The original description was for LAG, so fix it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add or remove a bridged port from the flooding domain of unknown unicast
packets according to user configuration.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When enabling a range of VLANs on a bridged port we can configure
flooding for these VLANs by one register access instead of calling the
same register for each VLAN. This is accomplished by using the 'range'
field of the Switch Flooding Table Register (SFTR).
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It is a flag anyway, so move it to existing u8 flag and don't waste mem.
Fix the flags to be in single u8 on the way.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In certain use cases it is not always desirable for the switch device to
flood traffic to CPU port. Instead, only certain packet types (e.g.
STP, LACP) should be trapped to it.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allow devices supporting this feature to control the flooding of unknown
unicast traffic, by making switchdev infrastructure propagate this setting
to the switch driver.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Iyappan Subramanian says:
====================
drivers: xgene: Add support RGMII TX/RX delay configuration
X-Gene RGMII ethernet controller has a RGMII bridge that performs the
task of converting the RGMII signal {RX_CLK,RX_CTL, RX_DATA[3:0]} from
PHY to GMII signal {RX_DV,RX_ER,RX_DATA[7:0]} and vice versa. This
RGMII bridge has a provision to internally delay the input RX_CLK and
the output TX_CLK using configuration registers. This will help in
maintain the CLK-CTL delay relationship in various operating
conditions.
This patch adds support RGMII TX/RX delay configuration.
====================
Signed-off-by: Iyappan Subramanian <isubramanian@apm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add RGMII TX/RX delay configuration support. RGMII standard requires 2ns
delay to help the RGMII bridge receiver to sample data correctly. If the
default value does not provide proper centering of the data sample, the
TX/RX delay parameters can be used to adjust accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Iyappan Subramanian <isubramanian@apm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Problem Description:
We can add fdbs pointing to the bridge with NULL ->dst but that has a
few race conditions because br_fdb_insert() is used which first creates
the fdb and then, after the fdb has been published/linked, sets
"is_local" to 1 and in that time frame if a packet arrives for that fdb
it may see it as non-local and either do a NULL ptr dereference in
br_forward() or attach the fdb to the port where it arrived, and later
br_fdb_insert() will make it local thus getting a wrong fdb entry.
Call chain br_handle_frame_finish() -> br_forward():
But in br_handle_frame_finish() in order to call br_forward() the dst
should not be local i.e. skb != NULL, whenever the dst is
found to be local skb is set to NULL so we can't forward it,
and here comes the problem since it's running only
with RCU when forwarding packets it can see the entry before "is_local"
is set to 1 and actually try to dereference NULL.
The main issue is that if someone sends a packet to the switch while
it's adding the entry which points to the bridge device, it may
dereference NULL ptr. This is needed now after we can add fdbs
pointing to the bridge. This poses a problem for
br_fdb_update() as well, while someone's adding a bridge fdb, but
before it has is_local == 1, it might get moved to a port if it comes
as a source mac and then it may get its "is_local" set to 1
This patch changes fdb_create to take is_local and is_static as
arguments to set these values in the fdb entry before it is added to the
hash. Also adds null check for port in br_forward.
Fixes: 3741873b4f ("bridge: allow adding of fdb entries pointing to the bridge device")
Reported-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Other callers of udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb just pass 0 for the prio
argument. Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> suggested that prio is really
the same as IPv4's tos and should be handled the same, so this is my
interpretation of that suggestion.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
NOTE: Link-local IPv6 addresses for remote endpoints are not supported,
since the driver currently has no capacity for binding a geneve
interface to a specific link.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The current arm64 Image relocation code in the UEFI stub assumes that
the dram_base argument it receives is always a multiple of 2 MB. In
reality, it is simply the lowest start address of all RAM entries in
the UEFI memory map, which means it could be any multiple of 4 KB.
Since the arm64 kernel Image needs to reside TEXT_OFFSET bytes beyond
a 2 MB aligned base, or it will fail to boot, make sure we round dram_base
to 2 MB before using it to calculate the relocation address.
Fixes: e38457c361 ("arm64: efi: prefer AllocatePages() over efi_low_alloc() for vmlinux")
Reported-by: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Raw sockets with hdrincl enabled can insert ipv6 extension headers
right into the data stream. In case we need to fragment those packets,
we reparse the options header to find the place where we can insert
the fragment header. If the extension headers exceed the link's MTU we
actually cannot make progress in such a case.
Instead of ending up in broken arithmetic or rounding towards 0 and
entering an endless loop in ip6_fragment, just prevent those cases by
aborting early and signal -EMSGSIZE to user space.
This is the second version of the patch which doesn't use the
overflow_usub function, which got reverted for now.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linus dislikes these changes. To not hold up the net-merge let's revert
it for now and fix the bug like Linus suggested.
This reverts commit ec3661b422, reversing
changes made to c80dbe0461.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Major changes:
ath10k:
* add QCA9377 support
* fw_stats support for 10.4 firmware
ath6kl:
* report antenna configuration to user space
* implement ethtool stats
This supports a way to get target stats through normal
ethtool stats API.
For instance:
# ethtool -S wlan1
NIC statistics:
tx_pkts_nic: 353
tx_bytes_nic: 25142
rx_pkts_nic: 6
rx_bytes_nic: 996
d_tx_ucast_pkts: 89
d_tx_bcast_pkts: 264
d_tx_ucast_bytes: 3020
d_tx_bcast_bytes: 22122
...
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
This will allow us to call it from elsewhere when implementing
ethtool stats.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Improper use of strlcpy caused garbage to be appended to the
firmware version string. Fix this by paying attention to the
ie_lenth.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
It can take a user a while to understand why their
NIC that advertises 802.11n support cannot actually
do 802.11n. Print out a warning in the logs to save
the next poor person to use this NIC some trouble.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
This lets 'iw phy phy0 info' report antennas for
the radio device:
...
Available Antennas: TX 0x2 RX 0x2
Configured Antennas: TX 0x2 RX 0x2
...
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
When configuring Tx vring for new connection,
WMI call to the firmware may fail. In this case, need to
clean up properly. In particular, need to call
cfg80211_del_sta() in case of AP like interface.
Perform full "disconnect" procedure for proper clean up
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Adjust driver behavior during FW boot. Proper sequence of
events after reset and FW download, is as following:
- FW prepares mailbox structure and reports IRQ "FW_READY"
- driver caches mailbox registers, marks mailbox readiness
- FW sends WMI_FW_READY event, ignore it
- FW sends WMI_READY event with some data
- driver stores relevant data marks FW is operational
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
When Tx ring full is encountered with TSO,
printout of "DMA error" was wrongly printed.
In addition, in case of Tx ring full return
proper error code so that NETDEV_TX_BUSY is
returned to network stack in order not to
drop the packets and retry transmission of the
packets when ring is emptied.
Signed-off-by: Hamad Kadmany <qca_hkadmany@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Some events are ignored for purpose; such events should not
be treated as "unhandled events". Replace info message
saying "unhandled" with debug one saying "ignore", to reduce
dmesg pollution
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Add the hardware name, revision and update the pci_id table.
Currently there're two HW ref. designs available I'm aware of,
with 1.0.2 and 1.1 chip revisions. I've access and been using
the first one so far and this patch cover only it.
QCA9377 inherits most of the stuff (e.g. fw interfaces)
from QCA61x4 design, so the integration was pretty straightforward.
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Markowski <bartosz.markowski@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To reflect configured antenna settings in HT/VHT MCS map,
reload the HT/VHT capabilities upon antenna change.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Move HT and VHT capabiltity setup static functions to avoid
forward declaration.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
HT/VHT MCS rateset should be filled only for configured chainmask
rather that max supported chainmask. Fix that by checking configured
chainmask while filling HT/VHT MCS rate map.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Removing supported chainmask fields as it can be always derived
from num_rf_chains.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
For the messages from host to target, shadow copy of CE descriptors
are maintained in source ring. Before writing actual CE descriptor,
first shadow copy is filled and then it is copied to CE address space.
To optimize in download path and to reduce d-cache pressure, removing
shadow copy of CE descriptors. This will also reduce driver memory
consumption by 33KB during on device probing.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
The physical address necessary to unmap DMA ('bufferp') is stored
in ath10k_skb_cb as 'paddr'. ath10k doesn't rely on the meta/transfer_id
when handling send completion (htc ep id is stored in sk_buff control
buffer). So the unused output arguments {bufferp, nbytesp and transfer_idp}
are removed from CE send completion. This change is needed before removing
the shadow copy of copy engine (CE) descriptors in follow up patch.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
CE diag window access is serialized (it has to be by design) so
there's no way to get a different send completion. so there's no
need for post completion validation.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Currently to avoid uncached memory access while filling up copy engine
descriptors, shadow descriptors are used. This can be optimized further
by removing shadow descriptors. To achieve that first shadow ring
dependency in ce_send is removed by creating local copy of the
descriptor on stack and make a one-shot copy into the "uncached"
descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
This patch adds support for getting firmware debug stats in 10.4 fw.
Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty <c_mpubbi@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tamizh chelvam <c_traja@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Add WMI-TLV and FW API support in ath10k testmode.
Ath10k can get right wmi command format from UTF image
to communicate UTF firmware.
Signed-off-by: Alan Liu <alanliu@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
systemd > 218 fails to compile on ia64 with:
error: ‘__NR_kcmp’ undeclared [1].
I've been told that this is because the kcmp syscall hasn't been wired up
for the ia64 arch [2].
The proposed patch thus wire up the kcmp syscall for the ia64 arch.
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560492
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560492#c17
Signed-off-by: Émeric MASCHINO <emeric.maschino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
European Union has made it mandatory that all devices working in 2.4 GHz
has to adhere to the ETSI specification (ETSI EN 300 328 V1.9.1)
beginnig this year. The standard basically speaks about interferences
in 2.4Ghz band.
For example, when 802.11 device detects interference, TX must be stopped
as long as interference is present.
Adaptive CCA is a feature, when enabled the device learns from the
environment and configures CCA levels adaptively. This will improve
detecting interferences and the device can stop trasmissions till the
interference is present eventually leading to good performances in
varying interference conditions.
The patch includes code for enabling adaptive CCA for 10.2.4 firmware on
QCA988X.
Signed-off-by: Maharaja <c_mkenna@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty <c_mpubbi@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
This allows saving a little of space when not using ssb on Broadcom SoC.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
This cleans main.c a bit and will allow us to compile SoC related code
conditionally in the future.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
ssb bus can be found on various "host" devices like PCI/PCMCIA/SDIO.
Every ssb bus contains cores AKA devices.
The main idea is to have ssb driver scan/initialize bus and register
ready-to-use cores. This way ssb drivers can operate on a single core
mostly ignoring underlaying details.
For some reason PCMCIA support was split between ssb and b43. We got
PCMCIA host device probing in b43, then bus scanning in ssb and then
wireless core probing back in b43. The truth is it's very unlikely we
will ever see PCMCIA ssb device with no 802.11 core but I still don't
see any advantage of the current architecture.
With proposed change we get the same functionality with a simpler
architecture, less Kconfig symbols, one killed EXPORT and hopefully
cleaner b43. Since b43 supports both: ssb & bcma I prefer to keep ssb
specific code in ssb driver.
This mostly moves code from b43's pcmcia.c to bridge_pcmcia_80211.c. We
already use similar solution with b43_pci_bridge.c. I didn't use "b43"
in name of this new file as in theory any driver can operate on wireless
core.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
In uap mode the carrier is not enabled until after the first STA joins.
The carrier triggers the bridge to start its state machine, and if STP
is enabled, it takes 4 seconds as it transitions from disabled to
forwarding. During this time the bridge drops all traffic, and the EAPOL
handshake times out after 3 seconds, preventing stations from joining.
Follow the logic used in mac80211 and start the carrier in start_ap
and disable it in stop_ap. This has a nice benefit of allowing the
first station connection time to be reduced by up to 75% when STP is
in use.
Signed-off-by: Martin Faltesek <mfaltesek@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
wcn36xx implements a ring buffer for transmitted frames for each
(high and low priority) DMA channel. The ring buffers are lockless:
new frames are inserted at the head of the queue, while finished
packets are reaped from the tail.
Unfortunately, the list manipulations are missing any kind of barriers
so are susceptible to various races: for example, a TX completion
handler might read an updated desc->ctrl before the head has actually
advanced, and then null out the ctl->skb pointer while it is still
being used in the TX path.
Simplify things here by adding a spin lock when traversing the ring.
This change increased stability for me without adding any noticeable
overhead on my platform (xperia z).
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Some of the ath9k_phyerr enums were wrong from the
beginning (and even before). Most of the time the
codes were used for counters to be displayed over
debugfs, which made this a non-functional issue.
Some (e.g. ATH9K_PHYERR_FALSE_RADAR_EXT) are used
for radar detection and require the correct code
to work as intended.
This patch includes:
a) fixes
ATH9K_PHYERR_FALSE_RADAR_EXT: 24 => 36
ATH9K_PHYERR_CCK_LENGTH_ILLEGAL: 32 => 28
ATH9K_PHYERR_CCK_POWER_DROP: 33 => 29
ATH9K_PHYERR_HT_CRC_ERROR: 34 => 32
ATH9K_PHYERR_HT_LENGTH_ILLEGAL: 35 => 33
ATH9K_PHYERR_HT_RATE_ILLEGAL: 36 => 34
b) extensions
ATH9K_PHYERR_CCK_BLOCKER = 24
ATH9K_PHYERR_HT_ZLF = 35
ATH9K_PHYERR_GREEN_FIELD = 37
Aside from the correction and completion made in
the enum, the patch also extends the display of
the related counters in the debugfs.
Signed-off-by: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
The current code exits after alloc_orinocodev, but fails to change the
return value to something that indicates the failure. This patch
changes the return value to -ENOMEM.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106181
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
SIOCSIWAP (airo_set_wap) affects scan: only the AP specified by
SIOCSIWAP is present in scan results.
This makes NetworkManager work for the first time but then unable to
find any other APs.
Clear APList before starting scan and set it back after scan completes
to work-around the problem.
To avoid losing packets during scan, modify disable_MAC() to omit
netif_carrier_off() call when lock == 2.
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Instead of dynamically allocating APList, make it a member of struct
airo_info to always track state of APList_rid.
This simplifies suspend/resume and allows removal of readAPListRid.
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
* fixes and cleanups in scan
* support of several scan plans
* improvements in FTM
* fixes in FW API
* improvements in the failure paths when the bus is dead
* other various small things here and there
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Merge tag 'iwlwifi-next-for-kalle-2015-10-25' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-next
* bug fix for TDLS
* fixes and cleanups in scan
* support of several scan plans
* improvements in FTM
* fixes in FW API
* improvements in the failure paths when the bus is dead
* other various small things here and there
