wifi: ath9k: Remove unused declarations

Commit b57ba3b2f7b0 ("ath9k: move ath9k_reload_chainmask_settings to common")
removed the implementation ath9k_reload_chainmask_settings() but not the declara

wifi: ath9k: Remove unused declarations

Commit b57ba3b2f7b0 ("ath9k: move ath9k_reload_chainmask_settings to common")
removed the implementation ath9k_reload_chainmask_settings() but not the declaration.
Also commit 978f78bf7137 ("ath9k_hw: Move bt_stomp to hw from common.") left behind
ath9k_cmn_btcoex_bt_stomp() declaration.

Signed-off-by: Yue Haibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810145222.34364-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com

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wifi: Use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool()

strtobool() is the same as kstrtobool().
However, the latter is more used within the kernel.

In order to remove strtobool() and slightly simplify kstrt

wifi: Use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool()

strtobool() is the same as kstrtobool().
However, the latter is more used within the kernel.

In order to remove strtobool() and slightly simplify kstrtox.h, switch to
the other function name.

While at it, include the corresponding header file (<linux/kstrtox.h>)

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1ff34549af5ad6f7c80d5b9e11872b5499065fc1.1667336095.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr

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ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c

Hardware random number generators are supposed to use the hw_random
framework. This commit turns ath9k's kthread-based design into

ath9k: use hw_random API instead of directly dumping into random.c

Hardware random number generators are supposed to use the hw_random
framework. This commit turns ath9k's kthread-based design into a proper
hw_random driver.

Cc: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Tested-by: Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220216113323.53332-1-Jason@zx2c4.com

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ath9k: fix transmitting to stations in dynamic SMPS mode

When transmitting to a receiver in dynamic SMPS mode, all transmissions that
use multiple spatial streams need to be sent using CTS-to-self o

ath9k: fix transmitting to stations in dynamic SMPS mode

When transmitting to a receiver in dynamic SMPS mode, all transmissions that
use multiple spatial streams need to be sent using CTS-to-self or RTS/CTS to
give the receiver's extra chains some time to wake up.
This fixes the tx rate getting stuck at <= MCS7 for some clients, especially
Intel ones, which make aggressive use of SMPS.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Martin Kennedy <hurricos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210214184911.96702-1-nbd@nbd.name

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ath9k: remove WDS code

The ability to reach this code was hidden behind
CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS, which was just removed. Clean
up the driver accordingly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109105103.

ath9k: remove WDS code

The ability to reach this code was hidden behind
CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS, which was just removed. Clean
up the driver accordingly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109105103.e1d48ee20b0a.I89f8af0d50a02ce16a922fa790d6c1908f31a496@changeid
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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ath9k: fix transmitting to stations in dynamic SMPS mode

commit 3b9ea7206d7e1fdd7419cbd10badd3b2c80d04b4 upstream.

When transmitting to a receiver in dynamic SMPS mode, all transmissions that
use m

ath9k: fix transmitting to stations in dynamic SMPS mode

commit 3b9ea7206d7e1fdd7419cbd10badd3b2c80d04b4 upstream.

When transmitting to a receiver in dynamic SMPS mode, all transmissions that
use multiple spatial streams need to be sent using CTS-to-self or RTS/CTS to
give the receiver's extra chains some time to wake up.
This fixes the tx rate getting stuck at <= MCS7 for some clients, especially
Intel ones, which make aggressive use of SMPS.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Martin Kennedy <hurricos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210214184911.96702-1-nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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ath9k: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup() API

In preparation for unconditionally passing the
struct tasklet_struct pointer to all tasklet
callbacks, switch to using the new tasklet_setup()

ath9k: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup() API

In preparation for unconditionally passing the
struct tasklet_struct pointer to all tasklet
callbacks, switch to using the new tasklet_setup()
and from_tasklet() to pass the tasklet pointer explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Romain Perier <romain.perier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200817090637.26887-3-allen.cryptic@gmail.com

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ath9k: Switch to mac80211 TXQ scheduling and airtime APIs

This moves the ath9k driver to use the mac80211 TXQ scheduling and
airtime accounting APIs, removing the corresponding state tracking
inside

ath9k: Switch to mac80211 TXQ scheduling and airtime APIs

This moves the ath9k driver to use the mac80211 TXQ scheduling and
airtime accounting APIs, removing the corresponding state tracking
inside the driver.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
[rmanohar@codeaurora.org: fixed checkpatch error and warnings]
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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ath9k: dynack: make ewma estimation faster

In order to make propagation time estimation faster,
use current sample as ewma output value during 'late ack'
tracking

Tested-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.v

ath9k: dynack: make ewma estimation faster

In order to make propagation time estimation faster,
use current sample as ewma output value during 'late ack'
tracking

Tested-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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ath9k: add back support for using active monitor interfaces for tx99

Various documented examples on how to set up tx99 with ath9k rely
on setting up a regular monitor interface for setting the chann

ath9k: add back support for using active monitor interfaces for tx99

Various documented examples on how to set up tx99 with ath9k rely
on setting up a regular monitor interface for setting the channel.
My previous patch "ath9k: fix tx99 with monitor mode interface" made
it possible to set it up this way again. However, it was removing support
for using an active monitor interface, which is required for controlling
the bitrate as well, since the bitrate is not passed down with a regular
monitor interface.

This patch partially reverts the previous one, but keeps support for using
a regular monitor interface to keep documented steps working in cases
where the bitrate does not matter

Fixes: d9c52fd17cb48 ("ath9k: fix tx99 with monitor mode interface")
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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ath9k: fix tx99 with monitor mode interface

Tx99 is typically configured via a monitor mode interface, which does
not get added to the driver as a vif. Since the code currently expects
a configured

ath9k: fix tx99 with monitor mode interface

Tx99 is typically configured via a monitor mode interface, which does
not get added to the driver as a vif. Since the code currently expects
a configured virtual interface for tx99, enabling tx99 via debugfs fails.
Since the vif is not needed anyway, remove all checks for it.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
[kvalo@codeaurora.org: s/CPTCFG/CONFIG/]
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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ath9k: use timespec64 for tsf_ts

ath9k is the last remaining user of the deprecated getrawmonotonic()
interface. There is nothing wrong with this usage, but migrating
to a timespec64 based interface

ath9k: use timespec64 for tsf_ts

ath9k is the last remaining user of the deprecated getrawmonotonic()
interface. There is nothing wrong with this usage, but migrating
to a timespec64 based interface lets us clean up the old API.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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Revert "mac80211: Add TXQ scheduling API"

This reverts commit e937b8da5a591f141fe41aa48a2e898df9888c95.

Turns out that a new driver (mt76) is coming in through
Kalle's tree, and will conflict with

Revert "mac80211: Add TXQ scheduling API"

This reverts commit e937b8da5a591f141fe41aa48a2e898df9888c95.

Turns out that a new driver (mt76) is coming in through
Kalle's tree, and will conflict with this. It also has some
conflicting requirements, so we'll revisit this later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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mac80211: Add TXQ scheduling API

This adds an API to mac80211 to handle scheduling of TXQs and changes the
interface between driver and mac80211 for TXQ handling as follows:

- The wake_tx_queue cal

mac80211: Add TXQ scheduling API

This adds an API to mac80211 to handle scheduling of TXQs and changes the
interface between driver and mac80211 for TXQ handling as follows:

- The wake_tx_queue callback interface no longer includes the TXQ. Instead,
the driver is expected to retrieve that from ieee80211_next_txq()

- Two new mac80211 functions are added: ieee80211_next_txq() and
ieee80211_schedule_txq(). The former returns the next TXQ that should be
scheduled, and is how the driver gets a queue to pull packets from. The
latter is called internally by mac80211 to start scheduling a queue, and
the driver is supposed to call it to re-schedule the TXQ after it is
finished pulling packets from it (unless the queue emptied).

The ath9k and ath10k drivers are changed to use the new API.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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ath: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pa

ath: Convert timers to use timer_setup()

In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly.

Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

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ath9k: fix race condition in enabling/disabling IRQs

The code currently relies on refcounting to disable IRQs from within the
IRQ handler and re-enabling them again after the tasklet has run.

Howev

ath9k: fix race condition in enabling/disabling IRQs

The code currently relies on refcounting to disable IRQs from within the
IRQ handler and re-enabling them again after the tasklet has run.

However, due to race conditions sometimes the IRQ handler might be
called twice, or the tasklet may not run at all (if interrupted in the
middle of a reset).

This can cause nasty imbalances in the irq-disable refcount which will
get the driver permanently stuck until the entire radio has been stopped
and started again (ath_reset will not recover from this).

Instead of using this fragile logic, change the code to ensure that
running the irq handler during tasklet processing is safe, and leave the
refcount untouched.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

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ath9k: rename tx_complete_work to hw_check_work

Also include common MAC alive check. This should make the hang checks
more reliable for modes where beacons are not sent and is used as a
starting poi

ath9k: rename tx_complete_work to hw_check_work

Also include common MAC alive check. This should make the hang checks
more reliable for modes where beacons are not sent and is used as a
starting point for further hang check improvements

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

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ath9k: Turn ath_txq_lock/unlock() into static inlines.

These are one-line functions that just call spin_lock/unlock_bh(); turn
them into static inlines to avoid the function call overhead.

Signed-o

ath9k: Turn ath_txq_lock/unlock() into static inlines.

These are one-line functions that just call spin_lock/unlock_bh(); turn
them into static inlines to avoid the function call overhead.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

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ath9k: Introduce airtime fairness scheduling between stations

This reworks the ath9k driver to schedule transmissions to connected
stations in a way that enforces airtime fairness between them. It
a

ath9k: Introduce airtime fairness scheduling between stations

This reworks the ath9k driver to schedule transmissions to connected
stations in a way that enforces airtime fairness between them. It
accomplishes this by measuring the time spent transmitting to or
receiving from a station at TX and RX completion, and accounting this to
a per-station, per-QoS level airtime deficit. Then, an FQ-CoDel based
deficit scheduler is employed at packet dequeue time, to control which
station gets the next transmission opportunity.

Airtime fairness can significantly improve the efficiency of the network
when station rates vary. The following throughput values are from a
simple three-station test scenario, where two stations operate at the
highest HT20 rate, and one station at the lowest, and the scheduler is
employed at the access point:

Before / After
Fast station 1: 19.17 / 25.09 Mbps
Fast station 2: 19.83 / 25.21 Mbps
Slow station: 2.58 / 1.77 Mbps
Total: 41.58 / 52.07 Mbps

The benefit of airtime fairness goes up the more stations are present.
In a 30-station test with one station artificially limited to 1 Mbps,
we have seen aggregate throughput go from 2.14 to 17.76 Mbps.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

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ath9k: Switch to using mac80211 intermediate software queues.

This switches ath9k over to using the mac80211 intermediate software
queueing mechanism for data packets. It removes the queueing inside

ath9k: Switch to using mac80211 intermediate software queues.

This switches ath9k over to using the mac80211 intermediate software
queueing mechanism for data packets. It removes the queueing inside the
driver, except for the retry queue, and instead pulls from mac80211 when
a packet is needed. The retry queue is used to store a packet that was
pulled but can't be sent immediately.

The old code path in ath_tx_start that would queue packets has been
removed completely, as has the qlen limit tunables (since there's no
longer a queue in the driver to limit).

The mac80211 intermediate software queues offer significant latency
reductions, and this patch allows ath9k to realise them. The exact gains
from this varies with the test scenario, but in an access point scenario
we have seen latency reductions ranging from 1/3 to as much as an order
of magnitude. We also achieve slightly better aggregation.

Median latency (ping) figures with this patch applied at the access point,
with two high-rate stations and one low-rate station (HT20 5Ghz), running
a Flent rtt_fair_var_up test with one TCP flow and one ping flow going to
each station:

Fast station Slow station
Default pfifo_fast qdisc: 430.4 ms 638.7 ms
fq_codel qdisc on iface: 35.5 ms 211.8 ms
This patch set: 22.4 ms 38.2 ms

Median aggregation sizes over the same test:

Default pfifo_fast qdisc: 9.5 pkts 1.9 pkts
fq_codel qdisc on iface: 11.2 pkts 1.9 pkts
This patch set: 13.9 pkts 1.9 pkts

This patch is based on Tim's original patch set, but reworked quite
thoroughly.

Cc: Tim Shepard <shep@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

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ath9k: Fix beacon configuration for addition/removal of interfaces

This patch fixes some issues with interface reconfiguration. It could
for example happen that an AP interface in beacon slot 0 was

ath9k: Fix beacon configuration for addition/removal of interfaces

This patch fixes some issues with interface reconfiguration. It could
for example happen that an AP interface in beacon slot 0 was removed
leaving an IBSS station in one of the other slots. When this happens
the driver never sends out the beacon as it only tries to send a beacon
from slot 0.

Appart from that the tracking of required changes to the beacon config is
relatively complicated and prone to errors.

The approach taken here is to solve reconfiguration issues is to
reconfigure the beacons when any interface changes. This means that
the complexity of deciding whether an interface change may modify the
beacon configuration is gone. It also means that the beacon config will
be reliably updated when an interface is removed.

The issue that a single non-AP interface might not be in beacon
slot 0 and wouldn't be send out is solved by moving it into the
first slot. The TSF value in hardware is adjusted accordingly so
that the timestamp of the beacons stay consistent.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

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ath9k: cleanup led_pin initial

Make ath_init_leds() and ath_deinit_leds() pairs as the only
API to set leds, also removed direction configuration from
ath9k_start() and ath9k_stop(). So the initial

ath9k: cleanup led_pin initial

Make ath_init_leds() and ath_deinit_leds() pairs as the only
API to set leds, also removed direction configuration from
ath9k_start() and ath9k_stop(). So the initial is more clear
now.

Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

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ath9k: feeding entropy in kernel from ADC capture

This patch is derived from
commit 6301566e0b2d ("ath9k: export HW random number generator"),

We evaluated the entropy of the ADC data on QCA9531, Q

ath9k: feeding entropy in kernel from ADC capture

This patch is derived from
commit 6301566e0b2d ("ath9k: export HW random number generator"),

We evaluated the entropy of the ADC data on QCA9531, QCA9561, QCA955x,
and AR9340, and it has sufficient quality random data (at least 10 bits
and up to 22 bits of min-entropy for a 32-bit value). We conservatively
assume the min-entropy is 10 bits out of 32 bits. Thus, ATH9K_RNG_BUF_SIZE
is set to 320 (u32) i.e., 1.25 kilobytes of data is inserted to fill up
the pool as soon as the entropy counter becomes 896/4096 (set by random.c).
Since ADC was not designed to be a dedicated HW RNG, we do not want to bind
it to /dev/hwrng framework directly. This patch feeds the entropy directly
from the WiFi driver to the input pool. The ADC register output is only
used as a seed for the Linux entropy pool. No conditioning is needed,
since all the conditioning is performed by the pool itself.

Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

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ath9k: MCC, print time elapsed between events

This is useful for MCC debugging and bug fixing.

Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualco

ath9k: MCC, print time elapsed between events

This is useful for MCC debugging and bug fixing.

Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

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ath9k: Add support for OCB mode

The patch adds support for "outside the context of a BSS"(OCB) mode
to ath9k driver and extends debugfs files by OCB ralated information.

This patch was tested on AR

ath9k: Add support for OCB mode

The patch adds support for "outside the context of a BSS"(OCB) mode
to ath9k driver and extends debugfs files by OCB ralated information.

This patch was tested on AR9380-AL1A cards.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kaisrlik <kaisrja1@fel.cvut.cz>
Cc: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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