History log of /drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/txrx.c
Revision Date Author Comments
701a9e619347ac06d59481db14bbc4df99763270 01-Jul-2014 Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> mwifiex: initialize Tx/Rx info of a packet correctly

There are few places at the begining of Tx/Rx paths where
tx_info/rx_info is not correctly initialized. This patch
takes care of it.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
65da33f5557f0ed3f1227063bcf1f25248d456e5 20-Jun-2014 Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com> mwifiex: update Copyright to 2014

This patch updates mwifiex Copyright to 2014.

Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
bd2a864a14ebd0ffa2166c0d8005e44437436713 03-Dec-2013 Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com> mwifiex: do not flood kmsg/dmesg with USB debug messages

When TX data URB reaches high water mark the message
"data: -ENOSR is returned" is printed.
This is not an error case, so change it to debug print.

Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
a1ed484960066c413712cd9c4d50a350cf67eba3 03-Dec-2013 Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com> mwifiex: correct TX byte count statistics

The skb is modified in sending the TX packet. Save the original
packet length to a variable so that we can get the correct
statistics update.

Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ca8d6dfc929ad6e59eb523e7c057804b55e5673e 03-Dec-2013 Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com> mwifiex: fix rx_pending count imbalance

RX packets are handled in different paths. Not all paths have
decrement of rx_pending counter. This patch fixes the counter
imbalance.

Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
8908c7d5392671610a2d80107845d4aeee92d9c1 08-Mar-2013 Ashok Nagarajan <asnagarajan@chromium.org> mwifiex: Trigger a card reset on reaching tx_timeout threshold

tx_timeout doesn't always lead to a cmd_timeout. There are
occurrences where cmd_timeout never gets triggered for a long
time and we encounter a kernel crash. In this patch, we track
the consecutive timeouts (tx_timeout_cnt). When tx_timeout_cnt
exceeds the threshold, trigger a card reset thereby avoiding a
kernel crash.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <asnagarajan@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
e7f767a7d9f809c494bfffffeda2bbdbfec110b4 04-Jan-2013 Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> mwifiex: use map/unmap APIs in TX and RX to reduce memcpy

This patch is an enhacement to mwifiex_pcie driver to use
map/unmap PCI memory APIs. This reduces one memcpy each in TX
path and RX path, and enhances throughput.

Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
47411a06c0c44b3c9dc2feffb0d97785ec9aaa68 02-Nov-2012 Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> mwifiex: add multi-queue support

This patch adds support for multiple TX queues inside mwifiex
driver. Four different queues according to WMM access categories
are defined for each virtual interface. When a packet is
received from netdev for transmission, tx pending count for
particular queue is incremented and if tx pending count has
reached upper water-mark, this queue is stopped instead of
stopping all queues. Similarly when a packet is successfully
transmitted from device, tx pending count is decremented per
queue and if pending count falls below lower water-mark, queue
operations are again resumed. This ensures that not all
tranmission is blocked if traffic with particular TOS value
suddenly increases.

Also wake all queues after association/IBSS_join/uAP_BSS_start
to enable traffic on all queues.

Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
f3b369e40a0fbf975ab0e39c2104f184e188afc3 20-Oct-2012 Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> mwifiex: rx path enhancement to derive priv only once

We derive mwifiex_private structure which is per interface from
received skb's rx_info. Once priv is derived, same priv can be
propagated to other functions instead of callee deriving priv
from rx_info again.

Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
4ac8764ab2290fd83c21b4183ca6a0f279dab277 11-Sep-2012 Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> mwifiex: separate TxPD processing routine for AP

This patch adds separate tx packet descriptor routine for AP
interface. This function fills bss_type, bss_num, wmm packet
delay information etc for TxPD going on AP interface.

Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
838e4f44929782a2163c7bc95a7cd2da5d8b47f9 04-Aug-2012 Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> mwifiex: improve uAP RX handling

1. Separate file for uAP RX handling.
2. If received packet is broadcast/multicast, send it to kernel
as well as requeue it back to uAP TX queue.
3. If received packet is for associated STA (intra-BSS), requeue
it back to uAP TX queue.
4. In all other cases (packets for AP or inter-BSS packets),
pass packet to kernel to handle it accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
73dc3b90232780462f3771901024a160559b4532 16-Jun-2012 Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> mwifiex: fix uAP TX packet timeout issue

When running heavy traffic we stop the tx queue if the pending
packet count reaches certain threshold. Later, the tx queue should
be woken up as soon as the packet count falls below the threshold.

Current code wakes TX queue up on STA interface only. Removing the
check for STA interface will allow both STA and AP interfaces to
resume transmit when tx_pending count becomes low.

Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
4daffe3543667419294b6f22901b7255cbdebdf4 19-Apr-2012 Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> mwifiex: add support for Marvell USB8797 chipset

This patch supports Avastar 88W8797 chipset with USB interface.

The corresponding firmware image file is located at:
"mrvl/usb8797_uapsta.bin"

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Huang <frankh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
c65a30f35f938b421ac67c34a9e70b0e49e6019a 14-Mar-2012 Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> mwifiex: fix checkpatch --strict warnings/errors Part 9

For files sta_rx.c, sta_tx.c, txrx.c, util.c and wmm.c

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>
9da9a3b29ba6a9a98e437f24576f13cbe259997b 12-Jan-2012 Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> mwifiex: use bss_type and bss_num to retrieve priv

Current implementation, for retrieving priv from adapter,
uses bss_index. In multi interface environment supporting
different types, bss_index may not be unique.

Use bss_type along with bss_num to retrieve the priv.
bss_index is removed with this change.

Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
bbea3bc432dc5c08d09ca5c80afdd82515470688 09-Dec-2011 Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com> mwifiex: wakeup and stop multiple tx queues in net_device

replace single queue function calls with equivalent multiple queue
functions. Wakeup queue and stop queue calls are guarded by spin lock.

Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <patila@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
711825a06bb288e04f8236d77c4e12eba9a1c478 13-Oct-2011 Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> mwifiex: fix make namespacecheck warnings

This patch takes care of warnings found by running
'make namespacecheck':

1. Remove dead code.
2. Reorder function definitions to avoid forward declarations.
3. Remove unnecessary function/structure declarations and mark
them as static.

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>
d930faee141bd0a6a4873791996c5354c9a85ca7 12-Oct-2011 Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> mwifiex: add support for Marvell pcie8766 chipset

This patch supports 88W8766P chipset with a PCIe interface.

The corresponding firmware image file is located at:
"mrvl/pcie8766_uapsta.bin"

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramesh Radhakrishnan <rramesh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Huang <frankh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
3d82de0fa584fbe73cf74a3bbc906c8710c523b8 05-Oct-2011 Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> mwifiex: fix smatch errors

drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c +828 mwifiex_remove_card(52)
error: potential null derefence 'priv'.
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c +828 mwifiex_remove_card(52)
error: we previously assumed 'priv' could be null (see line 820)
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/txrx.c +90 mwifiex_process_tx(24)
error: potential null derefence 'local_tx_pd'.
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c +766
mwifiex_rate_ioctl_set_rate_value(30)
error: buffer overflow 'rate' 14 <= 14

Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.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>
a5ffddb70c5cab29fa00e2fdf12217b64b940796 21-Jun-2011 Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> mwifiex: remove casts of void pointers

In some cases local pointers are used to cast void pointers passed to
the function. Those unnecessary local pointers are also removed.

This patch was inspired by Joe Perches' patch
[PATCH net-next 1/2] wireless: Remove casts of void *;
and the comments from Julian Calaby.

Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
62a5b7dcee00c8e64e61ed98541c95fd38583116 17-May-2011 Marc Yang <yangyang@marvell.com> mwifiex: adjust high/low water marks for tx_pending queue

This is to fix an issue that the throughput of the higher priority
stream gets dropped when a lower priority stream is present.

Signed-off-by: Marc Yang <yangyang@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
270e58e8898c8be40451ebee45b6c9b5bd5db04b 04-May-2011 Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> mwifiex: remove unnecessary variable initialization

Skip initialization of local variables with some default values
if the values are not going to be used further down the code path.

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>
636c4598499eeacce0893dc8d91113b904bd531e 16-Apr-2011 Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> mwifiex: remove redundant local variables and comments

Remove some local variables (mainly function return values)
that are used only once. Also, one dummy function and some
wordy comments are removed.

Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
5e6e3a92b9a4c9416b17f468fa5c7fa2233b8b4e 22-Mar-2011 Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> wireless: mwifiex: initial commit for Marvell mwifiex driver

This driver adds WiFi support for Marvell 802.11n based chipsets
with SDIO interface. Currently only SD8787 is supported. More
chipsets will be supported later.

drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/

Signed-off-by: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Yang <yangyang@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramesh Radhakrishnan <rramesh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Huang <frankh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>