iwlwifi: document keep-warm buffer
Document keep-warm buffer
Consolidate flow handler address definitions
Signed-off-by: Ben Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-hw.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-hw.h
index 4a2fa80..8698bf7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-hw.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-hw.h
@@ -1282,20 +1282,37 @@
/********************* END TXPOWER *****************************************/
+/****************************/
/* Flow Handler Definitions */
+/****************************/
-/**********************/
-/* Addresses */
-/**********************/
-
+/*
+ * This I/O area is directly read/writable by driver (e.g. Linux uses writel())
+ * Addresses are offsets from device's PCI hardware base address.
+ */
#define FH_MEM_LOWER_BOUND (0x1000)
#define FH_MEM_UPPER_BOUND (0x1EF0)
-#define IWL_FH_REGS_LOWER_BOUND (0x1000)
-#define IWL_FH_REGS_UPPER_BOUND (0x2000)
-
+/**
+ * Keep-Warm (KW) buffer base address.
+ *
+ * Driver must allocate a 4KByte buffer that is used by 4965 for keeping the
+ * host DRAM powered on (via dummy accesses to DRAM) to maintain low-latency
+ * DRAM access when 4965 is Txing or Rxing. The dummy accesses prevent host
+ * from going into a power-savings mode that would cause higher DRAM latency,
+ * and possible data over/under-runs, before all Tx/Rx is complete.
+ *
+ * Driver loads IWL_FH_KW_MEM_ADDR_REG with the physical address (bits 35:4)
+ * of the buffer, which must be 4K aligned. Once this is set up, the 4965
+ * automatically invokes keep-warm accesses when normal accesses might not
+ * be sufficient to maintain fast DRAM response.
+ *
+ * Bit fields:
+ * 31-0: Keep-warm buffer physical base address [35:4], must be 4K aligned
+ */
#define IWL_FH_KW_MEM_ADDR_REG (FH_MEM_LOWER_BOUND + 0x97C)
+
/* CBBC Area - Circular buffers base address cache pointers table */
#define FH_MEM_CBBC_LOWER_BOUND (FH_MEM_LOWER_BOUND + 0x9D0)
#define FH_MEM_CBBC_UPPER_BOUND (FH_MEM_LOWER_BOUND + 0xA10)
@@ -1326,16 +1343,16 @@
#define FH_MEM_RSSR_RX_ENABLE_ERR_IRQ2DRV (FH_MEM_RSSR_LOWER_BOUND + 0x008)
/* TCSR */
-#define IWL_FH_TCSR_LOWER_BOUND (IWL_FH_REGS_LOWER_BOUND + 0xD00)
-#define IWL_FH_TCSR_UPPER_BOUND (IWL_FH_REGS_LOWER_BOUND + 0xE60)
+#define IWL_FH_TCSR_LOWER_BOUND (FH_MEM_LOWER_BOUND + 0xD00)
+#define IWL_FH_TCSR_UPPER_BOUND (FH_MEM_LOWER_BOUND + 0xE60)
#define IWL_FH_TCSR_CHNL_TX_CONFIG_REG(_chnl) \
(IWL_FH_TCSR_LOWER_BOUND + 0x20 * _chnl)
/* TSSR Area - Tx shared status registers */
/* TSSR */
-#define IWL_FH_TSSR_LOWER_BOUND (IWL_FH_REGS_LOWER_BOUND + 0xEA0)
-#define IWL_FH_TSSR_UPPER_BOUND (IWL_FH_REGS_LOWER_BOUND + 0xEC0)
+#define IWL_FH_TSSR_LOWER_BOUND (FH_MEM_LOWER_BOUND + 0xEA0)
+#define IWL_FH_TSSR_UPPER_BOUND (FH_MEM_LOWER_BOUND + 0xEC0)
#define IWL_FH_TSSR_TX_STATUS_REG (IWL_FH_TSSR_LOWER_BOUND + 0x010)