This is an Adaptive Noise Imunity (ANI) implementation for ath5k. I have looked
at both ath9k and HAL sources (they are nearly the same), and even though i
have implemented some things differently, the basic algorithm is practically
the same, for now. I hope that this can serve as a clean start to improve the
algorithm later.
This also adds a possibility to manually control ANI settings, right now only
thru a debugfs file:
* set lowest sensitivity (=highest noise immunity):
echo sens-low > /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
* set highest sensitivity (=lowest noise immunity):
echo sens-high > /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
* automatically control immunity (default):
echo ani-on > /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
* to see the parameters in use and watch them change:
cat /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/ani
Manually setting sensitivity will turn the automatic control off. You can also
control each of the five immunity parameters (noise immunity, spur immunity,
firstep, ofdm weak signal detection, cck weak signal detection) manually thru
the debugfs file.
This is tested on AR5414 and nearly doubles the thruput in a noisy 2GHz band.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Update PHY error codes from the HAL, and keep them in statistics for debugging
via the 'frameerrors' file. This will also be used by ANI.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Let's keep MIB counter statistics in our own statistics structure and only
convert it to ieee80211_low_level_stats when needed by mac80211. Also we don't
need to read profile count registers in the MIB interrupt (they don't trigger
MIB interrupts).
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
add a debugfs file to see different RX and TX errors as reported in our status
descriptors. this can help to diagnose driver problems.
statistics can be cleared by writing 'clear' into the frameerrors file.
example:
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/frameerrors
RX
---------------------
CRC 27 (11%)
PHY 3 (1%)
FIFO 0 (0%)
decrypt 0 (0%)
MIC 0 (0%)
process 0 (0%)
jumbo 0 (0%)
[RX all 245]
TX
---------------------
retry 2 (9%)
FIFO 0 (0%)
filter 0 (0%)
[TX all 21]
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
keep statistics about which antenna was used for TX and RX. this is used only
for debugging right now, but might have other applications later.
add a new file 'antenna' in debugfs (/sys/kernel/debug/ath5k/phy0/antenna) to show
antenna use statistics and antenna diversity related register values. it can
also be used to set the antenna mode until we have proper support for that in
iw:
- echo diversity > antenna: use default antenna mode (RX and TX diversity)
- echo fixed-a > antenna: use fixed antenna A for RX and TX
- echo fixed-b > antenna: use fixed antenna B for RX and TX
- echo clear > antenna: reset antenna statistics
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.
Compile-tested only.
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
"Definition" is misspelled "defintion" in several comments; this
patch fixes them. No code changes.
Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
fix some typos and punctuation in comments
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Only common ath read/write ops go through the common ops.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This moves the shared regulatory structure into the
common structure. We will use this ongoing for common
data.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Now that its shared we can remove ath5k's own implementation.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Get rid of calibration timer, instead use a software interrupt
to schedule the calibration tasklet.
a) We don't need a timer for this, there is no need for accuracy
even with round_jiffies i think this is a waste of resources.
Also we don't need to run calibration if we are idle (no
interrupts).
b) When we add ANI support we 'll just extend the poll function
and calibration tasklet and handle all periodic phy calibration
on one place (much cleaner).
c) Having calibration on a tasklet is better since during calibration
we can't transmit or receive (antennas are detached to measure
noise floor), previously calibration could run in parallel with
tx/rx and interfere (packet loss).
v2: kill tasklet on stop_hw, stop/wake queues
v3: use time_is_before_eq_jiffies to compare timestamp with current
time
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using the enable_beacon flag allows some simplifications and fixes
some corner cases in beacon handling. This change adds a state
variable for beaconing in ath5k_beacon_config and handles both
enabling and disabling, thus eliminating the need for
ath5k_beacon_disable. We also now configure the beacon when any
of the beacon parameters change, so ath5k_beacon_reconfig is no
longer needed (its mmiowb gets moved to ath5k_beacon_config).
Finally, by locking around the whole config function, we don't
need to worry about clearing the interrupt mask register before
installing the new mask.
The upshot is this correctly disables beaconing when the interfaces
are taken down, it fixes a potential restarting of beaconing
when ath5k_reset() is called, and ensures that updates to the
beacon interval take effect immediately.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Enable the "Content" After Beacon queue and utilize it to send
any buffered frames for power-saving clients.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Always enable rfkill since the ifdefs in the code is not really worth
the Kconfig option. Also fix a few code style things, and remove the
usage of the ah_gpio[] array so we can remove it later.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch introduces initial rfkill support for the ath5k driver
based on rfkill support in the cfg80211 framework.
All rfkill related code is separated into newly created rfkill.c.
Changes to existing code are minimal:
* added a new data structure ath5k_rfkill to the ath5k_softc structure
* inserted calls to HW rfkill init/deinit routines
* ath5k_intr() has been extended to handle AR5K_INT_GPIO interrupts
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch simplifies the code used to detect when the
self-linked DMA buffer is still in use by hardware, by
checking the hardware's rxdp register instead of looking
at the software buffer list.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
