ath: Revert "Use NET_TASK_INIT() and NET_GROUPTASK_INIT() for drivers that process"

This reverts commit 6c3e93cb5a4aa4b8a2d8d4d326f2a7c34d3a4458 for
sys/dev/ath/if_ath.c only.

Sponsored by: The Fre

ath: Revert "Use NET_TASK_INIT() and NET_GROUPTASK_INIT() for drivers that process"

This reverts commit 6c3e93cb5a4aa4b8a2d8d4d326f2a7c34d3a4458 for
sys/dev/ath/if_ath.c only.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days

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Revert "[ath] Attempt to fix epoch handling."

This reverts commit af2441fbc7fa9e522e7f8697e5a181bdd4ff9e00.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line .c pattern

Remove /^[\s*]*__FBSDID\("\$FreeBSD\$"\);?\s*\n/

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix

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ath: bump the default node queue size to 128 frames, not 64

It turns out that, silly adrian, setting it to 64 means only two
AMPDU frames of 32 subframes each. Thus, whilst those are in-flight,
any

ath: bump the default node queue size to 128 frames, not 64

It turns out that, silly adrian, setting it to 64 means only two
AMPDU frames of 32 subframes each. Thus, whilst those are in-flight,
any subsequent queues frames to that node get dropped.

This ends up being pretty no bueno for performance if any receive
is also going on at that point.

Instead, set it to 128 for the time being to ensure that SOME
frames get queued in the meantime. This results in some frames
being immediately available in the software queue for transmit
when the two existing A-MPDU frames have been completely sent,
rather than the queue remaining empty until at least one is sent.

It's not the best solution - I still think I'm scheduling receive
far more often than giving time to schedule transmit work -
but at least now I'm not starving the transmit side.

Before this, a bidirectional iperf would show receive at ~ 150mbit/sec.
but the transmit side at like 10kbit/sec. With it set to 128 it's
now 150mbit/sec receive, and ~ 10mbit receive. It's better than 10kbit/sec,
but still not as far as I'd like it to be.

Tested:

* AR9380/QCA934x (TL-WDR4300 AP), Macbook pro test STA + AR9380 test STA

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[ath] Handle STA + AP beacon programming without stomping over HW AP beacon programming

I've been using STA+AP modes at home for a couple years now
and I've been finding and fixing a lot of weird co

[ath] Handle STA + AP beacon programming without stomping over HW AP beacon programming

I've been using STA+AP modes at home for a couple years now
and I've been finding and fixing a lot of weird corner cases.
This is the eventual patchset I've landed on.

* Don't force beacon resync in STA mode if we're using sw beacon tracking.
This stops a variety of stomping issues when the STA VAP is reconfigured;
the AP hardware beacons were being stomped on!

* Use the first AP VAP to configure beacons on, rather than the first VAP.
This prevents weird behaviour in ath_beacon_config() when the hardware
is being reconfigured and the STA VAP was the first one created.
* Ensure the beacon interval / timing programming is within the AR9300
HAL bounds by masking off any flags that may have been there before
shifting the value up to 1/8 TUs rather than the 1 TU resolution the
previous chips used.

Now I don't get weird beacon reprogramming during startup, STA state
changes and hardware recovery which showed up as HI-LARIOUS beacon
configurations and STAs that would just disconnect from the AP very
frequently.

Tested:

* AR9344/AR9380, STA and AP and STA+AP modes

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[ath] do a cold reset if TSFOOR triggers

TSFOOR happens if a beacon with a given TSF isn't received within the
programmed/expected TSF value, plus/minus a fudge range. (OOR == out of range.)

If thi

[ath] do a cold reset if TSFOOR triggers

TSFOOR happens if a beacon with a given TSF isn't received within the
programmed/expected TSF value, plus/minus a fudge range. (OOR == out of range.)

If this happens then it could be because the baseband/mac is stuck, or
the baseband is deaf. So, do a cold reset and resync the beacon to
try and unstick the hardware.

It also happens when a bad AP decides to err, slew its TSF because they
themselves are resetting and they don't preserve the TSF "well."

This has fixed a bunch of weird corner cases on my 2GHz AP radio upstairs
here where it occasionally goes deaf due to how much 2GHz noise is up
here (and ANI gets a little sideways) and this unsticks the station
VAP.

For AP modes a hung baseband/mac usually ends up as a stuck beacon
and those have been addressed for a long time by just resetting the
hardware. But similar hangs in station mode didn't have a similar
recovery mechanism.

Tested:

* AR9380, STA mode, 2GHz/5GHz
* AR9580, STA mode, 5GHz
* QCA9344 SoC w/ on-board wifi (TL-WDR4300/3600 devices); 2GHz
STA mode

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[ath] validate ts_antenna before updating tx statistics

Right now ts_antenna is either 0 or 1 in each supported HAL so
this is purely a sanity check.

Later on if I ever get magical free time I may

[ath] validate ts_antenna before updating tx statistics

Right now ts_antenna is either 0 or 1 in each supported HAL so
this is purely a sanity check.

Later on if I ever get magical free time I may add some extensions
for the NICs that can have slightly more complicated antenna switches
for transmit and I'd like this to not bust memory.

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WiFi: fix ieee80211_media_change() callers

In r178354 with the introduction of multi-bss ("vap") support factoring
out started and with r193340 ieee80211_media_change() no longer returned
ENETRESET

WiFi: fix ieee80211_media_change() callers

In r178354 with the introduction of multi-bss ("vap") support factoring
out started and with r193340 ieee80211_media_change() no longer returned
ENETRESET but only 0 or error.
As ieee80211(9) tells the ieee80211_media_change() function should not
be called directly but is registered with ieee80211_vap_attach() instead.

Some drivers have not been fully converted. After fixing the return
checking some of these functions were simply wrappers between
ieee80211_vap_attach() and ieee80211_media_change(), so remove the extra
function, where possible as well.

PR: 248955
Submitted by: Tong Zhang (ztong0001 gmail.com) (original)
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

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ath: clean up empty lines in .c and .h files

[ath] [ath_hal] Propagate the HAL_RESET_TYPE through to the chip reset; set it during ath_reset()

Although I added the reset type field to ath_hal_reset() years ago,
I never finished adding it both

[ath] [ath_hal] Propagate the HAL_RESET_TYPE through to the chip reset; set it during ath_reset()

Although I added the reset type field to ath_hal_reset() years ago,
I never finished adding it both throughout the HALs and in if_ath.c.

This will eventually deprecate the ath_hal force_full_reset option
because it can be requested at the driver layer.

So:

* Teach ar5416ChipReset() and ar9300_chip_reset() about the HAL type
* Use it in ar5416Reset() and ar9300_reset() when doing a full chip reset
* Extend ath_reset() to include the HAL_RESET_TYPE parameter added in the above functions
* Use HAL_RESET_NORMAL in most calls to ath_reset()
* .. but use HAL_RESET_BBPANIC for the BB panics, and HAL_RESET_FORCE_COLD during fatal, beacon miss and other hardware related hangs.

This should be a glorified no-op outside of actual hardware issues.
I've tested things with ath_hal force_full_reset set to 1 for years now,
so I know that feature and a full reset works (albeit much slower than
a warm reset!) and it does unwedge hardware.

The eventual aim is to use this for all the places where the driver
detects a potential hang as well as if long calibration - ie, noise floor
calibration - fails to complete. That's one of the big hardware related
things that causes station mode operation to hang without easy recovery.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24981

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[ath] Hopefully recover better-er upon RX restart on AR9380.

This is all very long-standing bug stuff that is touchy and still poorly
documented. Ok, here goes.

The basic bug:

* deleting a VAP cau

[ath] Hopefully recover better-er upon RX restart on AR9380.

This is all very long-standing bug stuff that is touchy and still poorly
documented. Ok, here goes.

The basic bug:

* deleting a VAP causes the RX path (and TX path too) to be restarted
without a full chip reset, which causes RX hangs on the AR9380 and later.
(ie, the ones with the newer DMA engine.)

The basic fix:

* do an RX flush when stopping RX in ath_vap_delete() to match what happens
when RX is stopped elsewhere. This ensures any pending frames are completed
and we restart at the right spot; it also ensures we don't push new RX buffers
into the hardware if we're stopping receive.

The other issues I found:

* Don't bother checking the RX packet ring in the deferred read taskqueue;
that's specifically supposed to be for completing frames rather than
just yanking them off the receive ring.

* Cancel/drain any pending deferred read taskqueue. This isn't done inside
any locks so we should be super careful here. This stops the hardware
being reprogrammed at the same time in another thread/CPU whilst we're
stopping RX.

* .. (yes, this should be better serialised, but that's for another day. maybe.)

* Add more debugging to trace what's going on here.

And the fun bit:

* Reinitialise the RX FIFO ONLY if we've been reset or stopped, rather than just
reset. I noticed that after all the above was done I was STILL seeing RXEOL.
RXEOL isn't enabled on the AR9380 so I'd only see it if I was sending TX frames
(ie a ping where it'd be transmitted but never received) so I was not being
spammed by RXEOL. So, as long as stuff is stopped, restart it.

This seems to be doing the right thing in both AP and STA modes.

What I should do next, if I ever get time:

* as I said above, serialise the receive stop/start to include taskqueues
* monitor RXEOL on the AR9380 and I keep seeing it spammed / lockups, just
go do a full chip reset to get things back on track. It sucks, but it
is better than nothing.

Tested:

* AR9380 AP/STA mode, adding/deleting a hostap VAP to trigger the TX/RX
queue stop/start; whilst also running an iperf through it. Lots of times.
Lots. Of.. Times.

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[ath] [ath_rate] Extend ath_rate_sample to better handle 11n rates and aggregates.

My initial rate control code was .. suboptimal. I wanted to at least get MCS
rates sent, but it didn't do anywhere

[ath] [ath_rate] Extend ath_rate_sample to better handle 11n rates and aggregates.

My initial rate control code was .. suboptimal. I wanted to at least get MCS
rates sent, but it didn't do anywhere near enough to handle low signal level links
or remotely keep accurate statistics.

So, 8 years later, here's what I should've done back then.

* Firstly, I wasn't at all tracking packet sizes other than the two buckets
(250 and 1600 bytes.) So, extend it to include 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768 and
65536. I may go add 2048 at some point if I find it's useful.

This is important for a few reasons. First, when forming A-MPDU or AMSDU
aggregates the frame sizes are larger, and thus the TX time calculation
is woefully, increasingly wrong. Secondly, the behaviour of 802.11 channels
isn't some fixed thing, both due to channel conditions and radios themselves.
Notably, there was some observations done a few years ago on 11n chipsets
which noticed longer aggregates showed an increase in failed A-MPDU sub-frame
reception as you got further along in the transmit time. It could be due to
a variety of things - transmitter linearity, channel conditions changing,
frequency/phase drift, etc - but the observation was to potentially form
shorter aggregates to improve BER.

* .. and then modify the ath TX path to report the length of the aggregate sent,
so as the statistics kept would line up with the correct bucket.

* Then on the rate control look-up side - i was also only using the first frame
length for an A-MPDU rate control lookup which isn't good enough here.
So, add a new method that walks the TID software queue for that node to
find out what the likely length of data available is. It isn't ALL of the
data in the queue because we'll only ever send enough data to fit inside the
block-ack window, so limit how many bytes we return to roughly what ath_tx_form_aggr()
would do.

* .. and cache that in the first ath_buf in the aggregate so it and the eventual
AMPDU length can be returned to the rate control code.

* THEN, modify the rate control code to look at them both when deciding which bucket
to attribute the sent frame on. I'm erring on the side of caution and using the
size bucket that the lookup is based on.

Ok, so now the rate lookups and statistics are "more correct". However, MCS rates
are not the same as 11abg rates in that they're not a monotonically incrementing
set of faster rates and you can't assume that just because a given MCS rate fails,
the next higher one wouldn't work better or be a lower average tx time.

So, I had to do a bunch of surgery to the best rate and sample rate math.
This is the bit that's a WIP.

* First, simplify the statistics updates (update_stats()) to do a single pass on
all rates.
* Next, make sure that each rate average tx time is updated based on /its/ failure/success.
Eg if you sent a frame with { MCS15, MCS12, MCS8 } and MCS8 succeeded, MCS15 and MCS
12 would have their average tx time updated for /their/ part of the transmission,
not the whole transmission.
* Next, EWMA wasn't being fully calculated based on the /failures/ in each of the
rate attempts. So, if MCS15, MCS12 failed above but MCS8 didn't, then ensure
that the statistics noted that /all/ subframes failed at those rates, rather than
the eventual set of transmitted/sent frames. This ensures the EWMA /and/ average
TX time are updated correctly.
* When picking a sample rate and initial rate, probe rates aroud the current MCS
but limit it to MCS0..7 /for all spatial streams/, rather than doing crazy things
like hitting MCS7 and then probing MCS8 - MCS8 is basically MCS0 but two spatial
streams. It's a /lot/ slower than MCS7. Also, the reverse is true - if we're at
MCS8 then don't probe MCS7 as part of it, it's not likely to succeed.
* Fix bugs in pick_best_rate() where I was /immediately/ choosing the highest MCS
rate if there weren't any frames yet transmitted. I was defaulting to 25% EWMA and
.. then each comparison would accept the higher rate. Just skip those; sampling
will fill in the details.

So, this seems to work a lot better. It's not perfect; I'm still seeing a lot of
instability around higher MCS rates because there are bursts of loss/retransmissions
that aren't /too/ bad. But i'll keep iterating over this and tidying up my hacks.

Ok, so why this still something I'm poking at? rather than porting minstrel_ht?

ath_rate_sample tries to minimise airtime, not maximise throughput. I have
extended it with an EWMA based on sub-frame success/failures - high MCS rates
that have partially successful receptions still show super short average frame
times, but a /lot/ of retransmits have to happen for that to work.
So for MCS rates I also track this EWMA and ensure that the rates I'm choosing
don't have super crappy packet failures. I don't mind not getting lower
peak throughput versus minstrel_ht; instead I want to see if I can make "minimise
airtime" work well.

Tested:

* AR9380, STA mode
* AR9344, STA mode
* AR9580, STA/AP mode

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[ath] [ath_rate] Add some extra data into the rate control lookup.

Right now (well, since I did this in 2011/2012) the rate control code
makes some super bad choices for 11n aggregates/rates, and it

[ath] [ath_rate] Add some extra data into the rate control lookup.

Right now (well, since I did this in 2011/2012) the rate control code
makes some super bad choices for 11n aggregates/rates, and it tracks
statistics even more questionably.

It's been long enough and I'm now trying to use it again daily, so let's
start by:

* telling the rate control code if it's an aggregate or not;
* being clearer about the TID - yes it can be extracted from the
ath_buf but this way it can be overridden by the caller without
changing the TID itself.

(This is for doing experiments with voice/video QoS at some point..)

* Return an optional field to limit how long the aggregate is in
microseconds. Right now the rate control code supplies a rate table
and the ath aggr form code will look at the rate table and limit
the aggregate size to 4ms at the slowest rate. Yeah, this is pretty
terrible.

* Add some more TODO comments around handling txpower, rate and
handling filtered frames status so if I continue to have spoons for
this I can go poke at it.

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[ath] Attempt to fix epoch handling.

The epoch stuff with taskqueues works fine if the driver never calls
the receive path in other contexts, but this driver does. If there was
a chip reset during

[ath] Attempt to fix epoch handling.

The epoch stuff with taskqueues works fine if the driver never calls
the receive path in other contexts, but this driver does. If there was
a chip reset during active receive then part of the reset will call
the receive path to flush out any active packets before reinitialising
the receive queue and that needs to be done with the epoch held.

So:

* make the receive task a normal task again
* explicitly call epoch enter/exit around the legacy and newer DMA
receive paths
* add a couple of epoch asserts to ensure that the receive packet
path itself is called with epoch held.

This fixes it on my Atom eeepc laptop (circa 2010!) that I did
all of my initial 802.11n work in this driver and net80211.

Tested:

* AR9285, STA mode

TODO:

* Test on EDMA chipset (AR9380)
* Test in AP/adhoc modes, just to be sure (eg for beacon
receive processing in particular.)

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Use NET_TASK_INIT() and NET_GROUPTASK_INIT() for drivers that process
incoming packets in taskqueue context.

Reviewed by: hselasky
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23518

Convert to if_foreach_llmaddr() KPI.

[ath] [ath_rate] Fix ANI calibration during non-ACTIVE states; start poking at rate control

These are some fun issues I've found with my upstairs wifi link at such a ridiculous
low signal level (lik

[ath] [ath_rate] Fix ANI calibration during non-ACTIVE states; start poking at rate control

These are some fun issues I've found with my upstairs wifi link at such a ridiculous
low signal level (like, < 5dB.)

* Add per-station tx/rx rssi statistics, in potential preparation to use that
in the RX rate control.

* Call the rate control on each received frame to let it potentially use
it as a hint for what rates to potentially use. It's a no-op right now.

* Do ANI calibration during scan as well. The ath_newstate() call was disabling the
ANI timer and only re-enabling it during transitions to _RUN. This has the
unfortunate side-effect that if ANI deafened the NIC because of interference
and it disassociated, it wouldn't be reset and the scan would never hear beacons.

The ANI configuration is stored at least globally on some HALs and per-channel
on others. Because of this a NIC reset wouldn't help; the ANI parameters would
simply be programmed back in.

Now, I have a feeling I also need to do this during AUTH/ASSOC too and maybe,
if I'm feeling clever, I need to reset the ANI parameters on a given channel
during a transition through INIT or if the VAP is destroyed/re-created.
However for now this gets me out of the immediate weeds with connectivity
upstairs (and thus I /can/ commit); I'll keep chipping away at tidying this
stuff up in subsequent commits.

Tested:

* AR9344 (Wasp), 2G STA mode

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ath(4): Fix typo in debugging code

PR: 229548
Submitted by: David Binderman <dcb314 AT hotmail.com>

ifnet: Replace if_addr_lock rwlock with epoch + mutex

Run on LLNW canaries and tested by pho@

gallatin:
Using a 14-core, 28-HTT single socket E5-2697 v3 with a 40GbE MLX5
based ConnectX 4-LX NIC, I

ifnet: Replace if_addr_lock rwlock with epoch + mutex

Run on LLNW canaries and tested by pho@

gallatin:
Using a 14-core, 28-HTT single socket E5-2697 v3 with a 40GbE MLX5
based ConnectX 4-LX NIC, I see an almost 12% improvement in received
packet rate, and a larger improvement in bytes delivered all the way
to userspace.

When the host receiving 64 streams of netperf -H $DUT -t UDP_STREAM -- -m 1,
I see, using nstat -I mce0 1 before the patch:

InMpps OMpps InGbs OGbs err TCP Est %CPU syscalls csw irq GBfree
4.98 0.00 4.42 0.00 4235592 33 83.80 4720653 2149771 1235 247.32
4.73 0.00 4.20 0.00 4025260 33 82.99 4724900 2139833 1204 247.32
4.72 0.00 4.20 0.00 4035252 33 82.14 4719162 2132023 1264 247.32
4.71 0.00 4.21 0.00 4073206 33 83.68 4744973 2123317 1347 247.32
4.72 0.00 4.21 0.00 4061118 33 80.82 4713615 2188091 1490 247.32
4.72 0.00 4.21 0.00 4051675 33 85.29 4727399 2109011 1205 247.32
4.73 0.00 4.21 0.00 4039056 33 84.65 4724735 2102603 1053 247.32

After the patch

InMpps OMpps InGbs OGbs err TCP Est %CPU syscalls csw irq GBfree
5.43 0.00 4.20 0.00 3313143 33 84.96 5434214 1900162 2656 245.51
5.43 0.00 4.20 0.00 3308527 33 85.24 5439695 1809382 2521 245.51
5.42 0.00 4.19 0.00 3316778 33 87.54 5416028 1805835 2256 245.51
5.42 0.00 4.19 0.00 3317673 33 90.44 5426044 1763056 2332 245.51
5.42 0.00 4.19 0.00 3314839 33 88.11 5435732 1792218 2499 245.52
5.44 0.00 4.19 0.00 3293228 33 91.84 5426301 1668597 2121 245.52

Similarly, netperf reports 230Mb/s before the patch, and 270Mb/s after the patch

Reviewed by: gallatin
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15366

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[ath] Use the BSSID address logic for STA VAPs too.

For DWDS VAPs on ath(4) we need to ensure that the STA vap and hostap VAP
have different MAC addresses. If the STA code path doesn't utilise the

[ath] Use the BSSID address logic for STA VAPs too.

For DWDS VAPs on ath(4) we need to ensure that the STA vap and hostap VAP
have different MAC addresses. If the STA code path doesn't utilise the
address assign / reclaim path then it doesn't update the bitmap with which
address was allocated.

This should fix a bunch of corner issues I've been seeing with DWDS STA + AP
VAPs that I was working around with manual MAC address assignment.

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kernel: Fix several typos and minor errors

- duplicate words
- typos
- references to old versions of FreeBSD

Reviewed by: imp, benno

sys/dev: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error

sys/dev: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

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[ath] Begin using the replacement EDCA functions.

As part of ath10k and other chipset support, the EDCA stuff has to be moved
to potentially be per-VAP. For hardware that doesn't support it (ie,
ev

[ath] Begin using the replacement EDCA functions.

As part of ath10k and other chipset support, the EDCA stuff has to be moved
to potentially be per-VAP. For hardware that doesn't support it (ie,
everything that we currently support) it can just fetch the "current"
global EDCA parameters for the NIC.

This is one of those parameters that is linked to the currently active
channel context / VAP in Linux mac80211 parlance.

Tested:

* ath(4), STA and AP modes

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[ath] [ath_hal] (etc, etc) - begin the task of re-modularising the HAL.

In the deep past, when this code compiled as a binary module, ath_hal
built as a module. This allowed custom, smaller HAL mod

[ath] [ath_hal] (etc, etc) - begin the task of re-modularising the HAL.

In the deep past, when this code compiled as a binary module, ath_hal
built as a module. This allowed custom, smaller HAL modules to be built.
This was especially beneficial for small embedded platforms where you
didn't require /everything/ just to run.

However, sometime around the HAL opening fanfare, the HAL landed here
as one big driver+HAL thing, and a lot of the (dirty) infrastructure
(ie, #ifdef AH_SUPPORT_XXX) to build specific subsets of the HAL went away.
This was retained in sys/conf/files as "ath_hal_XXX" but it wasn't
really floated up to the modules themselves.

I'm now in a position where for the reaaaaaly embedded boards (both the
really old and the last couple generation of QCA MIPS boards) having a
cut down HAL module and driver loaded at runtime is /actually/ beneficial.

This reduces the kernel size down by quite a bit. The MIPS modules look
like this:

adrian@gertrude:~/work/freebsd/head-embedded/src % ls -l ../root/mips_ap/boot/kernel.CARAMBOLA2/ath*ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 adrian adrian 5076 May 23 23:45 ../root/mips_ap/boot/kernel.CARAMBOLA2/ath_dfs.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 adrian adrian 100588 May 23 23:45 ../root/mips_ap/boot/kernel.CARAMBOLA2/ath_hal.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 adrian adrian 627324 May 23 23:45 ../root/mips_ap/boot/kernel.CARAMBOLA2/ath_hal_ar9300.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 adrian adrian 314588 May 23 23:45 ../root/mips_ap/boot/kernel.CARAMBOLA2/ath_main.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 adrian adrian 23472 May 23 23:45 ../root/mips_ap/boot/kernel.CARAMBOLA2/ath_rate.ko

And the x86 versions, like this:

root@gertrude:/home/adrian # ls -l /boot/kernel/ath*ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 36632 May 24 18:32 /boot/kernel/ath_dfs.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 134440 May 24 18:32 /boot/kernel/ath_hal.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 82320 May 24 18:32 /boot/kernel/ath_hal_ar5210.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 104976 May 24 18:32 /boot/kernel/ath_hal_ar5211.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 236144 May 24 18:32 /boot/kernel/ath_hal_ar5212.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 336104 May 24 18:32 /boot/kernel/ath_hal_ar5416.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 598336 May 24 18:32 /boot/kernel/ath_hal_ar9300.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 406144 May 24 18:32 /boot/kernel/ath_main.ko
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 55352 May 24 18:32 /boot/kernel/ath_rate.ko

.. so you can see, not building the whole HAL can save quite a bit.
For example, if you don't need AR9300 support, you can actually avoid
wasting half a megabyte of RAM. On embedded routers this is quite a
big deal.

The AR9300 HAL can be later further shrunk because, hilariously,
it indeed supports AH_SUPPORT_<xxx> for optionally adding chipset support.
(I'll chase that down later as it's quite a big savings if you're only
building for a single embedded target.)

So:

* Create a very hackish way to load/unload HAL modules
* Create module metadata for each HAL subtype - ah_osdep_arXXXX.c
* Create module metadata for ath_rate and ath_dfs (bluetooth is
currently just built as part of it)
* .. yes, this means we could actually build multiple rate control
modules and pick one at load time, but I'd rather just glue this
into net80211's rate control code. Oh well, baby steps.
* Main driver is now "ath_main"
* Create an "if_ath" module that does what the ye olde one did -
load PCI glue, main driver, HAL and all child modules.
In this way, if you have "if_ath_load=YES" in /boot/modules.conf
it will load everything the old way and stuff should still work.
* For module autoloading purposes, I actually /did/ fix up
the name of the modules in if_ath_pci and if_ath_ahb.

If you want to selectively load things (eg on ye cheape ARM/MIPS platforms
where RAM is at a premium) you should:

* load ath_hal
* load the chip modules in question
* load ath_rate, ath_dfs
* load ath_main
* load if_ath_pci and/or if_ath_ahb depending upon your particular
bus bind type - this is where probe/attach is done.

TODO:

* AR5312 module and associated pieces - yes, we have the SoC side support
now so the wifi support would be good to "round things out";
* Just nuke AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 for now and always bloat the packet
structures; this'll simplify other things.
* Should add a simple refcnt thing to the HAL RF/chip modules so you
can't unload them whilst you're using them.
* Manpage updates, UPDATING if appropriate, etc.

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