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# d57ca103 02-Dec-2022 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

wifi: rtw88: Drop rf_lock

The rtwdev->rf_lock spinlock protects the rf register accesses in
rtw_read_rf() and rtw_write_rf(). Most callers of these functions hold
rtwdev->mutex already with the exce

wifi: rtw88: Drop rf_lock

The rtwdev->rf_lock spinlock protects the rf register accesses in
rtw_read_rf() and rtw_write_rf(). Most callers of these functions hold
rtwdev->mutex already with the exception of the callsites in the debugfs
code. The debugfs code doesn't justify an extra lock, so acquire the mutex
there as well before calling rf register accessors and drop the now
unnecessary spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221202081224.2779981-4-s.hauer@pengutronix.de

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# 7b33ec8b 19-Mar-2021 Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>

rtw88: add flush hci support

Though mac queue flushing has been supported, sometimes data may be waiting
on interface from host to chip. If it occurs, there may still be data that
flows into mac jus

rtw88: add flush hci support

Though mac queue flushing has been supported, sometimes data may be waiting
on interface from host to chip. If it occurs, there may still be data that
flows into mac just after we do flush. To avoid that, we add the hci part
of flushing.

Signed-off-by: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210319054218.3319-2-pkshih@realtek.com

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# aaab5d0e 12-Mar-2020 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: kick off TX packets once for higher efficiency

Driver used to kick off every TX packets, that will waste some
time while we can do better to kick off the TX packets once after
they are all pr

rtw88: kick off TX packets once for higher efficiency

Driver used to kick off every TX packets, that will waste some
time while we can do better to kick off the TX packets once after
they are all prepared to be transmitted.

For PCI, it uses DMA engine to transfer the SKBs to the device,
and the transition of the state of the DMA engine could be a cost.
Driver can save some time to kick off multiple SKBs once so that
the DMA engine will have only one transition.

So, split rtw_hci_ops::tx() to rtw_hci_ops::tx_write() and
rtw_hci_ops::tx_kick_off() to explicitly kick the SKBs off after
they are written to the prepared buffer. For packets come from
ieee80211_ops::tx(), write one and then kick it off immediately.
For packets queued in TX queue, which come from
ieee80211_ops::wake_tx_queue(), we can dequeue them, write them
to the buffer, and then kick them off together.

Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200312080852.16684-6-yhchuang@realtek.com

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Revision tags: v5.4.24, v5.4.23, v5.4.22, v5.4.21, v5.4.20, v5.4.19, v5.4.18
# 9e01c070 05-Feb-2020 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: add rtw_read8_mask and rtw_read16_mask

Both are missing but could be used sometimes.

Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>


Revision tags: v5.4.17, v5.4.16, v5.5, v5.4.15, v5.4.14, v5.4.13, v5.4.12, v5.4.11, v5.4.10, v5.4.9, v5.4.8, v5.4.7, v5.4.6
# 78622104 19-Dec-2019 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: add interface config for 8822c

Some devices need to configure interface/HCI related reigsters
in power on flow. Add interface_cfg for HCI for the settings.

The driver only supports RTL8822BE

rtw88: add interface config for 8822c

Some devices need to configure interface/HCI related reigsters
in power on flow. Add interface_cfg for HCI for the settings.

The driver only supports RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE now, and since
RTL8822BE does not need to configure PCIE, the configuration
is only added for RTL8822CE. Without it, some of the RTL8822CE
device can crash and disconnected to host in suspend/wowlan mode.

Signed-off-by: Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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Revision tags: v5.4.5, v5.4.4, v5.4.3, v5.3.15, v5.4.2, v5.4.1, v5.3.14, v5.4, v5.3.13, v5.3.12
# 3dff7c6e 18-Nov-2019 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: allows to enable/disable HCI link PS mechanism

Different interfaces have its own link-related power save mechanism.
Such as PCI can enter L1 state based on the traffic on the link, and
someti

rtw88: allows to enable/disable HCI link PS mechanism

Different interfaces have its own link-related power save mechanism.
Such as PCI can enter L1 state based on the traffic on the link, and
sometimes driver needs to enable/disable it to avoid some issues, like
throughput degrade when PCI trying to enter L1 state even if driver is
having heavy traffic.

For now, rtw88 only supports PCIE chips, and they just need to disable
ASPM L1 when driver is not in power save mode, such as IPS and LPS.

Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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Revision tags: v5.3.11, v5.3.10, v5.3.9, v5.3.8, v5.3.7, v5.3.6, v5.3.5, v5.3.4, v5.3.3
# 27e117e4 01-Oct-2019 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: add deep power save support

Deep power save allows firmware/hardware to operate in a
lower power state. And the deep power save mode depends on
LPS mode. So, before entering deep PS, driver m

rtw88: add deep power save support

Deep power save allows firmware/hardware to operate in a
lower power state. And the deep power save mode depends on
LPS mode. So, before entering deep PS, driver must first
enter LPS mode.

Under Deep PS, most of hardware functions are shutdown,
driver will not be able to read/write registers and transfer
data to the device. Hence TX path must be protected by each
interface. Take PCI for example, DMA engine should be idle,
and no nore activities on the PCI bus.

If driver wants to operate on the device, such as register
read/write, it must first acquire the mutex lock and wake
up from Deep PS, otherwise the behavior is undefined.

Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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# 4a36de39 14-Jun-2019 Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: fix typo rtw_writ16_set

rtw_writ16_set should be rtw_write16_set

Signed-off-by: Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle

rtw88: fix typo rtw_writ16_set

rtw_writ16_set should be rtw_write16_set

Signed-off-by: Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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Revision tags: v5.1.9, v5.1.8, v5.1.7, v5.1.6, v5.1.5, v5.1.4, v5.1.3, v5.1.2, v5.1.1, v5.0.14, v5.1, v5.0.13, v5.0.12, v5.0.11, v5.0.10
# e3037485 26-Apr-2019 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: new Realtek 802.11ac driver

This is a new mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips.
rtw88 now supports RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE now, with basic station mode
functionalities. The

rtw88: new Realtek 802.11ac driver

This is a new mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips.
rtw88 now supports RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE now, with basic station mode
functionalities. The firmware for both can be found at linux-firmware.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
For RTL8822BE: rtw88/rtw8822b_fw.bin
For RTL8822CE: rtw88/rtw8822c_fw.bin

And for now, only PCI buses (RTL8xxxE) are supported. We will add support
for USB and SDIO in the future. The bus interface abstraction can be seen
in this driver such as hci.h. Most of the hardware setting are the same
except for some TRX path or probing setup should be separated.

Supported:

* Basic STA/AP/ADHOC mode, and TDLS (STA is well tested)

Missing feature:

* WOW/PNO
* USB & SDIO bus (such as RTL8xxxU/RTL8xxxS)
* BT coexistence (8822B/8822C are combo ICs)
* Multiple interfaces (for now single STA is better supported)
* Dynamic hardware calibrations (to improve/stabilize performance)

Potential problems:

* static calibration spends too much time, and it is painful for
driver to leave IDLE state. And slows down associate process.
But reload function are under development, will be added soon!
* TRX statictics misleading, as we are not reporting status correctly,
or say, not reporting for "every" packet.

The next patch set should have BT coexistence code since RTL8822B/C are
combo ICs, and the driver for BT can be found after Linux Kernel v4.20.
So it is better to add it first to make WiFi + BT work concurrently.

Although now rtw88 is simple but we are developing more features for it.
Even we want to add support for more chips such as RTL8821C/RTL8814B.

Finally, rtw88 has many authors, listed alphabetically:

Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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# aaab5d0e 12-Mar-2020 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: kick off TX packets once for higher efficiency

Driver used to kick off every TX packets, that will waste some
time while we can do better to kick off the TX packets once after

rtw88: kick off TX packets once for higher efficiency

Driver used to kick off every TX packets, that will waste some
time while we can do better to kick off the TX packets once after
they are all prepared to be transmitted.

For PCI, it uses DMA engine to transfer the SKBs to the device,
and the transition of the state of the DMA engine could be a cost.
Driver can save some time to kick off multiple SKBs once so that
the DMA engine will have only one transition.

So, split rtw_hci_ops::tx() to rtw_hci_ops::tx_write() and
rtw_hci_ops::tx_kick_off() to explicitly kick the SKBs off after
they are written to the prepared buffer. For packets come from
ieee80211_ops::tx(), write one and then kick it off immediately.
For packets queued in TX queue, which come from
ieee80211_ops::wake_tx_queue(), we can dequeue them, write them
to the buffer, and then kick them off together.

Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200312080852.16684-6-yhchuang@realtek.com

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Revision tags: v5.4.24, v5.4.23, v5.4.22, v5.4.21, v5.4.20, v5.4.19, v5.4.18
# 9e01c070 05-Feb-2020 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: add rtw_read8_mask and rtw_read16_mask

Both are missing but could be used sometimes.

Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kva

rtw88: add rtw_read8_mask and rtw_read16_mask

Both are missing but could be used sometimes.

Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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Revision tags: v5.4.17, v5.4.16, v5.5, v5.4.15, v5.4.14, v5.4.13, v5.4.12, v5.4.11, v5.4.10, v5.4.9, v5.4.8, v5.4.7, v5.4.6
# 78622104 19-Dec-2019 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: add interface config for 8822c

Some devices need to configure interface/HCI related reigsters
in power on flow. Add interface_cfg for HCI for the settings.

The driver onl

rtw88: add interface config for 8822c

Some devices need to configure interface/HCI related reigsters
in power on flow. Add interface_cfg for HCI for the settings.

The driver only supports RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE now, and since
RTL8822BE does not need to configure PCIE, the configuration
is only added for RTL8822CE. Without it, some of the RTL8822CE
device can crash and disconnected to host in suspend/wowlan mode.

Signed-off-by: Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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Revision tags: v5.4.5, v5.4.4, v5.4.3, v5.3.15, v5.4.2, v5.4.1, v5.3.14, v5.4, v5.3.13, v5.3.12
# 3dff7c6e 18-Nov-2019 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: allows to enable/disable HCI link PS mechanism

Different interfaces have its own link-related power save mechanism.
Such as PCI can enter L1 state based on the traffic on the link

rtw88: allows to enable/disable HCI link PS mechanism

Different interfaces have its own link-related power save mechanism.
Such as PCI can enter L1 state based on the traffic on the link, and
sometimes driver needs to enable/disable it to avoid some issues, like
throughput degrade when PCI trying to enter L1 state even if driver is
having heavy traffic.

For now, rtw88 only supports PCIE chips, and they just need to disable
ASPM L1 when driver is not in power save mode, such as IPS and LPS.

Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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Revision tags: v5.3.11, v5.3.10, v5.3.9, v5.3.8, v5.3.7, v5.3.6, v5.3.5, v5.3.4, v5.3.3
# 27e117e4 01-Oct-2019 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: add deep power save support

Deep power save allows firmware/hardware to operate in a
lower power state. And the deep power save mode depends on
LPS mode. So, before entering d

rtw88: add deep power save support

Deep power save allows firmware/hardware to operate in a
lower power state. And the deep power save mode depends on
LPS mode. So, before entering deep PS, driver must first
enter LPS mode.

Under Deep PS, most of hardware functions are shutdown,
driver will not be able to read/write registers and transfer
data to the device. Hence TX path must be protected by each
interface. Take PCI for example, DMA engine should be idle,
and no nore activities on the PCI bus.

If driver wants to operate on the device, such as register
read/write, it must first acquire the mutex lock and wake
up from Deep PS, otherwise the behavior is undefined.

Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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Revision tags: v5.3.2, v5.3.1, v5.3, v5.2.14, v5.3-rc8, v5.2.13, v5.2.12, v5.2.11, v5.2.10, v5.2.9, v5.2.8, v5.2.7, v5.2.6, v5.2.5, v5.2.4, v5.2.3, v5.2.2, v5.2.1, v5.2, v5.1.16, v5.1.15, v5.1.14, v5.1.13, v5.1.12, v5.1.11, v5.1.10
# 4a36de39 14-Jun-2019 Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: fix typo rtw_writ16_set

rtw_writ16_set should be rtw_write16_set

Signed-off-by: Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: fix typo rtw_writ16_set

rtw_writ16_set should be rtw_write16_set

Signed-off-by: Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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Revision tags: v5.1.9, v5.1.8, v5.1.7, v5.1.6, v5.1.5, v5.1.4, v5.1.3, v5.1.2, v5.1.1, v5.0.14, v5.1, v5.0.13, v5.0.12, v5.0.11, v5.0.10
# e3037485 26-Apr-2019 Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

rtw88: new Realtek 802.11ac driver

This is a new mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips.
rtw88 now supports RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE now, with basic station mode
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rtw88: new Realtek 802.11ac driver

This is a new mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips.
rtw88 now supports RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE now, with basic station mode
functionalities. The firmware for both can be found at linux-firmware.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
For RTL8822BE: rtw88/rtw8822b_fw.bin
For RTL8822CE: rtw88/rtw8822c_fw.bin

And for now, only PCI buses (RTL8xxxE) are supported. We will add support
for USB and SDIO in the future. The bus interface abstraction can be seen
in this driver such as hci.h. Most of the hardware setting are the same
except for some TRX path or probing setup should be separated.

Supported:

* Basic STA/AP/ADHOC mode, and TDLS (STA is well tested)

Missing feature:

* WOW/PNO
* USB & SDIO bus (such as RTL8xxxU/RTL8xxxS)
* BT coexistence (8822B/8822C are combo ICs)
* Multiple interfaces (for now single STA is better supported)
* Dynamic hardware calibrations (to improve/stabilize performance)

Potential problems:

* static calibration spends too much time, and it is painful for
driver to leave IDLE state. And slows down associate process.
But reload function are under development, will be added soon!
* TRX statictics misleading, as we are not reporting status correctly,
or say, not reporting for "every" packet.

The next patch set should have BT coexistence code since RTL8822B/C are
combo ICs, and the driver for BT can be found after Linux Kernel v4.20.
So it is better to add it first to make WiFi + BT work concurrently.

Although now rtw88 is simple but we are developing more features for it.
Even we want to add support for more chips such as RTL8821C/RTL8814B.

Finally, rtw88 has many authors, listed alphabetically:

Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>

Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

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