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29-Mar-2018 |
eadler |
Revert r330897:
This was intended to be a non-functional change. It wasn't. The commit message was thus wrong. In addition it broke arm, and merged crypto related code.
Revert with prejudice.
This revert skips files touched in r316370 since that commit was since MFCed. This revert also skips files that require $FreeBSD$ property changes.
Thank you to those who helped me get out of this mess including but not limited to gonzo, kevans, rgrimes.
Requested by: gjb (re)
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25-May-2015 |
adrian |
Begin plumbing ieee80211_rx_stats through the receive path.
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.
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04-Apr-2013 |
adrian |
Fix the busdma logic to work with EDMA chipsets when using bounce buffers (ie, >4GB on amd64.)
The underlying problem was that PREREAD doesn't sync the mbuf with the DMA memory (ie, bounce buffer), so the bounce buffer may have had stale information. Thus it was always considering the buffer completed and things just went off the rails.
This change does the following:
* Make ath_rx_pkt() always consume the mbuf somehow; it no longer passes error mbufs (eg CRC errors, crypt errors, etc) back up to the RX path to recycle. This means that a new mbuf is always allocated each time, but it's cleaner.
* Push the RX buffer map/unmap to occur in the RX path, not ath_rx_pkt(). Thus, ath_rx_pkt() now assumes (a) it has to consume the mbuf somehow, and (b) that it's already been unmapped and synced.
* For the legacy path, the descriptor isn't mapped, it comes out of coherent, DMA memory anyway. So leave it there.
* For the EDMA path, the RX descriptor has to be cleared before its passed to the hardware, so that when we check with a POSTREAD sync, we actually get either a blank (not finished) or a filled out descriptor (finished.) Otherwise we get stale data in the DMA memory.
* .. so, for EDMA RX path, we need PREREAD|PREWRITE to sync the data -> DMA memory, then POSTREAD|POSTWRITE to finish syncing the DMA memory -> data.
* Whilst we're here, make sure that in EDMA buffer setup (ie, bzero'ing the descriptor part) is done before the mbuf is map/synched.
NOTE: there's been a lot of commits besides this one with regards to tidying up the busdma handling in ath(4). Please check the recent commit history.
Discussed with and thanks to: scottl
Tested:
* AR5416 (non-EDMA) on i386, with the DMA tag for the driver set to 2^^30, not 2^^32, STA
* AR9580 (EDMA) on i386, as above, STA
* User - tested AR9380 on amd64 with 32GB RAM.
PR: kern/177530
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03-Jul-2012 |
adrian |
Begin abstracting out the RX path in preparation for RX EDMA support.
The RX EDMA support requires a modified approach to the RX descriptor handling.
Specifically:
* There's now two RX queues - high and low priority; * The RX queues are implemented as FIFOs; they're now an array of pointers to buffers; * .. and the RX buffer and descriptor are in the same "buffer", rather than being separate.
So to that end, this commit abstracts out most of the RX related functions from the bulk of the driver. Notably, the RX DMA/buffer allocation isn't updated, primarily because I haven't yet fleshed out what it should look like.
Whilst I'm here, create a set of matching but mostly unimplemented EDMA stubs.
Tested:
* AR9280, station mode
TODO:
* Thorough AP and other mode testing for non-EDMA chips; * Figure out how to allocate RX buffers suitable for RX EDMA, including correctly setting the mbuf length to compensate for the RX descriptor and completion status area.
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20-May-2012 |
adrian |
Migrate the bulk of the RX routines out from if_ath.c to if_ath_rx.[ch].
* migrate the rx processing out into if_ath_rx.c * migrate the TSF functions into if_ath_tsf.h, as inlines
This is in prepration for supporting the EDMA RX routines, required to support the AR93xx series NICs.
TODO:
* ath_start() shouldn't be private, but it's called as part of the RX path. I should likely migrate ath_rx_tasklet() back into if_ath.c and then return this to be 'static'. The RX code really shouldn't need to see TX routines (and vice versa.)
* ath_beacon_* should be in if_ath_beacon.[ch].
* ath_tdma_* should be in if_ath_tdma.[ch] ...
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