rpms/kernel/F-10 linux-2.6-rtl8187b-tx-status-feedback.patch, NONE, 1.1 kernel.spec, 1.1224, 1.1225

John W. Linville linville at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jan 20 17:36:30 UTC 2009


Author: linville

Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/kernel/F-10
In directory cvs1.fedora.phx.redhat.com:/tmp/cvs-serv29420

Modified Files:
	kernel.spec 
Added Files:
	linux-2.6-rtl8187b-tx-status-feedback.patch 
Log Message:
rtl8187: feedback transmitted packets using tx close descriptor for 8187B

linux-2.6-rtl8187b-tx-status-feedback.patch:

--- NEW FILE linux-2.6-rtl8187b-tx-status-feedback.patch ---
Back-ported from the following commit:

commit 3517afdefc3ad335b276eb5f8691841f48097abf
Author: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton at mandriva.com.br>
Date:   Thu Nov 13 10:39:16 2008 -0500

    rtl8187: feedback transmitted packets using tx close descriptor for 8187B
    
    Realtek 8187B has a receive command queue to feedback beacon interrupt
    and transmitted packet status. Use it to feedback mac80211 about status
    of transmitted packets. Unfortunately in the course of testing I found
    that the sequence number reported by hardware includes entire sequence
    control in a 12 bit only field, so a workaround is done to check only
    lowest bits.
    
    Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
    Tested-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10 at users.sourceforge.net>
    Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton at mandriva.com.br>
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>

diff -up linux-2.6.28.noarch/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187.h.orig linux-2.6.28.noarch/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187.h
--- linux-2.6.28.noarch/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187.h.orig	2008-12-24 18:26:37.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.28.noarch/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187.h	2009-01-20 11:46:40.000000000 -0500
@@ -112,6 +112,11 @@ struct rtl8187_priv {
 	u8 signal;
 	u8 quality;
 	u8 noise;
+	struct {
+		__le64 buf;
+		struct urb *urb;
+		struct sk_buff_head queue;
+	} b_tx_status;
 };
 
 void rtl8187_write_phy(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, u8 addr, u32 data);
diff -up linux-2.6.28.noarch/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c.orig linux-2.6.28.noarch/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c
--- linux-2.6.28.noarch/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c.orig	2008-12-24 18:26:37.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.28.noarch/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c	2009-01-20 11:51:33.000000000 -0500
@@ -170,8 +170,27 @@ static void rtl8187_tx_cb(struct urb *ur
 	skb_pull(skb, priv->is_rtl8187b ? sizeof(struct rtl8187b_tx_hdr) :
 					  sizeof(struct rtl8187_tx_hdr));
 	memset(&info->status, 0, sizeof(info->status));
-	info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK;
-	ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(hw, skb);
+
+	if (!urb->status &&
+	    !(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK) &&
+	    priv->is_rtl8187b) {
+		skb_queue_tail(&priv->b_tx_status.queue, skb);
+
+		/* queue is "full", discard last items */
+		while (skb_queue_len(&priv->b_tx_status.queue) > 5) {
+			struct sk_buff *old_skb;
+
+			dev_dbg(&priv->udev->dev,
+				"transmit status queue full\n");
+
+			old_skb = skb_dequeue(&priv->b_tx_status.queue);
+			ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(hw, old_skb);
+		}
+	} else {
+		if (!(info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_ACK) && !urb->status)
+			info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK;
+		ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(hw, skb);
+	}
 }
 
 static int rtl8187_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
@@ -412,6 +431,111 @@ static int rtl8187_init_urbs(struct ieee
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void rtl8187b_status_cb(struct urb *urb)
+{
+	struct ieee80211_hw *hw = (struct ieee80211_hw *)urb->context;
+	struct rtl8187_priv *priv = hw->priv;
+	u64 val;
+	unsigned int cmd_type;
+
+	if (unlikely(urb->status)) {
+		usb_free_urb(urb);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Read from status buffer:
+	 *
+	 * bits [30:31] = cmd type:
+	 * - 0 indicates tx beacon interrupt
+	 * - 1 indicates tx close descriptor
+	 *
+	 * In the case of tx beacon interrupt:
+	 * [0:9] = Last Beacon CW
+	 * [10:29] = reserved
+	 * [30:31] = 00b
+	 * [32:63] = Last Beacon TSF
+	 *
+	 * If it's tx close descriptor:
+	 * [0:7] = Packet Retry Count
+	 * [8:14] = RTS Retry Count
+	 * [15] = TOK
+	 * [16:27] = Sequence No
+	 * [28] = LS
+	 * [29] = FS
+	 * [30:31] = 01b
+	 * [32:47] = unused (reserved?)
+	 * [48:63] = MAC Used Time
+	 */
+	val = le64_to_cpu(priv->b_tx_status.buf);
+
+	cmd_type = (val >> 30) & 0x3;
+	if (cmd_type == 1) {
+		unsigned int pkt_rc, seq_no;
+		bool tok;
+		struct sk_buff *skb;
+		struct ieee80211_hdr *ieee80211hdr;
+		unsigned long flags;
+
+		pkt_rc = val & 0xFF;
+		tok = val & (1 << 15);
+		seq_no = (val >> 16) & 0xFFF;
+
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->b_tx_status.queue.lock, flags);
+		skb_queue_reverse_walk(&priv->b_tx_status.queue, skb) {
+			ieee80211hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data;
+
+			/*
+			 * While testing, it was discovered that the seq_no
+			 * doesn't actually contains the sequence number.
+			 * Instead of returning just the 12 bits of sequence
+			 * number, hardware is returning entire sequence control
+			 * (fragment number plus sequence number) in a 12 bit
+			 * only field overflowing after some time. As a
+			 * workaround, just consider the lower bits, and expect
+			 * it's unlikely we wrongly ack some sent data
+			 */
+			if ((le16_to_cpu(ieee80211hdr->seq_ctrl)
+			    & 0xFFF) == seq_no)
+				break;
+		}
+		if (skb != (struct sk_buff *) &priv->b_tx_status.queue) {
+			struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
+
+			__skb_unlink(skb, &priv->b_tx_status.queue);
+			if (tok)
+				info->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_STAT_ACK;
+                       else
+                               info->status.excessive_retries = 1;
+                       info->status.retry_count = pkt_rc;
+
+			ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(hw, skb);
+		}
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->b_tx_status.queue.lock, flags);
+	}
+
+	usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+}
+
+static int rtl8187b_init_status_urb(struct ieee80211_hw *dev)
+{
+	struct rtl8187_priv *priv = dev->priv;
+	struct urb *entry;
+
+	entry = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!entry)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	priv->b_tx_status.urb = entry;
+
+	usb_fill_bulk_urb(entry, priv->udev, usb_rcvbulkpipe(priv->udev, 9),
+			  &priv->b_tx_status.buf, sizeof(priv->b_tx_status.buf),
+			  rtl8187b_status_cb, dev);
+
+	usb_submit_urb(entry, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int rtl8187_cmd_reset(struct ieee80211_hw *dev)
 {
 	struct rtl8187_priv *priv = dev->priv;
@@ -757,6 +879,7 @@ static int rtl8187_start(struct ieee8021
 				  (7 << 0  /* long retry limit */) |
 				  (7 << 21 /* MAX TX DMA */));
 		rtl8187_init_urbs(dev);
+		rtl8187b_init_status_urb(dev);
 		mutex_unlock(&priv->conf_mutex);
 		return 0;
 	}
@@ -833,6 +956,9 @@ static void rtl8187_stop(struct ieee8021
 		usb_kill_urb(info->urb);
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 	}
+	while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&priv->b_tx_status.queue)))
+		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+	usb_kill_urb(priv->b_tx_status.urb);
 	mutex_unlock(&priv->conf_mutex);
 }
 
@@ -1211,6 +1337,7 @@ static int __devinit rtl8187_probe(struc
 		goto err_free_dev;
 	}
 	mutex_init(&priv->conf_mutex);
+	skb_queue_head_init(&priv->b_tx_status.queue);
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "%s: hwaddr %s, %s V%d + %s\n",
 	       wiphy_name(dev->wiphy), print_mac(mac, dev->wiphy->perm_addr),


Index: kernel.spec
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/pkgs/rpms/kernel/F-10/kernel.spec,v
retrieving revision 1.1224
retrieving revision 1.1225
diff -u -r1.1224 -r1.1225
--- kernel.spec	20 Jan 2009 16:34:06 -0000	1.1224
+++ kernel.spec	20 Jan 2009 17:35:59 -0000	1.1225
@@ -628,7 +628,8 @@
 
 Patch670: linux-2.6-ata-quirk.patch
 
-Patch682: iwlwifi-intel-bug-1822.patch
+Patch680: iwlwifi-intel-bug-1822.patch
+Patch681: linux-2.6-rtl8187b-tx-status-feedback.patch
 
 Patch690: linux-2.6-at76.patch
 
@@ -1154,6 +1155,9 @@
 # iwlwifi: avoid rs_get_rate warnings
 ApplyPatch iwlwifi-intel-bug-1822.patch
 
+# rtl8187: feedback transmitted packets using tx close descriptor for 8187B
+ApplyPatch linux-2.6-rtl8187b-tx-status-feedback.patch
+
 # Add misc wireless bits from upstream wireless tree
 ApplyPatch linux-2.6-at76.patch
 
@@ -1779,6 +1783,9 @@
 %kernel_variant_files -k vmlinux %{with_kdump} kdump
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jan 20 2009 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> 2.6.28.1-18
+- rtl8187: feedback transmitted packets using tx close descriptor for 8187B
+
 * Tue Jan 20 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> 2.6.28.1-17
 - Set CONFIG_CAPI_EICON on x86_64, re-enable Radeon kernel modesetting.
 - Change remaining config options from '=n' to 'is not set'.




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