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gregor kowski
035d0243eb b43: add hardware tkip
This add hardware tkip for b43.

Signed-off-by: Gregor Kowski <gregor.kowski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-20 11:36:08 -04:00
Larry Finger
18c6951091 b43: Work around mac80211 race condition
As shown in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/36497,
mac80211 has a bug that allows a call to the TX routine after the queues have
been stopped. This situation will only occur under extreme stress. Although
b43 does not crash when this condition occurs, it does generate a WARN_ON and
also logs a queue overrun message. This patch recognizes b43 is not at fault
and logs a message only when the most verbose debugging mode is enabled. In
the unlikely event that the queue is not stopped when the DMA queue becomes
full, then a warning is issued.

During testing of this patch with one output stream running repeated tcpperf
writes and a second running a flood ping, this routine was entered with
the DMA ring stopped about once per hour. The condition where the DMA queue is
full but the ring has not been stopped has never been seen by me.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-08-04 16:43:26 -04:00
Michael Buesch
403a3a1361 b43: Add fw capabilities
Add automagic feature flags, so the firmware can tell the driver
about supported features and the driver can switch features on/off as
needed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10 13:28:37 -04:00
Michael Buesch
cf68636a97 b43: Refresh RX poison on buffer recycling
The RX buffer poison needs to be refreshed, if we recycle an RX buffer,
because it might be (partially) overwritten by some DMA operations.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Francesco Gringoli <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-16 10:39:03 -04:00
Michael Buesch
ec9a1d8c13 b43: Poison RX buffers
This patch adds poisoning and sanity checking to the RX DMA buffers.
This is used for protection against buggy hardware/firmware that raises
RX interrupts without doing an actual DMA transfer.

This mechanism protects against rare "bad packets" (due to uninitialized skb data)
and rare kernel crashes due to uninitialized RX headers.

The poison is selected to not match on valid frames and to be cheap for checking.

The poison check mechanism _might_ trigger incorrectly, if we are voluntarily
receiving frames with bad PLCP headers. However, this is nonfatal, because the
chance of such a match is basically zero and in case it happens it just results
in dropping the packet.
Bad-PLCP RX defaults to off, and you should leave it off unless you want to listen
to the latest news broadcasted by your microwave oven.

This patch also moves the initialization of the RX-header "length" field in front of
the mapping of the DMA buffer. The CPU should not touch the buffer after we mapped it.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Francesco Gringoli <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-16 10:39:03 -04:00
Yang Hongyang
28b7679677 dma-mapping: replace all DMA_30BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(30)
Replace all DMA_30BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(30)

Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang<yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:11 -07:00
Yang Hongyang
284901a90a dma-mapping: replace all DMA_32BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(32)
Replace all DMA_32BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(32)

Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang<yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:11 -07:00
Yang Hongyang
6a35528a83 dma-mapping: replace all DMA_64BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(64)
Replace all DMA_64BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(64)

Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang<yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:10 -07:00
Michael Buesch
ce4fbdbf16 b43: Pass more RX flags to mac80211
This changes the RX handler to pass more status flags to mac80211.
It also changes part of the drop policy, if bad frames were requested. (Note that
currently mac80211 will throw a WARN_ON in that case. But nothing bad will happen).

This also removes some obsolete unused timestamping code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-03-05 14:39:40 -05:00
John Daiker
99da185a72 b43: checkpatch.pl cleanups
Keeping this one simple.

Changing a few "foo * bar" to "foo *bar"

Removes 22 checkpatch.pl errors, with no introduced warnings.

Signed-off-by: John Daiker <daikerjohn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27 14:53:04 -05:00
Michael Buesch
2d071ca50e b43: Add slot count compiletime assertion
This adds a compiletime assertion for a recently introduced
assumption on the slot counts.
The tx header cache handling code assumes that the TX slot count
can be divided evenly by the number of TX slots per frame.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27 14:52:50 -05:00
Michael Buesch
bdceeb2dad b43: Optimize DMA buffers
In the old days we used one slot per frame. But when we changed that to 2,
we didn't raise the overall slot count. Which resulted in an effective
division of two to the number of slots.

Double the number of TX slots, so we have an effective hardware queue
of 128 frames per QoS queue.

Also optimize the TX header cache handling. We don't need a cached TX header
for slots that will never carry an actual header.
So we reduce the memory consumption of the cache by 50%.

So as a net result we end up with more or less the same memory usage before
and after this patch (except a few tiny meta structures), but have twice
the number of TX slots available.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27 14:52:48 -05:00
Michael Buesch
8eccb53f1b b43: Fix DMA buffer size handling
This fixes hidden bugs in the size handling of the DMA buffers.
This sets the RX buffer size to the theoretical max packet size and
fixes passing of the size values to the device (must not subtract the header offset).

These bugs are hidden and don't actually trigger due to the magic +100
offset for the buffer size.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27 14:52:47 -05:00
Michael Buesch
ca2d559e1a b43: Move DMA stop sanity check
Move the DMA stop sanity check up a few lines, so it's actually
theoretically possible to trigger. (But it still shouldn't trigger, of course).

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27 14:52:47 -05:00
Johannes Berg
e6a9854b05 mac80211/drivers: rewrite the rate control API
So after the previous changes we were still unhappy with how
convoluted the API is and decided to make things simpler for
everybody. This completely changes the rate control API, now
taking into account 802.11n with MCS rates and more control,
most drivers don't support that though.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:23 -04:00
Michael Buesch
f225763a7d ssb, b43, b43legacy, b44: Rewrite SSB DMA API
This is a rewrite of the DMA API for SSB devices.
This is needed, because the old (non-existing) "API" made too many bad
assumptions on the API of the host-bus (PCI).
This introduces an almost complete SSB-DMA-API that maps to the lowlevel
bus-API based on the bustype.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-27 09:09:15 -04:00
David S. Miller
caea902f72 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c
	net/sctp/protocol.c
2008-06-16 18:25:48 -07:00
Michael Buesch
028118a5f0 b43: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in DMA code
This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference in an error path of the
DMA allocation error checking code. This is also necessary for a future
DMA API change that is on its way into the mainline kernel that adds
an additional dev parameter to dma_mapping_error().

This patch moves the whole struct b43_dmaring struct initialization
right before any DMA allocation operation.

Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-13 16:14:48 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e253008360 mac80211: use multi-queue master netdevice
This patch updates mac80211 and drivers to be multi-queue aware and
use that instead of the internal queue mapping. Also does a number
of cleanups in various pieces of the code that fall out and reduces
internal mac80211 state size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg
e039fa4a41 mac80211: move TX info into skb->cb
This patch converts mac80211 and all drivers to have transmit
information and status in skb->cb rather than allocating extra
memory for it and copying all the data around. To make it fit,
a union is used where only data that is necessary for all steps
is kept outside of the union.

A number of fixes were done by Ivo, as well as the rt2x00 part
of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:11 -04:00
Johannes Berg
57ffc589a9 mac80211: clean up get_tx_stats callback
The callback takes a ieee80211_tx_queue_stats with a contained
array of ieee80211_tx_queue_stats_data, remove the former, rename
the latter to ieee80211_tx_queue_stats and make tx_stats() take
the array directly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-07 15:02:26 -04:00
Michael Buesch
1033b3ea11 b43: Workaround DMA quirks
Some mainboards/CPUs don't allow DMA masks bigger than a certain limit.
Some VIA crap^h^h^h^hdevices have an upper limit of 0xFFFFFFFF. So in this
case a 64-bit b43 device would always fail to acquire the mask.
Implement a workaround to fallback to lower DMA mask, as we can always
also support a lower mask.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-23 21:25:36 -04:00
David S. Miller
1e42198609 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-04-17 23:56:30 -07:00
Michael Buesch
4ac58469f1 ssb: Fix usage of struct device used for DMAing
This fixes DMA on architectures where DMA is nontrivial, like PPC64.
We must use the host-device's (PCI) struct device for any DMA
operation instead of the SSB device. For this we add a new
struct device pointer to the SSB device structure that will always
point to the right device for DMAing.

Without this patch b43 and b44 drivers won't work on complex-DMA
architectures, that for example need dev->archdata for DMA operations.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-15 15:04:35 -04:00
Michael Buesch
5100d5ac81 b43: Add PIO support for PCMCIA devices
This adds PIO support back (D'oh!) for PCMCIA devices.
This is a complete rewrite of the old PIO code. It does actually work
and we get reasonable performance out of it on a modern machine.
On a PowerBook G4 I get a few MBit for TX and a few more for RX.
So it doesn't work as well as DMA (of course), but it's a _lot_ faster
than the old PIO code (only got a few kBit with that).

The limiting factor is the host CPU speed. So it will generate 100%
CPU usage when the network interface is heavily loaded. A voluntary preemption
point in the RX path makes sure Desktop Latency isn't hurt.

PIO is needed for 16bit PCMCIA devices, as we really don't want to poke with
the braindead DMA mechanisms on PCMCIA sockets. Additionally, not all
PCMCIA sockets do actually support DMA in 16bit mode (mine doesn't).

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08 15:05:56 -04:00
David S. Miller
e1ec1b8ccd Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/s2io.c
2008-04-02 22:35:23 -07:00
Michael Buesch
539e6f8cff b43: Add DMA mapping failure messages
This adds messages for some DMA mapping failures.
These are useful for debugging DMA address problems, as they appear
on x86_64 machines with IOMMU enabled.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-01 15:44:08 -04:00
David S. Miller
8e8e43843b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c
	drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c
	net/ipv6/ndisc.c
2008-03-27 18:48:56 -07:00
Michael Buesch
7a193a5df7 b43: Remove irqs_disabled() sanity checks
Remove all irqs_disabled() sanity checks, as they are not safe on
a RT-enabled kernel and will trigger bogus warnings.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-24 19:25:09 -04:00
Michael Buesch
ffa9256aaa b43: Fix DMA mapping leakage
This fixes a DMA mapping leakage in the case where we reject a DMA
buffer because of its address.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-24 19:25:09 -04:00
Michael Buesch
87d96114a7 b43: Fix failed frames status report typo
This fixes a typo in the status report.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-07 16:02:59 -05:00
Michael Buesch
57df40d278 b43: Add TX statistics debugging counters
This adds a few debugging counters, that are useful for debugging the
"card does not transmit" or "connection is unstable" kind of problems.
It's also useful for tuning an RC algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-07 16:02:59 -05:00
Michael Buesch
b27faf8ebf b43: Rename the DMA ring pointers
Rename the DMA ring pointers to have more descriptive and standard
names. Also remove the 6th unused TX ring. We can add it back later,
if we need it. The unused TX-status rx-ring is also removed, as that's
only used by legacy devices not supported by this driver anyway.

This is no functional change, except less memory allocation for
the removed rings.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-07 16:02:59 -05:00
Michael Buesch
e6f5b934fb b43: Add QOS support
This adds QOS support to the b43 driver.
QOS can be disabled on driver level with a module parameter for debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-07 16:02:59 -05:00
Michael Buesch
b79caa68c0 b43: Fix DMA for 30/32-bit DMA engines
This checks if the DMA address is bigger than what the controller can manage.
It will reallocate the buffers in the GFP_DMA zone in that case.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-05 14:35:47 -05:00
Michael Buesch
09552ccd82 b43: Drop packets that we are not able to encrypt
We must not transmit packets we're not able to encrypt.

This fixes a bug where in a tiny timeframe after machine resume
packets can get sent unencrypted and might leak information.

This also fixes three small resource leakages I spotted while fixing
the security problem. Properly deallocate the DMA slots in any DMA
allocation error path.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:26:45 -08:00
Michael Buesch
eb189d8bc9 b43: Add support for new firmware
This patch adds support for new firmware.
Old firmware is still supported until July 2008.

To get new firmware, go to
ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt150nv11/1.51.3/
and download the tarball. We don't have a smaller tarball, yet.
That will be fixed later.
You can extract firmware out of the "wl_ap.o" file contained
in this tarball using latest fwcutter. You must pass the option
--unsupported to fwcutter.
Fwcutter-010 with official support for a new firmware image will
be released soon.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:09:50 -08:00
Michael Buesch
280d0e16bc b43: Put multicast frames on the mcast queue
This queues frames flagged as "send after DTIM" by mac80211
on the special multicast queue. The firmware will take care
to send the packet after the DTIM.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:45 -08:00
Michael Buesch
03b29773b6 b43: Remove PIO support
Remove b43 PIO support.
DMA works well on all supported devices. There's no reason to use PIO.
Additionally, new devices don't support PIO in hardware anymore.
b43 PIO support is dead and unused code.

After applying this patch please do
git rm drivers/net/wireless/b43/pio.h
git rm drivers/net/wireless/b43/pio.c
to remove the main PIO support code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:17 -08:00
Larry Finger
013978b688 b43: Changes to enable BCM4311 rev 02 with wireless core revision 13
The BCM94311MCG rev 02 chip has an 802.11 core with revision 13 and
has not been supported until now. The changes include the following:

(1) Add the 802.11 rev 13 device to the ssb_device_id table to load b43.
(2) Add PHY revision 9 to the supported list.
(3) Change the 2-bit routing code for address extensions to 0b10 rather
    than the 0b01 used for the 32-bit case.
(4) Remove some magic numbers in the DMA setup.

The DMA implementation for this chip supports full 64-bit addressing with
one exception. Whenever the Descriptor Ring Buffer is in high memory, a
fatal DMA error occurs. This problem was not present in 2.6.24-rc2 due
to code to "Bias the placement of kernel pages at lower PFNs". When
commit 44048d70 reverted that code, the DMA error appeared. As a "fix",
use the GFP_DMA flag when allocating the buffer for 64-bit DMA. At present,
this problem is thought to arise from a hardware error.

This patch has been tested on my system and by Cédric Caumont
<icare40@hotmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:05:01 -08:00
Michael Buesch
e4d6b79518 [B43]: add mac80211-based driver for modern BCM43xx devices
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:37 -07:00