288 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Luis R. Rodriguez
ff9f0b639f ath9k: skip ATH9K_INT_TIM_TIMER when we are idle
We should not be idle when we get the ATH9K_INT_TIM_TIMER,
otherwise its a sign of something broken in our design with
our idle state machine and mac80211. Skip these and WARN once
just in case this is triggerable.

Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-08 15:38:45 -05:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
8060e169e0 ath9k: Enable extended synch for AR9485 to fix L0s recovery issue
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07 16:34:53 -05:00
Joe Perches
226afe68fd ath: Convert ath_print to ath_dbg
Remove ath/debug.h and the includes of these files.
Coalesce long formats.
Correct a few misspellings and missing "\n"s from these logging messages.
Remove unnecessary trailing space before a newline.
Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07 16:34:48 -05:00
Joe Perches
3800276a40 ath: Convert ath_print(.., ATH_DBG_FATAL to ath_err
So these errors are always emitted at KERN_ERR level.
Remove ARRAY_SIZE casts, use printf type %zu

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07 16:34:47 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
884a963fa1 ath9k: fix beacon resource related race condition
The beacon tasklet is accesssing the bslot info for beacon generation.
Meanwhile the same slot can be freed on interface deletion.
Current the remove_interface disables the beacon alert after freeing the slot.
This may leads to null pointer access.

This patch disables SWBA and kills the beacon tasklet to prevent access
to the slot to be freed. After releasing the slot, swba will be enabled again
upon the availablity of beaconing interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07 14:57:06 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
080e1a259a ath9k: fix a DMA related race condition on reset
When ath_drain_all_txq fails to stop DMA, it issues a hw reset. This reset
happens at a very problematic point in time, when the hardware rx path has
not been stopped yet. This could lead to memory corruption, hardware hangs
or other issues.
To fix these issues, simply remove the reset entirely and check the tx DMA
stop status to prevent problems with fast channel changes.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-07 14:57:05 -05:00
John W. Linville
09f921f83f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c
2010-12-02 15:46:37 -05:00
Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
ea066d5a91 ath9k: Add support for Adaptive Power Management
This feature is to mitigate the problem of certain 3
stream chips that exceed the PCIe power requirements.An EEPROM flag
controls which chips have APM enabled which is basically read from
miscellaneous configuration element of the EEPROM header.

This workaround will reduce power consumption by using 2 Tx chains for
Single and Double stream rates (5 GHz only).All self generated frames
(regardless of rate) are sent on 2 chains when this feature is
enabled(Chip Limitation).

Cc: Paul Shaw <paul.shaw@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-30 13:49:13 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
46047784b8 ath9k: Disable SWBA interrupt on remove_interface
while removing beaconing mode interface, SWBA interrupt
was never disabled when there are no other beaconing interfaces.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-29 14:41:28 -05:00
Gabor Juhos
98c316e348 ath9k: use per-device struct for pm_qos_* operations
The ath9k driver uses a shared pm_qos_request_list structure for all
devices. This causes the following warning if more than one device is
present in the system:

WARNING: at kernel/pm_qos_params.c:234 ath9k_init_device+0x5e8/0x6b0()
pm_qos_add_request() called for already added request
Modules linked in:
Call Trace:
[<802b1cdc>] dump_stack+0x8/0x34
[<8007dd90>] warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0xa4
[<8007de44>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2c/0x38
[<801b0828>] ath9k_init_device+0x5e8/0x6b0
[<801bc508>] ath_pci_probe+0x2dc/0x39c
[<80176254>] pci_device_probe+0x64/0xa4
[<8019471c>] driver_probe_device+0xbc/0x188
[<80194854>] __driver_attach+0x6c/0xa4
[<80193e20>] bus_for_each_dev+0x60/0xb0
[<80193580>] bus_add_driver+0xcc/0x268
[<80194c08>] driver_register+0xe0/0x198
[<801764e0>] __pci_register_driver+0x50/0xe0
[<80365f48>] ath9k_init+0x3c/0x6c
[<8006050c>] do_one_initcall+0xfc/0x1d8
[<80355340>] kernel_init+0xd4/0x174
[<800639a4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18

---[ end trace 5345fc6f870564a6 ]---

This patch fixes that warning by using a separate pm_qos_request_list
sructure for each device.

Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-29 14:41:28 -05:00
John W. Linville
d7a066c923 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2010-11-24 16:19:24 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
71a3bf3e94 ath9k: block new AMPDU sessions if SC_OP_TXAGGR is not set
This makes further tx path cleanups easier

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17 16:19:25 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
28d1670862 ath9k: clean up code duplication around ath_tx_start
Merge initial processing for the CAB queue and regular tx.
Also move ath_tx_cabq() to beacon.c and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17 16:19:23 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
82259b77f6 ath9k: remove bfs_paprd_timestamp from struct ath_buf_state
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-17 16:19:12 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
066dae93bd ath9k: rework tx queue selection and fix queue stopping/waking
The current ath9k tx queue handling code showed a few issues that could
lead to locking issues, tx stalls due to stopped queues, and maybe even
DMA issues.

The main source of these issues is that in some places the queue is
selected via skb queue mapping in places where this mapping may no
longer be valid. One such place is when data frames are transmitted via
the CAB queue (for powersave buffered frames). This is made even worse
by a lookup WMM AC values from the assigned tx queue (which is
undefined for the CAB queue).

This messed up the pending frame counting, which in turn caused issues
with queues getting stopped, but not woken again.

To fix these issues, this patch removes an unnecessary abstraction
separating a driver internal queue number from the skb queue number
(not to be confused with the hardware queue number).

It seems that this abstraction may have been necessary because of tx
queue preinitialization from the initvals. This patch avoids breakage
here by pushing the software <-> hardware queue mapping to the function
that assigns the tx queues and redefining the WMM AC definitions to
match the numbers used by mac80211 (also affects ath9k_htc).

To ensure consistency wrt. pending frame count tracking, these counters
are moved to the ath_txq struct, updated with the txq lock held, but
only where the tx queue selected by the skb queue map actually matches
the tx queue used by the driver for the frame.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@venatech.se>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15 13:25:54 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
6a6733f256 ath9k: content DMA start / stop through the PCU lock
This helps align resets / RX enable & disable / TX stop / start.
Locking around the PCU is important to ensure the hardware doesn't
get stale data when working with DMA'able data.

This is part of a series of patches which fix stopping
TX DMA completley when requested on the driver.
For more details about this issue refer to this thread:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2

Tested-by:  Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15 13:24:47 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
4bdd1e978e ath9k: move the PCU lock to the sc structure
The PCU lock should be used to contend TX DMA as well,
this will be done next.

This is part of a series of patches which fix stopping
TX DMA completley when requested on the driver.
For more details about this issue refer to this thread:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2

Tested-by:  Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15 13:24:46 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
9d94674ab7 ath9k: simplify hw reset locking
The new PCU lock is better placed so we can just contend
against that when trying to reset hardware.

This is part of a series of patches which fix stopping
TX DMA completley when requested on the driver.
For more details about this issue refer to this thread:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2

Tested-by:  Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15 13:24:44 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
de40f316c0 ath9k_hw: extend ath9k_hw_set_txpowerlimit to test channel txpower
ath9k_hw_set_txpowerlimit gets an extra boolean parameter that - if set -
causes the rate txpower table and the regulatory limit to be calculated
and stored, without changing hardware registers.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15 13:23:14 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
9fa23e1741 ath9k: optimize/fix ANI RSSI processing
ANI needs the RSSI average only in station mode, and only for tracking
the signal strength of beacons of the AP that it is connected to.
Adjust the code to track on the beacon RSSI, and store the average of that
in the ath_wiphy struct.
With these changes, we can get rid of this extra station lookup in the
rx path, which saves precious CPU cycles.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-09 16:13:24 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
4df3071ebd ath9k_hw: optimize interrupt mask changes
OProfile showed that ath9k was spending way too much time in
ath9k_hw_set_interrupts. Since most of the interrupt mask changes only
need to globally enable/disable interrupts, it makes sense to split
this part into separate functions, replacing all calls to
ath9k_hw_set_interrupts(ah, 0) with ath9k_hw_disable_interrupts(ah).

ath9k_hw_set_interrupts(ah, ah->imask) only gets changed to
ath9k_hw_enable_interrupts(ah), whenever ah->imask was not changed
since the point where interrupts were disabled.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-09 16:13:24 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
fbb078fcd2 ath9k: check old power mode before clearing cycle counters
ath9k_ps_wakeup() clears the cycle counters after waking up the
hardware using ath9k_hw_setpower, however if power save is disabled,
then the counters will contain useful data, which then gets discarded.
Fix this by checking the old power mode before discarding any data.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-08 16:53:47 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan
10598c124e ath9k: Fix a DMA latency issue for Intel Pinetrail platforms.
Throughput was severely affected in Intel Pinetrail platforms
because of a DMA problem in C3 state. This patch fixes this
issue.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-08 16:53:46 -05:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
5f841b4130 ath9k: Avoid HW opmode overridden on monitor mode changes
The HW opmode is blindly set to monitor type on monitor mode
change notification. This overrides the opmode when one of the
interfaces is still running as non-monitor iftype. So the monitoring
information needs to be maintained seperately.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-08 16:53:46 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
5e848f789d ath9k: lock reset and PCU start/stopping
Apart from locking the start and stop PCU we need
to ensure we also content starting and stopping the PCU
between hardware resets.

This is part of a series that will help resolve the bug:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14624

For more details about this issue refer to:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-27 15:42:58 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
b79b33c4ba ath9k: rename rxflushlock to pcu_lock
The real way to lock RX is to contend on the PCU
and reset, this will be fixed in the next patch but for
now just do the renames so that the next patch which changes
the locking order is crystal clear.

This is part of a series that will help resolve the bug:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14624

For more details about this issue refer to:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=128629803703756&w=2

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Kyungwan Nam <kyungwan.nam@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-27 15:41:15 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
fac6b6a065 ath9k: resume aggregation immediately after a hardware reset
Since aggregation is usually triggered by tx completion, a hardware
reset (because of beacon stuck, tx hang or baseband hang) can
significantly delay the transmission of the next AMPDU (until the next
tx completion event).
Fix this by rescheduling aggregation after such a reset.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-25 14:45:56 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
0845735e2d ath9k: fix crash in ath_update_survey_stats
If ah->curchan is uninitialized, the channel index is bogus, which leads
to invalid memory access when the cycle counters are updated.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-25 14:43:14 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
4e9900180e ath9k: remove sc->cur_rate_table and sc->cur_rate_mode
Set the rate table in the rc module properly based on band and
HT capabilities instead, which was already partially done, but
not for every mode.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-15 15:48:45 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
88eac2dad8 ath9k: add missing locking around ath9k_hw_proc_mib_event
ath9k_hw_proc_mib_event updates the cycle counters, so it common->cc_lock
must be acquired.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-15 15:48:44 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
898c914a08 ath9k: do not track cycle counter updates in powersave mode
While the chip is in powersave mode, the cycle counter updates do not
contain useful values. While the chip is in full sleep, the rx_clear
signal stays high, indicating a busy medium.
To ensure sane values, update cycle counters before going into
powersave, and clear them right after switching back to awake.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-15 15:48:44 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
9c1d8e4aff ath9k: Set RX filter for Probe Request based on filter flag
This allows mac80211 to enable receiving of Probe Request frames in
station mode which is needed for P2P.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-13 15:45:23 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
3430098ae4 ath9k: implement channel utilization stats for survey
Results for the active channel are updated whenever a new survey dump
is requested, the old data is kept to allow multiple processes to
make their own channel utilization averages.
All other channels only contain the data for the last time that the
hardware was on the channel, i.e. the last scan result or other
off-channel activity.
Running a background scan does not clear the data for the active
channel.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-11 15:04:21 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
b5bfc5683d ath9k_hw: move the cycle counter tracking to ath
Instead of keeping track of wraparound, clear the counters on every
access and keep separate deltas for ANI and later survey use.
Also moves the function for calculating the 'listen time' for ANI

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-11 15:04:20 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian
845d708e62 ath9k: Introduce a wrapper for power save disable.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-06 16:30:40 -04:00
Senthil Balasubramanian
fbab7390f9 ath9k: remove unnecessary power save flags.
drv_config callback is called only after the ack for the nullframe
is received and so driver need not do anything special for this.

So remove NULLFUNC_COMPLETED, PS_ENABLED flags and bf_isnullfunc
flags from ath9k as mac80211 already handles them properly.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-06 16:30:40 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
bfc472bb73 ath9k_hw: remove code duplication in phy error counter handling
Split out the PHY error counter update from ath9k_hw_ani_monitor_*, reuse
it in ath9k_hw_proc_mib_event (merged from ath9k_hw_proc_mib_event_old
and ath9k_hw_proc_mib_event_new).

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-06 16:30:39 -04:00
Bill Jordan
e51f3eff9a ath9k: add WDS interfaces to ath9k
Enable WDS for the ath9k driver.

Signed-off-by: Bill Jordan <bjordan@rajant.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05 13:35:24 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
39162dbe81 ath9k: return survey data for all channels instead of just the current one
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05 13:35:22 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
0bda652300 ath9k: remove the noise floor value in the ani struct
common->ani.noise_floor is now only used for a similar redundant debug
message similar to the one that was removed from ath9k_htc in an earlier
patch. Remove it from ath9k as well now.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05 13:35:22 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
4f1a5a4b62 ath9k: do not return default noise floor values via survey
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-05 13:35:22 -04:00
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
9094537c3a ath9k: Fix tx struck state with paprd
Paprd needs to be done only on active chains(not for all the chains
that hw can support). The paprd training frames which are sent
for inactive chains would be hanging on the hw queue without
getting transmitted and would make the connection so unstable.
This issue happens only with the hw which supports paprd cal(ar9003).

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-24 15:54:31 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
231c3a1f06 ath9k: fix an aggregation start related race condition
A new aggregation session start can be issued by mac80211, even when the
cleanup of the previous session has not completed yet. Since the data structure
for the session is not recreated, this could corrupt the block ack window
and lock up the aggregation session. Fix this by delaying the new session
until the old one has been cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-21 11:05:31 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
48a6a46819 ath9k: fix enabling ANI / tx monitor after bg scan
ath9k's entire logic with SC_OP_SCANNING is incorrect due to the
way mac80211 currently implements the scan complete callback and
we handle it in ath9k. This patch removes the flag completely in
preference for the SC_OP_OFFCHANNEL which is really what we wanted.

The scanning flag was used to ensure we reset ANI to the old values
when we go back to the home channel, but if we are offchannel we
use some defaults. The flag was also used to re-enable the TX monitor.

Without this patch we simply never re-enabled ANI and the TX monitor
after going offchannel. This means that after one background
scan we are prone to noise issues and if we had a TX hang we would
not recover. To get this to work properly we must enable ANI after
we have configured the beacon timers, otherwise hardware acts really
oddly.

This patch has stable fixes which apply down to [2.6.36+], there
*may* be a to fix this on older kernels but requires a bit of
work since this patch relies on the new mac80211 flag
IEEE80211_CONF_OFFCHANNEL which was introduced as of 2.6.36.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16 15:46:12 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
52b8ac9249 ath9k: fix regression on beacon loss after bgscan
When we return to the home channel we were never reseting our beacon
timers, this was casued by the fact that the scanning flag was still
on even after we returned to our home channel. There are also other
reasons why we would get a reset and if we are not off channel
we always need to resynch our beacon timers, because a reset will
clear them.

This bug is a regression introduced on 2.6.36. The order of the
changes are as follows:

5ee08656 - Sat Jul 31 - ath9k: prevent calibration during off-channel activity
a0daa0e7 - Tue Jul 27 - Revert "mac80211: fix sw scan bracketing"
543708be - Fri Jun 18 - mac80211: fix sw scan bracketing

mcgrof@tux ~/linux-2.6-allstable (git::master)$ git describe \
        --contains 5ee0865615f65f84e6ee9174771a6716c29e08e1
v2.6.36-rc1~43^2~34^2~22

mcgrof@tux ~/linux-2.6-allstable (git::master)$ git describe \
        --contains a0daa0e7592ada797d6835f11529097aabc27ad2
v2.6.36-rc1~571^2~64^2~13

mcgrof@tux ~/linux-2.6-allstable (git::master)$ git describe \
        --contains 543708be320d7df692d24b349ca01a947b340764
v2.6.36-rc1~571^2~107^2~187

So 5ee08656 would have worked if a0daa0e7 was not committed but
it was so this means 5ee08656 was broken since it assumed that
when we were in the channel change routine the scan flag would
be lifted. As it turns out the scan flag will be set when we
are already on the home channel.

For more details refer to:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5715

These issues will need to be considered for our solution on
reshifting the scan complete callback location on mac80211 on
current development kernel work.

This patch has stable fixes which apply down to [2.6.36+]

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16 15:46:11 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
8ab2cd09fe ath9k: fix power save race conditions
ath9k has a race on putting the chip into network sleep and
having registers read from hardware. The race occurs because
although ath9k_ps_restore() locks its own callers it makes use
of some variables which get altered in the driver at different
code paths. The variables are the ps_enabled and ps_flags.

This is easily reprodicible in large network environments when
roaming with the wpa_supplicant simple bgscan. You'd get some
0xdeadbeef read out on certain registers such as:

ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x806c: 0xdeadbeef & 0x01f00000 != 0x00000000
ath: RX failed to go idle in 10 ms RXSM=0xdeadbeef

ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x7000: 0xdeadbeef & 0x00000003 != 0x00000000
ath: Chip reset failed

The fix is to protect the ath9k_config(hw, IEEE80211_CONF_CHANGE_PS)
calls with a spin_lock_irqsave() which will disable contendors for
these variables from interrupt context, timers, re-entry from mac80211
on the same callback, and most importantly from ath9k_ps_restore()
which is the only call which will put the device into network sleep.

There are quite a few threads and bug reports on these a few of them are:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/linux/+bug/407040
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5709
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5943

Stable fixes apply to [2.6.32+]

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Amod Bodas <amod.bodas@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16 15:46:09 -04:00
Bruno Randolf
040e539e8e ath9k: Use common ath key management functions
Use key management functions which have been moved to ath/key.c and remove
ath9k copies of these functions and other now unused definitions.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16 15:22:10 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
364734fafb ath9k_hw: remove useless hw capability flags
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-14 16:14:27 -04:00
Felix Fietkau
31a01645c0 ath9k: fix BSSID mask calculation
At the time the .add_interface driver op is called, the interface has not
been marked as running yet, so ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces will
not pass it to the iterator function.
Because of this, the calculated BSSID mask is wrong, which breaks multi-BSS
operation.

Additionally, the current way of comparing all addresses against each other
is pointless, as the hardware only uses the hardware MAC address and the BSSID
mask for matching the destination address, so all the address array
reallocation is completely unnecessary.

This patch simplifies the logic by setting the initial mask bytes to 0xff
and removing all bits in the iterator call that don't match the hardware MAC
address. It also calls the iterator for the vif that was passed to
add_interface()

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-14 16:14:26 -04:00
Johannes Berg
97359d1235 mac80211: use cipher suite selectors
Currently, mac80211 translates the cfg80211
cipher suite selectors into ALG_* values.
That isn't all too useful, and some drivers
benefit from the distinction between WEP40
and WEP104 as well. Therefore, convert it
all to use the cipher suite selectors.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-08-16 16:45:11 -04:00