Commit Graph

20 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Rafał Miłecki 14a8083e67 b43: use 8K buffers for 64-bit DMA to workaround hardware bug
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-29 15:33:02 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki 0cc9772a6b b43: fix DMA on some bugged hardware
Some hardware with 64-bit DMA uses lower address word for setting
routing (translation) bit. Add workaround for such boards.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-24 14:41:41 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki 17030f48e3 b43: support new RX header, noticed to be used in 598.314+ fw
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:45:59 -04:00
Rafał Miłecki 78c1ee7e61 b43: disable parity check on BCMA devices
Analyze of MMIO dumps from BCM43224, BCM43225, BCM4313 and BCM4331 has
shown that wl disables parity check for all that cards. This is required
for receiving any packets from the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-22 09:51:11 -04:00
John W. Linville c85ce65eca b43: allocate receive buffers big enough for max frame len + offset
Otherwise, skb_put inside of dma_rx can fail...

	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32042

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-04-04 15:22:11 -04:00
Eric Dumazet ba2d358791 drivers/net: use __packed annotation
cleanup patch.

Use new __packed annotation in drivers/net/

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-03 03:18:23 -07:00
Kalle Valo 3b27521a5b b43: remove get_tx_stats() mac80211 op
get_tx_stats() will be removed from mac80211.

Compile-tested only.

Cc: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-08 16:51:00 -05:00
John W. Linville 55afc80b2a Revert "b43: Enforce DMA descriptor memory constraints"
This reverts commit 9bd568a50c.

That commit is shown to cause allocation failures during initialization
on some machines.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14844

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-29 14:07:42 -05:00
Michael Buesch 07681e211d b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks
This rewrites the error handling policies in the TX status handler.
It tries to be error-tolerant as in "try hard to not crash the machine".
It won't recover from errors (that are bugs in the firmware or driver),
because that's impossible. However, it will return a more or less useful
error message and bail out. It also tries hard to use rate-limited messages
to not flood the syslog in case of a failure.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-23 17:05:28 -05:00
Michael Buesch 9bd568a50c b43: Enforce DMA descriptor memory constraints
Enforce all device constraints on the descriptor memory region.

There are several constraints on the descriptor memory, as documented
in the specification. The current code does not enforce them and/or
incorrectly enforces them.

Those constraints are:
- The address limitations on 30/32bit engines, that also apply to
  the skbs.
- The 4k alignment requirement on 30/32bit engines.
- The 8k alignment requirement on 64bit engines.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-18 17:09:28 -05:00
Michael Buesch 637dae3f63 b43: Remove DMA/PIO queue locks
This removes the DMA/PIO queue locks. Locking is handled by
wl->mutex now.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-09-08 16:31:07 -04:00
Michael Buesch bdceeb2dad b43: Optimize DMA buffers
In the old days we used one slot per frame. But when we changed that to 2,
we didn't raise the overall slot count. Which resulted in an effective
division of two to the number of slots.

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-02-27 14:52:47 -05:00
Johannes Berg e039fa4a41 mac80211: move TX info into skb->cb
This patch converts mac80211 and all drivers to have transmit
information and status in skb->cb rather than allocating extra
memory for it and copying all the data around. To make it fit,
a union is used where only data that is necessary for all steps
is kept outside of the union.

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

Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21 21:48:11 -04:00
Michael Buesch 5100d5ac81 b43: Add PIO support for PCMCIA devices
This adds PIO support back (D'oh!) for PCMCIA devices.
This is a complete rewrite of the old PIO code. It does actually work
and we get reasonable performance out of it on a modern machine.
On a PowerBook G4 I get a few MBit for TX and a few more for RX.
So it doesn't work as well as DMA (of course), but it's a _lot_ faster
than the old PIO code (only got a few kBit with that).

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

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

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08 15:05:56 -04:00
Michael Buesch 57df40d278 b43: Add TX statistics debugging counters
This adds a few debugging counters, that are useful for debugging the
"card does not transmit" or "connection is unstable" kind of problems.
It's also useful for tuning an RC algorithm.

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

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

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-05 14:35:47 -05:00
Michael Buesch 03b29773b6 b43: Remove PIO support
Remove b43 PIO support.
DMA works well on all supported devices. There's no reason to use PIO.
Additionally, new devices don't support PIO in hardware anymore.
b43 PIO support is dead and unused code.

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

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:17 -08:00
Michael Buesch e4d6b79518 [B43]: add mac80211-based driver for modern BCM43xx devices
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:37 -07:00