This patch fixes some issues with interface reconfiguration. It could
for example happen that an AP interface in beacon slot 0 was removed
leaving an IBSS station in one of the other slots. When this happens
the driver never sends out the beacon as it only tries to send a beacon
from slot 0.
Appart from that the tracking of required changes to the beacon config is
relatively complicated and prone to errors.
The approach taken here is to solve reconfiguration issues is to
reconfigure the beacons when any interface changes. This means that
the complexity of deciding whether an interface change may modify the
beacon configuration is gone. It also means that the beacon config will
be reliably updated when an interface is removed.
The issue that a single non-AP interface might not be in beacon
slot 0 and wouldn't be send out is solved by moving it into the
first slot. The TSF value in hardware is adjusted accordingly so
that the timestamp of the beacons stay consistent.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
The removed ATH9K_SLOT_TIME_X constants simply map the value in microseconds
to the same integer. These constants were not used consistently, so fix the
inconsistency issue by replacing all occurances with the integer equivalent.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Beacons were not send out at (timestamp % beacon_time == 0) for interfaces
other than the primary one. To send out beacons with the correct timestamp
according to 10.1.3.2 of the 802.11 standard the tsf_adjustment has to be
set to the negative time difference instead of positive. This way the
later beacons get corrected to have a lower (and similar) timestamp with
regard to the beacon from slot 0.
I am not aware about any issues that have been caused by this.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
In case of MCC and AP interface, add also NOA attr
that will inform stations about absence of an AP.
There is a chance that some stations will handle
this NOA attr correctly and will know exactly when
AP is present/absent.
Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
sc->nbcnvifs tracks assigned beacon slots, not enabled beacons.
Therefore, it cannot be used to decide if cur_conf->enable_beacon (bool)
should be updated, or if beacons have been enabled already.
With the current code (depending on the order of calls), beacons often
do not get enabled in an AP+STA setup.
To fix tracking of enabled beacons, convert cur_conf->enable_beacon to a
bitmask of enabled beacon slots.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Add TPC capability to TX descriptor path. Cap per-packet TX power according to
TX power per-rate tables. Currently TPC is supported just by AR9003 based chips
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently, ath9k uses a global counter for all
frames that need to be assigned a sequence number.
QoS-data frames are handled properly since they
have a per-tid counter. But, beacons and other
management frames use the same counter even if
multiple interfaces or contexts are present.
Fix this issue by making the counter per-interface
and using it when mac80211 sets IEEE80211_TX_CTL_ASSIGN_SEQ.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently, the interface count is maintained globally,
but this causes problems in RX filter calculation.
Make the interface count a per-channel-context variable
to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In channel context mode, when a new context is added,
mac80211 issues a bss_info_changed() notfication when
preparing the connection for the new interface/context.
But, this is done prior to the mgd_prepare_tx() call which
is where we switch to the new context. Since the current
context will be different when the earlier bss_info_changed()
is handled, the beacon information for the VIF is not
updated, but discarded since the rules for the current context
disallows it.
In the subsequent association process for the new context/vif,
this becomes a problem because the beacon parameters are invalid.
This causes problems with the TSF timer, causing large jumps.
To fix this, check if the beacon info is being updated for a
different context and if so, allow it without any checks since
we limit the max. interfaces to two anyway.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using these wrappers allows us to move the 'sched'
variable in ath_softc inside CONFIG_ATH9K_CHANNEL_CONTEXT.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Check if channel context usage is enabled before
calling ath_chanctx_event() from various parts of the
driver. Also, make sure that ath_chanctx_event() is
compiled only when CONFIG_ATH9K_CHANNEL_CONTEXT is
enabled.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add a basic state machine for switch channel context
for beacon transmission.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Group and set hw state (opmode, primary_sta, beacon conf) per
channel context instead of whole list of vifs. This would allow
each channel context to run in different mode (STA/AP).
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The channel context worker is used to switch to next requested
channel context.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
A similar patch fixed crashes seen on an ath9k system
when testing against a broken ath10k AP. This patch
is slightly less protective, but probably will do the
job and is less redundant.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Commit "ath9k: prepare for multi-interface CSA support" added a call to
ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces in atomic context (beacon tasklet),
which is crashing.
Use ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic instead.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
we will need it for ath9k_htc, may be other drivers too
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
and rename it to ath9k_cmn_init_channels_rates.
sbands are move to ath_common as well.
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Soon mac80211 will support multi-interface CSA so
using sc->csa_vif is not an option.
Instead just depend on vif->csa_active. Calling
ieee80211_csa_finish() multiple number of times
should not be an issue.
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes the convoluted and hacky method of
monitoring for connectivity. We rely on mac80211's connection
loss logic and doing it in the driver is not necessary.
The HW check for MAC/BB hangs is also simplified, there
is no need to have a separate work instance for it.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Dividing the beacon interval by ATH_BCBUF (8) truncates the result for
the default beacon interval of 100.
Fix the calculation by moving the division after conversion from TU to
microseconds.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make that function and ath9k_allow_beacon_config static
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The beacon code previously reset TSF on every configuration call, as
some of the code was not prepared to properly calculate nexttbtt based
on current TSF.
This patch adds a common function for calculating nexttbtt and moves the
TSF reset to driver start.
This should improve AP mode compatibility with various stations that
expect the TSF to not randomly jump due to hardware resets.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove unused fields, pass timer info in usec instead of TU.
Preparation for fixing nexttbtt calculation
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Beacon transmission would get stuck if the NAV is
an invalid value for some reason. Check and correct
the NAV value in the HW when this happens.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
CSA is only enabled for one interface, but the same limitation applies
for mac80211 too. It checks whether the beacon has been sent (different
approaches for non-EDMA-enabled and EDMA-enabled devices), and completes
the channel switch after that.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The CAB (Content after Beacon) queue is used for beacon-triggered
transmission of buffered multicast frames. If lots of multicast frames
were buffered and this queue fills up, it drowns out all regular
traffic. To limit the damage that buffered traffic can do, try to limit
the queued data to becaon_interval / 8.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Chun-Yeow and Javier Lopez contributed these changes to
make mesh mode use the more similar AP beaconing mode and
queue parameters. Should improve PS performance, interface
concurrency (AP modes can coexist), and beacon interval
stability.
AR9271 (ath9k_htc) mesh interfaces also need to be in AP
operating mode.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Drivers that don't use chanctxes cannot perform VHT association because
they still use a "backward compatibility" pair of {ieee80211_channel,
nl80211_channel_type} in ieee80211_conf and ieee80211_local.
Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
[fix kernel-doc]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
On joining an existing IBSS network, beaconing has to start
only after a TSF sync has happened by receiving a beacon from
the BSS. In creator mode, beaconing can start immediately after
a HW reset has been done.
Now that mac80211 notifies the driver of the mode type (creator/joiner)
via ieee80211_bss_conf->ibss_creator, make use of it to properly setup
the HW beacon timers.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Dropping packets from aggregation sessions is usually not a good idea, as
it might upset the synchronization of the BlockAck receive window of the
remote node. The use of the retry_tx parameter to reset/tx-drain functions
also seemed a bit arbitrary.
This patch removes this parameter altogether and ensures that pending tx
frames are not dropped for no good reason.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
During teardown, mac80211 will not return a new beacon. This is normal and
handled properly in the driver, so there's no need to spam the user with a kernel
warning here.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the next beacon is sent, the ath_buf from the previous run is reused.
If getting a new beacon from mac80211 fails, bf->bf_mpdu is not reset, yet
the skb is freed, leading to a double-free on the next beacon tx attempt,
resulting in a system crash.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the macros provided by mac80211 and remove redundant
declarations inside the drivers.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using ieee80211_free_txskb for tx frames is required, since mac80211 clones
skbs for which socket tx status is requested.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Using work_pending() to defer certain operations when
a HW-reset work has been queued is racy since the check
would return false when the work item is actually in
execution. Use SC_OP_HW_RESET instead to fix this race.
Also, unify the reset debug statistics maintenance.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove unused variables, use a helper function to choose
the slot and reset beaconing status at one place.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Setup the beacon queue parameters after disabling
interrupts. Also, remove the redundant call in conf_tx()
for IBSS mode since the queue would be configured
with the appropriate cwmin/cwmax values when beaconing
is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the tx_last_beacon() callback, mac80211's beaconing
status can be used instead. The beacon tasklet doesn't require
it because it is disabled when removing a slot.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
