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312362 18-Jan-2017 yongari

MFC r295735:
Fix variable assignment.

273357 21-Oct-2014 yongari

MFC r272721:
Fix a long standing bug in MAC statistics register access. One
additional register was erroneously added in the MAC register set
such that 7 TX statistics counters were wrong.

264446 14-Apr-2014 yongari

MFC r260429:
m_defrag(9) does not touch original mbuf chain when it can't
allocate new mbuf. Free original mbuf chain when driver is not
able to send the packet.

264442 14-Apr-2014 yongari

MFC r263957:
Increase the number of TX DMA segments from 32 to 35. It turned
out 32 is not enough to support a full sized TSO packet.
While I'm here fix a long standing bug introduced in r169632 in
bce(4) where it didn't include L2 header length of TSO packet in
the maximum DMA segment size calculation.

256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


244341 17-Dec-2012 yongari

Make sure to stop both TX and RX MACs in ale_stop_mac(). Previously
it used to stop TX MAC only such that MAC reconfiguration after
getting a link didn't work as expected.

PR: kern/173652


243857 04-Dec-2012 glebius

Mechanically substitute flags from historic mbuf allocator with
malloc(9) flags in sys/dev.


242625 05-Nov-2012 dim

Remove duplicate const specifiers in many drivers (I hope I got all of
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


241340 08-Oct-2012 yongari

Fix typo. Check against number of allocated MSI-X vectors.
There is no ale(4) controller that supports MSI-X so this is not
real issue.

PR: kern/171825


233888 04-Apr-2012 marius

- Const'ify the device lookup-table.
- Use DEVMETHOD_END.
- Use NULL instead of 0 for pointers.
- Enable support for flow control.
Tested by: yongari

MFC after: 1 week


233689 30-Mar-2012 yongari

Do not report current link status if driver is not running.
This change also workarounds dhclient's link state handling bug by
not giving current link status.

Unlike other controllers, ale(4)'s PHY hibernation perfectly works
such that driver does not see a valid link if the controller is not
brought up. If dhclient(8) runs on ale(4) it will blindly waits
until link UP and then gives up after 10 seconds. Because
dhclient(8) still thinks interface got a valid link when IFM_AVALID
is not set for selected media, this change makes dhclient initiate
DHCP without waiting for link UP.


233688 30-Mar-2012 yongari

Remove task queue based link state change handler. Driver no longer
needs to defer link state handling.
While I'm here, mark IFF_DRV_RUNNING before changing media. If
link is established without any delay, that link state change
handling could be lost.


226478 17-Oct-2011 yongari

Close a race where SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl get inconsistent link status.
Because driver is accessing a common MII structure in
mii_pollstat(), updating user supplied structure should be done
before dropping a driver lock.

Reported by: Karim (fodillemlinkarimi <> gmail dot com)


222107 19-May-2011 yongari

Fix typo.

Submitted by: brad at OpenBSD


221407 03-May-2011 marius

- Remove attempts to implement setting of BMCR_LOOP/MIIF_NOLOOP
(reporting IFM_LOOP based on BMCR_LOOP is left in place though as
it might provide useful for debugging). For most mii(4) drivers it
was unclear whether the PHYs driven by them actually support
loopback or not. Moreover, typically loopback mode also needs to
be activated on the MAC, which none of the Ethernet drivers using
mii(4) implements. Given that loopback media has no real use (and
obviously hardly had a chance to actually work) besides for driver
development (which just loopback mode should be sufficient for
though, i.e one doesn't necessary need support for loopback media)
support for it is just dropped as both NetBSD and OpenBSD already
did quite some time ago.
- Let mii_phy_add_media() also announce the support of IFM_NONE.
- Restructure the PHY entry points to use a structure of entry points
instead of discrete function pointers, and extend this to include
a "reset" entry point. Make sure any PHY-specific reset routine is
always used, and provide one for lxtphy(4) which disables MII
interrupts (as is done for a few other PHYs we have drivers for).
This includes changing NIC drivers which previously just called the
generic mii_phy_reset() to now actually call the PHY-specific reset
routine, which might be crucial in some cases. While at it, the
redundant checks in these NIC drivers for mii->mii_instance not being
zero before calling the reset routines were removed because as soon
as one PHY driver attaches mii->mii_instance is incremented and we
hardly can end up in their media change callbacks etc if no PHY driver
has attached as mii_attach() would have failed in that case and not
attach a miibus(4) instance.
Consequently, NIC drivers now no longer should call mii_phy_reset()
directly, so it was removed from EXPORT_SYMS.
- Add a mii_phy_dev_attach() as a companion helper to mii_phy_dev_probe().
The purpose of that function is to perform the common steps to attach
a PHY driver instance and to hook it up to the miibus(4) instance and to
optionally also handle the probing, addition and initialization of the
supported media. So all a PHY driver without any special requirements
has to do in its bus attach method is to call mii_phy_dev_attach()
along with PHY-specific MIIF_* flags, a pointer to its PHY functions
and the add_media set to one. All PHY drivers were updated to take
advantage of mii_phy_dev_attach() as appropriate. Along with these
changes the capability mask was added to the mii_softc structure so
PHY drivers taking advantage of mii_phy_dev_attach() but still
handling media on their own do not need to fiddle with the MII attach
arguments anyway.
- Keep track of the PHY offset in the mii_softc structure. This is done
for compatibility with NetBSD/OpenBSD.
- Keep track of the PHY's OUI, model and revision in the mii_softc
structure. Several PHY drivers require this information also after
attaching and previously had to wrap their own softc around mii_softc.
NetBSD/OpenBSD also keep track of the model and revision on their
mii_softc structure. All PHY drivers were updated to take advantage
as appropriate.
- Convert the mebers of the MII data structure to unsigned where
appropriate. This is partly inspired by NetBSD/OpenBSD.
- According to IEEE 802.3-2002 the bits actually have to be reversed
when mapping an OUI to the MII ID registers. All PHY drivers and
miidevs where changed as necessary. Actually this now again allows to
largely share miidevs with NetBSD, which fixed this problem already
9 years ago. Consequently miidevs was synced as far as possible.
- Add MIIF_NOMANPAUSE and mii_phy_flowstatus() calls to drivers that
weren't explicitly converted to support flow control before. It's
unclear whether flow control actually works with these but typically
it should and their net behavior should be more correct with these
changes in place than without if the MAC driver sets MIIF_DOPAUSE.

Obtained from: NetBSD (partially)
Reviewed by: yongari (earlier version), silence on arch@ and net@


219902 23-Mar-2011 jhb

Do a sweep of the tree replacing calls to pci_find_extcap() with calls to
pci_find_cap() instead.


217542 18-Jan-2011 jhb

Fix some bugs in my last set of changes to ale(4):
- Remove extra unlock from end of ale_start_locked().
- Expand scope of locking in interrupt handler.
- Move ether_ifdetach() earlier and retire now-unneeded DETACH flag.

Tested by: Aryeh Friedman
Reviewed by: yongari (earlier version)


217323 12-Jan-2011 mdf

sysctl(9) cleanup checkpoint: amd64 GENERIC builds cleanly.

Commit the rest of the devices.


216925 03-Jan-2011 jhb

Add a 'locked' variant of the foo_start() routine and call it directly
from interrupt handlers and watchdog routines instead of queueing a task
to call foo_start().

Reviewed by: yongari
MFC after: 1 month


216438 14-Dec-2010 yongari

Remove unecessary and clearly wrong usage of atomic(9).

Reported by: avg


213893 15-Oct-2010 marius

Convert the PHY drivers to honor the mii_flags passed down and convert
the NIC drivers as well as the PHY drivers to take advantage of the
mii_attach() introduced in r213878 to get rid of certain hacks. For
the most part these were:
- Artificially limiting miibus_{read,write}reg methods to certain PHY
addresses; we now let mii_attach() only probe the PHY at the desired
address(es) instead.
- PHY drivers setting MIIF_* flags based on the NIC driver they hang
off from, partly even based on grabbing and using the softc of the
parent; we now pass these flags down from the NIC to the PHY drivers
via mii_attach(). This got us rid of all such hacks except those of
brgphy() in combination with bce(4) and bge(4), which is way beyond
what can be expressed with simple flags.

While at it, I took the opportunity to change the NIC drivers to pass
up the error returned by mii_attach() (previously by mii_phy_probe())
and unify the error message used in this case where and as appropriate
as mii_attach() actually can fail for a number of reasons, not just
because of no PHY(s) being present at the expected address(es).

Reviewed by: jhb, yongari


213844 14-Oct-2010 yongari

Make sure to not use stale ip/tcp header pointers. The ip/tcp
header parser uses m_pullup(9) to get access to mbuf chain.
m_pullup(9) can allocate new mbuf chain and free old one if the
space left in the mbuf chain is not enough to hold requested
contiguous bytes. Previously drivers can use stale ip/tcp header
pointer if m_pullup(9) returned new mbuf chain.

Reported by: Andrew Boyer (aboyer <> averesystems dot com)
MFC after: 10 days


207251 26-Apr-2010 yongari

It seems ale(4) controllers do not like to see TCP payload in the
first descriptor in TSO case. Otherwise controller can generate bad
frames during TSO. To address it, make sure to pull up ethernet +
IP + TCP header with options in first buffer. Also ensure the
buffer length of the first descriptor for TSO covers entire ethernet
+ IP + TCP with options and setup additional Tx descriptor if the
first buffer includes TCP payload.

Tested by: Amar Takhar <verm <> darkbeer dot org >
MFC after: 1 week


206876 19-Apr-2010 yongari

With r206844, CSUM_TCP is also set for CSUM_TSO case. Modify
drivers to take into account for the change. Basically CSUM_TSO
should be checked before checking CSUM_TCP.


204378 26-Feb-2010 yongari

Add TSO support on VLANs. While I'm here remove unnecessary check
of VLAN hardware checksum offloading. vlan(4) already takes care of
this.


197627 29-Sep-2009 yongari

Fix multicast handling. All Atheros controllers use big-endian form
in computing multicast hash.

PR: kern/139137


195153 29-Jun-2009 yongari

Disable Rx checksum offload until I find more clue why it breaks
under certain environments. However give users chance to override
it when he/she surely knows his/her hardware works with Rx checksum
offload.

Reported by: Ulrich Spoerlein ( uqs <> spoerlein dot net )
MFC after: 1 week
Approved by: re (kensmith)


195049 26-Jun-2009 rwatson

Use if_maddr_rlock()/if_maddr_runlock() rather than IF_ADDR_LOCK()/
IF_ADDR_UNLOCK() across network device drivers when accessing the
per-interface multicast address list, if_multiaddrs. This will
allow us to change the locking strategy without affecting our driver
programming interface or binary interface.

For two wireless drivers, remove unnecessary locking, since they
don't actually access the multicast address list.

Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 6 weeks


189379 05-Mar-2009 yongari

Now pci(4) handles PCIM_CMD_INTxDIS so there is no need to poke
this bit in driver.


185577 03-Dec-2008 yongari

AR8113 also need to set DMA read burst value. This should fix
occasional DMA read error seen on AR8113.

Submitted by: Jie Yang < Jie.Yang <> Atheros com >


185576 03-Dec-2008 yongari

Add some PHY magic to enable PHY hibernation and 1000baseT/10baseT
power adjustment. This change is required to guarantee correct
operation on certain switches.

Submitted by: Jie Yang < Jie.Yang <> Atheros com >


184870 12-Nov-2008 yongari

Add ale(4), a driver for Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe ethernet
controller. The controller is also known as L1E(AR8121) and
L2E(AR8113/AR8114). Unlike its predecessor Attansic L1,
AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 uses completely different Rx logic such that
it requires separate driver. Datasheet for AR81xx is not available
to open source driver writers but it shares large part of Tx and
PHY logic of L1. I still don't understand some part of register
meaning and some MAC statistics counters but the driver seems to
have no critical issues for performance and stability.

The AR81xx requires copy operation to pass received frames to upper
stack such that ale(4) consumes a lot of CPU cycles than that of
other controller. A couple of silicon bugs also adds more CPU
cycles to address the known hardware bug. However, if you have fast
CPU you can still saturate the link.
Currently ale(4) supports the following hardware features.
- MSI.
- TCP Segmentation offload.
- Hardware VLAN tag insertion/stripping with checksum offload.
- Tx TCP/UDP checksum offload and Rx IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload.
- Tx/Rx interrupt moderation.
- Hardware statistics counters.
- Jumbo frame.
- WOL.

AR81xx PCIe ethernet controllers are mainly found on ASUS EeePC or
P5Q series of ASUS motherboards. Special thanks to Jeremy Chadwick
who sent the hardware to me. Without his donation writing a driver
for AR81xx would never have been possible. Big thanks to all people
who reported feedback or tested patches.

HW donated by: koitsu
Tested by: bsam, Joao Barros <joao.barros <> gmail DOT com >
Jan Henrik Sylvester <me <> janh DOT de >
Ivan Brawley < ivan <> brawley DOT id DOT au >,
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