connectivity interact with the net80211 stack.
Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.
Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:
- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.
Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.
Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to pluknet@, Oliver Hartmann,
Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@, op@ and lev@, who also participated in
testing.
Reviewed by: adrian
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
* 286410
* 286413
* 286416
The initial commit broke a variety of debug and features that aren't
in the GENERIC kernels but are enabled in other platforms.
with the net80211 stack.
Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.
Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:
- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.
Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.
Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@,
op@ and lev@, who also participated in testing. Details here:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/projects/ifnet/net80211
Still, drivers: ndis, wtap, mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt, uath were not
tested. Changes to mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt are trivial and chances
of problems are low. The wtap wasn't compilable even before this change.
But the ndis driver is complex, and it is likely to be broken with this
commit. Help with testing and debugging it is appreciated.
Differential Revision: D2655, D2740
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix
is detaching.
This mostly fixes a panic - the reset path shouldn't run whilst
the NIC is being torn down.
It's not locked, so it's "mostly" ok, but most of the rest of
the driver doesn't read sc->invalid with sensible locking. Grr.
The real solution is to cleanly tear down taskqueues in the detach/suspend
phase, but ..
This stops the panics that occur on MIPS platforms when doing say,
'sysctl dev.ath.0' whilst the MAC is asleep. The MIPS platform is
rather unforgiving in getting power-save register access wrong and you
will get all kinds of odd failures if you don't have things woken
up at the right times.
Tested:
* QCA9558 (TP-Link Archer C7 v2)
* AR9331 (Carambola 2)
.. with no VAPs configured and ath0 down (thus the MAC is definitely
asleep.)
PR: kern/201117
Smart NICs with firmware (eg wpi, iwn, the new atheros parts, the intel 7260
series, etc) support doing a lot of things in firmware. This includes but
isn't limited to things like scanning, sending probe requests and receiving
probe responses. However, net80211 doesn't know about any of this - it still
drives the whole scan/probe infrastructure itself.
In order to move towards suppoting smart NICs, the receive path needs to
know about the channel/details for each received packet. In at least
the iwn and 7260 firmware (and I believe wpi, but I haven't tried it yet)
it will do the scanning, power-save and off-channel buffering for you -
all you need to do is handle receiving beacons and probe responses on
channels that aren't what you're currently on. However the whole receive
path is peppered with ic->ic_curchan and manual scan/powersave handling.
The beacon parsing code also checks ic->ic_curchan to determine if the
received beacon is on the correct channel or not.[1]
So:
* add freq/ieee values to ieee80211_rx_stats;
* change ieee80211_parse_beacon() to accept the 'current' channel
as an argument;
* modify the iv_input() and iv_recv_mgmt() methods to include the rx_stats;
* add a new method - ieee80211_lookup_channel_rxstats() - that looks up
a channel based on the contents of ieee80211_rx_stats;
* if it exists, use it in the mgmt path to switch the current channel
(which still defaults to ic->ic_curchan) over to something determined
by rx_stats.
This is enough to kick-start scan offload support in the Intel 7260
driver that Rui/I are working on. It also is a good start for scan
offload support for a handful of existing NICs (wpi, iwn, some USB
parts) and it'll very likely dramatically improve stability/performance
there. It's not the whole thing - notably, we don't need to do powersave,
we should not scan all channels, and we should leave probe request sending
to the firmware and not do it ourselves. But, this allows for continued
development on the above features whilst actually having a somewhat
working NIC.
TODO:
* Finish tidying up how the net80211 input path works.
Right now ieee80211_input / ieee80211_input_all act as the top-level
that everything feeds into; it should change so the MIMO input routines
are those and the legacy routines are phased out.
* The band selection should be done by the driver, not by the net80211
layer.
* ieee80211_lookup_channel_rxstats() only determines 11b or 11g channels
for now - this is enough for scanning, but not 100% true in all cases.
If we ever need to handle off-channel scan support for things like
static-40MHz or static-80MHz, or turbo-G, or half/quarter rates,
then we should extend this.
[1] This is a side effect of frequency-hopping and CCK modes - you
can receive beacons when you think you're on a different channel.
In particular, CCK (which is used by the low 11b rates, eg beacons!)
is decodable from adjacent channels - just at a low SNR.
FH is a side effect of having the hardware/firmware do the frequency
hopping - it may pick up beacons transmitted from other FH networks
that are in a different phase of hopping frequencies.
years for head. However, it is continuously misused as the mpsafe argument
for callout_init(9). Deprecate the flag and clean up callout_init() calls
to make them more consistent.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2613
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
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.
This symptom is "calibrations don't ever run", which may cause some
pretty spectacularly bad behaviour in noisy environments or with longer
uptimes.
Thanks to dtrace to make it easy to check if specific non-inlined functions
are getting called by things like the ANI and calibration HAL methods.
Grr.
Tested:
* AR9380, STA mode
which showed up after I started changing addresses this early.
It turns out that there's some other malarky going on behind the scenes
in the HAL and merely setting the net80211/ifp mac address this early
isn't enough. If the MAC is set from kenv at attach time, the HAL
also needs to be programmed early.
Without this, the VAP wouldn't work enough for finishing association -
probe requests would be fine as they're broadcast, but association
request would fail.
This is used by the AR71xx platform code to choose a local MAC based on
the "board MAC address", versus whatever potentially invalid/garbage
values are stored in the Atheros calibration data.
the CPU nexus.
* Add ahb as a possible bus attachment
* Lay a comment down to remind me or whoever else ends up trying
to debug why the EEPROM isn't mapped in as to what's going on.
interrupts are enabled and the NIC is awake (think: loading a module)
then there's a not-quite-zero window where we'll get an interrupt
for the device before the attach method is called to finish setting
up the hardware.
Since I grab locks in ath_intr() to check various things, the locks
need to be ready much earlier.
doesn't get truncated to 32 bits.
Without this, 3x3 NICs transmitting at an MCS rate whose rix (rate
index) in the rate table is > 31 end up returning errors, as the
sample rate code doesn't think the rate is set in the rate table.
Tested:
* AR9380, STA, speaking 3x3 to an AP
in prep for the next NF calibration pass.
Totally missing braces. Damn you C.
Submitted by: Sascha Wildner <swildner@dragonflybsd.org>
MFC after: 1 week
MCI bluetooth coexistence method for WB222.
The rest of MCI requires a bunch more work, including adding a DMA buffer
for the MCI hardware to bounce messages in/out of and handling MCI
interrupts. But the more important part here is telling the HAL
the btcoex is enabled and MCI is in use so it configures the correct
initial bluetooth parameters in the wireless NIC and configures
things like bluetooth traffic weights and such.
So, this at least gets the HAL to do some of the right things in
configuring the inital bluetooth coexistence stuff, but doesn't
actually do full btcoex. That'll take.. some effort.
Tested:
* AR9462 (WB222), STA mode
AR5416 and later NICs have more than 8 (Well, more than 6) GPIO pins.
So to support rfkill on these NICs we need to bump this up or the
rfkill GPIO pin may get reset to the wrong value.
Noticed by: Anthony Jenkins <scoobi_doo@yahoo.com>
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
I did this wrong - I should've included a state flag for each callout
to see if it was supposed to run or not. I didn't do that.
Instead, just use mutexes anyway.
Suggested by: jhb
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
The original code was .. well, slightly more than incorrect.
It showed up as stalled RX queues if the NIC needed to be frequently
reinitialised (eg during scans.)
This is inspired by work done by Matt Dillon over at the DragonflyBSD
project.
So:
* track when EDMA RX has been stopped and when the MAC has been reset;
* re-initialise the ring only after a reset;
* track whether RX has been stopped/started - just for debugging now;
* don't bother with the RX EOL stuff for EDMA - we don't need the
interrupt at all. We also don't need to disable/enable the interrupt
or start DMA - once new frames are pushed into the ring via the
normal RX path, it'll just restart RX DMA on its own.
Tested:
* AR9380, STA mode
* AR9380, AP mode
* AR9485, STA mode
* AR9462, STA mode
to get upset.
The Qualcomm Atheros reference design code goes through significant
hacks to shut down RX before TX. It doesn't even try do do it in the
driver - it actually makes the DMA stop routines in the HAL shut down
RX before shutting down TX.
So, to make this work for chips that aren't the AR9380 and later, do
it in the driver. Shuffle the TX stop/drain HAL calls to be called
*after* the RX stop HAL call.
Tested:
* AR5413 (STA)
* AR5212 (STA)
* AR5416 (STA)
* AR9380 (STA)
* AR9331 (AP)
* AR9341 (AP)
TODO:
* test ar92xx series NIC and the AR5210/AR5211, in case there's something
even odder about those.
The AR9380 and later chips have a 128KiB register window, so the register
read diag api needs changing.
The tools are about to be updated as well. No, they're not backwards
compatible.
This includes:
o All directories named *ia64*
o All files named *ia64*
o All ia64-specific code guarded by __ia64__
o All ia64-specific makefile logic
o Mention of ia64 in comments and documentation
This excludes:
o Everything under contrib/
o Everything under crypto/
o sys/xen/interface
o sys/sys/elf_common.h
Discussed at: BSDcan
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:
1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.
Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
used.
It turns out that the RX DMA engine does the same last-descriptor-link-
pointer-re-reading trick that the TX DMA engine. That is, the hardware
re-reads the link pointer before it moves onto the next descriptor.
Thus we can't free a descriptor before we move on; it's possible the
hardware will need to re-read the link pointer before we overwrite
it with a new one.
Tested:
* AR5416, STA mode
TODO:
* more thorough AP and STA mode testing!
* test on other pre-AR9380 NICs, just to be sure.
* Break out the RX descriptor grabbing bits from the RX completion
bits, like what is done in the RX EDMA code, so ..
* .. the RX lock can be held during ath_rx_proc(), but not across
packet input.
