- Use a seperate taskqueue+thread for reset tasks since iwi_ops will
block.
- Return from iwi_ops if the interface has been downed
- The firmware will fail if we are already associated
- Add myself to the copyright
o major overhaul of the way channels are handled: channels are now
fully enumerated and uniquely identify the operating characteristics;
these changes are visible to user applications which require changes
o make scanning support independent of the state machine to enable
background scanning and roaming
o move scanning support into loadable modules based on the operating
mode to enable different policies and reduce the memory footprint
on systems w/ constrained resources
o add background scanning in station mode (no support for adhoc/ibss
mode yet)
o significantly speedup sta mode scanning with a variety of techniques
o add roaming support when background scanning is supported; for now
we use a simple algorithm to trigger a roam: we threshold the rssi
and tx rate, if either drops too low we try to roam to a new ap
o add tx fragmentation support
o add first cut at 802.11n support: this code works with forthcoming
drivers but is incomplete; it's included now to establish a baseline
for other drivers to be developed and for user applications
o adjust max_linkhdr et. al. to reflect 802.11 requirements; this eliminates
prepending mbufs for traffic generated locally
o add support for Atheros protocol extensions; mainly the fast frames
encapsulation (note this can be used with any card that can tx+rx
large frames correctly)
o add sta support for ap's that beacon both WPA1+2 support
o change all data types from bsd-style to posix-style
o propagate noise floor data from drivers to net80211 and on to user apps
o correct various issues in the sta mode state machine related to handling
authentication and association failures
o enable the addition of sta mode power save support for drivers that need
net80211 support (not in this commit)
o remove old WI compatibility ioctls (wicontrol is officially dead)
o change the data structures returned for get sta info and get scan
results so future additions will not break user apps
o fixed tx rate is now maintained internally as an ieee rate and not an
index into the rate set; this needs to be extended to deal with
multi-mode operation
o add extended channel specifications to radiotap to enable 11n sniffing
Drivers:
o ath: add support for bg scanning, tx fragmentation, fast frames,
dynamic turbo (lightly tested), 11n (sniffing only and needs
new hal)
o awi: compile tested only
o ndis: lightly tested
o ipw: lightly tested
o iwi: add support for bg scanning (well tested but may have some
rough edges)
o ral, ural, rum: add suppoort for bg scanning, calibrate rssi data
o wi: lightly tested
This work is based on contributions by Atheros, kmacy, sephe, thompsa,
mlaier, kevlo, and others. Much of the scanning work was supported by
Atheros. The 11n work was supported by Marvell.
DMA memory for a firmware load if it was the exact size needed, thus in the
common case the driver was constantly free'ing and reallocating the DMA
buffer and it would eventually begin to fail. With this fix, iwi0 reuses
the same buffer the entire time and no longer fails to load the firmware
after the machine has been up for a while.
MFC after: 1 week
and make it print under debug.iwi control same as other debugging stuff.
Remove the device_printf() in iwi_ioctl() and replace with this:
/*
* wait until pending iwi_cmd() are completed, to avoid races
* that could cause problems.
*/
while (sc->flags & IWI_FLAG_BUSY)
msleep(sc, &sc->sc_mtx, 0, "iwiioctl", hz);
This at least prevents what has become an almost systematic failure for my
system, presumably due to a previous iwi_cmd() not complete yet by the
time iwi_ioctl() is called.
It has been pointed to my attention that the real problem could be
calling ieee80211_ioctl() with the lock held. If that is true,
there might still be a possibility for a race condition e.g. an
interrupt coming while the ioctl is sleeping.
Need to investigate further on what changes are required to release
the lock before calling ieee80211_ioctl
+ do not release the dma-ble region used for downloading firmware.
This should fix the problems that some people were seeing, due to
memory becoming too fragmented which prevented subsequent allocations
of a suitable contiguous region of memory;
+ document the firmware format and usage in if_iwivar.h
+ use a loop to allocate the four tx rings, instead of replicating
the body of the loop.
+ add debugging code IWI_LOCK_ASSERT() to detect missing locks.
These only do a printf, and should go away once we figure out why
the driver sometimes freezes the system due to a (yet unidentified)
race condition.
+ add a device_printf() in iwi_ioctl() in certain conditions
(see comment in the code). This helps preventing the race condition
mentioned above, and makes the system survive. This printf will
also go away once fixing this bug is completed.
+ change iwi_getfw() to return 0 on success, 1 on error, consistently
with other functions.
+ fix the argument of a sizeof() in iwi_get_firmware()
+ use le32toh() to access little-endian fields
+ simplify error handling in iwi_load_firmware() and iwi_init_locked()
The bugs fixed by this commit (the freezing one especially) are serious
enough to call for a quick MFC
MFC after: 3 days
a version that i posted earlier on the -current mailing list,
and subsequent feedback received.
The core of the change is just in sys/firmware.h and kern/subr_firmware.c,
while other files are just adaptation of the clients to the ABI change
(const-ification of some parameters and hiding of internal info,
so this is fully compatible at the binary level).
In detail:
- reduce the amount of information exported to clients in struct firmware,
and constify the pointer;
- internally, document and simplify the implementation of the various
functions, and make sure error conditions are dealt with properly.
The diffs are large, but the code is really straightforward now (i hope).
Note also that there is a subtle issue with the implementation of
firmware_register(): currently, as in the previous version, we just
store a reference to the 'imagename' argument, but we should rather
copy it because there is no guarantee that this is a static string.
I realised this while testing this code, but i prefer to fix it in
a later commit -- there is no regression with respect to the past.
Note, too, that the version in RELENG_6 has various bugs including
missing locks around the module release calls, mishandling of modules
loaded by /boot/loader, and so on, so an MFC is absolutely necessary
there. I was just postponing it until this cleanup to avoid doing
things twice.
MFC after: 1 week
- Only call iwi_stop() if we got far enough along in iwi_attach() to
alloc an ifnet.
- Release the firmware after stopping the interface and detaching the
ifnet.
MFC after: 1 month
Reviewed by: sam
yet to be investigated circumstances. If that happens truncate to the number
of rates that the firmware supports.
Found by: Jeremie Le Hen
Obtained from: OpenBSD (w/ changes)
MFC after: 3 days
(1) bpf peer attaches to interface netif0
(2) Packet is received by netif0
(3) ifp->if_bpf pointer is checked and handed off to bpf
(4) bpf peer detaches from netif0 resulting in ifp->if_bpf being
initialized to NULL.
(5) ifp->if_bpf is dereferenced by bpf machinery
(6) Kaboom
This race condition likely explains the various different kernel panics
reported around sending SIGINT to tcpdump or dhclient processes. But really
this race can result in kernel panics anywhere you have frequent bpf attach
and detach operations with high packet per second load.
Summary of changes:
- Remove the bpf interface's "driverp" member
- When we attach bpf interfaces, we now set the ifp->if_bpf member to the
bpf interface structure. Once this is done, ifp->if_bpf should never be
NULL. [1]
- Introduce bpf_peers_present function, an inline operation which will do
a lockless read bpf peer list associated with the interface. It should
be noted that the bpf code will pickup the bpf_interface lock before adding
or removing bpf peers. This should serialize the access to the bpf descriptor
list, removing the race.
- Expose the bpf_if structure in bpf.h so that the bpf_peers_present function
can use it. This also removes the struct bpf_if; hack that was there.
- Adjust all consumers of the raw if_bpf structure to use bpf_peers_present
Now what happens is:
(1) Packet is received by netif0
(2) Check to see if bpf descriptor list is empty
(3) Pickup the bpf interface lock
(4) Hand packet off to process
From the attach/detach side:
(1) Pickup the bpf interface lock
(2) Add/remove from bpf descriptor list
Now that we are storing the bpf interface structure with the ifnet, there is
is no need to walk the bpf interface list to locate the correct bpf interface.
We now simply look up the interface, and initialize the pointer. This has a
nice side effect of changing a bpf interface attach operation from O(N) (where
N is the number of bpf interfaces), to O(1).
[1] From now on, we can no longer check ifp->if_bpf to tell us whether or
not we have any bpf peers that might be interested in receiving packets.
In collaboration with: sam@
MFC after: 1 month
Changelog towards if_iwi.c 1.26 (some changes have been committed separately
in the mean time):
- add led support
- add firmware loading on demand
- auto-restart firmware when it crashes
- serialize operations sent to the firmware to reduce firmware crashes
- add power save operation support
- remove incorrect specification of tx power control capability
- add radio on/off switch support
- improve net80211 state machine operation
- recognize and handle beacon miss
- handle authentication and association failures better
- add shared key authentication
- fix ibss mode (many changes)
- fix wme (many changes)
- correct radiotap support (many changes)
- correct bus dma setup of s/g
- correct various locking issues
- fix monitor mode
- fix scanning (many changes)
- recover from wedged scan requests
- respect active channel list
- eliminate cases where interface was marked down on error
- don't treat parity errors as fatal
- reclaim mgt frames immediately from tx queue
- correct interrupt handling, ack early (from NetBSD)
- fix short/long preamble handling
Committed with RELENG_6 compat #if's, should compile in RELENG_6. Requires
net/iwi-firmware-kmod to function.
Much work done by: sam
Tested by: many (freebsd-net), ume, luigi
MFC after: 4 weeks
o call firmware_put() early to release the firmware module
o on firmware panics or watchdog timeouts, schedule a task to reinitialize
the interface (we may sleep in iwi_init())
o discard oversized rx frames
o stop processing interrupts after a firmware fatal error or a radio kill
o clarify the possible values for the 'antenna' sysctl.
o by default, let the firmware do antenna diversity.
the firmware will periodically switch to another antenna to evaluate the
signal quality.
o Change MEM_READ_1/MEM_READ_4 into macros (move them to if_iwireg.h)
o Add support for association LED
o Silently discard f/w notifications that are unknown (fixes spurious
"unknown notification 15" in logs with latest firmware)
o Fix scanning of 5GHz channels
directory by default) without requiring the user to load them by hand using
e.g iwicontrol. Get rid of the old ioctl crud.
Updated iwi-firmware port coming soon.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
a new mbuf, just discard the received frame and reuse the old mbuf.
This should fix kernel panics on high network traffic.
Obtained from: NetBSD (joerg@)
MFC after: 2 weeks
the 5GHz band.
o Enable 802.11a channels scanning for 2915ABG adapters.
o Fix a typo (negociated->negotiated).
With hints from NetBSD.
MFC after: 2 days
in an IBSS. Store ids directly into ieee80211_node's instead of managing
our own private association table. Idea and code by Sam Leffler.
Submitted by: sam
MFC after: 5 days
could get an interrupt after we free the ifp, and the interrupt
handler depended on the ifp being still alive, this could, in theory,
cause a crash. Eliminate this possibility by moving the if_free to
after the bus_teardown_intr() call.
o Allow association with APs that do not broadcast SSID (with hints from
Nick Hudson and Hajimu Umemoto).
o IFQ_DRV_PREPEND mbuf when h/w ring is full so it can be sent later.
o Increment if_oerrors when appropriate.
o Did some cleanup while I'm here.
MFC after: 1 day
o management of multiple tx rings (up to 4)
o setting of WME IE in association requests
Some features are still missing though, like the possibility to override
the default cwmin/cwmax/asfn values of each tx queues.
IFF_DRV_RUNNING, as well as the move from ifnet.if_flags to
ifnet.if_drv_flags. Device drivers are now responsible for
synchronizing access to these flags, as they are in if_drv_flags. This
helps prevent races between the network stack and device driver in
maintaining the interface flags field.
Many __FreeBSD__ and __FreeBSD_version checks maintained and continued;
some less so.
Reviewed by: pjd, bz
MFC after: 7 days
