TX99 support enables Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) testing.
SAR is the unit of measurement for the amount of radio frequency(RF)
absorbed by the body when using a wireless device. The RF
exposure limits used are expressed in the terms of SAR, which is a
measure of the electric and magnetic field strength and power density
for transmitters operating at frequencies from 300 kHz to 100 GHz.
Regulatory bodies around the world require that wireless device
be evaluated to meet the RF exposure limits set forth in the
governmental SAR regulations.
In the examples below, for more bit rate options see the iw TX bitrate
setting documentation:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw#Modifying_transmit_bitrates
Example usage:
iw phy phy0 interface add moni0 type monitor
ip link set dev moni0 up
iw dev moni0 set channel 36 HT40+
iw set bitrates mcs-5 4
echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/tx99_power
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/ath9k/tx99
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ieee80211_get_rts_cts_rate() can return NULL, so don't rely
on its members when it does return NULL.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
It is not exposed as a configuration option anyway
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use wrappers where available. Simplifies code and helps with further
improvements to the channel data structure
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When a packet is passed from mac80211 to the driver with the
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_PS_RESPONSE flag set, it bypasses the normal driver
internal queueing and goes directly to the UAPSD queue.
When that happens, packets that are part of a BlockAck session still
need to be tracked as such inside the driver, otherwise it will create
discrepancies in the receiver BA reorder window, causing traffic stalls.
This only happens in AP mode with powersave-enabled clients.
This patch fixes the regression introduced in the commit
"ath9k: use software queues for un-aggregated data packets"
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Prevents race conditions when un-aggregated frames are pending in the
driver.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When .release_buffered_frames was implemented, only A-MPDU packets were
buffered internally. Now that this has changed, the BUF_AMPDU flag needs
to be checked before calling ath_tx_addto_baw
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This might trip up tx completion processing, although the condition that
triggers this should not (yet) occur in practice.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fixes a regression from commit
"ath9k: shrink a few data structures by reordering fields"
When cloning a buffer, the stale flag (part of bf_state now) needs to be
reset after copying the state to prevent tx processing hangs.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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>
If that flag stays set for a buffer that already ran through the tx path
once, it might cause issues in tx completion processing. Better clear it
early to ensure that this does not happen
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath_tid_drain is only called when a station entry is being removed, so
there is no point in still tracking BAW state. Remove some unnecessary
code and a bogus TODO comment related to this.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Also reduce the size of a few fields where possible
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Create a per-vif dummy node entry for keeping the multicast software
queues. This helps in setups with a lot of mulitcast traffic that could
otherwise potentially drown out unicast traffic to stations.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of trying to schedule the same TID multiple times in a loop,
iterate over other TIDs/stations first.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is a first step for improving fairness between legacy and 802.11n
traffic, and it should also improve reliability of resets and channel
changes by keeping the hardware queue depth very short.
When an aggregation session is torn down, all packets in the retry queue
will be removed from the BAW and freed.
For all subframes that have not been transmitted yet, the A-MPDU flag
will be cleared, and a sequence number allocated. This ensures that the
next A-MPDU session will get the correct initial sequence number.
This happens both on aggregation session start and stop.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Otherwise in some cases, EAPOL frames might be filtered during the
initial handshake, causing delays and assoc failures.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When the tid aggregation state has been marked as inactive, free
completed tx packets immediately. When a new aggregation session has not
been initialized yet, the BAW checks do not recognize it as expired.
Might fix potential stalls in setting up a new aggregation session.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
- Allow ath_tx_get_tid_subframe to return non-AMPDU subframes.
- Reset the tid paused state on aggregation stop
- Initialize software queues even when HT is not supported
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When a packet has been tracked as part of the BlockAck window and added
to the hardware queue, it can end up back in the TID queue again with
fi->retries still set to 0 (e.g. if the frame was filtered). Keep an
extra bit for the BAW tracking status to fix this corner case.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The check for ATH_AMPDU_SUBFRAME_DEFAULT is unnecessary, since it's set
to half the maximum BlockAck Window size, which is already the maximum
value that h_baw could possibly have. Also remove unnecessary variables.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Improves packet retry order and helps with further tx queueing
improvements.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently, RTS threshold is not handled for HT. Handle
user-specified threshold values for both aggregated
and unaggregated frames. Use the wiphy's threshold
parameter for now, it can be made per-VIF later on.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When dropping packets that have gone far enough into the tx path, the
pending frame counter needs to be decreased.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath_tx_txqaddbuf assumes that all the linked buffers in the queue passed
to it are part of the same A-MPDU or MPDU. The CAB queue rework violates
this assumption, which can cause the internal queue depth to go
negative.
Fix this by increasing the counter for all slots of [bf, bf->bf_lastbf]
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ath_txq_schedule is called outside of the drv_tx call, so it needs RCU
protection.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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>
This adds support for PS-Poll and U-APSD driver-buffered frames (part of
an aggregation session).
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the UAPSD hardware queue to get PS-Poll responses out as fast as
possible and without backoff.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Waiting for all subframes of an existing aggregation session to drain
before allowing mac80211 to start a new one is fragile and deadlocks
caused by this behavior have been observed.
Since mac80211 has proper synchronization for aggregation session
start/stop handling, a better approach to session handling is to simply
allow mac80211 to start a new session at any time. This requires
changing the code to discard any packets outside of the BlockAck window
in the A-MPDU software retry code.
This patch implements the above and also simplifies the code.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After a tx attempt, an A-MPDU subframe can still have fi->retries at 0
(if the retry count wasn't incremented due to powersave).
In that case it is still tracked as part of the block ack window, so
when draining the tid queue, its sequence number needs to be cleared
from the pending frame bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes some issues introduced in the rate control API rework.
When not running aggregation, copy bf->rates into info->control.rates
before applying the rate control status to it.
In ath_lookup_rate, the rates need to be pulled from bf->rates, not the
tx info.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When aggregation stop is requested, don't run the mac80211 aggregation
stop callback yet, while the session is still blocked.
Also, when aggregation flush is requested, don't run the callback at all.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The split makes no sense and merging the functions makes further changes
easier to implement
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Inside one FIFO slot queue, EDMA chipsets have the same link pointer
re-read race condition as older chipsets, so the same buffer holding
logic needs to be used in order to avoid use-after-free bugs.
Unlike on older chips, it can be skipped for the end of the queue.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are a few places where the station's HT capabilities
should be checked instead of ATH9K_HW_CAP_HT, which is a global
feature for the driver. Fix this.
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>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
'bf_next' is cleared using ATH_TXBUF_RESET() in both the
callsites of ath_tx_get_buffer().
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The 'xmit' debugfs file has become big and unwieldy, fix
multiple issues with its usage:
* Store TX counters/statistics only for the 4 Access Categories.
Use IEEE80211_NUM_ACS instead of ATH9K_NUM_TX_QUEUES.
* Move various utility macros to debug.h, they can be reused
elsewhere.
* Remove tx_complete_poll_work_seen.
* Remove code that accesses various internal queue-specific
variables without any locking whatsoever. HW/SW queue details
will be handled in a subsequent patch.
* Do not print internal values like txq_headidx and txq_headidx.
They were mostly unused anyway, considering code like:
PRX("txq_tailidx: ", txq_headidx);
* Handle 'txprocdesc' for EDMA too.
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
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>
