One of the fun issues with scanning has been how the existing
ANI values were programmed into the hardware when channels were
changed. If you're on a really crappy channel and ANI has made
you deaf then when you scan you continue to be deaf on all channels.
This code passes in a flag to startpcureceive which in AR5416 and later
is also used to enable ANI. This allows it to know if it's a normal
operation or a scan operation.
This fixes my situation at home where a temporary spot of a device
going deaf due to interference starts scanning and .. can't hear
anything until I restart.
Now, this isn't the full fix - ideally:
(a) all the ANI config and per-channel information would be migrated
to the shared HAL stuff and enabled for all of the NICs;
(b) when a station reassociates and some other error conditions
(like missed beacons, NF calibration failures, etc) a knob
to reset ANI parameters would likely help recovery.
But hey, I'm committing bits of code again! woo!
Tested:
* AR9344 (2G), STA operation
Uses of commas instead of a semicolons can easily go undetected. The comma
can serve as a statement separator but this shouldn't be abused when
statements are meant to be standalone.
Detected with devel/coccinelle following a hint from DragonFlyBSD.
MFC after: 1 month
The pre-11n calculations include SIFS, but the 11n ones don't.
The reason is that (mostly) the 11n hardware is doing the SIFS calculation
for us but the pre-11n hardware isn't. This means that we're over-shooting
the times in the duration field for non-11n frames on 11n hardware, which
is OK, if not a little inefficient.
Now, this is all fine for what the hardware needs for doing duration math
for ACK, RTS/CTS, frame length, etc, but it isn't useful for doing PHY
duration calculations. Ie, given a frame to TX and its timestamp, what
would the end of the actual transmission time be; and similar for an
RX timestamp and figuring out its original length.
So, this adds a new field to the duration routines which requests
SIFS or no SIFS to be included. All the callers currently will call
it requesting SIFS, so this /should/ be a glorious no-op. I'm however
planning some future work around airtime fairness and positioning which
requires these routines to have SIFS be optional.
Notably though, the 11n version doesn't do any SIFS addition at the moment.
I'll go and tweak and verify all of the packet durations before I go and
flip that part on.
Tested:
* AR9330, STA mode
* AR9330, AP mode
* AR9380, STA mode
* the code already stored the length of the RX desc, which I never used.
So, use that and retire the new flag I introduced a while ago.
* Introduce a TX timestamp length field and capability.
Right now the only way to force a cold reset is:
* The HAL itself detects it's needed, or
* The sysctl, setting all resets to be cold.
Trouble is, cold resets take quite a bit longer than warm resets.
However, there are situations where a cold reset would be nice.
Specifically, after a stuck beacon, BB/MAC hang, stuck calibration results,
etc.
The vendor HAL has a separate method to set the reset reason (which is
how HAL_RESET_BBPANIC gets set) which informs the HAL during the reset path
why it occured. This is almost but not quite the same; I may eventually
unify both approaches in the future.
This commit just extends HAL_RESET_TYPE to include both status (eg BBPANIC)
and type (eg do COLD.) None of the HAL code uses it yet though; that'll
come later.
It also is a big no-op in each HAL - I need to go teach each of the HALs
about cold/warm reset through this path.
I .. stupidly added code to return HAL_ANI_STATS to HAL_DIAG_ANI_STATS.
I discovered this in a noisy environment when the returned values were
enough to .. well, make everything terrible.
So - restore functionality.
Tested:
* AR5416 (uses the AR5212 HAL), in a /very/ noisy 2GHz environment.
Enough to trigger ANI to get upset and generate useful data.
the top-level HAL.
The athstats program is blindly using a copy of the ar5212 ANI stats structure
to pull out ANI statistics/state and this is problematic for the AR9300
HAL.
So:
* Define HAL_ANI_STATS and HAL_ANI_STATE
* Use HAL_ANI_STATS inside the AR5212 HAL
This commit doesn't (yet) convert the ar5212AniState -> HAL_ANI_STATE when
exporting it to userland; that'll come in the next commit.
rathe than private in each HAL module.
Whilst here, modify ath_hal_private to always have the per-channel
noisefloor stats, rather than conditionally. This just makes
life easier in general (no strange ABI differences between different
HAL compile options.)
Add a couple of methods (clear/reset, add) rather than using
hand-rolled versions of things.
ath kernel module:
sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar5212/ar5212_reset.c:2642:7: error: taking the absolute value of unsigned type 'unsigned int' has no effect [-Werror,-Wabsolute-value]
if (abs(lp[0] * EEP_SCALE - target) < EEP_DELTA) {
^
sys/dev/ath/ah_osdep.h:74:18: note: expanded from macro 'abs'
#define abs(_a) __builtin_abs(_a)
^
sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar5212/ar5212_reset.c:2642:7: note: remove the call to '__builtin_abs' since unsigned values cannot be negative
sys/dev/ath/ah_osdep.h:74:18: note: expanded from macro 'abs'
#define abs(_a) __builtin_abs(_a)
^
1 error generated.
This warning occurs because both lp[0] and target are unsigned, so the
subtraction expression is also unsigned, and calling abs() is a no-op.
However, the intention was to look at the absolute difference between
the two unsigned quantities. Introduce a small static function to
clarify what we're doing, and call that instead.
Reviewed by: adrian
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1212
These variants have a few differences from the default AR9485 NIC,
namely:
* a non-default antenna switch config;
* slightly different RX gain table setup;
* an external XLNA hooked up to a GPIO pin;
* (and not yet done) RSSI threshold differences when
doing slow diversity.
To make this possible:
* Add the PCI device list from Linux ath9k, complete with vendor and
sub-vendor IDs for various things to be enabled;
* .. and until FreeBSD learns about a PCI device list like this,
write a search function inspired by the USB device enumeration code;
* add HAL_OPS_CONFIG to the HAL attach methods; the HAL can use this
to initialise its local driver parameters upon attach;
* copy these parameters over in the AR9300 HAL;
* don't default to override the antenna switch - only do it for
the chips that require it;
* I brought over ar9300_attenuation_apply() from ath9k which is cleaner
and easier to read for this particular NIC.
This is a work in progress. I'm worried that there's some post-AR9380
NIC out there which doesn't work without the antenna override set as
I currently haven't implemented bluetooth coexistence for the AR9380
and later HAL. But I'd rather have this code in the tree and fix it
up before 11.0-RELEASE happens versus having a set of newer NICs
in laptops be effectively RX deaf.
Tested:
* AR9380 (STA)
* AR9485 CUS198 (STA)
Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros, Linux ath9k
Some code will appear soon that is actually setting the chip powerstate
separate from the self-generated frames power state.
* Allow the AR5416 family chips to actually have the power state changed
from the self generated state change.
Tested (STA mode):
* AR5210
* AR5211
* AR5412
* AR5413
* AR5416
* AR9285
private per-chip HAL.
This allows the ah_osdep.[ch] code to check whether the power state is
valid for doing chip programming.
It should be a no-op for normal driver work but it does require a
clean kernel/module rebuild, as the size of HAL structures have changed.
Now, this doesn't track whether the hardware is ACTUALLY awake,
as NETWORK_SLEEP wakes the chip up for a short period when traffic
is received. This doesn't actually set the power mode to AWAKE, so
we have to be careful about how we touch things.
But it's enough to start down the path of implementing station mode
chipset power savings, as a large part of the silliness is making
sure the chip is awake during periodic calibration / ANI and
random places where transmit may be occuring. I'd rather not a repeat
of debugging power save on ath9k, where races with calibration
and transmit path stuff took a couple years to shake out.
Tested:
* AR5416, STA mode
The AR5212 series of MACs implement the same channel counters as the
later 11n chips - except, of course, the 11n specific counter (extension
channel busy.)
This allows users of these NICs to use 'athsurvey' to see how busy their
current channel is.
Tested:
* AR5212, AR2413 NICs, STA mode
Approved by: re@ (gleb)
Right now the only way to set the chainmask is to set the hardware
configured chainmask through capabilities. This is fine for forcing
the chainmask to be something other than what the hardware is capable
of (eg to reduce TX/RX to one connected antenna) but it does change what
the HAL hardware chainmask configuration is.
For operational mode changes, it (may?) make sense to separately control
the TX/RX chainmask.
Right now it's done as part of ar5416_reset.c - ar5416UpdateChainMasks()
calculates which TX/RX chainmasks to enable based on the operating mode.
(1 for legacy and whatever is supported for 11n operation.) But doing
this in the HAL is suboptimal - the driver needs to know the currently
configured chainmask in order to correctly enable things for each
TX descriptor. This is currently done by overriding the chainmask
config in the ar5416 TX routines but this has to disappear - the AR9300
HAL support requires the driver to dynamically set the TX chainmask based
on the TX power and TX rate in order to meet mini-PCIe slot power
requirements.
So:
* Introduce a new HAL method to set the operational chainmask variables;
* Introduce null methods for the previous generation chipsets;
* Add new driver state to record the current chainmask separate from
the hardware configured chainmask.
Part #2 of this will involve disabling ar5416UpdateChainMasks() and moving
it into the driver; as well as properly programming the TX chainmask
based on the currently configured HAL chainmask.
Tested:
* AR5416, STA mode - both legacy (11a/11bg) and 11n rates - verified
that AR_SELFGEN_MASK (the chainmask used for self-generated frames like
ACKs and RTSes) is correct, as well as the TX descriptor contents is
correct.
what the maximum legal values are.
The current beacon timer configuration from TDMA wraps things at
HAL_BEACON_PERIOD-1 TU. For the 11a chips this is fine, but for
the 11n chips it's not enough resolution. Since the 11a chips have a
limit on what's "valid", just enforce this so when I do write larger
values in, they get suitably wrapped before programming.
Tested:
* AR5413, TDMA slave
Todo:
* Run it for a (lot) longer on a clear channel, ensure that no strange
slippages occur.
* Re-validate this on STA configurations, just to be sure.
them, please let me know if not). Most of these are of the form:
static const struct bzzt_type {
[...list of members...]
} const bzzt_devs[] = {
[...list of initializers...]
};
The second const is unnecessary, as arrays cannot be modified anyway,
and if the elements are const, the whole thing is const automatically
(e.g. it is placed in .rodata).
I have verified this does not change the binary output of a full kernel
build (except for build timestamps embedded in the object files).
Reviewed by: yongari, marius
MFC after: 1 week
* Add some more ANI spur immunity levels.
* For AR5111 radios attached to an AR5212, limit the 5GHz channels
that are available. A later revision of the AR5111 supports the 4.9GHz
PSB channels but right now there's no check in place for the radio
revision.
If someone wants PSB support on AR5212+AR5111 radios then please let
me know and I'll add the relevant version check.
Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros
Fix the strong signal diversity capability setting - I had totally
messed up the indentation.
Set the default values to match what's in the .ini for now, rather than
what values I had previously gleaned from places. This seems to work
quite well for the early AR5212 NICs I have. Of course, later NICs
have different PHYs and the radar configuration is very card/board
dependent..
Tested:
* ath1: AR5212 mac 5.3 RF5111 phy 4.1
ath1: 2GHz radio: 0x0023; 5GHz radio: 0x0017
This detects 1, 5, 25, 50, 75, 100uS pulses reliably (with no interference.)
However, 10uS pulses don't detect reliably. That may be around the
transition between short and long pulses so some further tuning may
improve things.
up on (at least) the AR5413.
The 30 second summary - if a CRC error frame comes in during PHY error
processing, that CRC bit will be set for all subsequent frames until
a non-CRC error frame is processed.
So to allow for accurate PHY error processing (Radar, and ANI on the AR5212
HAL chips) just tag the frame as being both CRC and PHY - let the driver
decide what to do with it.
PR: kern/169362
This is a re-implementation based on the reference carrier code
for the AR5413.
Tested:
* Pulse detection for AR5212 and AR5413, to ensure the
correct behaviour for both chips
PR: kern/170904
Obtained from: Qualcomm Atheros
The existing API only exposes 'seglen' (the current buffer (segment) length)
with the data buffer pointer set in 'ds_data'. This is fine for the legacy
DMA engine but it won't work for the EDMA engines.
The EDMA engine has a significantly different TX descriptor layout.
* The legacy DMA engine had a ds_data pointer at the same offset in the
descriptor for both TX and RX buffers;
* The EDMA engine has no ds_data for RX - the data is DMAed after the
descriptor;
* The EDMA engine has support for 4 TX buffer/segment pairs in the TX
DMA descriptor;
* The EDMA TX completion is in a different FIFO, and the driver will
'link' the status completion entry to a QCU by a "QCU ID".
I don't know why it's just not filled in by the hardware, alas.
So given that, here are the changes:
* Instead of directly fondling 'ds_data' in ath_desc, change the
ath_hal_filltxdesc() to take an array of buffer pointers as well
as segment len pointers;
* The EDMA TX completion status wants a descriptor and queue id.
This (for now) uses bf_state.bfs_txq and will extract the hardware QCU
ID from that.
* .. and this is ugly and wasteful; it should change to just store
the QCU in the bf_state and save 3/7 bytes in the process.
Now, the weird crap:
* The aggregate TX path was using bf_state->bfs_txq for the TXQ, rather than
taking a function argument. I've tidied that up.
* The multicast queue frames get put on a software TXQ and then that is
appended to the hardware CABQ when appropriate. So for now, make sure
that bf_state->bfs_txq points at the CABQ when adding frames to the
multicast queue.
* .. but the multicast queue TX path for now doesn't use the software
queue and instead
(a) directly sets up the descriptor contents at that point;
(b) the frames on the vap->avp_mcastq are then just appended wholesale
to the CABQ.
So for now, I don't have to worry about making the multicast path
work with aggregation or the per-TID software queue. Phew.
What's left to do:
* I need to modify the 11n ath_hal_chaintxdesc() API to do the same.
I'll do that in a subsequent commit.
* Remove bf_state.bfs_txq entirely and store the QCU as appropriate.
* .. then do the runtime "is this going on the right HWQ?" checks using
that, rather than comparing pointer values.
Tested on:
* AR9280 STA/AP
* AR5416 STA/AP
The existing method for testing for MRR is to call the "SetupXTXDesc"
HAL method and see if it returns AH_TRUE or AH_FALSE. This capability
explicitly lists what number of multi-rate attempts are possible.
"1" means "one rate attempt supported".
The DMA FIFO chips (AR93xx and later) differ slightly to th elegacy
chips:
* The RX DMA descriptors don't have a ds_link field;
* The TX DMA descriptors have a ds_link field however at a different
offset.
This is a reimplementation based on what the reference driver and ath9k
does.
A subsequent commit will enable it in the TX and beacon paths.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Qualcomm Atheros
The AR93xx and later chips support two RX FIFO queues - a high and low
priority queue.
For legacy chips, just assume the queues are high priority.
This is inspired by the reference driver but is a reimplementation of
the API and code.
not to disable the PCIe PHY in prepration for reset.
Extend the enablepci method to have a "poweroff" flag, which if equal
to true means the hardware is about to go to sleep.
in the HAL. That's very memory hungry (32k just for channel statistics)
which would be better served by keeping a summary in the ANI state.
Or, later, keep a survey history in net80211.
So:
* Migrate the ah_chansurvey array to be a single entry, for the current
channel.
* Change the ioctl interface and ANI code to just reference that.
* Clear the ah_chansurvey array during channel reset, both in the AR5212
and AR5416 reset path.
at least until I can root cause what's going on.
The only platform I've seen this on is the AR9220 when attached to
the AR71xx CPUs. I get immediate PCIe bus errors and all subsequent
accesses cause further MIPS bus exceptions. I don't have any other
big-endian platforms to test this on.
If I get a chance (or two), I'll try to whack this on a bus analyser
and see exactly what happens.
I'd rather leave this on, especially for slower, embedded platforms.
But the #ifdef hell is something I'm trying to avoid.
* For legacy NICs, the combined RSSI should be used.
For earlier AR5416 NICs, use control chain 0 RSSI rather than combined
RSSI.
For AR5416 > version 2.1, use the combined RSSI again.
* Add in a missing AR5212 HAL method (get11nextbusy) which may be called
by radar code.
This serves no functional change for what's currently in FreeBSD.
There's currently no public code which uses this feature and the
current reference driver doesn't enable this feature at all.
It's possible it was used by a previous version of the driver and
that indeed it should return HAL_STATUS; but at this point I'm
happy to require that they complain and submit a patch.
This was found by LLVM compile-time type checking.
Submitted by: dim
and sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar5416/ar5416_misc.c:
sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar5212/ar5212_misc.c:577:24: warning: implicit conversion from enumeration type 'HAL_STATUS' to different enumeration type 'HAL_BOOL' [-Wconversion]
return HAL_EINVAL;
~~~~~~ ^~~~~~~~~~
and:
sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar5416/ar5416_misc.c:164:9: warning: implicit conversion from enumeration type 'HAL_STATUS' to different enumeration type 'HAL_BOOL' [-Wconversion]
return HAL_OK;
~~~~~~ ^~~~~~
In both cases, enums HAL_BOOL and HAL_STATUS are mixed up.
MFC after: 1 week
The final missing bit here is enabling the PCI configuration register
read, but there's currently no glue available for the HAL to read (and
write) PCI configuration space registers.
Obtained from: Atheros
Although I tried to fix this earlier by introducing HALDEBUG_G(), it
turns out there seem to be other cases where the pointer value is still
NULL.
* Fix DO_HALDEBUG() and the HALDEBUG macro to check whether ah is NULL
before deferencing it
* Remove HALDEBUG_G() as it's no longer needed
This is hopefully a merge candidate for 9.0-RELEASE as enabling
debugging at startup could result in a kernel panic.
rather than the whole beacon interval.
The reference driver and Linux ath9k both choose 80% of the
beacon interval and they do it in the driver rather than
the HAL (Ath reference) or ath9k_hw (ath9k.)
This quietens stuck beacon conditions on my AR9220/AR9280
based NICs when a lot of burst broadcast/multicast traffic
is going on. It doesn't seem to annoy the earlier MACs as
much as the AR9280 and later one.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Atheros
