[PATCH v2] ath10k: enable firmware STA quick kickout

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Mon Jan 20 04:01:46 EST 2014


Firmware has a feature to track if the associated STA is not acking the frames.
When that happens, the firmware sends WMI_PEER_STA_KICKOUT_EVENTID event to the
host. Enable that to faster detect when a STA has left BSS without sending a
deauth frame.

Also set huge keepalive timeouts to avoid using the keepalive functionality in
the firmware.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h |   12 +++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c  |   58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c  |   22 ++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.h  |    4 ++
 4 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
index ade1781..e6308f4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h
@@ -46,6 +46,18 @@
 
 #define ATH10K_MAX_NUM_MGMT_PENDING 128
 
+/* number of failed packets */
+#define ATH10K_KICKOUT_THRESHOLD 50
+
+/*
+ * Use insanely high numbers to make sure that the firmware implementation
+ * won't start, we have the same functionality already in hostapd. Unit
+ * is seconds.
+ */
+#define ATH10K_KEEPALIVE_MIN_IDLE 3747
+#define ATH10K_KEEPALIVE_MAX_IDLE 3895
+#define ATH10K_KEEPALIVE_MAX_UNRESPONSIVE 3900
+
 struct ath10k;
 
 struct ath10k_skb_cb {
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
index 7aa6c4d..9f90816 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
@@ -339,6 +339,50 @@ static int ath10k_peer_create(struct ath10k *ar, u32 vdev_id, const u8 *addr)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int ath10k_mac_set_kickout(struct ath10k_vif *arvif)
+{
+	struct ath10k *ar = arvif->ar;
+	u32 param;
+	int ret;
+
+	param = ar->wmi.pdev_param->sta_kickout_th;
+	ret = ath10k_wmi_pdev_set_param(ar, param,
+					ATH10K_KICKOUT_THRESHOLD);
+	if (ret) {
+		ath10k_warn("Failed to set kickout threshold: %d\n", ret);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	param = ar->wmi.vdev_param->ap_keepalive_min_idle_inactive_time_secs;
+	ret = ath10k_wmi_vdev_set_param(ar, arvif->vdev_id, param,
+					ATH10K_KEEPALIVE_MIN_IDLE);
+	if (ret) {
+		ath10k_warn("Failed to set keepalive minimum idle time : %d\n",
+			    ret);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	param = ar->wmi.vdev_param->ap_keepalive_max_idle_inactive_time_secs;
+	ret = ath10k_wmi_vdev_set_param(ar, arvif->vdev_id, param,
+					ATH10K_KEEPALIVE_MAX_IDLE);
+	if (ret) {
+		ath10k_warn("Failed to set keepalive maximum idle time: %d\n",
+			    ret);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	param = ar->wmi.vdev_param->ap_keepalive_max_unresponsive_time_secs;
+	ret = ath10k_wmi_vdev_set_param(ar, arvif->vdev_id, param,
+					ATH10K_KEEPALIVE_MAX_UNRESPONSIVE);
+	if (ret) {
+		ath10k_warn("Failed to set keepalive maximum unresponsive time: %d\n",
+			    ret);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int  ath10k_mac_set_rts(struct ath10k_vif *arvif, u32 value)
 {
 	struct ath10k *ar = arvif->ar;
@@ -2214,7 +2258,7 @@ static int ath10k_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 	struct ath10k_vif *arvif = ath10k_vif_to_arvif(vif);
 	enum wmi_sta_powersave_param param;
 	int ret = 0;
-	u32 value, param_id;
+	u32 value;
 	int bit;
 	u32 vdev_param;
 
@@ -2307,12 +2351,12 @@ static int ath10k_add_interface(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 			goto err_vdev_delete;
 		}
 
-		param_id = ar->wmi.pdev_param->sta_kickout_th;
-
-		/* Disable STA KICKOUT functionality in FW */
-		ret = ath10k_wmi_pdev_set_param(ar, param_id, 0);
-		if (ret)
-			ath10k_warn("Failed to disable STA KICKOUT\n");
+		ret = ath10k_mac_set_kickout(arvif);
+		if (ret) {
+			ath10k_warn("Failed to set kickout parameters: %d\n",
+				    ret);
+			goto err_peer_delete;
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (arvif->vdev_type == WMI_VDEV_TYPE_STA) {
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
index 712a606..0bc8543 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
@@ -1116,7 +1116,27 @@ static void ath10k_wmi_event_vdev_stopped(struct ath10k *ar,
 static void ath10k_wmi_event_peer_sta_kickout(struct ath10k *ar,
 					      struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	ath10k_dbg(ATH10K_DBG_WMI, "WMI_PEER_STA_KICKOUT_EVENTID\n");
+	struct wmi_peer_sta_kickout_event *ev;
+	struct ieee80211_sta *sta;
+
+	ev = (struct wmi_peer_sta_kickout_event *)skb->data;
+
+	ath10k_dbg(ATH10K_DBG_WMI, "wmi event peer sta kickout %pM\n",
+		   ev->peer_macaddr.addr);
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+
+	sta = ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr(ar->hw, ev->peer_macaddr.addr, NULL);
+	if (!sta) {
+		ath10k_warn("Spurious quick kickout for STA %pM\n",
+			    ev->peer_macaddr.addr);
+		goto exit;
+	}
+
+	ieee80211_report_low_ack(sta, 10);
+
+exit:
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.h
index 4b5e7d3..9dc90c5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.h
@@ -4039,6 +4039,10 @@ struct wmi_chan_info_event {
 	__le32 cycle_count;
 } __packed;
 
+struct wmi_peer_sta_kickout_event {
+	struct wmi_mac_addr peer_macaddr;
+} __packed;
+
 #define WMI_CHAN_INFO_FLAG_COMPLETE BIT(0)
 
 /* FIXME: empirically extrapolated */




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