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Revision tags: release/14.0.0
# 685dc743 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line .c pattern

Remove /^[\s*]*__FBSDID\("\$FreeBSD\$"\);?\s*\n/


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix

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Revision tags: release/13.2.0, release/12.4.0, release/13.1.0, release/12.3.0, release/13.0.0, release/12.2.0
# 9966c0f9 01-Sep-2020 Mateusz Guzik <mjg@FreeBSD.org>

ath: clean up empty lines in .c and .h files


Revision tags: release/11.4.0, release/12.1.0, release/11.3.0
# 7648bc9f 13-May-2019 Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>

MFHead @347527

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 7d450faa 05-May-2019 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

[ath] [ath_rate] Fix ANI calibration during non-ACTIVE states; start poking at rate control

These are some fun issues I've found with my upstairs wifi link at such a ridiculous
low signal level (lik

[ath] [ath_rate] Fix ANI calibration during non-ACTIVE states; start poking at rate control

These are some fun issues I've found with my upstairs wifi link at such a ridiculous
low signal level (like, < 5dB.)

* Add per-station tx/rx rssi statistics, in potential preparation to use that
in the RX rate control.

* Call the rate control on each received frame to let it potentially use
it as a hint for what rates to potentially use. It's a no-op right now.

* Do ANI calibration during scan as well. The ath_newstate() call was disabling the
ANI timer and only re-enabling it during transitions to _RUN. This has the
unfortunate side-effect that if ANI deafened the NIC because of interference
and it disassociated, it wouldn't be reset and the scan would never hear beacons.

The ANI configuration is stored at least globally on some HALs and per-channel
on others. Because of this a NIC reset wouldn't help; the ANI parameters would
simply be programmed back in.

Now, I have a feeling I also need to do this during AUTH/ASSOC too and maybe,
if I'm feeling clever, I need to reset the ANI parameters on a given channel
during a transition through INIT or if the VAP is destroyed/re-created.
However for now this gets me out of the immediate weeds with connectivity
upstairs (and thus I /can/ commit); I'll keep chipping away at tidying this
stuff up in subsequent commits.

Tested:

* AR9344 (Wasp), 2G STA mode

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Revision tags: release/12.0.0, release/11.2.0
# 718cf2cc 27-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/dev: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error

sys/dev: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

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Revision tags: release/10.4.0, release/11.1.0
# 9b3ece1c 04-Feb-2017 Enji Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org>

MFhead@r313243


# 2004ce3f 24-Jan-2017 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r312624 through r312719.


# 6eb9f206 23-Jan-2017 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

[ath] [ar9300] ensure the software scheduler is called to form more aggregates for EDMA chips

When investigating performance on UDP TX on the AR9380 I found that the
following sequence was occuring:

[ath] [ar9300] ensure the software scheduler is called to form more aggregates for EDMA chips

When investigating performance on UDP TX on the AR9380 I found that the
following sequence was occuring:

* INTR
* EINPROGRESS - nothing yet
* INTR
* TXSTATUS - process a TX completion for an aggregate
* INTR, INTR
* TXSTATUS - process a TX completion for an aggregate
* TXD, TXD ... populate frames from the hardware queue and submit

What should be happening is a completed TXSTATUS fires off more packets
that are queued on active TIDs.

What /was/ happening was after that first TXSTATUS the TX queue hardware queue
was still empty, so it didn't push anything into the FIFO. Only after the
second TXSTATUS did any progress get made.

This is one of two commits - it ensures that the software TX queue scheduler
is called /after/ TX completion, otherwise no frames from the software staging
queues will be processed into the hardware queues.

The second commit will fix it so it populates aggregate frames correctly
when the above occurs - right now ath_txq_sched() is called, but it doesn't
populate anything because its pre-check conditions are wrong.

Whilst here, add/tweak debugging.

Tested:

* AR9380 STA (testing device) -> AR9580 hostap

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# 33e643f7 28-Nov-2016 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r309213 through r309262.


# 908341ab 28-Nov-2016 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

[ath] wake up the hardware from power-save before doing transmit completion checking.

This was being done in the pre-AR9380 case, but not for AR9380 and later.
When powersave in STA mode is enabled,

[ath] wake up the hardware from power-save before doing transmit completion checking.

This was being done in the pre-AR9380 case, but not for AR9380 and later.
When powersave in STA mode is enabled, this may have lead to the transmit
completion code doing this:

* call the task, which doesn't wake up the hardware
* complete the frames, which doesn't touch the hardware
* schedule pending frames on the hardware queue, which DOES touch the
hardware, and this will be ignored

This would show up in the logs like this:

(with debugging enabled):
Nov 27 23:03:56 lovelace kernel: Q1[ 0] (nseg=1) (DS.V:0xfffffe011bd57300 DS.P:0x49b57300) I: 168cc117 L:00000000 F:0005
...
(in general, doesn't require debugging enabled):
Nov 27 23:03:56 lovelace kernel: ath_hal_reg_write: reg=0x00000804, val=0x49b57300, pm=2

That register is a EDMA TX FIFO register (queue 1), and the val is the descriptor
being written.

Whilst here, make sure the software queue gets kicked here.

Tested;

* AR9485, STA mode + powersave

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Revision tags: release/11.0.1, release/11.0.0
# 93badfa1 16-Sep-2016 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r305687 through r305890.


# bd3b3362 12-Sep-2016 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

[ath] tweak the TX EDMA debugging a bit.

I've used this to debug some amusing issues with the EDMA code.

Tested:

* AR9380, STA mode
* AR9380, TDMA mode (master, slave)


# 4f5ec72a 21-Jun-2016 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

[ath] fix TX throughput for EDMA chips by pushing more into the TX FIFO.

It turns out that getting decent performance requires stacking the TX
FIFO a little more aggressively.

* Ensure that when we

[ath] fix TX throughput for EDMA chips by pushing more into the TX FIFO.

It turns out that getting decent performance requires stacking the TX
FIFO a little more aggressively.

* Ensure that when we complete a frame, we attempt to push a new frame
into the FIFO so TX is kept as active as it needs to be
* Be more aggressive about batching non-aggregate frames into a single
TX FIFO slot. This "fixes" TDMA performance (since we only get one
TX FIFO slot ungated per DMA beacon alert) but it does this by pushing
a whole lot of work into the TX FIFO slot.

I'm not /entirely/ pleased by this solution, but it does fix a whole bunch
of corner case issues in the transmit side and fix TDMA whilst I'm at it.
I'll go revisit transmit packet scheduling in ath(4) post 11.

Tested:

* AR9380, STA mode
* AR9580, hostap mode
* AR9380, TDMA client mode

Approved by: re (hrs)

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# 1a9bf047 20-Jun-2016 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

[ath] fix EDMA TX buffer flags for use when retransmitting frames.

This started showing up when doing lots of aggregate traffic. For TDMA it's
always no-ACK traffic and I didn't notice this, and I d

[ath] fix EDMA TX buffer flags for use when retransmitting frames.

This started showing up when doing lots of aggregate traffic. For TDMA it's
always no-ACK traffic and I didn't notice this, and I didn't notice it
when doing 11abg traffic as it didn't fail enough in a bad way to trigger
this.

This showed up as the fifo depth being < 0.

Eg:

Jun 19 09:23:07 gertrude kernel: ath0: ath_tx_edma_push_staging_list: queued 2 packets; depth=2, fifo depth=1
Jun 19 09:23:07 gertrude kernel: ath0: ath_edma_tx_processq: Q1, bf=0xfffffe000385f068, start=1, end=1
Jun 19 09:23:07 gertrude kernel: ath0: ath_edma_tx_processq: Q1: FIFO depth is now 0 (1)
Jun 19 09:23:07 gertrude kernel: ath0: ath_edma_tx_processq: Q1, bf=0xfffffe0003866fe8, start=0, end=1
Jun 19 09:23:07 gertrude kernel: ath0: ath_edma_tx_processq: Q1: FIFO depth is now -1 (0)

So, clear the flags before adding them to a TX queue, so if they're
re-added for the retransmit path it'll clear whatever they were and
not double-account the FIFOEND flag. Oops.

Tested:

* AR9380, STA mode, 11n iperf testing (~130mbit)

Approved by: re (delphij)

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# 49236b4e 19-Jun-2016 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

[ath] add support for batching frames to the general TX queues.

It turns out the frame scheduling policies (eg DBA_GATED) operate on
a single TX FIFO entry. ASAP scheduling is fine; those frames al

[ath] add support for batching frames to the general TX queues.

It turns out the frame scheduling policies (eg DBA_GATED) operate on
a single TX FIFO entry. ASAP scheduling is fine; those frames always
go out.

DBA-gated sets the TX queue ready when the DBA timer fires, which triggers
a beacon transmit. Normally this is used for content-after-beacon queue
(CABQ) work, which needs to burst out immediately after a beacon.
(eg broadcast, multicast, etc frames.) This is a general policy that you
can use for any queue, and Sam's TDMA code uses it.

When DBA_GATED is used and something like say, an 11e TX burst window,
it only operates on a single TX FIFO entry. If you have a single frame
per TX FIFO entry and say, a 2.5ms long burst window (eg TDMA!) then it'll
only burst a single frame every 2.5ms. If there's no gating (eg ASAP) then
the burst window is fine, and multiple TX FIFO slots get used.

The CABQ code does pack in a list of frames (ie, the whole cabq) but
up until this commit, the normal TX queues didn't. It showed up when
I started to debug TDMA on the AR9380 and later.

This commit doesn't fix the TDMA case - that's still broken here, because
all I'm doing here is allowing 'some' frames to be bursting, but I'm
certainly not filling the whole TX FIFO slot entry with frames.
Doing that 'properly' kind of requires me to take into account how long
packets should take to transmit and say, doing 1.5 or something times that
per TX FIFO slot, as if you partially transmit a slot, when it's next
gated it'll just finish that TX FIFO slot, then not advance to the next
one.

Now, I /also/ think queuing a new packet restarts DMA, but you have to
push new frames into the TX FIFO. I need to experiment some more with
this because if it's really the case, I will be able to do TDMA support
without the egregious hacks I have in my local tree. Sam's TDMA code
for previous chips would just kick the TXE bit to push along DMA
again, but we can't do that for EDMA chips - we /have/ to push a new
frame into the TX FIFO to restart DMA. Ugh.

Tested:

* AR9380, STA mode
* AR9380, hostap mode
* AR9580, hostap mode

Approved by: re (gjb)

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Revision tags: release/10.3.0
# b626f5a7 04-Jan-2016 Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>

MFH r289384-r293170

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 8d4f972b 26-Nov-2015 Navdeep Parhar <np@FreeBSD.org>

Catch up with head.


# b45de1eb 24-Nov-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

[ath] migrate ioctl and busdma memory operations out into separate source files.

This should be a big no-op pass; and reduces the size of if_ath.c.

I'm hopefully soon going to take a whack at the U

[ath] migrate ioctl and busdma memory operations out into separate source files.

This should be a big no-op pass; and reduces the size of if_ath.c.

I'm hopefully soon going to take a whack at the USB support for ath(4)
and this'll require some reuse of the busdma memory code.

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# 11d38a57 28-Oct-2015 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>

Merge from head

Sponsored by: Gandi.net


# becbad1f 13-Oct-2015 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>

Merge from head


# f94594b3 12-Sep-2015 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>

Finish merging from head, messed up in previous attempt


# 00176600 09-Sep-2015 Navdeep Parhar <np@FreeBSD.org>

Merge r286744-r287584 from head.


# d9442b10 05-Sep-2015 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r286858 through r287489.


# 7a79cebf 27-Aug-2015 Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>

Replay r286410. Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless
connectivity interact with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just li

Replay r286410. Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless
connectivity interact with the net80211 stack.

Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface,
just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of
the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the
wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as
"a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer
and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet
as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From
user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig
list, and user can't do anything useful with it.

Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only
KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details:

- The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc.
- Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like
the previous if_transmit.
- Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies
driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them
in promisc or allmulti state.
- Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method.
- Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when
driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific
interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters.

Details on interface configuration with new world order:
- A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change.
- /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change.
- List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is
now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl.

Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4),
that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing
changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to pluknet@, Oliver Hartmann,
Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@, op@ and lev@, who also participated in
testing.

Reviewed by: adrian
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.

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