ath10k: fix offchan reliability

New firmware revisions don't need peer creation
when doing offchannel tx. Earlier revisions would
queue and never release frames without a peer.

This prevent new firmware revisions from stopping
replenishing wmi-htc tx credits and improves
reliability of offchannel tx which would sometimes
silently fail.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
index 9ca22cb..c012c75 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
@@ -1997,6 +1997,18 @@ static void ath10k_tx_h_add_p2p_noa_ie(struct ath10k *ar,
 	}
 }
 
+static bool ath10k_mac_need_offchan_tx_work(struct ath10k *ar)
+{
+	/* FIXME: Not really sure since when the behaviour changed. At some
+	 * point new firmware stopped requiring creation of peer entries for
+	 * offchannel tx (and actually creating them causes issues with wmi-htc
+	 * tx credit replenishment and reliability). Assuming it's at least 3.4
+	 * because that's when the `freq` was introduced to TX_FRM HTT command.
+	 */
+	return !(ar->htt.target_version_major >= 3 &&
+		 ar->htt.target_version_minor >= 4);
+}
+
 static void ath10k_tx_htt(struct ath10k *ar, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr = (struct ieee80211_hdr *)skb->data;
@@ -2341,16 +2353,21 @@ static void ath10k_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 
 	if (info->flags & IEEE80211_TX_CTL_TX_OFFCHAN) {
 		spin_lock_bh(&ar->data_lock);
-		ATH10K_SKB_CB(skb)->htt.is_offchan = true;
+		ATH10K_SKB_CB(skb)->htt.freq = ar->scan.roc_freq;
 		ATH10K_SKB_CB(skb)->vdev_id = ar->scan.vdev_id;
 		spin_unlock_bh(&ar->data_lock);
 
-		ath10k_dbg(ar, ATH10K_DBG_MAC, "queued offchannel skb %p\n",
-			   skb);
+		if (ath10k_mac_need_offchan_tx_work(ar)) {
+			ATH10K_SKB_CB(skb)->htt.freq = 0;
+			ATH10K_SKB_CB(skb)->htt.is_offchan = true;
 
-		skb_queue_tail(&ar->offchan_tx_queue, skb);
-		ieee80211_queue_work(hw, &ar->offchan_tx_work);
-		return;
+			ath10k_dbg(ar, ATH10K_DBG_MAC, "queued offchannel skb %p\n",
+				   skb);
+
+			skb_queue_tail(&ar->offchan_tx_queue, skb);
+			ieee80211_queue_work(hw, &ar->offchan_tx_work);
+			return;
+		}
 	}
 
 	ath10k_tx_htt(ar, skb);