at86rf230: rework transmit and receive handling
This patch is a complete reimplementation of transmit and receive
handling for the at86rf230 driver.
It solves also six bugs:
First:
The RX_SAFE_MODE is enabled and the transceiver doesn't leave the
receive state while the framebuffer isn't read by a CMD_FB command.
This is useful to read out the frame and don't get into another receive
or transmit state, otherwise the frame would be overwritten.
The current driver do twice CMD_FB calls, the first one leaves this
protection.
Second:
Sometimes the CRC calculation is correct and the length field is greater
127. The current mac802154 layer and filter of a at86rf2xx doesn't check
on this and the kernel crashes. In this case the frame is corrupted, we
send the whole receive buffer to the next layer which can be useful for
sniffing.
Thrid:
There is a undocumented race condition. When we are go into the
RX_AACK_ON state the transceiver could be changed into RX_AACK_BUSY
state. This is a normal behaviour. In this case the transceiver received
a SHR while assert wasn't finished.
Fourth:
It also handle some more "correct" state changes. In aret mode the
transceiver need to go to TX_ON before the transceiver go into
RX_AACK_ON.
Fifth:
The programming model [0] describes also a error handling in ARET mode
if the trac status is different than zero. This is patch adds support
for handling this.
Sixth:
In receive handling the transceiver should also get the trac status
according [0]. The driver could use the trac status as error statistic
handling, but the driver doesn't use this currently. There is maybe some
timing behaviour or the read of this register change some transceiver
states.
In addition the irqworker is removed. Instead we do async spi calls and
no scheduling is involved anymore. The transmit function is also
asynchron but with a wait_for_completion handling. The mac802154 layer
doesn't support asynchron transmit handling right now.
The state change behaviour is now changes, before it was:
1. assert while(!STATE_TRANSITION_IN_PROGRESS)
2. state change
3. assert while(!STATE_TRANSITION_IN_PROGRESS)
4. assert once(wanted state != current state)
Sometimes a unexcepted state change occurs when 4. assert was violated.
The new state change behaviour is:
1. assert while(!STATE_TRANSITION_IN_PROGRESS)
2. state change
3. wait state change timing according datasheet
4. assert once(wanted state != current state)
This behaviour is described in the at86rf231 software programming model [0].
The state change documentation in this programming guide should also valid for
at86rf212 and at86rf233 chips.
The transceiver don't do a FORCE_TX_ON while we want to transmit a PDU.
The new behaviour is a TX_ON and wait a receiving time (tFrame + tPAck).
If we are still in RX_AACK_BUSY then we transmit a FORCE_TX_ON as timeout
handling. The different is that FORCE_TX_ON aborts receiving and TX_ON
waits if RX_AACK_BUSY is finished. This should decrease the drop rate of
packets.
[0] http://www.atmel.com/Images/AVR2022_swpm231-2.0.zip
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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