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Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

EDMA based chips (AR9380+) have 8 Tx FIFO slots, which are used to fix the
tx queue start/stop race conditions which have to be worked around for
earlier chips by keeping the last descriptor in the queue. The current code
stores all frames that do not fit onto the 8 FIFO slots in a separate
list. Whenever a FIFO slot is freed up, the next frame (or A-MPDU) from the
pending queue gets moved to that slot.

This process is not only inefficient, but also unnecessary. The code can
be improved visibly by keeping the pending queue fully linked, and moving
the contents of the entire queue to a FIFO slot as it becomes available.

This patch makes the necessary changes for that and also merges some code
that was duplicated for EDMA vs non-EDMA. It changes txq->axq_link to point
to the last descriptor instead of the link pointer, so that
ath9k_hw_set_desc_link can be used, which works on all chips.

With this patch, a small performance increase for non-aggregated traffic
was observed on AR9380 based embedded hardware.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Resetting hardware helps to recover from baseband
hang/panic for AR9003 based chips.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The Times They Are a-Changin'.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

we are not doing anything by tracking the number of pending frames.
bail out when we first find a pending frame in any one of the 10 queues.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Only leave filtering enabled for AP or VLAN interfaces, clear the
destination mask for all other interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Mesh beaconing on ath9k was broken by this commit:

commit 4801416c


Author: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Date:   Sat Jan 15 19:13:48 2011 +0000

This patch assigns the right opmode when the device is used in mesh
mode.

Reported-by: Fabrice Deyber fabricedeyber@agilemesh.com
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This beacon rssi will be used to set noisefloor during ani reset.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Processing TSF out of range before RX helps to update beacon
timers so early in the succeeding rx process.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The assumsion is that while processing ath9k tasklet,
interrupts were already disabled and it will be enabled
at the completion of ath9k tasklet. But whenever TSFOOR is raised,
the driver configures the beacon timers after having received a
beacon frame from the AP which inturn enables the interrupts.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

during suspend/S3 state drv_flush is called from mac80211 irrespective of
interface count. In ath9k we queue a work in ath9k_flush which we expect
to be cancelled in the drv_stop call back. during suspend process mac80211
calls drv_stop only when the interface count(local->count) is non-zero.
unfortunately when the network manager is enabled, drv_flush is called
while drv_stop is not called as local->count reaches '0'.
	So fix this by simply checking for the device presence in the
drv_flush call back in the driver before queueing work or anything else.
this patch fixes the following WARNING

	Call Trace:
	[<c014c6e2>] warn_slowpath_common+0x72/0xa0
	[<fc133f99>] ? ieee80211_can_queue_work+0x39/0x50 [mac80211]
	[<fc133f99>] ? ieee80211_can_queue_work+0x39/0x50 [mac80211]
	[<c014c75b>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2b/0x30
	[<fc133f99>] ieee80211_can_queue_work+0x39/0x50 [mac80211]
	[<fc134ed1>] ieee80211_queue_delayed_work+0x21/0x50 [mac80211]
	[<fc1e5b22>] ath_tx_complete_poll_work+0xb2/0x100 [ath9k]
	[<c016399e>] run_workqueue+0x8e/0x150
	[<fc1e5a70>] ? ath_tx_complete_poll_work+0x0/0x100 [ath9k]
	[<c0163ae4>] worker_thread+0x84/0xe0
	[<c0167a60>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50
	[<c0163a60>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0xe0
	[<c01677d4>] kthread+0x74/0x80
	[<c0167760>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
	[<c0104087>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
---[ end trace 2aff81010df9215b ]---
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

when aggregation protection mode is enabled the hardware needs
to send RTS/CTS for each HT frame. Currently its disabled so
remove the unused call backs.
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

While draining the txq in flush, the buffers can be
added into the tx queue by tx_tasklet which leads to
unneccesary chip reset.

This issue was originially found with AR9382 and
running heavy uplink udp traffic with higher bandwidth
and doing frequent bgscan.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Requesting beacon sync up to configure beacon timers properly
in hw, has be done after doing beacon config with default values.
Setting the flags in beacon config is causing the device to not
enter into network sleep on idle state.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

We should protect hw_pll handler with power save wrappers and
also modularize hw_pll handler properly for better readability.

Also add a debug message to track chip resets on pll hang condition.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

There is no reason why pll work handler should be part of xmit
file. move it to main.c so that reading hw check routines are
all in the same place.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

We need not wake up the chip even before mutex lock is acquired and also
that it is required only if we are going to drain the txq. So place the
wrappers accordingly and this change is also useful when there are no
pending frames in the txq as we do not wake up the chip unnecessarily.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Frame filtering relies on having a valid destination index (keycache slot),
to keep track of the destination. Assigning a keycache slot (configured
to unencrypted, with no key data attached) improves powersave handling in
AP mode with no encryption.
The dummy keycache entry for a station is cleared, when a real key gets
added.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch fixes a long standing issue of pending packets in the queue being
sent (and retransmitted many times) to sleeping stations.
This was made worse by aggregation through driver-internal retransmitting
of A-MDPU subframes.
Previously the hardware tx filter was cleared unconditionally for every
single packet - with this patch it uses the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_CLEAR_PS_FILT
for unaggregated frames.
A sta_notify driver op is added to stop aggregation for stations when they
enter powersave mode. Subframes stay buffered inside the driver, to ensure
that the BlockAck window keeps a sane state.
Since the driver uses software aggregation, the clearing of the tx filter
needs to be handled by the driver instead of mac80211 for aggregated frames.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The commit "ath9k: configure beacons based on hw opmode" introduced
a regression which leads to kernel panic. Failed to stop ani timer
during the driver unload while any of the beaconing vif is running.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This function returns true if there is atleast one frame
in any one of the tx queues.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

These missing chip wakeups mainly cause crashes on AR5416 cards in MIPS
boards, but have also been reported to cause radio stability issues on
AR9285.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Current ath9k code does not handle beacon timers on opmode
specific. One such example is that a STA beacon config overwrites
already configured AP vif's beacon timers during scan.

On multi station vif case, configure beacon timers beased
on primary vif selected. This also helps while moving back
to single STA vif from multi STA vifs, where the power save
is enabled and hw has to be reconfigured with proper
beacon and bssid/aid. Otherwise connection poll will be triggered
so frequently due to beacon loss.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

As of now bssid/aid is overridden with recently changed vif's
bss config. This may cause improper beacon updation due to
bssid/aid mismatch. On station mode, select an associated
sta vif as primary vif and configure that vif's bss into hw.
Update the primary vif on interface change and bss info change.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Remove unused bssid from ath_vif and set av_bslot on beacon
alloc/return.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The present check denies the IBSS interface addtion if we
already have any other vifs. But it fails to deny interface
addition if IBSS was already present.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
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>

When the chip is still asleep when ath9k_start is called,
ath9k_hw_configpcipowersave can trigger a data bus error.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

commit 86271e46

 introduced a
regression that caused mac80211 queues in stopped state.

ath_drain_all_txq is called in driver flush which would reset
the stopped flag and the mac80211 queues were never started
after that. iperf traffic is completely stalled due to this issue.

Restart the mac80211 queues in driver flush only if the txqs were
drained.
Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This patch simplifies the flush op and reuses ath_drain_all_txq for
flushing out pending frames if necessary. It also uses a global timeout
of 200ms instead of the per-queue 60ms timeout.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Initialize txq to avoid this warning:

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c: In function ‘ath9k_flush’:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:2138: warning: ‘txq’ may be used uninitialized in this function
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

pll_work should be cancelled on full_sleep or it may cause
redundant chip reset.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The return value of the tx operation is commonly
misused by drivers, leading to errors. All drivers
will drop frames if they fail to TX the frame, and
they must also properly manage the queues (if they
didn't, mac80211 would already warn).

Removing the ability for drivers to return a BUSY
value also allows significant cleanups of the TX
TX handling code in mac80211.

Note that this also fixes a bug in ath9k_htc, the
old "return -1" there was wrong.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> [ath5k]
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> [rt2x00]
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> [b43, rtl8187, rtlwifi]
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com> [wl12xx]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

When op_flush() is called with no drop (drop=false), the driver
tries to tx as many frames as possible in about 100ms on every
hw queue. During this time period frames from sw queue are also
scheduled on to respective hw queue.
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The DMA latency issue is observed only in Intel pinetrail platforms
but in the driver we had a default PM-QOS value of 55. This caused
unnecessary power consumption and battery drain in other platforms.

Remove the pm-qos thing in the driver code and address the throughput
issue in Intel pinetrail platfroms in user space using any one of
the scripts in below links:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/scripts/cpudmalatency.c
http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/netlatency.c.txt

More details can be found in the following bugzilla link:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27532

This reverts the following commits:

	98c316e3
	4dc3530d
	10598c12

Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Beaconing should be disabled before stopping beacon queue.
Not doing so could queue up beacons in hw that causes
failure to stop Tx DMA, due to pending frames in hw
and also unnecessary beacon tasklet schedule.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

The variable appears in both ath_softc and ath_beacon_config.
The struct ath_beacon_config is embedded in ath_softc. The redundant
variable was added by commit id 57c4d7b4

.
Signed-off-by: Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>
Reviewed-by: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.ath9k@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>