to let the driver use that unit directly.
To be able to do that, the beacon interval parameter abuse for passing
certain flags needs to be removed. This is easy to do, because those flags
are completely unnecessary anyway. ATH9K_BEACON_ENA is ignored,
ATH9K_BEACON_RESET_TSF can be replaced with calling ath9k_hw_reset_tsf
from the driver directly.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ieee80211_tx_status iterates over all tx rates the driver reports back
in order to
1) mark tx rates as invalid if the driver cannot have tried that rate
2) find the actually used tx rate for the final retransmission
By leaving the for loop when the first invalid rate index is found we
can move the rates_idx assignment after the loop and therefore save
a few assignments and conditionals.
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This workaround called ath_txq_schedule whenever there were still pending
frames for a queue, but the queue depth was zero. Because of its its high
false positive probability (e.g. with paused TIDs) and because it is in
the way of other pending work (AP powersave fixes), it is better to remove
this code entirely.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Most AR9100 devices already have a chainmask of 7 (three antennas), however
on the ones that don't (rx and tx chainmask set to 5), problems with IQ
mismatch calibration have been observed.
This shows up as tx queue hangs (and subsequent hardware resets) if traffic
is sent during this type of calibration.
Forcing the rx chainmask to 7 fixes the calibration issues with no apparent
negative side effects on throughput and stability.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fixes interop issues with aggregation in combination with multi-BSSID
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On some devices the correct MAC address is not in the EEPROM data, but
stored somewhere else.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some devices control antenna settings or other things through GPIO pins
of the wireless interface. Add a debugfs interface for changing those
and keeping them set across card resets.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since the ath9k debugfs directory is cleaned up by debugfs_remove_recursive,
there's no point in checking the return code of every single debugfs create
line.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Queue ADDBA requests in respective data queues to avoid ADDBA
requests and the the related data packets (to the same ra/tid)
queued in the hardware to be sent out asynchronously.
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If the outgoing packet rate to a particular HT station is <=6.5
Mbps, do not attempt to create an ampdu. Also, if the outgoing
rate is legacy rate, do not create an ampdu.
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When an ampdu stream is on, if the firmware rate adaptation
logic decides that the outgoing packet rate to the station needs
to go below 6.5Mbps (non HT rate), it sends an event indicating that
the ampdu stream needs to be destroyed. Handle this event in the driver
and destroy the ampdu stream so that the rate can go below 6.5Mbps
Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Specifically, handle ampdu_action and attempt to start a BA
session on receiving the first qos packet from mac80211 for
transmission to a HT sta. While the BA session is being created,
all the packets belonging to that stream will be dropped to
prevent sequence number mismatch at the recipient.
Contains contributions from:
Yogesh Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Pradeep Nemavat <pnemavat@marvell.com>
Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We now have two different kinds of queues. And the number of
AMPDU queues may vary. So we must be clear about which queues we
are dealing with. Note that when we report the number of queues
to mac80211, we only report the WMM queues.
Based on work by Yogesh Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>.
Signed-off-by: Brian Cavagnolo <brian@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau
Jouni Malinen
Vasily Khoruzhick
Bing Zhao
Luis R. Rodriguez
Helmut Schaa
Larry Finger
Nishant Sarmukadam
Brian Cavagnolo