When working on TDMA, Sam Leffler found that the MAC DMA hardware
would re-read the last TX descriptor when getting ready to transmit
the next one. Thus the whole ATH_BUF_BUSY came into existance -
the descriptor must be left alone (very specifically the link pointer
must be maintained) until the hardware has moved onto the next frame.
He saw this in TDMA because the MAC would be frequently stopping during
active transmit (ie, when it wasn't its turn to transmit.)
Fast-forward to today. It turns out that this is a problem not with
a single MAC DMA instance, but with each QCU (from 0->9). They each
maintain separate descriptor pointers and will re-read the last
descriptor when starting to transmit the next.
So when your AP is busy transmitting from multiple TX queues, you'll
(more) frequently see one QCU stopped, waiting for a higher-priority QCU
to finsh transmitting, before it'll go ahead and continue. If you mess
up the descriptor (ie by freeing it) then you're short of luck.
Thanks to rpaulo for sticking with me whilst I diagnosed this issue
that he was quite reliably triggering in his environment.
This is a reimplementation; it doesn't have anything in common with
the ath9k or the Qualcomm Atheros reference driver.
Now - it in theory doesn't apply on the EDMA chips, as long as you
push one complete frame into the FIFO at a time. But the MAC can DMA
from a list of frames pushed into the hardware queue (ie, you concat
'n' frames together with link pointers, and then push the head pointer
into the TXQ FIFO.) Since that's likely how I'm going to implement
CABQ handling in hostap mode, it's likely that I will end up teaching
the EDMA TX completion code about busy buffers, just to be "sure"
this doesn't creep up.
Tested - iperf ap->sta and sta->ap (with both sides running this code):
* AR5416 STA
* AR9160/AR9220 hostap
To validate that it doesn't break the EDMA (FIFO) chips:
* AR9380, AR9485, AR9462 STA
Using iperf with the -S <tos byte decimal value> to set the TCP client
side DSCP bits, mapping to different TIDs and thus different TX queues.
TODO:
* Make this work on the EDMA chips, if we end up pushing lists of frames
to the hardware (eg how we eventually will handle cabq in hostap/ibss
mode.)
the first page:
1. Cast uint16_t operands in a multiplication to unsigned int because
otherwise the implicit promotion to int results in a signed
multiplication that can overflow and the behaviour on integer
overflow is undefined.
2. Replace (offset + size > PAGE_SIZE) with (size > PAGE_SIZE - offset)
because the sum may overflow.
- Use the same tests to see if the path to the interpreter is on the first
page. There's no overflow here because size is already limited by
MAXPATHLEN, but the compiler optimises the new tests better. Also fix an
off-by-one error.
- Simplify tests to see if an ELF note program header is on the first page.
This also fixes an off-by-one error.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Else they won't enumerate at all:
hw.usb.full_ddesc=1
- Reduce the USB descriptor read timeout from 1000ms to
500ms. Typical value for LOW speed devices is 50-100ms.
- Enumerate USB device a maximum of 3 times when a port
connection change event is detected, before giving up.
MFC after: 1 month
Fix the IPMI regression by sending BGE_FW_DRV_STATE_UNLOAD to
ASF/IPMI firmware in driver attach phase. Sending heartheat to
ASF/IPMI is enabled only after upping interface so
setting driver state to BGE_FW_DRV_STATE_START in attach phase
broke IPMI access.
While I'm here, add NVRAM arbitration lock before performing
controller reset. ASF/IPMI firmware may be able to access the NVRAM
while controller reset is in progress. Without the arbitration
lock before resetting the controller, ASF/IPMI may not initialize
properly.
Special thanks to Miroslav Lachman who provided full remote
debugging environments.
and that can drive someone crazy. While m_get2() is young and not
documented yet, change its order of arguments to match m_getm2().
Sorry for churn, but better now than later.
appropriate wait argument and checking return value. Before this change
m_extadd() could fail, and kern_sendfile() ignored that.
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
- Make it return int, not void.
- Add wait parameter.
- Update MEXTADD() macro appropriately, defaults to M_NOWAIT, as
before this change.
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
* a flags field that lets me know what's going on;
* the hardware ratecode, unmolested by conversion to a bitrate;
* the HAL rs_flags field, useful for debugging;
* specifically mark aggregate sub-frames.
This stuff sorely needs tidying up - it's missing some important
stuff (eg numdelims) and it would be nice to put the flags at the
beginning rather than at the end.
Tested:
* AR9380, STA mode, 2x2 HT40, monitoring RSSI and EVM values
- We need to add "-mllvm -arm-enable-ehabi" to clangs CFLAGS when
generating the unwind tables to tell it to add the required directives to
the assembly it generates.
when the kernel attempts to unwind through this function.
The .fnstart and .fnend in this function should be moved to macros but we
are currently missing an END macro on ARM.
they can easily be used by later post-processing. When searching for
a compiled-in fdt blob, use the section headers to get the size and
location of the .dynsym section to do a symbol search.
This fixes a problem where the search could overshoot the symbol
table and wander into the string table. Sometimes that was harmless
and sometimes it lead to spurious panic messages about an offset
bigger than the module size.
