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b43: avoid packet losses in the dma worker code.
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Following Rafal request, we verified that on "modern" CPUs using one
or more workers is equivalent. Here is patch V3 that addresses the
packet loss bug in the dma engine using only one worker.

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This patch addresses a bug in the dma worker code that keeps draining
packets even when the hardware queues are full. In such cases packets
can not be passed down to the device and are erroneusly dropped by the
code.

This problem was already discussed here

http://www.mail-archive.com/b43-dev@lists.infradead.org/msg01413.html

and acknowledged by Michael.

Number of hardware queues is now defined in b43.h (B43_QOS_QUEUE_NUM).

Acknowledgements to Riccardo Paolillo <riccardo.paolillo@gmail.com> and
Michele Orru <michele.orru@hotmail.it>

Signed-off-by: Francesco Gringoli <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it authored and John W. Linville committed Dec 19, 2011
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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.h
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Expand Up @@ -667,6 +667,7 @@ struct b43_key {
};

/* SHM offsets to the QOS data structures for the 4 different queues. */
#define B43_QOS_QUEUE_NUM 4
#define B43_QOS_PARAMS(queue) (B43_SHM_SH_EDCFQ + \
(B43_NR_QOSPARAMS * sizeof(u16) * (queue)))
#define B43_QOS_BACKGROUND B43_QOS_PARAMS(0)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -904,7 +905,7 @@ struct b43_wl {
struct work_struct beacon_update_trigger;

/* The current QOS parameters for the 4 queues. */
struct b43_qos_params qos_params[4];
struct b43_qos_params qos_params[B43_QOS_QUEUE_NUM];

/* Work for adjustment of the transmission power.
* This is scheduled when we determine that the actual TX output
Expand All @@ -913,8 +914,12 @@ struct b43_wl {

/* Packet transmit work */
struct work_struct tx_work;

/* Queue of packets to be transmitted. */
struct sk_buff_head tx_queue;
struct sk_buff_head tx_queue[B43_QOS_QUEUE_NUM];

/* Flag that implement the queues stopping. */
bool tx_queue_stopped[B43_QOS_QUEUE_NUM];

/* The device LEDs. */
struct b43_leds leds;
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15 changes: 13 additions & 2 deletions drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c
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Expand Up @@ -1465,7 +1465,9 @@ int b43_dma_tx(struct b43_wldev *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
if ((free_slots(ring) < TX_SLOTS_PER_FRAME) ||
should_inject_overflow(ring)) {
/* This TX ring is full. */
ieee80211_stop_queue(dev->wl->hw, skb_get_queue_mapping(skb));
unsigned int skb_mapping = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);
ieee80211_stop_queue(dev->wl->hw, skb_mapping);
dev->wl->tx_queue_stopped[skb_mapping] = 1;
ring->stopped = 1;
if (b43_debug(dev, B43_DBG_DMAVERBOSE)) {
b43dbg(dev->wl, "Stopped TX ring %d\n", ring->index);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1584,12 +1586,21 @@ void b43_dma_handle_txstatus(struct b43_wldev *dev,
}
if (ring->stopped) {
B43_WARN_ON(free_slots(ring) < TX_SLOTS_PER_FRAME);
ieee80211_wake_queue(dev->wl->hw, ring->queue_prio);
ring->stopped = 0;
}

if (dev->wl->tx_queue_stopped[ring->queue_prio]) {
dev->wl->tx_queue_stopped[ring->queue_prio] = 0;
} else {
/* If the driver queue is running wake the corresponding
* mac80211 queue. */
ieee80211_wake_queue(dev->wl->hw, ring->queue_prio);
if (b43_debug(dev, B43_DBG_DMAVERBOSE)) {
b43dbg(dev->wl, "Woke up TX ring %d\n", ring->index);
}
}
/* Add work to the queue. */
ieee80211_queue_work(dev->wl->hw, &dev->wl->tx_work);
}

static void dma_rx(struct b43_dmaring *ring, int *slot)
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55 changes: 40 additions & 15 deletions drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
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Expand Up @@ -3378,6 +3378,7 @@ static void b43_tx_work(struct work_struct *work)
struct b43_wl *wl = container_of(work, struct b43_wl, tx_work);
struct b43_wldev *dev;
struct sk_buff *skb;
int queue_num;
int err = 0;

mutex_lock(&wl->mutex);
Expand All @@ -3387,15 +3388,26 @@ static void b43_tx_work(struct work_struct *work)
return;
}

while (skb_queue_len(&wl->tx_queue)) {
skb = skb_dequeue(&wl->tx_queue);
for (queue_num = 0; queue_num < B43_QOS_QUEUE_NUM; queue_num++) {
while (skb_queue_len(&wl->tx_queue[queue_num])) {
skb = skb_dequeue(&wl->tx_queue[queue_num]);
if (b43_using_pio_transfers(dev))
err = b43_pio_tx(dev, skb);
else
err = b43_dma_tx(dev, skb);
if (err == -ENOSPC) {
wl->tx_queue_stopped[queue_num] = 1;
ieee80211_stop_queue(wl->hw, queue_num);
skb_queue_head(&wl->tx_queue[queue_num], skb);
break;
}
if (unlikely(err))
dev_kfree_skb(skb); /* Drop it */
err = 0;
}

if (b43_using_pio_transfers(dev))
err = b43_pio_tx(dev, skb);
else
err = b43_dma_tx(dev, skb);
if (unlikely(err))
dev_kfree_skb(skb); /* Drop it */
if (!err)
wl->tx_queue_stopped[queue_num] = 0;
}

#if B43_DEBUG
Expand All @@ -3416,8 +3428,12 @@ static void b43_op_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
}
B43_WARN_ON(skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags);

skb_queue_tail(&wl->tx_queue, skb);
ieee80211_queue_work(wl->hw, &wl->tx_work);
skb_queue_tail(&wl->tx_queue[skb->queue_mapping], skb);
if (!wl->tx_queue_stopped[skb->queue_mapping]) {
ieee80211_queue_work(wl->hw, &wl->tx_work);
} else {
ieee80211_stop_queue(wl->hw, skb->queue_mapping);
}
}

static void b43_qos_params_upload(struct b43_wldev *dev,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4147,6 +4163,7 @@ static struct b43_wldev * b43_wireless_core_stop(struct b43_wldev *dev)
struct b43_wl *wl;
struct b43_wldev *orig_dev;
u32 mask;
int queue_num;

if (!dev)
return NULL;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4199,9 +4216,11 @@ static struct b43_wldev * b43_wireless_core_stop(struct b43_wldev *dev)
mask = b43_read32(dev, B43_MMIO_GEN_IRQ_MASK);
B43_WARN_ON(mask != 0xFFFFFFFF && mask);

/* Drain the TX queue */
while (skb_queue_len(&wl->tx_queue))
dev_kfree_skb(skb_dequeue(&wl->tx_queue));
/* Drain all TX queues. */
for (queue_num = 0; queue_num < B43_QOS_QUEUE_NUM; queue_num++) {
while (skb_queue_len(&wl->tx_queue[queue_num]))
dev_kfree_skb(skb_dequeue(&wl->tx_queue[queue_num]));
}

b43_mac_suspend(dev);
b43_leds_exit(dev);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -5245,6 +5264,7 @@ static struct b43_wl *b43_wireless_init(struct b43_bus_dev *dev)
struct ieee80211_hw *hw;
struct b43_wl *wl;
char chip_name[6];
int queue_num;

hw = ieee80211_alloc_hw(sizeof(*wl), &b43_hw_ops);
if (!hw) {
Expand All @@ -5264,7 +5284,7 @@ static struct b43_wl *b43_wireless_init(struct b43_bus_dev *dev)
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS) |
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC);

hw->queues = modparam_qos ? 4 : 1;
hw->queues = modparam_qos ? B43_QOS_QUEUE_NUM : 1;
wl->mac80211_initially_registered_queues = hw->queues;
hw->max_rates = 2;
SET_IEEE80211_DEV(hw, dev->dev);
Expand All @@ -5281,7 +5301,12 @@ static struct b43_wl *b43_wireless_init(struct b43_bus_dev *dev)
INIT_WORK(&wl->beacon_update_trigger, b43_beacon_update_trigger_work);
INIT_WORK(&wl->txpower_adjust_work, b43_phy_txpower_adjust_work);
INIT_WORK(&wl->tx_work, b43_tx_work);
skb_queue_head_init(&wl->tx_queue);

/* Initialize queues and flags. */
for (queue_num = 0; queue_num < B43_QOS_QUEUE_NUM; queue_num++) {
skb_queue_head_init(&wl->tx_queue[queue_num]);
wl->tx_queue_stopped[queue_num] = 0;
}

snprintf(chip_name, ARRAY_SIZE(chip_name),
(dev->chip_id > 0x9999) ? "%d" : "%04X", dev->chip_id);
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