platform/kernel/linux-3.10.git
12 years agomac80211: lazily stop queues in add_pending
Johannes Berg [Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:04:28 +0000 (11:04 +0200)]
mac80211: lazily stop queues in add_pending

When adding pending SKBs there's no need to
stop all queues, we only need to stop those
that we're adding frames to. Implement that
by lazily stopping a queue as we add an SKB.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: debounce queue stop/wake
Johannes Berg [Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:04:27 +0000 (11:04 +0200)]
mac80211: debounce queue stop/wake

When the queue status changes we need to do a fair
bit of work, so ignore no-op changes early.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: decouple # of netdev queues from HW queues
Johannes Berg [Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:04:26 +0000 (11:04 +0200)]
mac80211: decouple # of netdev queues from HW queues

When we get more hardware queues, we'll still want
to only have netdev queues per AC, so set it up in
that way. If the hardware doesn't support QoS (by
not supporting at least 4 queues) the netdevs get
a single queue only (this is no change in behavior
as there are no drivers with 2 or 3 queues today.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: refuse TX queue configuration on non-QoS HW
Johannes Berg [Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:04:25 +0000 (11:04 +0200)]
mac80211: refuse TX queue configuration on non-QoS HW

Drivers that don't support QoS also don't support
setting up their ACs, catch that early. While at
it, remove the input check since cfg80211 does it
now.

Also fix up the restart code to not try to set up
the queues in this case.

Finally also change the tx_conf array to have
IEEE80211_NUM_ACS entries instead of # of queues
since that's what it really needs.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agocfg80211/nl80211: clarify TX queue API
Johannes Berg [Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:04:24 +0000 (11:04 +0200)]
cfg80211/nl80211: clarify TX queue API

With the plan to change mac80211's queue API to
not map ACs to queues 1:1, it seems necessary to
clarify some APIs that act on ACs rather than on
queues to spell that out explicitly. Do this.

Also verify that the AC number given is valid.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: remove antenna_sel_tx TX info field
Johannes Berg [Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:04:23 +0000 (11:04 +0200)]
mac80211: remove antenna_sel_tx TX info field

This field is never set to anything non-zero in
mac80211, so we should be able to remove it.
Unfortunately though, the iwlwifi and iwlegacy
drivers use it for their internal TX status
processing (which shouldn't be using the rate
control API to start with), so add a new field
"status.antenna" for them, at least for now.

In the future, I plan to use the new field to
hold the hardware queue, while the SKB's queue
mapping holds the AC.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: notify driver of rate control updates
Johannes Berg [Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:43:32 +0000 (08:43 +0200)]
mac80211: notify driver of rate control updates

Devices that have internal rate control need to be
notified when the bandwidth or SMPS state changes
just like external rate control algorithms get a
notification now.

Add this notification and clarify the change bits
while at it, the HT_CHANGED bit really meant only
bandwidth changed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: remove queue stop on rate control update
Johannes Berg [Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:58:38 +0000 (10:58 +0200)]
mac80211: remove queue stop on rate control update

We currently stop the queue when changing the rate
control between 20/40 MHz in the BSS. This seems to
have been necessary when we actually changed the
channel, but now that we just update the station it
doesn't seem right any more. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: remove channel type argument from rate_update
Johannes Berg [Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:58:37 +0000 (10:58 +0200)]
mac80211: remove channel type argument from rate_update

The channel type argument to the rate_update()
callback isn't really the correct way to give
the rate control algorithm about the desired
RX bandwidth of the peer.

Remove this argument, and instead update the
STA capabilities with 20/40 appropriately. The
SMPS update done by this callback works in the
same way, so this makes the callback cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: set HT channel before association
Johannes Berg [Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:58:36 +0000 (10:58 +0200)]
mac80211: set HT channel before association

Changing the channel type during operation is
confusing to some drivers and will be hard to
handle in multi-channel scenarios. Instead of
changing the channel, set it to the right HT
channel before authenticating/associating and
don't change it -- just update the 20/40 MHz
restrictions in rate control as needed when
changed by the AP.

This also fixes a problem that Paul missed in
his fix for the "regulatory makes us deaf"
issue -- when we couldn't use 40 MHz we still
associated saying we were using 40 MHz, which
could in similarly broken APs make us never
even connect successfully.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: use AC constants
Johannes Berg [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:18:40 +0000 (14:18 +0200)]
mac80211: use AC constants

Use the AC constants instead of hard-coding
the numbers with comments.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: inline ieee80211_add_pending_skbs
Johannes Berg [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:18:39 +0000 (14:18 +0200)]
mac80211: inline ieee80211_add_pending_skbs

This is a trivial wrapper function, inline it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: make ieee80211_downgrade_queue static
Johannes Berg [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:18:38 +0000 (14:18 +0200)]
mac80211: make ieee80211_downgrade_queue static

There's no reason for it to not be static.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: clean up uAPSD TX code
Johannes Berg [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:18:37 +0000 (14:18 +0200)]
mac80211: clean up uAPSD TX code

Clean up the code formatting and also replace
the constant 0 by IEEE80211_AC_VO.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: fix mesh TX coding style
Johannes Berg [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:18:36 +0000 (14:18 +0200)]
mac80211: fix mesh TX coding style

Fix bad indentation & pointless if nesting.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomwifiex: don't use IEEE80211_MAX_QUEUES
Johannes Berg [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:07:59 +0000 (14:07 +0200)]
mwifiex: don't use IEEE80211_MAX_QUEUES

IEEE80211_MAX_QUEUES is an internal mac80211 value,
it is not guaranteed to be always 4. The firmware
API in mwifiex almost certainly doesn't care about
mac80211 changing though, so mwifiex shouldn't use
this value.

Maybe it should use IEEE80211_NUM_ACS instead and
that is what I'm doing here as at least that value
will probably never change, but maybe it should
have its own define instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: don't always advertise remain-on-channel
Johannes Berg [Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:47:18 +0000 (18:47 +0200)]
mac80211: don't always advertise remain-on-channel

Not all devices are really capable of implementing
remain-on-channel, even if it is implemented in SW,
as they can't necessarily deal with channel changes
while associated.

Remove the WIPHY_FLAG_HAS_REMAIN_ON_CHANNEL and add
it only if either the driver has remain_on_channel
implemented in the driver/device.

Also add it to all drivers that advertise P2P right
now since those definitely have to have it working.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agortlwifi: Add missing DMA buffer unmapping for PCI drivers
Larry Finger [Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:48:20 +0000 (10:48 -0500)]
rtlwifi: Add missing DMA buffer unmapping for PCI drivers

In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42976, a system with driver
rtl8192se used as an AP suffers from "Out of SW-IOMMU space" errors. These
are caused by the DMA buffers used for beacons never being unmapped.

This bug was also reported at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/961618

Reported-and-Tested-by: Da Xue <da@lessconfused.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: Add pr_fmt
Joe Perches [Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:27:40 +0000 (08:27 -0700)]
iwlwifi: Add pr_fmt

Prefix dmesg output with "iwlwifi: " by
adding #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: fix unused variable warning
Oliver Hartkopp [Sun, 25 Mar 2012 06:43:24 +0000 (08:43 +0200)]
iwlwifi: fix unused variable warning

In the case of disabled CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS option the compiler complains
about the unused variable 'img'. Fix this by moving the 'img' definition.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Acked-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoath5k: Introduce _ath5k_printk to reduce code/text
Joe Perches [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:30:53 +0000 (17:30 -0700)]
ath5k: Introduce _ath5k_printk to reduce code/text

Macros can be converted to functions to reduce overall object size.

Convert the ATH5K_PRINTK macro to use _ath5k_printk.

Allyesconfig size is reduced ~10%

$ size drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/built-in.o*
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 211557    2032   40672  254261   3e135 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/built-in.o.new
 235412    2032   47296  284740   45844 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/built-in.o.old

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoath: Add and use pr_fmt, convert printks to pr_<level>
Joe Perches [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:30:52 +0000 (17:30 -0700)]
ath: Add and use pr_fmt, convert printks to pr_<level>

Use a more current logging style.
Make sure all output is prefixed appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: split POWER_PMI status bit
Don Fry [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:27:06 +0000 (13:27 -0700)]
iwlwifi: split POWER_PMI status bit

Move the POWER_PMI to the op_mode where it is changed.  The trans needs
to check it frequently, so shadow the status in the trans and update it
in trans when it infrequently changes.

Signed-off-by: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: move FW_ERROR to priv
Don Fry [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:27:05 +0000 (13:27 -0700)]
iwlwifi: move FW_ERROR to priv

The op_mode should check for FW_ERROR before calling send_cmd.  This
removes the need to test for FW_ERROR in the trans layer.

Signed-off-by: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: remove firmware info from iwl_shared
Meenakshi Venkataraman [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:27:04 +0000 (13:27 -0700)]
iwlwifi: remove firmware info from iwl_shared

With error logging now completely handled in
the op_mode, the transport layer does not
need to know information about the loaded
firmware.

Remove this state information from the
iwl_shared data structure.

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: move iwl_get_single_channel_number and mark it static
Meenakshi Venkataraman [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:27:03 +0000 (13:27 -0700)]
iwlwifi: move iwl_get_single_channel_number and mark it static

iwl_get_single_channel_number is used only in
iwl-scan.c, move it there and mark it static.

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: move iwl_full_rxon_required and mark it static
Meenakshi Venkataraman [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:27:02 +0000 (13:27 -0700)]
iwlwifi: move iwl_full_rxon_required and mark it static

iwl_full_rxon_required is used only in
iwl-agn-rxon.c. Move it there and mark it
static.

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: move iwl_check_rxon_cmd and mark it static
Meenakshi Venkataraman [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:27:01 +0000 (13:27 -0700)]
iwlwifi: move iwl_check_rxon_cmd and mark it static

iwl_check_rxon_cmd is used only in
iwl-agn-rxon.c. Move it there and mark it
static.

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: move iwl_set_rxon_hwcrypto and mark it static
Meenakshi Venkataraman [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:27:00 +0000 (13:27 -0700)]
iwlwifi: move iwl_set_rxon_hwcrypto and mark it static

iwl_set_rxon_hwcrypto is used only in
iwl-agn-rxon.c. Move it there and mark it
static.

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: Move iwl_send_rxon_timing and make it static
Meenakshi Venkataraman [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:59 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: Move iwl_send_rxon_timing and make it static

iwl_send_rxon_timing is used only in
iwl-agn-rxon.c, move it there and mark it
static.

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: move iwl_init_geos to iwl-agn.c
Meenakshi Venkataraman [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:58 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: move iwl_init_geos to iwl-agn.c

This is used only in one file, move it there
and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: move ucode_type from shared to op_mode
Meenakshi Venkataraman [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:57 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: move ucode_type from shared to op_mode

This variable holds the ucode currently
running on the device; which is determined by
op_mode, so move this parameter there.

Also, the name of the variable is a bit
misleading, so rename it to cur_ucode.

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: move ucode error log reporting to op_mode
Meenakshi Venkataraman [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:56 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: move ucode error log reporting to op_mode

Error log reporting does not belong to the
transport layer, but to the op_mode loading
the ucode, as it is the entity which knows
about the ucode loaded, and what the error
information means.

Move device logging pointers from the
transport layer to op_mode.

With this change, transport layer only
reports an error to the op_mode, which will
figure out what to do with the error. This
causes the driver to now dump out error logs
when the command queue is stuck as well.

Also, move the debugfs entry for event logs
out of the transport layer and into op_mode.

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: make iwl_nic_error static
Meenakshi Venkataraman [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:55 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: make iwl_nic_error static

iwl_nic_error is used in iwl-agn.c only, move
it there and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: use iwlagn_fw_error instead of iwl_nic_error
Meenakshi Venkataraman [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:54 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: use iwlagn_fw_error instead of iwl_nic_error

In the process, make iwlagn_fw_error
a non-static function, as it is used
by more than one file.

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: move valid_contexts to priv
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:53 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: move valid_contexts to priv

No other component is accessing it any more,
so it can move to the correct place in priv.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: move queue mapping out of transport
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:52 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: move queue mapping out of transport

The queue mapping is not only dynamic, it
is also dependent on the uCode, as we can
already see today with the dual-mode and
non-dual-mode being different.

Move the queue mapping out of the transport
layer and let the higher layer manage it.
Part of the transport configuration is how
to set up the queues.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: use scan while idle
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:51 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: use scan while idle

As idle is just a deep powersave mode for
the device, it will easily scan while idle
since that turns off powersave.

This reduces the number of commands sent
to the device when scanning.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: remove scan_rx_antennas
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:50 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: remove scan_rx_antennas

This is not (no longer?) used by any device
so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: remove iq_invert config param
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:49 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: remove iq_invert config param

This is used only by 2000 class devices, but
they all use it so remove the configuration
parameter and hard-code the programming.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: remove support_wimax_coexist
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:48 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: remove support_wimax_coexist

There's no device using this mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: clarify config struct comments
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:47 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: clarify config struct comments

It talks about treating different uCode APIs
as different pieces of hardware which really
isn't how we handle things.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: add trailing newline to various messages
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:46 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: add trailing newline to various messages

A whole bunch of messages, even some recent ones,
didn't include a trailing newline so add it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: simplify calibration collection
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:45 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: simplify calibration collection

The calibration results all come in while we're
waiting for the calibration complete notification.
As a consequence, there's no need to install a
global RX handler for them, we can use the newly
extended notification wait framework for this and
make the code easier to follow.

It is now quite explicit that we are processing
the calibration results while waiting for the
complete notification, before this was implicit
and developers had to know this to understand why
we wait for the calibration complete notification
and what happens while we wait.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: extend notification wait
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:44 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: extend notification wait

Sometimes, for example when we ask the uCode
for calibration, we wait for the "complete"
response while we also need the results that
are sent in other, interim, notifications.

Currently we handle this by installing an RX
handler globally, but that isn't needed as
this is the only time we want to use these
notifications.

So in order to be able to simplify at least
future code that does the same, extend the
notification wait framework to allow you to
wait for multiple commands and decide based
on the command whether the wait finished.

While at it, also fix a race that can then
become relevant -- if the wait function has
returned true once it shouldn't be called
again, today this can happen due to races
between the triggering and the wakeup.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: process multiple frames per RXB
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:43 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: process multiple frames per RXB

The flow handler (hardware) can put multiple
frames into a single RX buffer. To handle
this, walk the RX buffer and check if there
are multiple valid packets in it.

To let the upper layer handle this correctly
introduce rxb_offset() which is needed when
we pass pages to mac80211 -- we need to know
the offset into the page there.

Also change the page handling scheme to use
refcounting. Anyone who needs a page will
"steal" it, which marks it as having been
used & refcounts it. The RX handler then has
to free its own reference and must not reuse
the page.

Finally, do not set the bit asking the FH to
give us each packet in a single buffer. This
really enables the feature.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: remove un-needed parameter
Wey-Yi Guy [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:42 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: remove un-needed parameter

get rid of un-needed parameter

Change-Id: I992741e7382a3dbced7f8413bf1d5f301029d576
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlwifi: phy_db structure
David Spinadel [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:26:41 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
iwlwifi: phy_db structure

Add iwl_phy_db structure and API.

Signed-off-by: David Spinadel <david.spinadel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agocfg80211: warn if db.txt is empty with CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB
Luis R. Rodriguez [Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:23:31 +0000 (07:23 -0700)]
cfg80211: warn if db.txt is empty with CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB

It has happened twice now where elaborate troubleshooting has
undergone on systems where CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB [0]
has been set but yet net/wireless/db.txt was not updated.

Despite the documentation on this it seems system integrators could
use some more help with this, so throw out a kernel warning at boot time
when their database is empty.

This does mean that the error-prone system integrator won't likely
realize the issue until they boot the machine but -- it does not seem
to make sense to enable a build bug breaking random build testing.

[0] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA#CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB

Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Youngsin Lee <youngsin@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Raja Mani <rmani@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Senthil Kumar Balasubramanian <senthilb@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Vipin Mehta <vipimeht@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: yahuan@qca.qualcomm.com
Cc: jjan@qca.qualcomm.com
Cc: vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com
Cc: henrykim@qualcomm.com
Cc: jouni@qca.qualcomm.com
Cc: athiruve@qca.qualcomm.com
Cc: cjkim@qualcomm.com
Cc: philipk@qca.qualcomm.com
Cc: sunnykim@qualcomm.com
Cc: sskwak@qualcomm.com
Cc: kkim@qualcomm.com
Cc: mattbyun@qualcomm.com
Cc: ryanlee@qualcomm.com
Cc: simbap@qualcomm.com
Cc: krislee@qualcomm.com
Cc: conner@qualcomm.com
Cc: hojinkim@qualcomm.com
Cc: honglee@qualcomm.com
Cc: johnwkim@qualcomm.com
Cc: jinyong@qca.qualcomm.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@frijolero.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: fix the RANN propagation issues
Chun-Yeow Yeoh [Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:48:51 +0000 (18:48 +0800)]
mac80211: fix the RANN propagation issues

This patch is intended to solve the follwing issues in RANN propagation:
[1] The interval in propagated RANN should be based on the interval of received RANN.
[2] The aggregated path metric for propagated RANN is as received plus own link metric
    towards the transmitting mesh STA (not root mesh STA).
[3] The comparison of path metric for RANN with same sequence number should be done
    before deciding whether to propagate or not.

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agortlwifi: Preallocate USB read buffers and eliminate kalloc in read routine
Larry Finger [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:44:31 +0000 (15:44 -0500)]
rtlwifi: Preallocate USB read buffers and eliminate kalloc in read routine

The current version of rtlwifi for USB operations uses kmalloc to
acquire a 32-bit buffer for each read of the device. When
_usb_read_sync() is called with the rcu_lock held, the result is
a "sleeping function called from invalid context" BUG. This is
reported for two cases in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42775.
The first case has the lock originating from within rtlwifi and could
be fixed by rearranging the locking; however, the second originates from
within mac80211. The kmalloc() call is removed from _usb_read_sync()
by creating a ring buffer pointer in the private area and
allocating the buffer data in the probe routine.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [This version good for 3.3+ - different patch for 3.2 - 2.6.39]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: fix the sparse warnings on endian handling in RANN propagation
Chun-Yeow Yeoh [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:38:46 +0000 (21:38 +0800)]
mac80211: fix the sparse warnings on endian handling in RANN propagation

The HWMP sequence number of received RANN element is compared to decide whether to be
propagated. The sequence number is required to covert from 32bit little endian data into
CPUs endianness for comparison. The same applies to the RANN metric.

Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: when receiving DTIM disable power-save mode only if it was enabled
Ronald Wahl [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:37:20 +0000 (14:37 +0100)]
mac80211: when receiving DTIM disable power-save mode only if it was enabled

When receiving DTIM we currently disable power save mode in the
hardware unconditionally, i.e. also when the hardware was not sleeping.
This causes trouble with at least one wireless chipset (Ralink RT3572).
When the hardware is not sleeping and we send a wakeup command (e.g.
this happens after a scan) then a significant decrease of the link
quality or a disconnect may occur.
Disabling power save mode only when it was enabled prevents this issue.

Signed-off-by: Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@raritan.com>
Reviewed-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: optimize aggregation session timeout handling
Felix Fietkau [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:58:06 +0000 (22:58 +0100)]
mac80211: optimize aggregation session timeout handling

Calling mod_timer from the rx/tx hotpath is somewhat expensive, and the
timeout doesn't need to be so precise.

Switch to a different strategy: Schedule the timer initially, store jiffies
of all last rx/tx activity which would previously modify the timer, and
let the timer re-arm itself after checking the last rx/tx timestamp.
Make the session timers deferrable to avoid causing extra wakeups on systems
running on battery.
This visibly reduces CPU load under high network load on small embedded
systems.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: reduce code duplication in debugfs code
Felix Fietkau [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:58:05 +0000 (22:58 +0100)]
mac80211: reduce code duplication in debugfs code

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agocfg80211: use compare_ether_addr on MAC addresses instead of memcmp
Felix Fietkau [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:58:04 +0000 (22:58 +0100)]
cfg80211: use compare_ether_addr on MAC addresses instead of memcmp

Because of the constant size and guaranteed 16 bit alignment, the inline
compare_ether_addr function is much cheaper than calling memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agort2x00: increase led's name buffer length
Jakub Kicinski [Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:16:52 +0000 (00:16 +0100)]
rt2x00: increase led's name buffer length

With 9-letter driver names phy's number was truncated
to two characters, which caused warnings when creating
sysfs entries for leds on systems with multiple devices.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>
Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agortlwifi: Simplify rtl_get/set inline functions
Joe Perches [Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:36:30 +0000 (13:36 -0700)]
rtlwifi: Simplify rtl_get/set inline functions

Use a temporary to make the code a bit neater.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agortlwifi: Use is_zero_ether_addr, remove line continuation
Joe Perches [Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:13:30 +0000 (12:13 -0700)]
rtlwifi: Use is_zero_ether_addr, remove line continuation

Use the normal kernel facilities and use %pM
to print the all zero mac address.

Remove unnecessary line continuation.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agop54usb: Load firmware asynchronously
Larry Finger [Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:16:06 +0000 (21:16 +0100)]
p54usb: Load firmware asynchronously

Drivers that load firmware from their probe routine have problems with
the latest versions of udev as they get timeouts while waiting for user
space to start. The problem is fixed by using request_firmware_nowait()
and delaying the start of mac80211 until the firmware is loaded.

To prevent the possibility of the driver being unloaded while the
firmware loading callback is still active, a completion queue entry
is used.

Also, to simplify the firmware loading procedure, this patch removes
the old, unofficial and confusing fallback firmware names. However,
they are still supported! So any user - who is still using them -
is hereby advised to link/rename their old firmware filenames:
isl3890usb to isl3886usb
isl3887usb_bare to isl3887usb

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agop54: only unregister ieee80211_hw when it has been registered
Christian Lamparter [Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:10:02 +0000 (14:10 +0100)]
p54: only unregister ieee80211_hw when it has been registered

p54_unregister_common may now be called by the backend
driver's remove routine, even if the ieee80211_hw device
struct was never successfully registered.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: end service period only after sending last buffered frame
Marco Porsch [Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:30:26 +0000 (15:30 +0100)]
mac80211: end service period only after sending last buffered frame

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomwifiex: add set_cqm_rssi_config handler support
Amitkumar Karwar [Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:51:51 +0000 (20:51 -0700)]
mwifiex: add set_cqm_rssi_config handler support

In this handler LOW_RSSI and HIGH_RSSI events are subscribed
to FW using provided threshold value so that FW will monitor
connection quality and trigger any of these events.

Driver will notify cfg80211 about connection quality based on
inputs from FW and provided hysteresis.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomwifiex: support STATION_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG
Amitkumar Karwar [Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:51:50 +0000 (20:51 -0700)]
mwifiex: support STATION_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG

This patch adds the support for updating average signal information
in dump_station().

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomwifiex: remove redundant signal handling code
Amitkumar Karwar [Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:51:49 +0000 (20:51 -0700)]
mwifiex: remove redundant signal handling code

1) The wrapper function mwifiex_get_signal_info() is unnecessary.
2) As noise and signal vaules in private structure already get
modified, we don't need to explicitly pass
"struct mwifiex_ds_get_signal" to get it filled.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomwifiex: add cfg80211 dump_station handler
Amitkumar Karwar [Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:51:48 +0000 (20:51 -0700)]
mwifiex: add cfg80211 dump_station handler

This enables user to dump station information using
"iw dev <devname> station dump" command.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomwifiex: update signal strength in mBm units
Amitkumar Karwar [Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:51:47 +0000 (20:51 -0700)]
mwifiex: update signal strength in mBm units

During wiphy registration signal_type is initialized to
CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_MBM. So convert signal strength from dBm to
mBm. Also, the value is absolute. Make it negative before
sending to cfg80211.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: Add iface name when calling WARN-ON.
Ben Greear [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:22:05 +0000 (16:22 -0700)]
mac80211: Add iface name when calling WARN-ON.

This lets the user know which interface has failed
the check_sdata_in_driver check.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoath9k_hw: Update rx gain initval to improve rx sensitivity
Rajkumar Manoharan [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:55:30 +0000 (04:25 +0530)]
ath9k_hw: Update rx gain initval to improve rx sensitivity

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agowireless: rename ht_info to ht_operation
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:45:16 +0000 (19:45 +0100)]
wireless: rename ht_info to ht_operation

Since some of the HT code pre-dates 802.11n-2009
some names are wrong. The one that bothers me most
is that "HT operation" is called "HT information"
in our code and that causes confusion.

Rename "HT information" to "HT operation" and also
the control_chan field to primary_chan to match
the name used in the spec.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: flush to get the tx status of nullfunc frame immediately
Rajkumar Manoharan [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:45:26 +0000 (06:15 +0530)]
mac80211: flush to get the tx status of nullfunc frame immediately

Sometimes the probe frame (nullfunc) is stuck at the hw queue. so that
the mac80211 terminates the connection as it wont see the tx status.
Instead of waiting for long period for ack status, lets call flush
to get nullfunc status immediately. It also helps to send the nullfunc
till max tries reached.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: do not send pspoll when powersave is disabled
Rajkumar Manoharan [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:20:36 +0000 (05:50 +0530)]
mac80211: do not send pspoll when powersave is disabled

There might be latency at AP side to update TIM IE which could cause the
station to send pspoll frame even after the wakeup. If the powersave is
disabled, the nullfunc notification alone is sufficient to receive
frames from the AP. And if the pspoll frame was already sent, no need to
resend the frame till it was acked by AP.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoath9k: recover ar9380 chips from rare stuck state
Rajkumar Manoharan [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:04:27 +0000 (05:34 +0530)]
ath9k: recover ar9380 chips from rare stuck state

In the experiment with Azimuth ADEPT-n testbed where the APs transmit
power was reduced to 25% and the signal strength was futher attenuated
by 20dB and induced a path loss of ~7dB, the station was reporting
beacon losses and the following issue were observed.

* rx clear is stuck at low for more than 300ms
* dcu chain and complete state is stuck at one of the hang signature

This patch triggers the hang detection logic that recovers the chip
from any of the above conditions. As the issue was originally reported
in ChromeOs with AR9382 chips, this detection logic is enabled only for
AR9380/2 chips.

Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Reported-by: Gary Morain <gmorain@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoath9k_hw: improve ANI processing and rx desensitizing parameters
Rajkumar Manoharan [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:04:26 +0000 (05:34 +0530)]
ath9k_hw: improve ANI processing and rx desensitizing parameters

This patch improves ANI operations by switching among the immunity
levels based on PHY errors and beacon rssi which will adjust receiver
desensitizing parameters. The changes are

* Configure the Weak Signal Detection based on current immunity value.
* At highest OFDM immunity level poor performance was observed with
  strong interference. By tuning the FIR step and spur immunity levels
  and not changing any weak signal detection thresholds at any level
  helped to improve the performance.
* ANI took long time to recover back to lower immunity levels on heavy
  data load. As the listen time got reset to zero before reaching to
  the 5x of aniperiod, the immunity level is not lowering back even
  without any interference. This patch fix that.

Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Cc: Susinder Gulasekaran <susinder@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Chandrasekaran <csuresh@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoMerge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
David S. Miller [Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:15:01 +0000 (22:15 -0400)]
Merge branch 'master' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless

12 years agoMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:52:32 +0000 (16:52 -0700)]
Merge git://git./linux/kernel/git/davem/net

Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 1) Name string overrun fix in gianfar driver from Joe Perches.

 2) VHOST bug fixes from Michael S. Tsirkin and Nadav Har'El

 3) Fix dependencies on xt_LOG netfilter module, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

 4) Fix RCU locking in xt_CT, also from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

 5) Add a parameter to skb_add_rx_frag() so we can fix the truesize
    adjustments in the drivers that use it.  The individual drivers
    aren't fixed by this commit, but will be dealt with using follow-on
    commits.  From Eric Dumazet.

 6) Add some device IDs to qmi_wwan driver, from Andrew Bird.

 7) Fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalancein rt6_fill_node().  From
    Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  net: fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalance in rt6_fill_node()
  net: add a truesize parameter to skb_add_rx_frag()
  gianfar: Fix possible overrun and simplify interrupt name field creation
  USB: qmi_wwan: Add ZTE (Vodafone) K3570-Z and K3571-Z net interfaces
  USB: option: Ignore ZTE (Vodafone) K3570/71 net interfaces
  USB: qmi_wwan: Add ZTE (Vodafone) K3565-Z and K4505-Z net interfaces
  qlcnic: Bug fix for LRO
  netfilter: nf_conntrack: permanently attach timeout policy to conntrack
  netfilter: xt_CT: fix assignation of the generic protocol tracker
  netfilter: xt_CT: missing rcu_read_lock section in timeout assignment
  netfilter: cttimeout: fix dependency with l4protocol conntrack module
  netfilter: xt_LOG: use CONFIG_IP6_NF_IPTABLES instead of CONFIG_IPV6
  vhost: fix release path lockdep checks
  vhost: don't forget to schedule()
  tools/virtio: stub out strong barriers
  tools/virtio: add linux/hrtimer.h stub
  tools/virtio: add linux/module.h stub

12 years agoMerge tag 'dt' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:47:35 +0000 (16:47 -0700)]
Merge tag 'dt' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull "ARM: device tree work" from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Most of these patches convert code from using static platform data to
  describing the hardware in the device tree.  This is only the first
  half of the changes for v3.4 because a lot of patches for this topic
  came in the last week before the merge window.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>"
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/arm/mach-vexpress/{Kconfig,core.h}

* tag 'dt' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (86 commits)
  Document: devicetree: add OF documents for arch-mmp
  ARM: dts: append DTS file of pxa168
  ARM: mmp: append OF support on pxa168
  ARM: mmp: enable rtc clk in pxa168
  i2c: pxa: add OF support
  serial: pxa: add OF support
  arm/dts: mt_ventoux: very basic support for TeeJet Mt.Ventoux board
  ARM: OMAP2+: Remove extra ifdefs for board-generic
  ARM: OMAP2+: Fix build error when only ARCH_OMAP2/3 or 4 is selected
  ASoC: DT: Add digital microphone binding to PAZ00 board.
  ARM: dt: Add ARM PMU to tegra*.dtsi
  ARM: at91: at91sam9x5cm/dt: add leds support
  ARM: at91: usb_a9g20/dt: add gpio-keys support
  ARM: at91: at91sam9m10g45ek/dt: add gpio-keys support
  ARM: at91: at91sam9m10g45ek/dt: add leds support
  ARM: at91: usb_a9g20/dt: add leds support
  ARM: at91/pio: add new PIO3 features
  ARM: at91: add sam9_smc.o to at91sam9x5 build
  ARM: at91/tc/clocksource: Add 32 bit variant to Timer Counter
  ARM: at91/tc: add device tree support to atmel_tclib
  ...

12 years agoMerge tag 'drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:41:24 +0000 (16:41 -0700)]
Merge tag 'drivers' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull "ARM: driver specific updates" from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These are all specific to some driver.  They are typically the
  platform side of a change in the drivers directory, such as adding a
  new driver or extending the interface to the platform.  In cases where
  there is no maintainer for the driver, or the maintainer prefers to
  have the platform changes in the same branch as the driver changes,
  the patches to the drivers are included as well.

  A much smaller set of driver updates that depend on other branches
  getting merged first will be sent later.

  The new export of tegra_chip_uid conflicts with other changes in
  fuse.c.  In rtc-sa1100.c, the global removal of IRQF_DISABLED
  conflicts with the cleanup of the interrupt handling of that driver.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>"
Fixed up aforementioned trivial conflicts.

* tag 'drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (94 commits)
  ARM: SAMSUNG: change the name from s3c-sdhci to exynos4-sdhci
  mmc: sdhci-s3c: add platform data for the second capability
  ARM: SAMSUNG: support the second capability for samsung-soc
  ARM: EXYNOS: add support DMA for EXYNOS4X12 SoC
  ARM: EXYNOS: Add apb_pclk clkdev entry for mdma1
  ARM: EXYNOS: Enable MDMA driver
  regulator: Remove bq24022 regulator driver
  rtc: sa1100: add OF support
  pxa: magician/hx4700: Convert to gpio-regulator from bq24022
  ARM: OMAP3+: SmartReflex: fix error handling
  ARM: OMAP3+: SmartReflex: fix the use of debugfs_create_* API
  ARM: OMAP3+: SmartReflex: micro-optimization for sanity check
  ARM: OMAP3+: SmartReflex: misc cleanups
  ARM: OMAP3+: SmartReflex: move late_initcall() closer to its argument
  ARM: OMAP3+: SmartReflex: add missing platform_set_drvdata()
  ARM: OMAP3+: hwmod: add SmartReflex IRQs
  ARM: OMAP3+: SmartReflex: clear ERRCONFIG_VPBOUNDINTST only on a need
  ARM: OMAP3+: SmartReflex: Fix status masking in ERRCONFIG register
  ARM: OMAP3+: SmartReflex: Add a shutdown hook
  ARM: OMAP3+: SmartReflex Class3: disable errorgen before disable VP
  ...

Conflicts:
arch/arm/mach-tegra/Makefile
arch/arm/mach-tegra/fuse.c
drivers/rtc/rtc-sa1100.c

12 years agoMerge tag 'rpmsg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:30:09 +0000 (16:30 -0700)]
Merge tag 'rpmsg' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull "remoteproc/rpmsg: new subsystem" from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This new subsystem provides a common way to talk to secondary
  processors on an SoC, e.g.  a DSP, GPU or service processor, using
  virtio as the transport.  In the long run, it should replace a few
  dozen vendor specific ways to do the same thing, which all never made
  it into the upstream kernel.  There is a broad agreement that rpmsg is
  the way to go here and several vendors have started working on
  replacing their own subsystems.

  Two branches each add one virtio protocol number.  Fortunately the
  numbers were agreed upon in advance, so there are only context
  changes.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>"
Fixed up trivial protocol number conflict due to the mentioned additions
next to each other.

* tag 'rpmsg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (32 commits)
  remoteproc: cleanup resource table parsing paths
  remoteproc: remove the hardcoded vring alignment
  remoteproc/omap: remove the mbox_callback limitation
  remoteproc: remove the single rpmsg vdev limitation
  remoteproc: safer boot/shutdown order
  remoteproc: remoteproc_rpmsg -> remoteproc_virtio
  remoteproc: resource table overhaul
  rpmsg: fix build warning when dma_addr_t is 64-bit
  rpmsg: fix published buffer length in rpmsg_recv_done
  rpmsg: validate incoming message length before propagating
  rpmsg: fix name service endpoint leak
  remoteproc/omap: two Kconfig fixes
  remoteproc: make sure we're parsing a 32bit firmware
  remoteproc: s/big switch/lookup table/
  remoteproc: bail out if firmware has different endianess
  remoteproc: don't use virtio's weak barriers
  rpmsg: rename virtqueue_add_buf_gfp to virtqueue_add_buf
  rpmsg: depend on EXPERIMENTAL
  remoteproc: depend on EXPERIMENTAL
  rpmsg: add Kconfig menu
  ...

Conflicts:
include/linux/virtio_ids.h

12 years agoMerge tag 'boards' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:27:28 +0000 (16:27 -0700)]
Merge tag 'boards' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull "ARM: board specific updates" from Arnd Bergmann/Olof Johansson:
 "These changes are all specific to one board only.  We're trying to
  keep the number of board files low, but generally board level updates
  are ok on platforms that are working on moving towards DT based
  probing, which will eventually lead to removing them.

  The board-ams-delta.c board file gets a conflict between the removal
  of ams_delta_config and the addition of a lot of other data.  The
  Kconfig file has two changes in the same line, and in exynos, the
  power domain cleanup conflicts with the addition of the image sensor
  device.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
  [olof: Amended a fix for a mismerge to board-omap4panda.c]
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>"
Fixed up some fairly trivial conflicts manually.

* tag 'boards' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (82 commits)
  i.MX35-PDK: Add Camera support
  ARM : mx35: 3ds-board: add framebuffer device
  pxa/hx4700: Remove pcmcia platform_device structure
  ARM: pxa/hx4700: Reduce sleep mode battery discharge by 35%
  ARM: pxa/hx4700: Remove unwanted request for GPIO105
  ARM: EXYNOS: support Exynos4210-bus Devfreq driver on Nuri board
  ARM: EXYNOS: Register JPEG on nuri
  ARM: EXYNOS: Register JPEG on universal_c210
  ARM: S5PV210: Enable JPEG on SMDKV210
  ARM: S5PV210: Add JPEG board definition
  ARM: EXYNOS: Enable JPEG on Origen
  ARM: EXYNOS: Enable JPEG on SMDKV310
  ARM: EXYNOS: Add __init attribute to universal_camera_init()
  ARM: EXYNOS: Add __init attribute to nuri_camera_init()
  ARM: S5PV210: Enable FIMC on SMDKC110
  ARM: S5PV210: Enable FIMC on SMDKV210
  ARM: S5PV210: Enable MFC on SMDKC110
  ARM: S5PV210: Enable MFC on SMDKV210
  ARM: EXYNOS: Enable G2D on SMDKV310
  ARM: tegra: update defconfig
  ...

12 years agoMerge tag 'soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:14:44 +0000 (16:14 -0700)]
Merge tag 'soc' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull "ARM: SoC specific updates" from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These changes are all specific to an soc family or the code for one
  soc.  Lots of work for Tegra3 this time, but also a lot of other
  platforms.  There will be another (smaller) set of soc patches later
  in the merge window for stuff that has dependencies on external trees
  or that was sent just before the merge window opened.

  The asoc tree added a few devices to the i.mx platform, which conflict
  with other devices added in the same place here.

  The tegra Makefile conflicts between a number of branches, mostly
  because of changes regarding localtimer.c, which was removed in the
  end.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>"
Fix up some trivial conflicts, including the mentioned Tegra Makefile.

* tag 'soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (51 commits)
  ARM: EXYNOS: fix cycle count for periodic mode of clock event timers
  ARM: EXYNOS: add support JPEG
  ARM: EXYNOS: Add DMC1, allow PPMU access for DMC
  ARM: SAMSUNG: Correct MIPI-CSIS io memory resource definition
  ARM: SAMSUNG: fix __init attribute on regarding s3c_set_platdata()
  ARM: SAMSUNG: Add __init attribute to samsung_bl_set()
  ARM: S5PV210: Add usb otg phy control
  ARM: S3C64XX: Add usb otg phy control
  ARM: EXYNOS: Enable l2 configuration through device tree
  ARM: EXYNOS: remove useless code to save/restore L2
  ARM: EXYNOS: save L2 settings during bootup
  ARM: S5P: add L2 early resume code
  ARM: EXYNOS: Add support AFTR mode on EXYNOS4210
  ARM: mx35: Setup the AIPS registers
  ARM: mx5: Use common function for configuring AIPS
  ARM: mx3: Setup AIPS registers
  ARM: mx3: Let mx31 and mx35 enter in LPM mode in WFI
  ARM: defconfig: imx_v6_v7: build in REGULATOR_FIXED_VOLTAGE
  ARM: imx: update imx_v6_v7_defconfig
  ARM: tegra: Demote EMC clock inconsistency BUG to WARN
  ...

12 years agoMerge tag 'timer' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:06:17 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
Merge tag 'timer' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull "ARM: timer cleanup work" from Arnd Bergmann:
 "These are split out from the generic soc and driver updates because
  there was a lot of conflicting work by multiple people.  Marc Zyngier
  worked on simplifying the "localtimer" interfaces, and some of the
  platforms are touching the same code as they move to device tree based
  booting.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>"
* tag 'timer' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (61 commits)
  ARM: tegra: select USB_ULPI if USB is selected
  arm/tegra: pcie: fix return value of function
  ARM: ux500: fix compilation after local timer rework
  ARM: shmobile: remove additional __io() macro use
  ARM: local timers: make the runtime registration interface mandatory
  ARM: local timers: convert MSM to runtime registration interface
  ARM: local timers: convert exynos to runtime registration interface
  ARM: smp_twd: remove old local timer interface
  ARM: imx6q: convert to twd_local_timer_register() interface
  ARM: highbank: convert to twd_local_timer_register() interface
  ARM: ux500: convert to twd_local_timer_register() interface
  ARM: shmobile: convert to twd_local_timer_register() interface
  ARM: tegra: convert to twd_local_timer_register() interface
  ARM: plat-versatile: convert to twd_local_timer_register() interface
  ARM: OMAP4: convert to twd_local_timer_register() interface
  ARM: smp_twd: add device tree support
  ARM: smp_twd: add runtime registration support
  ARM: local timers: introduce a new registration interface
  ARM: smp_twd: make local_timer_stop a symbol instead of a #define
  ARM: mach-shmobile: default to no earlytimer
  ...

12 years agoMerge tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:03:32 +0000 (16:03 -0700)]
Merge tag 'cleanup' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull "ARM: global cleanups" from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Quite a bit of code gets removed, and some stuff moved around, mostly
  the old samsung s3c24xx stuff.  There should be no functional changes
  in this series otherwise.  Some cleanups have dependencies on other
  arm-soc branches and will be sent in the second round.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>"
Fixed up trivial conflicts mainly due to #include's being changes on
both sides.

* tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (121 commits)
  ep93xx: Remove unnecessary includes of ep93xx-regs.h
  ep93xx: Move EP93XX_SYSCON defines to SoC private header
  ep93xx: Move crunch code to mach-ep93xx directory
  ep93xx: Make syscon access functions private to SoC
  ep93xx: Configure GPIO ports in core code
  ep93xx: Move peripheral defines to local SoC header
  ep93xx: Convert the watchdog driver into a platform device.
  ep93xx: Use ioremap for backlight driver
  ep93xx: Move GPIO defines to gpio-ep93xx.h
  ep93xx: Don't use system controller defines in audio drivers
  ep93xx: Move PHYS_BASE defines to local SoC header file
  ARM: EXYNOS: Add clock register addresses for EXYNOS4X12 bus devfreq driver
  ARM: EXYNOS: add clock registers for exynos4x12-cpufreq
  PM / devfreq: update the name of EXYNOS clock registers that were omitted
  PM / devfreq: update the name of EXYNOS clock register
  ARM: EXYNOS: change the prefix S5P_ to EXYNOS4_ for clock
  ARM: EXYNOS: use static declaration on regarding clock
  ARM: EXYNOS: replace clock.c for other new EXYNOS SoCs
  ARM: OMAP2+: Fix build error after merge
  ARM: S3C24XX: remove call to s3c24xx_setup_clocks
  ...

12 years agoMerge tag 'maintainers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:56:42 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
Merge tag 'maintainers' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull "ARM: subarch maintainer updates" from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This is a collection of updates to the MAINTAINERS file, separated out
  mostly to give an overview of what has changed regarding who does
  what.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>"
* tag 'maintainers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
  ARM: tegra: update main repo and add patchwork
  MAINTAINERS: update MAINTAINERS email entry
  MAINTAINERS: update maintainer entry for pxa/hx4700
  MAINTAINERS: ARM: tegra: update Stephen's email address
  MAINTAINERS: add TI DaVinci git tree information
  MAINTAINERS: mark TI DaVinci list as "moderated"
  MAINTAINERS: remove arch/arm/mach-mx*/ from IMX entry

12 years agoMerge tag 'fixes-non-critical' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm...
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:55:54 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
Merge tag 'fixes-non-critical' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull "ARM: Non-critical bug fixes" from Ardn Bergmann:
 "Simple bug fixes that were not considered important enough for
  inclusion into 3.3.  One bug fix was originally intended for 3.3 but
  accidentally got missed, but is not marked stable because it should
  only get backported once later fixes also make it into v3.4.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>"
* tag 'fixes-non-critical' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (66 commits)
  iomux-mx25.h slew rate adjusted for LCD __LD pins
  ARM: davinci: DA850: move da850_register_pm to .init.text
  ARM: davinci: cpufreq: fix compiler warning
  ARM: OMAP2+: Fix build for omap4 only builds with missing include of linux/bug.h
  ARM: OMAP2+: Fix section warnings for hsmmc_init_one
  ARM: OMAP2+: Fix build issues with missing include of linux/bug.h
  ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc-smsc911x: only register regulator for first instance
  ARM: OMAP3+: PM: VP: fix integer truncation error
  ARM: OMAP2+: PM: fix wakeupgen warning when hotplug disabled
  ARM: OMAP2+: PM: fix section mismatch with omap2_init_processor_devices()
  ARM: OMAP2: Fix section warning for n8x0 when CONFIG_MMC_OMAP is not set
  ARM: OMAP2+: Fix omap24xx_io_desc warning if SoC subtypes are not selected
  ARM: OMAP1: Fix section mismatch for omap1_init_early()
  ARM: OMAP1: Fix typo in lcd_dma.c
  ARM: OMAP: mailbox: trivial whitespace fix
  ARM: OMAP: Remove definition cpu_is_omap4430()
  ARM: OMAP2+: included some headers twice
  ARM: OMAP: clock.c: included linux/debugfs.h twice
  ARM: OMAP: don't build hwspinlock in vain
  ARM: OMAP2+: ads7846_init: put gpio_pendown into pdata if it's provided
  ...

12 years agonet: fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalance in rt6_fill_node()
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:53:52 +0000 (09:53 +0000)]
net: fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalance in rt6_fill_node()

Commit f2c31e32b378 (net: fix NULL dereferences in check_peer_redir() )
added a regression in rt6_fill_node(), leading to rcu_read_lock()
imbalance.

Thats because NLA_PUT() can make a jump to nla_put_failure label.

Fix this by using nla_put()

Many thanks to Ben Greear for his help

Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
12 years agoMerge tag 'asoc-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound...
Arnd Bergmann [Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:33:59 +0000 (11:33 +0000)]
Merge tag 'asoc-3.4' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into next/boards

The asoc branch that was already merged into v3.4 contains some
board-level changes that conflict with patches we already have
here, so pull in that branch to resolve the conflicts.

Conflicts:
arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-imx27_visstrim_m10.c
arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-omap4panda.c

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[olof: Amended fix for mismerge as reported by Kevin Hilman]
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
12 years agortlwifi: rtl8192ce: rtl8192cu: rtl8192de: Fix low-gain setting when scanning
Larry Finger [Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:59:48 +0000 (09:59 -0500)]
rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: rtl8192cu: rtl8192de: Fix low-gain setting when scanning

In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770207, slowdowns of driver
rtl8192ce are reported. One fix (commit a9b89e2) has already been applied,
and it helped, but the maximum RX speed would still drop to 1 Mbps. As in
the previous fix, the initial gain was determined to be the problem; however,
the problem arises from a setting of the gain when scans are started.

Driver rtl8192de also has the same code structure - this one is fixed as well.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Ivan Pesin <ivan.pesin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoath5k: drop self from MAINTAINERS
Bob Copeland [Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:48:40 +0000 (10:48 -0400)]
ath5k: drop self from MAINTAINERS

I simply don't have any hobby hacking time after family time
and non-kernel-related job time, so I resume status as part-time
mailing list lurker.

Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: fix possible tid_rx->reorder_timer use after free
Stanislaw Gruszka [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:00:26 +0000 (16:00 +0100)]
mac80211: fix possible tid_rx->reorder_timer use after free

Is possible that we will arm the tid_rx->reorder_timer after
del_timer_sync() in ___ieee80211_stop_rx_ba_session(). We need to stop
timer after RCU grace period finish, so move it to
ieee80211_free_tid_rx(). Timer will not be armed again, as
rcu_dereference(sta->ampdu_mlme.tid_rx[tid]) will return NULL.

Debug object detected problem with the following warning:
ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: sta_rx_agg_reorder_timer_expired+0x0/0xf0 [mac80211]

Bug report (with all warning messages):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804007

Reported-by: "jan p. springer" <jsd@igroup.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agort2x00: rt2800usb: fix status register reread logic
Stanislaw Gruszka [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:59:41 +0000 (15:59 +0100)]
rt2x00: rt2800usb: fix status register reread logic

Another good catch from Jakub Kicinski. This patch fixes my
recent commit: ed61e2b02027935520d1be884fac0b2ffce8379a
"rt2x00: rt2800usb: rework txdone code"

We should reread status register only when nobody else start already
reading status i.e. test_and_set_bit(TX_STATUS_READING, flags) return 0.

Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <moorray@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agort2x00: rt2800usb: schedule txdone work on timeout
Stanislaw Gruszka [Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:39:45 +0000 (09:39 +0100)]
rt2x00: rt2800usb: schedule txdone work on timeout

This is fix for my current commit
ed61e2b02027935520d1be884fac0b2ffce8379a
"rt2x00: rt2800usb: rework txdone code"

We should schedule txdone work on timeout, otherwise if newer get
tx status from hardware, we will never report tx status to mac80211
and eventually never wakeup tx queue.

Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <moorray@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agomac80211: remove outdated comment
Eliad Peller [Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:08:50 +0000 (14:08 +0200)]
mac80211: remove outdated comment

The on-oper-channel optimization was reverted,
so remove the outdated comment as well.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoath9k: fix a memory leak in ath_rx_tasklet()
Eric Dumazet [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:43:29 +0000 (13:43 -0700)]
ath9k: fix a memory leak in ath_rx_tasklet()

commit 0d95521ea7 (ath9k: use split rx buffers to get rid of order-1 skb
allocations) added in memory leak in error path.

sc->rx.frag should be cleared after the pskb_expand_head() call, or else
we jump to requeue_drop_frag and leak an skb.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Trond Wuellner <trond@chromium.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoath9k: reduce listen time period
Rajkumar Manoharan [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:35:28 +0000 (23:05 +0530)]
ath9k: reduce listen time period

When we have downlink traffic alone and the station is going thru
bgscan, the client is out of operating channel for around 1000ms which
is too long. The mac80211 decides when to switch back to oper channel
based on tx queue, bad latency and listen time. As the station does not
have tx traffic, the bgscan can easily affect downlink throughput. By
reducing the listen time, it helps the associated AP to retain the
downstream rate.

Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Tested-by: Gary Morain <gmorain@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agocfg80211: allow CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_UNSPEC in station_info
John W. Linville [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:25:41 +0000 (13:25 -0400)]
cfg80211: allow CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_UNSPEC in station_info

The station_info struct had demanded dBm signal values, but the
cfg80211 wireless extensions implementation was also accepting
"unspecified" (i.e. RSSI) unit values while the nl80211 code was
completely unaware of them.  Resolve this by formally allowing the
"unspecified" units while making nl80211 ignore them.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
12 years agoiwlegacy: fix BSSID setting
Stanislaw Gruszka [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:42:49 +0000 (11:42 +0100)]
iwlegacy: fix BSSID setting

Current commit 0775f9f90cdaf40fbf69b3192b3dddb2b3436f45
"mac80211: remove spurious BSSID change flag" exposed bug on iwlegacy,
that we do not set BSSID address correctly and then device was not able
to receive frames after successful associate.

On the way fix scan canceling comment. Apparently ->post_associate()
do cancel scan itself, but scan cancel on BSS_CHANGED_BSSID is needed.
I'm not sure why, but when I removed it, I had frequent auth failures:

 wlan4: send auth to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 1/3)
 wlan4: send auth to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 2/3)
 wlan4: send auth to 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe (try 3/3)
 wlan4: authentication with 54:e6:fc:98:63:fe timed out

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoath9k: fix max noise floor threshold
Rajkumar Manoharan [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:38:04 +0000 (06:08 +0530)]
ath9k: fix max noise floor threshold

Currently the maximum noise floor limit is set as too high (-60dB). The
assumption of having a higher threshold limit is that it would help
de-sensitize the receiver (reduce phy errors) from continuous
interference. But when we have a bursty interference where there are
collisions and then free air time and if the receiver is desensitized too
much, it will miss the normal packets too. Lets make use of chips
specific min, nom and max limits always. This patch helps to improve the
connection stability in congested networks.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Tested-by: Gary Morain <gmorain@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhan Jaganathan <madhanj@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agoiwlegacy: do not nulify il->vif on reset
Stanislaw Gruszka [Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:11:27 +0000 (16:11 +0100)]
iwlegacy: do not nulify il->vif on reset

This il->vif is dereferenced in different part of iwlegacy code, so do
not nullify it. This should fix random crashes observed in companion
with microcode errors i.e. crash in il3945_config_ap().

Additionally this should address also
WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/common.c:4656 il_mac_remove_interface
at least one of the possible reasons of that warning.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
12 years agonet: add a truesize parameter to skb_add_rx_frag()
Eric Dumazet [Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:59:33 +0000 (23:59 +0000)]
net: add a truesize parameter to skb_add_rx_frag()

skb_add_rx_frag() API is misleading.

Network skbs built with this helper can use uncharged kernel memory and
eventually stress/crash machine in OOM.

Add a 'truesize' parameter and then fix drivers in followup patches.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>