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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 2015 23:12:49 +0800
From:      Kevin Lo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@shrew.net>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: urtwn and hostap
Message-ID:  <20150917151249.GA68201@ns.kevlo.org>
In-Reply-To: <55FA6022.8090609@shrew.net>
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 01:39:30AM -0500, Matthew Grooms wrote:
> Seems to behave better now and hostap appears to be working ...
> 
> #ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev urtwn0 wlanmode hostap
> #ifconfig wlan0 list caps
> drivercaps=2181c401<STA,HOSTAP,SHSLOT,SHPREAMBLE,MONITOR,WPA1,WPA2,BGSCAN>
> 
> #ifconfig wlan0 up ssid freebsdap mode 11g channel 1
> #ifconfig bridge0 create up addm em0 addm wlan0
> 
> #ifconfig wlan0
> wlan0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 
> 0 mtu 1500
>          ether 00:c3:e1:16:11:32
>          nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>          media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
>          status: running
>          ssid freebsdap channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g) bssid 00:c3:e1:16:11:32
>          country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 scanvalid 60
>          protmode CTS dtimperiod 1 -dfs
>          groups: wlan
> 
> #ifconfig bridge0
> bridge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 
> 1500
>          ether 02:df:20:d2:42:00
>          nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
>          groups: bridge
>          id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
>          maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
>          root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
>          member: wlan0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
>                  ifmaxaddr 0 port 3 priority 128 path cost 370370
>          member: em0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
>                  ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 20000
> 
> The speed leaves a lot to be desired. Throughput for the associated host 
> is typically about 2Mbit down and 6Mbit up. I'm assume that's indicative 
> of a problem. Occasionally I also see the this message on the console 
> when I'm bringing the adapter up ...
> 
> wlan0: ieee80211_new_state_locked: pending INIT -> SCAN transition lost
> 
> If I down and up the adapter again, it seems to correct itself. Not sure 
> what that's all about. I am passing the USB adapter through to a VM 
> inside of ESXi to test the patch, so maybe that has something to do with 
> these quirks. I'll try to run some tests with the adapter associated to 
> a physical AP tomorrow to get a baseline.

I knew OpenBSD had patches about hostap support for urtwn(4), but those
don't look quite right.  I think that's why OpenBSD developers didn't 
commit them.  BTW, NetBSD adopted OpenBSD's patches, I tested it on NetBSD
about four months ago, the connection was not stable...

> Thanks,
> 
> -Matthew

	Kevin

> On 9/16/2015 11:24 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > The only one to look at is ath(4). I've not fixed/hacked on any other
> > hostap chips. :)
> >
> > if_ath_beacon.c has the logic - it gets a reference when creating a
> > beacon frame.
> >
> >
> >
> > -adrian
> >
> >
> > On 16 September 2015 at 09:21, Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@shrew.net> wrote:
> >> On 9/16/2015 10:58 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >>> I think the net80211 beacon create routine doesn't allocate a node
> >>> ref. Yeah, it doesn't. You have to do ieee80211_ref_node() after
> >>> calling becaon_create(), and deref it if the tx fails. The TX success
> >>> will free the node ref for you.
> >>>
> >> Got it. I'll take another look at one of the drivers that support hostap to
> >> make sure I'm following the same pattern. Thanks again for the feedback!
> >>
> >> -Matthew
> >>
> >>
> >>> -adrian
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 16 September 2015 at 04:27, Idwer Vollering <vidwer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> 2015-09-16 8:06 GMT+02:00 Matthew Grooms <mgrooms@shrew.net>:
> >>>>
> >>>>> It looks like my screenshot got scrubbed. Here is my hopefully faithful
> >>>>> transcription ...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
> >>>>> cpuid = 3; apic id = 03
> >>>>> instruction pointer = 0x20:0xffffffff80a01105
> >>>>> stack pointer           = 0x28:0xfffffe0092fe86f0
> >>>>> frame pointer         = 0x28:0xfffffe0092fe8740
> >>>>> code segment         = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
> >>>>>                                    = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran
> >>>>> 1
> >>>>> processor eflags     = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> >>>>> current process      = 716 (ifconfig)
> >>>>> [thread pid 716 tid 100082 ]
> >>>>> Stopped at      __mtx_lock_flags+0x55:  movq    (%r13),%rax
> >>>>> db> bt
> >>>>> Tracing pid 716 tid 100082 td 0xffffff800512814d0
> >>>>> __mtx_lock_flags() at __mtx_lock_flags+0x55/frame 0xfffffe0092fe8740
> >>>>> ieee80211_free_node() at ieee80211_free_node()_0x38/frame
> >>>>> 0xfffffe0092fe8780
> >>>>> ieee80211_node_vdetach() at ieee80211_node_vdetach()+0x2d/frame
> >>>>> 0xfffffe0092fe87a0
> >>>>> ieee80211_vap_detach() at ieee80211_vap_detach()+0x35e/frame
> >>>>> 0xfffffe0092fe87d0
> >>>>> urtwn_vap_delete() at urtwn_vap_delete()+0xe/frame 0xfffffe0092fe87f0
> >>>>> if_clone_destroyif() at if_clone_destroyif()+0x1aa/frame
> >>>>> 0xfffffe0092fe8840
> >>>>> if_clone_destroy() at if_clone_destroy()0x8e/frame 0xfffffe0092fe8860
> >>>>> kern_ioctl() at kern_ioctl()+0x230/frame 0xfffffe0092fe88c0
> >>>>> sys_ioctl() at sys_ioctl()+0x153/frame 0xfffffe0092fe89a0
> >>>>> amd64_syscall() at amd64_syscall()+0x282/frame 0xfffffe0092fe8ab0
> >>>>> Xfast_syscall() at Xfast_syscall()+0xfb/frame 0xfffffe0092fe8ab0
> >>>>> -- syscall (54, FreeBSD ELF64, sys_ioctl), rip = 0x8011e8c8a, rsp =
> >>>>> 0x7fffffffe2f8, rbp = 0x7fffffffe310 --
> >>>>> db>
> >>>> Assuming dumpdev="AUTO" is set in /etc/rc.conf, you should have
> >>>> entered 'dump' at the db> blinker :)
> >>>>
> >>>> The trap details are found in /var/crash/, run kgdb: "kgdb
> >>>> /boot/kernel/kernel /var/crash/vmcore.last", then run 'bt' and 'up' at
> >>>> its prompt.
> >>>>
> >>>>> -Matthew
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
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> 

> Index: sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwn.c
> ===================================================================
> --- sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwn.c	(revision 287342)
> +++ sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwn.c	(working copy)
> @@ -181,6 +181,8 @@
>  static struct mbuf *	urtwn_rxeof(struct usb_xfer *, struct urtwn_data *,
>  			    int *, int8_t *);
>  static void		urtwn_txeof(struct usb_xfer *, struct urtwn_data *);
> +int			urtwn_txbcn(struct ieee80211vap *vap,
> +			    struct ieee80211_node *);
>  static int		urtwn_alloc_list(struct urtwn_softc *,
>  			    struct urtwn_data[], int, int);
>  static int		urtwn_alloc_rx_list(struct urtwn_softc *);
> @@ -436,6 +438,10 @@
>  		| IEEE80211_C_WPA		/* 802.11i */
>  		;
>  
> +	if (sc->chip & URTWN_CHIP_88E)
> +		ic->ic_caps |=
> +		    IEEE80211_C_HOSTAP;		/* HostAp mode supported */
> +
>  	bands = 0;
>  	setbit(&bands, IEEE80211_MODE_11B);
>  	setbit(&bands, IEEE80211_MODE_11G);
> @@ -857,6 +863,39 @@
>  	sc->sc_txtimer = 0;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Push a beacon frame into the chip and check if it was accepted.  Beacon will
> + * be repeated by the chip every R92C_BCN_INTERVAL.
> + */
> +int
> +urtwn_txbcn(struct ieee80211vap *vap, struct ieee80211_node *ni)
> +{
> +	struct ieee80211com *ic = ni->ni_ic;
> +	struct urtwn_softc *sc = ic->ic_softc;
> +	struct urtwn_data *bf;
> +	struct mbuf *m;
> +
> +	ieee80211_ref_node(ni);
> +	m = ieee80211_beacon_alloc(ni, &URTWN_VAP(vap)->bo);
> +
> +	bf = urtwn_getbuf(sc);
> +	if (bf == NULL) {
> +		ieee80211_free_node(ni);
> +		m_freem(m);
> +		return (ENOBUFS);
> +	}
> +
> +	if (urtwn_tx_start(sc, ni, m, bf) != 0) {
> +		ieee80211_free_node(ni);
> +		STAILQ_INSERT_HEAD(&sc->sc_tx_inactive, bf, next);
> +		return (EIO);
> +	}
> +
> +	sc->sc_txtimer = 5;
> +
> +	return (0);
> +}
> +
>  static void
>  urtwn_bulk_tx_callback(struct usb_xfer *xfer, usb_error_t error)
>  {
> @@ -1466,6 +1505,7 @@
>  	struct ieee80211_node *ni;
>  	enum ieee80211_state ostate;
>  	uint32_t reg;
> +	int error;
>  
>  	ostate = vap->iv_state;
>  	DPRINTF("%s -> %s\n", ieee80211_state_name[ostate],
> @@ -1553,23 +1593,68 @@
>  		}
>  
>  		ni = ieee80211_ref_node(vap->iv_bss);
> -		/* Set media status to 'Associated'. */
> -		reg = urtwn_read_4(sc, R92C_CR);
> -		reg = RW(reg, R92C_CR_NETTYPE, R92C_CR_NETTYPE_INFRA);
> -		urtwn_write_4(sc, R92C_CR, reg);
>  
> -		/* Set BSSID. */
> -		urtwn_write_4(sc, R92C_BSSID + 0, LE_READ_4(&ni->ni_bssid[0]));
> -		urtwn_write_4(sc, R92C_BSSID + 4, LE_READ_2(&ni->ni_bssid[4]));
> +		if (ic->ic_opmode == IEEE80211_M_STA) {
> +			/* Set BSSID. */
> +			urtwn_write_4(sc, R92C_BSSID + 0,
> +				LE_READ_4(&ni->ni_bssid[0]));
> +			urtwn_write_4(sc, R92C_BSSID + 4,
> +				LE_READ_2(&ni->ni_bssid[4]));
>  
> -		if (ic->ic_curmode == IEEE80211_MODE_11B)
> -			urtwn_write_1(sc, R92C_INIRTS_RATE_SEL, 0);
> -		else	/* 802.11b/g */
> -			urtwn_write_1(sc, R92C_INIRTS_RATE_SEL, 3);
> +			if (ic->ic_curmode == IEEE80211_MODE_11B)
> +				urtwn_write_1(sc, R92C_INIRTS_RATE_SEL, 0);
> +			else	/* 802.11b/g */
> +				urtwn_write_1(sc, R92C_INIRTS_RATE_SEL, 3);
>  
> -		/* Enable Rx of data frames. */
> -		urtwn_write_2(sc, R92C_RXFLTMAP2, 0xffff);
> +			/* Enable Rx of data frames. */
> +			urtwn_write_2(sc, R92C_RXFLTMAP2, 0xffff);
>  
> +			/* Allow Rx from our BSSID only. */
> +			urtwn_write_4(sc, R92C_RCR, urtwn_read_4(sc, R92C_RCR) |
> +			    R92C_RCR_CBSSID_DATA | R92C_RCR_CBSSID_BCN);
> +
> +			/* Set media status to 'Associated'. */
> +			reg = urtwn_read_4(sc, R92C_CR);
> +			reg = RW(reg, R92C_CR_NETTYPE, R92C_CR_NETTYPE_INFRA);
> +			urtwn_write_4(sc, R92C_CR, reg);
> +		}
> +
> +		if (ic->ic_opmode == IEEE80211_M_HOSTAP) {
> +			/* Set media status to 'AP'. */
> +			reg = urtwn_read_4(sc, R92C_CR);
> +			reg = RW(reg, R92C_CR_NETTYPE, R92C_CR_NETTYPE_AP);
> +			urtwn_write_4(sc, R92C_CR, reg);
> +
> +			/* Set BSSID. */
> +			urtwn_write_4(sc, R92C_BSSID + 0,
> +			    LE_READ_4(&ni->ni_bssid[0]));
> +			urtwn_write_4(sc, R92C_BSSID + 4,
> +			    LE_READ_2(&ni->ni_bssid[4]));
> +
> +			/*
> +			 * If 3rd or 4th bits are set to zero chip will stop
> +			 * repeating beacon after first transmission for port0
> +			 * and port1 respectively. This will cause STAs to
> +			 * disconnect after short period of time.
> +			 */
> +			reg = urtwn_read_1(sc, R92C_MBID_NUM);
> +			reg |= 0x8;
> +			reg |= 0x10;
> +			urtwn_write_1(sc, R92C_MBID_NUM, reg);
> +
> +			/* Invalidate cam entries */
> +			urtwn_cam_init(sc);
> +
> +			/* Set chan/bw */
> +			urtwn_set_chan(sc, ic->ic_curchan, NULL);
> +
> +			/* Push beacon frame into the chip */
> +			error = urtwn_txbcn(vap, ni);
> +			if (error != 0)
> +				printf("%s: unable to push beacon into the"
> +				    " chip\n", device_get_nameunit(sc->sc_dev));
> +		}
> +
>  		/* Flush all AC queues. */
>  		urtwn_write_1(sc, R92C_TXPAUSE, 0);
>  
> @@ -1576,11 +1661,6 @@
>  		/* Set beacon interval. */
>  		urtwn_write_2(sc, R92C_BCN_INTERVAL, ni->ni_intval);
>  
> -		/* Allow Rx from our BSSID only. */
> -		urtwn_write_4(sc, R92C_RCR,
> -		    urtwn_read_4(sc, R92C_RCR) |
> -		    R92C_RCR_CBSSID_DATA | R92C_RCR_CBSSID_BCN);
> -
>  		/* Enable TSF synchronization. */
>  		urtwn_tsf_sync_enable(sc);
>  
> @@ -1754,7 +1834,7 @@
>  	struct ieee80211vap *vap = ni->ni_vap;
>  	struct usb_xfer *xfer;
>  	struct r92c_tx_desc *txd;
> -	uint8_t raid, type;
> +	uint8_t raid, type, subtype;
>  	uint16_t sum;
>  	int i, hasqos, xferlen;
>  	struct usb_xfer *urtwn_pipes[4] = {
> @@ -1771,6 +1851,7 @@
>  	 */
>  	wh = mtod(m0, struct ieee80211_frame *);
>  	type = wh->i_fc[0] & IEEE80211_FC0_TYPE_MASK;
> +	subtype = wh->i_fc[0] & IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_MASK;
>  
>  	if (wh->i_fc[1] & IEEE80211_FC1_PROTECTED) {
>  		k = ieee80211_crypto_encap(ni, m0);
> @@ -1819,7 +1900,7 @@
>  		if (sc->chip & URTWN_CHIP_88E) {
>  			txd->txdw1 |= htole32(
>  			    SM(R88E_TXDW1_MACID, URTWN_MACID_BSS) |
> -			    SM(R92C_TXDW1_QSEL, R92C_TXDW1_QSEL_BE) |
> +			    SM(R92C_TXDW1_QSEL, R88E_TXDW1_QSEL_BE) |
>  			    SM(R92C_TXDW1_RAID, raid));
>  			txd->txdw2 |= htole32(R88E_TXDW2_AGGBK);
>  		} else {
> @@ -1843,9 +1924,20 @@
>  		/* Send data at OFDM54. */
>  		txd->txdw5 |= htole32(SM(R92C_TXDW5_DATARATE, 11));
>  	} else {
> +		/*
> +		 * If beacon frame is pushed into wrong queue, the chip won't
> +		 * start repeating it.
> +		 */
> +		if (subtype == IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_BEACON &&
> +		    sc->chip & URTWN_CHIP_88E)
> +			txd->txdw1 |= htole32(SM(R92C_TXDW1_QSEL,
> +			    R88E_TXDW1_QSEL_MGNT));
> +		else
> +			txd->txdw1 |= htole32(SM(R92C_TXDW1_QSEL,
> +			    R92C_TXDW1_QSEL_MGNT));
> +
>  		txd->txdw1 |= htole32(
>  		    SM(R92C_TXDW1_MACID, 0) |
> -		    SM(R92C_TXDW1_QSEL, R92C_TXDW1_QSEL_MGNT) |
>  		    SM(R92C_TXDW1_RAID, R92C_RAID_11B));
>  
>  		/* Force CCK1. */
> Index: sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwnreg.h
> ===================================================================
> --- sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwnreg.h	(revision 287342)
> +++ sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwnreg.h	(working copy)
> @@ -1019,7 +1019,9 @@
>  #define R92C_TXDW1_QSEL_M	0x00001f00
>  #define R92C_TXDW1_QSEL_S	8
>  #define R92C_TXDW1_QSEL_BE	0x00
> +#define R88E_TXDW1_QSEL_BE	0x03
>  #define R92C_TXDW1_QSEL_MGNT	0x12
> +#define R88E_TXDW1_QSEL_MGNT	0x10
>  #define R92C_TXDW1_RAID_M	0x000f0000
>  #define R92C_TXDW1_RAID_S	16
>  #define R92C_TXDW1_CIPHER_M	0x00c00000

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