wave-1:
2019-05-09: Tweak rate-ctrl: Ramp PER up faster, down slower. This
helps throughput in rate-vs-range test, especially with
nss1.
2019-05-20: Disable adaptive-CCA. I am not sure it helps, and it may
make it slower to detect noise that should tell the system
to stop transmitting. If someone has means to test this
properly, I'd be happy to work with them.
wave-2:
2019-05-15: Fix problem where rate-ctrl sometimes used rix of 0x0.
2019-05-15: Allow raw-tx of encrypted frame. Requires a patch to the
driver to use raw mode when skb has WEP flag enabled AND
skb is flagged to not be encrypted. Lightly tested.
2019-05-16: Fix tx-hang that happened when rate-ctrl chose an OFDM rate
for 20Mhz and sent that as AMPDU. To fix, limit to (V)HT
rates if peer is (V)HT. It seems that MCS0 (V)HT20 should
have as good of a chance of being detected as CCK or OFDM.
2019-06-06: Disable TX-BFEE, TX-BFER for IBSS connections. I suspect
this is part of the tx-hang issue seen with IBSS between
two 9984 radios.
2019-06-12: Fix rx-rate reporting in 'fw_stats' logic. This was at
least partly due to regressions I had added earlier when
working on some multi-vdev enhancements.
2019-6-12: Fix case where extd peer-stats were not always populated.
The stats gathering code did not handle error conditions
well.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
Release notes since last time:
Release notes for wave-1:
2019-04-02: Support some get/set API for eeprom rate power tables.
Mostly backported from 10.2
2019-04-02: Support adaptive-CCA, backported from 10.2
2019-04-02: Support adding eeprom configAddr pairs via the
set-special API. These configAddrs can be used to change
the default register settings for up to 12 registers.
2019-05-03: Fix tx-power settings for 2x2, 3x3 rates.
Original logic I put in back in 2016 set 2x2 and 3x3 lower
than the needed to be when using most NICs (very high
powered NICs would not have been affected I think, not sure
any of those exist though.)
This improves throughput for 2x2 and 3x3 devices,
especially when the signal is weaker.
Release notes for wave-2:
2019-04-08: When setting keys, if high bit of high value of
key_rsc_counter is set to 0x1, then the lower 48 bits will
be used as the PN value. By default, PN is set to 1 each
time the key is set.
2019-04-08: Pack PN into un-used 'excretries' aka
'num_pkt_loss_excess_retry' high 16 bits.
This lets us report peer PN, but *only* if driver has
previously set a PN when setting key (or set-special cmd is
used to enable PN reporting).
This is done so that we know the driver is recent
enough to deal with the PN stat reporting.
2019-04-16: Support specifying tx rate on a per-beacon packet.
See ath10k_wmi_op_gen_beacon_dma and
ath10k_convert_hw_rate_to_rate_info for API details.
Driver needs additional work to actually enable this
feature currently.
2019-04-30: Compile out tx-prefetch caching logic.
It is full of tricky bugs that cause tx hangs.
I fixed at least one, but more remain and I have wasted too
much time on this already.
2019-05-08: Start rate-ctrl at mcs-3 instead of mcs-5.
This significantly helps DHCP happen quickly, probably
because the initial rate being too high would take a while
to ramp down, especially since there are few packets sent
by the time DHCP needs to start.
This bug was triggered by me decreasing retries of 0x1e
(upstream default) to 0x4. But, I think it is better to
start with lower initial MCS instead of always having a
very high retry count.
Tested on 8devices Jalapeno dev board(IPQ4019)
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com> [neatify]
Release notes since last time:
Release notes for wave-1 / 10.1:
2019-03-28: Fix sometimes using bad TID for management frames
in htt-mgt mode. (Backported from wave2, looks
like bug would be the same though.)
Release notes for wave-2 / 10.4:
2019-03-28: Fix off-channel scanning while associated in
proxy-station mode.
2019-03-29: Fix sometimes sending mgt frames on wrong tid when
using htt-mgt. This bug has been around since I first
enabled htt-mgt mode.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Release notes since last time:
Release notes for wave-1:
- 2019-03-12: Add btcoex feature flag for 2.4Ghz only adapters,
backported from upstream 10.2 firmware.
- 2019-03-12: Support offloading decrypt of PMF blockack frames
to the host. This lets us do blockack with PMF and
rx-sw-crypt. Normal hwcrypt scenarios would not need this.
Release notes for wave-2:
- 2019-03-12: Fix crash when tearing down VI TID when pending frames
exist. Could reproduce this while doing rmmod when VI
traffic was flowing and PMF was enabled but broken.
Bad luck could rarely cause it to happen in more normal
config too.
- 2019-03-12: Support offloading decrypt of PMF blockack frames to
the host. This lets us do blockack with PMF and
rx-sw-crypt. Normal hwcrypt scenarios would not need this.
- 2019-03-12: Re-work problematic patch that attempted to fix transmit
on non-QOS tids. It appears buggy in several ways,
hopefully improved now. This was introduced last fall.
See github bug 78.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Release notes since last update:
wave-1 firmware:
* Feb 14, 2019: Remove logic that causes assert when swba logic is not
initialized. This was seen when trying to bring up 6 VAP
vdevs. A similar fix went into wave-2 firmware some time
ago.
* Feb 27, 2019: Support up to 32 vAP vdevs, fix stack corruption when
driver requests too many vAP.
* Feb 28, 2019: Support beacon-tx-wmi callback message. This lets driver
properly clean up beacon buffers so we don't crash
(somethings the entire OS/system) due to DMA errors.
wave-2 firmware:
* Feb 27. 2019: Support up to 32 AP vdevs. Previous to this, stack would
be corrupted if you went past 16 AP vdevs.
* Feb 28, 2019: Support beacon-tx-wmi callback message. This lets driver
properly clean up beacon buffers. In wave-1, this could
crash the entire OS, but I didn't see the same crashes
in wave-2, so maybe it is fixed in some other way. Add
the feature regardless as it seems proper.
Signed-off-by: Michael Yartys <michael.yartys@gmail.com>
Release notes since last time:
2019-02-08:
Fix rate-ctrl assert related to bad logic that tried to guess
that lower bandwidth probes were automatically successful if
higher was. The NSS mismatch that can happen here caused the
assert. Just comment out the offending code
(per comment from original QCA code). This is bug 69.
2019-02-10:
Fix bssid mis-alignment that broke 4-addr vlan mode (bug 67).
Original buggy commit was
commit 2bf89e70ecd1 ("dev-ds: Better packing of wal_vdev struct.")
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
* Jan 2, 2019
Rebase patches to make 9980 bisectable.
* Jan 2, 2019
Fix scheduling related assert when wal-peer is deleted with pending
tx buffers (bug 54, and others)
* Jan 7, 2019:
Fix specifying retransmits for AMPDU frames. It was previously ignored
since it is a 'software' retransmit instead of a hardware retransmit.
* Jan 9, 2019
Fix potential way to get zero rates selected (and then assert)
* Jan 18, 2019
pfsched has specific work-around to just return if we find invalid flags AND
if we are in an out-of-order situation. Maybe this is last of the pfsched
related issues (bug 54 and similar).
* Jan 24, 2019
The rcSibUpdate method can be called concurrently with IRQ tx-completion callback,
and that could potentially allow the tx-completion callback to see invalid state
and assert or otherwise mess up the rate-ctrl logic. So, disable IRQs in
rcSibUpdate to prevent this. Related to bug 58.
* Jan 28, 2019
Ensure that cached config is applied to ratectrl objects when fetched from
the cache. This should fix part of bug 58.
* Jan 28, 2019
Ensure that ratectrl objects from cachemgr are always initialized. This fixes
another part of bug 58.
* Jan 30, 2019
Better use of temporary rate-ctrl object. Make sure it is initialized, simplify
code path. This finishes up porting forward similar changes I made for wave-1
firmware long ago, and fixes another potential way to hit bug-58 issues.
* Jan 30, 2019
Cachemgr did not have a callback for when memory was logically freed. This means
that peers could keep stale references to rate-ctrl objects that were in process
of being DMA'd into to load a different peer's rate-ctrl state. This was causing
the bugcheck logic to fail early and often, and I suspect it might be a root cause
of bug 58 as well. The fix is to add a callback and set any 'deleted' memory references
to NULL so that we cannot access it accidentally. Thanks to excellent logs and patience
from the bug-58 reporter!
Signed-off-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>
This now matches what was generated locally on my PC and the file on the
mirror server.
Fixes: 575d0240f9 ("ath10k-firmware: update board-2.bin for community firmwares")
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch updates the board-2.bin for the default
IPQ4019, QCA9984 and QCA9888 ath10k-firmware-xyz-ct
and -ct-htt firmwares.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
With AVM Fritz!Box 4040 and OpenWrt 18.06 RC1 there are many kernel warnings
kern.warn kernel: [87771.917049] ath10k_ahb a000000.wifi: Invalid VHT mcs 15 peer stats
and there are disconnections when the connected clients are many, at the moment I tried with 16 clients on 2.4 GHz and 8 on 5 GHZ.
Firmware 10.4-3.5.3-00057 fixes these warnings and the problem of disconnections of some clients.
Signed-off-by: Massimo Tum <masnia@tiscali.it>
Currently when installing the firmware, a bunch of files and directories
that the ath10k driver does not look for are created.
The package now installs firmware for both hw 2.1 and 3.0 devices.
2.1 is abandonware but may be useful to keep.
3.0 firmware was tested on a Killer 1535 to be relatively stable with
802.11w disabled. 802.11w causes multiple firmware crashes but that's true
of other ath10k firmwares as well.
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
This now matches what was generated locally on my PC and the file on the
mirror server.
Fixes: 349fe46103 ("ath10k-firmware: Update QCA988X firmware to the latest version")
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
This patch updates the QCA988X firmware to the latest revision
firmware-5.bin_10.2.4-1.0-00037
found in the ath10k-firmware and linux-firmware repositories.
Tested on TP-Link Archer C7 v2 (ar71xx).
Signed-off-by: Timo Sigurdsson <public_timo.s@silentcreek.de>
This firmware has only small changes from the last commit, but
it does have an important fix for at least some PTK rekey logic.
The old firmware would have issues if the driver managed to set
a clear key while encryption was 'enabled'. This new firmware for
both wave-1 and wave-2 should not be susceptible to this type of
bug any more.
And remove mesh-bcast IE flag from wave-2, still need more work before
we can enable that flag in ath10k-ct firmware it seems.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Wave-1 firmware has a fix for 'addba' not finding the peer. Thanks to Hauke
for finding and reporting this.
Wave-2 firmware has a fix for leaking a peer multicast key when a monitor device
is created.
And I re-ordered the '4019' firmware images in the Makefile to match the order
of the others. No functional change for that reorder.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Tested-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
The HTT-MGT variants transport management frames over the
normal HTT tx path, just like data frames. This saves
limitted WMI buffers which can become depleted if lots of
management frames become stuck in TX queues due to peer
that went away.
In addition, at least for the wave-1 firmware, htt-mgt is
required in order for 802.11r (fast roaming) authentication
to function properly.
The htt-mgt firmware requires the use of the ath10k-ct
driver. Normal non-htt-mgt ath10k-ct firmware should work
with stock drivers.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
This updates to latest ath10k-ct firmware. Hopefully we are
at the end of the development cycle for this firmware release,
so these should be stable.
wave-1 changes since last release:
Release 20
* Allow flushing peer when deleting. Hopefully this will allow the
peer delete command to happen in a reasonable amount of time even
if the RF environment is busy (or peer has died).
To enable this, set the high flag in the mac-addr second word in the
ath10k driver near end of the ath10k_wmi_op_gen_peer_delete method:
cmd->peer_macaddr.word1 |= __cpu_to_le32(0x80000000);
* Attempt to fix crash seen in resmgr-ocs, appearantly due to list corruption.
Use a temporary list instead of trying to rely on for-each-safe.
* Add flag to tx-descriptor to allow driver to request no-ack on data
frames. This is bit 15 on the flag1 field (previously un-used).
* Add option to support specifying the tx-rate-code and retry count on
a per-packet basis. Only a single series is supported at this time.
Useful mainly for radiotap monitor-tx type testing at this point.
* Fix crash on startup when chip is at -40 deg C and calibration fails. Instead
of asserting, just keep retrying calibration, which appears to start working
after a few minutes (when the chip warms up).
* Allow reporting per-chain rssi for management frames. We pack the values into
empty space in the mgt-frame wmi header. This will only be enabled if the driver
requests it, since otherwise the driver is assumed to not understand the new API.
ath10k-ct drivers that support this feature will automatically enable it.
* A customer reports a case that appears to be the hardware not properly detecting
end of AMPDU, so frames were being mis-delivered to the wrong peer. Attempt to
work around this, and in doing so, clean up a bunch of void* abuse in the block-ack
reordering code (could not ever confirm there was a problem in this area).
* Re-work the rx-mem logic to be less complicated and to use less memory.
* Attempt to fix crash that appearanty happens because the driver can sometimes
delete a vdev in 'up' state.
* Attempt to fix hung scan state machine issues.
* Fix crash in tx path due to un-initialized memory.
wave-2 changes since last release:
Release 10
* Fix an assert related to tx scheduling. This hopefully fixes
what appears to be a regression that I added some time back.
* Enable CSI reporting for 9984, and maybe 9888/9886. Only in
non-trimmed builds.
* Other stability improvements, including regression fixes from
some tricky bugs introduced in earlier releases.
* Allow compiling for IPQ4019 chipset.
* Firmware will now send txbf frames to the host (driver) if the
TXBF (0xF00000001) set-special feature is enabled, or when the radio
is in monitor mode. But, if the frame is consumed by the txbf_cv
logic, then the pkt cannot be delivered to the host in this manner. Instead,
a WMI event will be sent and host can find the txbf_cv data in shared
memory. See ath10k_wmi_event_txbf_cv_mesg() in ath10k-ct driver.
* Support rx-all-mgt option. When enabled, the firmware will deliver all
management frames that it can to the host. No RX filters are changed
when this option is enabled.
* Fix at least some problems with sending tx-beamforming frames to SU-MIMO
peers. Looks like this was a regression in my code.
* Fix a crash in rate-ctrl due to nss mismatch. This was something I introduced
while trying to fix other bugs in rate-ctrl some time back.
* Attempt to fix a sw-peer-key object leak in IBSS mode. The peer key code
is very complex, and shares some pointers as union members. I think I fixed
at least some of the issues, but would not be surprised if more exist.
* Improve ath10k user guide to document CT firmware features:
https://www.candelatech.com/ath10k-ug.php
* Add ct-special option to configure the txbf sounding time. See ath10k-ug.php
* Fix and allow the driver to tell the firmware to send sounding frames. See ath10k-ug.php
In further testing, this seems to fail much of the time, and I am not sure why.
Disabling this in diet (trimmed) builds.
* Fix crashes related to deleting peers while they are in power-save mode. Reported
by LEDE user on r7800 with 9984 NIC.
* Make rate-ctrl txbf probe work better. If enabled, the rate-ctrl logic will periodically
send out probes at an NSS that can to txbf. Previously, txbf probes would not reliably happen
if both AP and peer had the same nss (ie, 2x2 talking to 2x2). To enable this feature, you
need to enable the fwtest-cmdid number 20.
* Report rx-timeout error counters. These were previously un-reported, though the
field existed in the wmi struct already.
* txbf: Ignore frames not destined for us. If NIC is in promisc mode, it
could acquire and process NDPA frames that were not destined for it. Check
the dest-MAC and ignore frames not for us (pass them up the stack for monitor
mode instead of save them in the peer's rate-ctrl logic.)
* Port ping-pong crash handling and othe related features to IPQ4019 target. It should
now act similar to 9984 in this regard.
* Fix a few asserts related to txbf and tx-seq logic.
* Add custom-stats support, for rx-reorder-stats. Similar to what I did for wave-1.
* Disable AMSDU for IBSS. This now matches what I did for peregrine. It seems to
work better this way, though I did not debug it in detail.
* Enable the set-special command to re-enable AMSDU for IBSS if user wants to experiment.
* Fix bug where dbglog did not disable IRQs, so if you made dbglog messages from the IRQ
handler, it could cause corruption that could crash the firmware and/or corrupt the log
message buffers.
* Don't assert if there are no buffer descriptors for RX of non-data frame.
* Retry any stuck block-ack sessions every 20 seconds instead of just disabling BA for
ever when we get too many failures.
* Fix SGI flag when reporting tx-rate info. The flag moved since wave-1 days, and
I did not notice that when I ported my changes forward to wave-2.
* Allow disabling special CCA handling for IBSS txqs. Earlier testing indicated this
might improve throughput in some testing on 9984 chips in IBSS mode, but subsequent
testing looks about the same without it. Since I do not really understand what this
setting exists for, leave it at upstream defaults. A new set-special API command (0x12)
can be used to enable this hack for testing. Setting 0x1 bit disables special CCA handling
for non-beacon IBSS txqs, setting 0x2 bit disables it for beacon queues as well.
* Add MCAST-BCAST feature flag. This tells driver we do not need a monitor interface
to do MESH.
* When calculating the rx-address filter (affects ACK & BLOCK-ACK, among other things),
to not add in monitor interfaces if other interfaces are up. There is no need for
a monitor device to ACK frames.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Update DEPENDS and PROVIDES so that ath10k-ct firmware
and drivers can be used to replace stock firmware
and drivers. The -htt firmware variant, which requires
ath10k-ct driver now selects ath10k-ct driver when the
firmware is selected.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
This patch updates ath10k-firmware to use the
firmware-5.bin_10.4-3.5.3-00053 firmware for the QCA9984.
The update fixes "ath10k_pci 0001:01:00.0: Invalid VHT mcs 15 peer
stats" spamming the kernel ring buffer at very high frequencies, but
introduces the new "ath10k_pci 0001:01:00.0: Unknown eventid: 36925".
This new warning doesn't appear to cause problems in practice and is
only emitted relatively rarely, not causing dmesg to overflow within
minutes.
Tested on the ZyXEL NBG6817; early feedback also suggests this firmware
to work well (with the same fixes and caveats) on the Netgear r7800 as
well.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Henryk Heisig <hyniu@o2.pl>
This patch updates ath10k-firmware to last commit and use the
firmware-5.bin_10.4-3.5.3-00053 firmware for the QCA9888.
Signed-off-by: Henryk Heisig <hyniu@o2.pl>
* introduces the BDFs for the OpenMesh A42 in
/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA4019/hw1.0/board-2.bin.
* adds new firmware firmware-6.bin_RM.4.4.1.c1-00037-QCARMSWP-1 for
QCA6174 hw3.0
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@open-mesh.com>
This patch updates ath10k-firmware to use the
firmware-5.bin_10.2.4-1.0-00033 firmware for the QCA988x.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch updates ath10k-firmware to use the
firmware-5.bin_10.2.4-1.0-00033 firmware for the QCA9887.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch updates ath10k-firmware to use the
firmware-5.bin_10.4-3.4-00104 firmware for the QCA9888.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch updates ath10k-firmware to use the
firmware-5.bin_10.4-3.4-00104 firmware for the QCA9984.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch updates ath10k-firmware to use the
firmware-5.bin_10.4-3.4-00104 firmware for the QCA4019.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This update automatically includes a new firmware for the QCA6174:
firmware-6.bin_WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00079-QCARMSWPZ-1
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
This patch updates ath10k-firmware to use the
firmware-5.bin_10.4-3.2.1-00058 firmware for the QCA4019.
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Changes since last LEDE release include:
* Fix key-setting bug that broke sending the EAPOL 2/4 in some cases. This was a
bug I introduced some time back while trying to fix .11r and simplify the key
handling logic. (Patch to wpa_supplicant fixed the race with sending the 4/4
and setting the key...un-patched supplicant will still have this race and the 4-way
auth will not work as reliably.)
* Increase amount of active-tids that can be scheduled. This fixes a tx-stall
seen with many station vdevs.
* Fix bug in upstream code that would cause the maximum peer to never be scheduled
for tx.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Instead of manually downloading the files again we can also take the
same files directly from the ath10k-firmware git which was cloned
before.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
ath10k-firmware: add qca9888 firmware
the firmware files for qca9888 were previously not packaged. add the meta
information for doing so.
Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
As of now OTP is being correctly parsed and the driver requires to parse pre-caldata to follow corresponding routine.
Rename cal file into pre-calfile so the board initialized correctly with API 2 board data (board-2.bin).
Also remove the now unneeded for qca9984 board.bin symlink to 5GHz calfile.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Kubelun <be.dissent@gmail.com>
This firmware shoul have the same general feature set as the
rest of the 10.4 CT firmware (9984, 9980, etc). Build-tested
only in LEDE, but firmware has been tested with ath10k-ct driver
on other OSs, so likely works just fine.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
The 988x and 9887 firmwares include a bugfix for a case where blockack
did not work sometimes, and many fixes for compiler warnings detected
by newer gcc compilers.
The 9980 and 9984 firmware includes a large backport of upstream QCA
firmware changes to bring it up to date.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
update the qca988x firmware to firmware-5.bin_10.2.4-1.0-00029.
According to LEDE Forum, the new firmware supports mesh mode.
Also, it seems to have several improvements.
Signed-off-by: Changmin Jang <ckdalsdk12@gmail.com>
Do not select the qca988x by default as soon as kmod-ath10k is
selected. We do support more ath10k chips than the qca988x in the
meantime, so this dependency doesn't make sense any longer.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kresin <dev@kresin.me>
