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qosmio and others added 30 commits February 28, 2026 17:38
feeds: Switch to fork that requires nss qdisc

Without it, NSS based SQM doesn't work.

feeds: NSS: point to 6.x branch

This will now be the default NSS branch, and will cover
both kernel 6.1 and 6.6 related changes going forward.

qualcommax: NSS: fix up 'nss_region'

feeds: nss-packages: switch to branch 12.5-6.x
Signed-off-by: bitthief <bitthief@protonmail.ch>

package: kernel: nat46: add kernel 6.1 support

Signed-off-by: bitthief <bitthief@protonmail.ch>
Co-Developed-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

package: kernel: nat46: use standard build functions

Instead of 'install', 'cp', use standard build functions

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

nat46: Bump to version 2024-08-12

Brings in following changes

```
2024-07-31|b42c37d|Fix crash when viewing nat46 kernel module config
2024-07-18|3a9f630|nat46-module: fix modpost warning
2024-07-02|cb69317| "Add network namespace awareness to nat46" - take two.
```

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

nat46: NSS: kernel 6.12 support + add dummy rules

Also add dummy compile and install ruiles as this package was being
built regardless of whether it was selected or not.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: bitthief <bitthief@protonmail.ch>
Co-Developed-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

iproute2: Fixup NSS patches for GCC 14.x

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

iproute2: NSS: sync patch from QSDK 12.5

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

iproute2: NSS fixup for 6.11.0

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit c4781eb)
Signed-off-by: bitthief <bitthief@protonmail.ch>

qualcommax: dts: provide label for NSS reserved-memory

Provide a label for the NSS reserved-memory node so it can be easily passed
to the NSS DRV instead of having to global match by name which is fragile.

Signed-off-by: bitthief <bitthief@protonmail.ch>

qualcommax: NSS: Add support for all ipq807x targets

NSS offload feature should be available for all IPQ807x/IPQ817x targets.

* Asus RT-AX89X
* Arcadyan AW1000
* CMCC RM2-6
* Linksys MX4200 V1/V2
* Linksys MX4300
* Linksys MX5300
* Linksys MX8500
* Sagemcom Fast 5285 Spectrum SAXV1V1S
* TP-Link EAP620 HD v1
* TP-Link EAP660 HD v1
* Yuncore AX880
* ZBT Z800AX
* ZTE MF269

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: bitthief <bitthief@protonmail.ch>
Signed-off-by: bitthief <bitthief@protonmail.ch>
Attempt at getting NSS WiFi Offload working on kernel 6.1 (backport 6.5)

These patches are a mix of @Ansuel branch for 5.15 (ipq807x-5.15-ecm-wifi)
Ansuel@3ecaee7

And QUIC's upstream NSS patches on [NHSS.QSDK.12.4.5.r3](https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/qsdk/oss/system/feeds/wlan-open.git)
For the actual package setup (Makfiles,ath.mk) Qualcomm's branch is under 'wlan-open/NHSS.QSDK.12.4.5.r3'

Looks like they've swtiched to using backports 6.5-rc3, and figured to
use a mix of their patches on 'NHSS.QSDK.12.4.5.r3' (nss)
'wlan-open/NHSS.QSDK.12.4.5.r3' (syncing with openwrt main).

Booting with "nss_offload=1 frame_mode=2"

Logs show:
[   16.606282] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3524 at ath11k_nss_tx+0x1d4/0x1e0 [ath11k]
[   16.611060] Modules linked in: ecm pppoe ppp_async nft_fib_inet nf_flow_table_inet ath11k_ahb ath11k pptp pppox ppp_generic nft_reject_ipv6 nft_reject_ipv4 nft_reject_inet nft_reject nft_redir nft_quota nft_objref nft_numgen nft_nat nft_masq nft_log nft_limit nft_hash nft_fullcone nft_flow_offload nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib nft_ct nft_compat nft_chain_nat nf_tables nf_nat nf_flow_table nf_conntrack_netlink nf_conntrack mac80211 iptable_mangle iptable_filter ipt_REJECT ipt_ECN ip_tables cfg80211 xt_time xt_tcpudp xt_tcpmss xt_statistic xt_multiport xt_mark xt_mac xt_limit xt_length xt_hl xt_ecn xt_dscp xt_comment xt_TCPMSS xt_LOG xt_HL xt_DSCP xt_CLASSIFY x_tables wireguard slhc sch_cake qrtr_smd qrtr qmi_helpers nfnetlink nf_reject_ipv6 nf_reject_ipv4 nf_log_syslog nf_defrag_ipv4 mhi libcrc32c libchacha20poly1305 compat sch_tbf sch_ingress sch_htb sch_hfsc em_u32 cls_u32 cls_route cls_matchall cls_fw cls_flow cls_basic act_skbedit act_mirred act_gact qca_nss_cfi_cryptoapi
[   16.611215]  qca_nss_crypto qca_nss_qdisc qca_nss_wifi_meshmgr qca_nss_gre ledtrig_usbport qca_mcs bonding ip6_gre ip_gre gre ifb nat46 nf_defrag_ipv6 sit qca_nss_drv ip6_tunnel tunnel6 tunnel4 nls_utf8 nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vxlan seqiv michael_mic uas usb_storage leds_gpio xhci_plat_hcd xhci_pci xhci_hcd dwc3 dwc3_qcom qca_nss_dp qca_ssdk ramoops reed_solomon pstore gpio_button_hotplug ext4 mbcache jbd2 aquantia hwmon crc_ccitt crc32c_generic
[   16.721723] CPU: 2 PID: 3524 Comm: hostapd Not tainted 6.1.68 #0
[   16.743958] Hardware name: Dynalink DL-WRX36 (DT)
[   16.750032] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[   16.754635] pc : ath11k_nss_tx+0x1d4/0x1e0 [ath11k]
[   16.761403] lr : ath11k_nss_tx+0x1bc/0x1e0 [ath11k]
[   16.766264] sp : ffffffc00b1db790
[   16.771122] x29: ffffffc00b1db790 x28: 0000000000000038 x27: 0000000000000000
[   16.774602] x26: ffffff8006dd7430 x25: ffffff8007ea9dc8 x24: 0000000060000012
[   16.781719] x23: ffffff8005c6a060 x22: ffffff8005c6a060 x21: ffffff80072f12d8
[   16.788837] x20: ffffff8007ea9dc8 x19: ffffff8006082800 x18: 0000000000000005
[   16.795957] x17: 6976312065707974 x16: 207061636e652062 x15: 6b73207874207373
[   16.803075] x14: ffffffc00a0dd518 x13: 000000000000018b x12: 000000000000018b
[   16.810192] x11: 00000000ffffffea x10: ffffffc00a135518 x9 : 0000000000000001
[   16.817310] x8 : 0000000000000001 x7 : 0000000000017fe8 x6 : c0000000ffffefff
[   16.824429] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
[   16.831547] x2 : ffffff80072f1370 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000001
[   16.838665] Call trace:
[   16.845774]  ath11k_nss_tx+0x1d4/0x1e0 [ath11k]
[   16.848035]  ath11k_mac_tx_mgmt_pending_free+0x3034/0x9600 [ath11k]
[   16.852551]  ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue+0x68/0xb10 [mac80211]
[   16.858801]  ieee80211_probereq_get+0xca4/0x11f0 [mac80211]
[   16.865049]  ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb+0x1dc/0x240 [mac80211]
[   16.870432]  ieee80211_xmit+0xcc/0x120 [mac80211]
[   16.876333]  __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x2b8/0x380 [mac80211]
[   16.880937]  ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x40/0x3b0 [mac80211]
[   16.887013]  ieee80211_subif_start_xmit_8023+0xb8/0x430 [mac80211]
[   16.892656]  dev_hard_start_xmit+0x8c/0x110
[   16.898728]  __dev_queue_xmit+0x1f0/0xbc0
[   16.902808]  dev_queue_xmit+0x14/0x20
[   16.906975]  packet_sendmsg+0x768/0x1260
[   16.910620]  __sys_sendto+0xdc/0x140
[   16.914613]  __arm64_sys_sendto+0x28/0x40
[   16.918174]  invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x5c/0x110
[   16.922081]  do_el0_svc+0x58/0x170
[   16.926765]  el0_svc+0x18/0x60
[   16.930149]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x114/0x120
[   16.933190]  el0t_64_sync+0x174/0x178
[   16.933197] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[   16.933230] ath11k c000000.wifi: failed to transmit frame -22
[   17.041495] ath11k c000000.wifi: encap mismatch in nss tx skb encap type 1vif encap type 2
[   17.041578] ath11k c000000.wifi: failed to transmit frame -22

Which is confusing since the parameter is definitley set to '2'.
➤ cat /sys/module/ath11k/parameters/frame_mode
2

Booting with either "nss_offload=1 frame_mode=3" (RAW), or "nss_offload=1 frame_mode=1" (Native Wifi)
Results in:

[   15.644742] ath11k c000000.wifi: peer not found for nss peer delete
[   15.744742] ath11k c000000.wifi: peer not found for nss peer delete
[   15.745742] ath11k c000000.wifi: peer not found for nss peer delete
[   15.746682] ath11k c000000.wifi: peer not found for nss peer delete

Clients connect and then are immediately kicked off, stuck in a loop.

ath11k-nss: Wifi offloading working (unstable)

Wifi offloading seems to be working, however it is not stable. Logs will
initially show a lot of flooding.

```
[Sun Dec 17 02:43:25 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: peer not found for nss peer delete
[Sun Dec 17 02:43:28 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: peer not found for nss peer delete
[Sun Dec 17 02:43:30 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: peer not found for nss peer delete
[Sun Dec 17 02:43:32 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: peer not found for nss peer delete
[Sun Dec 17 02:43:34 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: peer not found for nss peer delete
[Sun Dec 17 02:43:40 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: peer not found for nss peer delete
[Sun Dec 17 02:43:41 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: peer not found for nss peer delete
[Sun Dec 17 02:43:46 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: peer not found for nss peer delete
```

But eventually ends up subsiding. Needs heavy testing...

ath11k_nss: Add mac address to debug `nss peer delete` warnings

also delete ath10k patch, and refresh.

ath11k_nss: FIX `nss peer delete` + encap errors

This should hopefullly fix the following errors:

```
[Sun Dec 24 22:03:21 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: encap mismatch in nss tx skb encap type 1vif encap type 2
[Sun Dec 24 22:03:21 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: failed to transmit frame -22
[Sun Dec 24 22:08:25 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: encap mismatch in nss tx skb encap type 1vif encap type 2
[Sun Dec 24 22:08:25 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: failed to transmit frame -22
```

Clients should also be able to switch between 2Ghz and 5Ghz AP, as well
as join using password (no longer required to boot with NSS off first,
connect the client to acquire PSK, and reboot back with nss wifi offload
enabled).

Uptime has been 5 hours and so far no issues.

ath11k_nss: Remove unecessary clang-tidy formatting

ath11k_nss: add 'debug_mode' flag quiet warnings

Will properly handle:
```
[Mon Dec 25 16:51:34 2023] ath11k c000000.wifi: encap mismatch in nss tx skb encap type 1 vif encap type 2
```

should take the path for native wifi encap

ath11k_nss: Rework depends, make `nss_redirect` optional

1.) Added a reworked `qca-nss-pbuf` init script from QSDK that will set sysctl
    NSS `n2hcfg` wifi options based on board type and available
    RAM.

2.) ath11k is fully capable of offloading wifi, it does not need
    mac80211 to create any NSS vifs. This lowers overhead and has actually
    shown considerable speed improvements for CPU programs on the router
    side (i.e. SMB). I believe ax3600's IoT (ath10k) would require it
    for offloading.

    I've added 2 new makemenu options, `MAC80211_NSS_SUPPORT` which enables
    NSS related features, and `MAC80211_NSS_REDIRECT` which provides the option to
    autoload the module on boot with `nss_redirect=1`.

3.) Reverted the option that deafulted `ATH11K_MEM_PROFILE_512M` to
    true. This was not required for platforms with 1GB or more memory
    (which is most of them). The default is 1GB. Select for platforms
    like Xiaomi AX3600.

ath11k_nss: remove requirement for '/sys/kernel/debug/ath11k'

ath11k_nss: set default values lower to avoid eating up memory

ath11k_nss: Add NSS VLAN support + improvements

1) tweaked qca-nss-pbuf script to better handle different board configs
2) added some QSDK NSS patches for dynamic vlan, WDS.
3) added QSDK fixes for beacon, and bt-coex

For devices that keep getting disconnected (mostly on 2G). It is
recommended to use the following settings for wifi. Change for your
country.

config wifi-device 'radio0'
	option type 'mac80211'
	option path 'platform/soc/c000000.wifi'
	option band '5g'
	option txpower '24'
	option country 'PA'
	option channel '100'
	option htmode 'HE160'
	option cell_density '0'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
	option device 'radio0'
	option network 'lan'
	option mode 'ap'
	option encryption 'psk2'
	option key 'SOME_PASSWORD'
	option ssid 'EXAMPLE_5G'
	option dtim_period '3'
	option max_inactivity '86400'
	option disassoc_low_ack '0'

config wifi-device 'radio1'
	option type 'mac80211'
	option path 'platform/soc/c000000.wifi+1'
	option band '2g'
	option htmode 'HT20'
	option channel '1'
	option txpower '36'
	option country 'PA'
	option cell_density '0'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio1'
	option device 'radio1'
	option network 'lan'
	option mode 'ap'
	option ssid 'EXAMPLE_2G'
	option encryption 'psk2'
	option key 'SOME_PASSWORD'
	option max_inactivity '86400'
	option dtim_period '3'
	option disassoc_low_ack '0'

WPA3 should be disabled, and left as WPA2. Experimenting with max_inactivity, dtim_period, and disassoc_low_ack to hopefully resolve the deauth disconnects.
`dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_wifi_pool_buf` must be set BEFORE setting
`dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_high_water_core0`, otherwise it resets the value.
ath11k_nss: bugfix change start order

value 'dev.nss.n2hcfg.n2h_wifi_pool_buf' was not getting set, wait till
after qca-nss-drv is loaded.

ath11k_nss: finally fix n2hcfg values not being set
  Memory allocations in the driver & mac80211 are logged
  and populate those values to the user space via debugfs.
  This stats will give the snapshot of the memory being
  used by the driver at the time of dumping these
  memory stats.

  Command:
  cat /sys/kernel/debug/ath11k/ipq8074\ hw2.0/memory_stats

  Sample output of the stats
  MEMORY STATS IN BYTES:
  malloc size : 6287583
  ce_ring_alloc size: 109308
  dma_alloc size:: 10831860
  htc_skb_alloc size: 3840
  wmi alloc size: 0
  per peer object: 4644
  rx_post_buf size: 5091840
  Total size: 22329075

  User can disable/enable the memory stats accounting with
  the below command.

  echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/ath11k/ipq8074\ hw2.0/enable_memory_stats
  where N = 0 to disable logging, 1 to enable the logging.

  Note: This should be enabled/disabled only after wifi is down.
  User shouldn't enable/disable when the wifi is up to avoid
  accounting the negative values which cause incorrect values
  in the memory stats.

  Command:

  cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phyX/memory_stats
  memory stats: malloc_size: 108
In case you want to specify the memory profile to use rather than
letting it autodetect. The following new uci option is introduced.
pbuf.

config general opt
  option memory_profile ''

choices are 1gb, 512mb, 256mb. Delete option to let it autodetect.

NOTE: You must reboot after changing these settings, for it to
autoapply.

ath11k_nss: fix compilation and rename some patches
also support offload for the following:

  mac80211:
    * vlan
    * mesh (partial)
  ath11k:
    * vlan
bugfixes:
  * Rreverted patch `105-ath11k-fix-monitor-crash-if-tx-offload-is-enabled.patch`.
    Initial test show lower memory use. `ieee80211_tx_status_8023` was
    also removed upstream for a reason as it wasn't being used, and the
    logic behind it was flawed.
    See https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20230308174703.12270-2-quic_pradeepc@quicinc.com

  * Mmemory profile for '256M' was missing logic that was in 512/1G.
    Should build correctly now

  * added more qsdk related patches to nss/offload

ath11k_nss: fix up patches

ath11k_nss: revert m3, fix coredump when rebooting

M3 SSR dump logic makes the router coredump. Just putting dummy case to
skip warning.

[12394.072384] Hardware name: Dynalink DL-WRX36 (DT)
[12394.079758] Call trace:
[12394.084354]  dump_backtrace.part.0+0xbc/0xd0
[12394.086614]  show_stack+0x18/0x30
[12394.091127]  dump_stack_lvl+0x6c/0x88
[12394.094339]  dump_stack+0x18/0x34
[12394.097985]  bad_page+0xe0/0x110
[12394.101282]  __free_pages_ok+0x33c/0x360
[12394.104582]  __free_pages+0xbc/0xe0
[12394.108487]  dma_direct_free+0xd0/0x140
[12394.111701]  dma_free_attrs+0x90/0xb0
[12394.115519]  ath11k_qmi_fwreset_from_cold_boot+0x9e0/0xa10 [ath11k]
[12394.119343]  ath11k_qmi_deinit_service+0x64/0x21d0 [ath11k]
[12394.125419]  ath11k_core_deinit+0xa4/0xc0 [ath11k]
[12394.130974]  0xffffffc000fb3600
[12394.135831]  platform_shutdown+0x24/0x40
[12394.138871]  device_shutdown+0x14c/0x240
[12394.143037]  kernel_restart+0x40/0xb0
[12394.146944]  __do_sys_reboot+0xcc/0x200
[12394.150502]  __arm64_sys_reboot+0x24/0x30
[12394.154148]  invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x5c/0x110
[12394.158317]  do_el0_svc+0x58/0x170
[12394.163001]  el0_svc+0x18/0x60
[12394.166386]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x114/0x120
[12394.169426]  el0t_64_sync+0x174/0x178
uci option pbuf.opt.memory_profile must be explicity set to auto, 1gb,
512m, 256m to run.
ath11k_nss: fix build for 256/1G mem, and ath10k

ath11k_nss: bump release version '8'

mac80211: refactor NSS patches

Since NSS requires patches to subsys, and ath*k directories. Move
patches into a subset of nss for better tracking against QSDK,
and modularization.

ath11k_nss: rename patches

ath11k_nss: clean up optional patches

To reduce bug tracking headaches, I've remove the following patches, as
they are not required for NSS offload and have been around the last 2-3
years without ever being upstreamed.

nss/ath11k/235-001-ath11k-Add-support-for-beacon-tx-mode.patch
nss/ath11k/237-002-ath11k-Add-provision-to-configure-rx-hashmap.patch
nss/ath11k/902-020-ath11k-add-btcoex-config.patch
nss/ath11k/902-022-ath11k-add-ap-ps-support.patch
nss/ath11k/907-068-ath11k-add-rx-histogram-stats.patch
nss/ath11k/907-108-ath11k-enable-ul-ofdma-ru-allocation-in-peer-stats.patch
nss/ath11k/911-373-ath11k-Add-retry-mechanism-for-update_rx_qu.patch
nss/ath11k/913-353-ath11k-ignore-frags-from-uninitialized-peer-in-dp.patch
nss/ath11k/913-356-ath11k-invalid-desc-sanity-check.patch
nss/ath11k/913-374-ath11k-Check-skb_headroom-before-using-skb_push.patch
nss/ath11k/913-830-ath11k-Avoiding-memset-of-ppdu-info-for-next-skb.patch
nss/subsys/235-002-mac80211-Add-support-for-beacon-tx-mode.patch
nss/subsys/913-726-mac80211-fix-crash-when-accessing-null-pointer.patch

ath11k_nss: Remove superfluous patches

Remove patches unrelated to NSS offloading to minimize bloat and better
track NSS related issues.

ath11k_nss: Refactor patches to use upstream names

Reworked patches to use upstream QSDK names. Allows for better tracking

ath11k_nss: align wifi offload with qca-nss-drv

The option in qca-nss-drv is actually 'NSS_DRV_WIFIOFFLOAD_ENABLE' use
the same syntax.

ath11k_nss: Merge every NSS related feature + more

* Added macro to disable NSS mesh offload
* Added menuconfig option "ATH11K_NSS_MESH_SUPPORT" to selectivley build mesh support,
	as well it's depenacndy on nss-drv-wifimeshmgr.
* Added option to disable HTT Stats, and STA stats (stations).
* Reducing footprint by ~210KB. Debugfs minimal is still enabled.
* Reworked a TON of patches, some my own, hopefully there should be a far less amount of WOA2/WPA3 connection issues.
* Updated the /etc/init.d/pbuf script to be more robust. (handles tweaking ath11k and NSS settings better)

NOTES: Although mesh package builds (nss-drv-wifimeshmgr), ath11k doesn't seem to support it yet.
Not sure if NSS requires 3 radios to work, I'm at a dead end currently with that route.

ATTENTION:
the ptch `37-006-ath11k-Allow-fast-rx-by-bypassing-stats-update.patch`
works well on nss with frame_mode=2.
And on `ath11k frame_mode=1 nss_offload=0`

And on `ath11k frame_mode=2 nss_offload=1`

if you set nss_offload=off and frame_mode=2, it will CRASH
if you set nss_offload=on and frame_mode=2, it will  RUN
if you set nss_offload=off and frame_mode=1, it will RUN

ath11k_nss: fix n2h high_water_core0/wifi_pool_buf

These were commented out, but looks like they are needed to prevent lock
ups with heavy usage apps (users report in torrenting)

ath11k_nss: Renumber ath11k patches in the range

commit 3c7cc4b725ea406f19b736427034e3bdb436aedc
Author:     Yuvasree Sivasankaran <quic_ysivasan@quicinc.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Jan 4 11:25:56 2024 +0530
Commit:     Yuvasree Sivasankaran <quic_ysivasan@quicinc.com>
CommitDate: Wed Jan 3 22:53:51 2024 -0800

    wifi: ath11k: Renumber ath11k patches in the range

    In ath11k, patches are not maintained in the range and not sequential.
    Renumber the patches sequential and in the range.

    Change-Id: I77c51c0f5bf9f94863db4ef364b156e14465a60c
    Signed-off-by: Yuvasree Sivasankaran <quic_ysivasan@quicinc.com>

ath11k_nss: Add mac hw flag to avoid tx queue in mac80211

commit 4e9b5f7f0d1ed40dbf3208f7ed4448e49b4a4ac1
Author:     Yuvasree Sivasankaran <quic_ysivasan@quicinc.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Dec 6 12:20:59 2023 +0530
Commit:     Yuvasree Sivasankaran <quic_ysivasan@quicinc.com>
CommitDate: Mon Dec 18 12:52:33 2023 +0530

    wifi: mac80211: Add mac hw flag to avoid tx queue in mac80211

    Queue SKB in mac80211 become mandatory from latest 6.1 kernel. Because of
    this queuing, there will be performance degradation. Add hw flag option
    to enable tx queue in Driver/Hardware.

    Driver/hardware can register for HAS_TX_QUEUE HW flag and avoid tx queuing
    in mac80211.

    Add same HW flag checks to avoid accessing skb queues which will be
    NULL or invalid and also NULL checks for sta txqs for NULL or invalid
    access.

ath11k_nss: add the HTC+ / iPhone fix

commit ccdca73cd65723c3cb63c17edc95c4c43318cb38
Author:     John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
AuthorDate: Sun Jul 9 17:12:34 2023 +0200
Commit:     John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
CommitDate: Thu Aug 31 16:08:34 2023 +0200

    mac80211: add the HTC+ / iPhone fix

    Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>

ath11k_nss: ath-next fix connection failure due to unexpected peer delete

Currently ath11k_mac_op_unassign_vif_chanctx() deletes peer but
ath11k_mac_op_assign_vif_chanctx() doesn't create it. This results in
connection failure if MAC80211 calls drv_unassign_vif_chanctx() and
drv_assign_vif_chanctx() during AUTH and ASSOC, see below log:

[  102.372431] wlan0: authenticated
[  102.372585] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wlan0: disabling HT/VHT/HE as WMM/QoS is not supported by the AP
[  102.372593] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: mac chanctx unassign ptr ffff895084638598 vdev_id 0
[  102.372808] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: WMI vdev stop id 0x0
[  102.383114] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: vdev stopped for vdev id 0
[  102.384689] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: WMI peer delete vdev_id 0 peer_addr 20:e5:2a:21:c4:51
[  102.396676] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: htt peer unmap vdev 0 peer 20:e5:2a:21:c4:51 id 3
[  102.396711] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: peer delete resp for vdev id 0 addr 20:e5:2a:21:c4:51
[  102.396722] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: mac removed peer 20:e5:2a:21:c4:51  vdev 0 after vdev stop
[  102.396780] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: mac chanctx assign ptr ffff895084639c18 vdev_id 0
[  102.400628] wlan0: associate with 20:e5:2a:21:c4:51 (try 1/3)
[  102.508864] wlan0: associate with 20:e5:2a:21:c4:51 (try 2/3)
[  102.612815] wlan0: associate with 20:e5:2a:21:c4:51 (try 3/3)
[  102.720846] wlan0: association with 20:e5:2a:21:c4:51 timed out

The peer delete logic in ath11k_mac_op_unassign_vif_chanctx() is
introduced by commit b4a0f54156ac ("ath11k: move peer delete after
vdev stop of station for QCA6390 and WCN6855") to fix firmware
crash issue caused by unexpected vdev stop/peer delete sequence.

Actually for a STA interface peer should be deleted in
ath11k_mac_op_sta_state() when STA's state changes from
IEEE80211_STA_NONE to IEEE80211_STA_NOTEXIST, which also coincides
with current peer creation design that peer is created during
IEEE80211_STA_NOTEXIST -> IEEE80211_STA_NONE transition. So move
peer delete back to ath11k_mac_op_sta_state(), also stop vdev before
deleting peer to fix the firmware crash issue mentioned there. In
this way the connection failure mentioned here is also fixed.

Also do some cleanups in patch "wifi: ath11k: remove invalid peer
create logic", and refactor in patches "wifi: ath11k: rename
ath11k_start_vdev_delay()" and "wifi: ath11k: avoid forward declaration
of ath11k_mac_start_vdev_delay()".

Tested this patch set using QCA6390 and WCN6855 on both STA and SAP
interfaces. Basic connection and ping work well.

Baochen Qiang (4):
  wifi: ath11k: remove invalid peer create logic
  wifi: ath11k: rename ath11k_start_vdev_delay()
  wifi: ath11k: avoid forward declaration of
    ath11k_mac_start_vdev_delay()
  wifi: ath11k: fix connection failure due to unexpected peer delete

 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c | 564 +++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 288 insertions(+), 276 deletions(-)

ath11k_nss: Revert support for beacon_tx_mode

ath11k_nss: Update release fix dependancies

ath11k_nss: mgmt and data ack rssi update

Data ACK RSSI :

      Advertise NL80211_EXT_FEATURE_ACK_SIGNAL_SUPPORT feature support
for accounting and notifying "last ack signal" and "avg ack signal" to
user space through NL interface.

      Enabled data ack rssi support for ethernet mode.

Mgmt ACK RSSI:

      Enabled support for Tx-ACK RSSI in HTT over Management packets.

ath11k_nss: add missing support to enable/disable bss color collision detection

ath11k_nss: FW Initiated Dynamic MU-EDCA

Implementing the updating of firmware initiated dynamic MU-EDCA
parameters in Beacon IE. Firmware routinely checks its clients and
updates its MU-EDCA values every 3 seconds. Firmware is tuning
MU-EDCA parameters to improve performance. As part of this process,
the firmware informs host about new MU-EDCA values utilizing
WMI_MUEDCA_PARAMS_CONFIG_EVENTID. FW expectation is that host will
update MU-EDCA parameters in the Beacon IE.

ath11k_nss: refresh patches + cleanup Makefile

ath11k_nss: Set correct pbufs for 1GB profile

ath11k_nss: Revert setting fw_mem_mode for IPQ807x

Leave it set to '0', as it will kernel panic with 2K skb patch. This
flag was incorrectly assumed to save memory on 1G platforms.

ath11k_nss: remove leftover max_tx_ring

it was not removed when applying patch to replace it with 'max_tx_ring =
DP_TCL_NUM_RING_MAX +1'

ath11k_nss: Import bugfix patches

ath11k_nss: Experimental build for IPQ6018

This will require setting the correct `ATH11K_MEM_PROFILE_XXX` for your
platform. Setting it to value lower/higher than physically available
will cause NULL virtual address kernel panics.

I believe this setting was not originally meant to reduce memory
footprint of 1G+ platforms, but to account for platforms that were
512M or less.

Will require tweaking to allow for the old behvaior on 1G+ IPQ807x,
while still saving memory for platforms <= 512M.

commit d2d5a0d
Author:     Qosmio <datapronix@protonmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat Mar 9 11:59:20 2024 -0500
Commit:     Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
CommitDate: Fri Oct 11 11:13:03 2024 -0400

ath11k_nss: fix typo in 512M memory profile

ath11k_nss: remove SFE patch 718-e-mac80211-Deliver-the-frame-to-driver-tx-ops-directly

It is not relevant to NSS builds and only meant for SFE.

ath11k_nss: remove unecessary patches

Color collision should be left on by default, as it's a primary feature
of 802.11AX.

ath11k_nss: fix spacing

ath11k_nss: Remove unnecessary TKIP bloat

Remove TKIP patches that are not being used as 99% of folks are running
modern encryption (AES-CCMP,SAE,etc).

ath11k_nss: parameterize DP_RXDMA_REFILL_RING_SIZE memory profile

ath11k_nss: Remove SFE related code

Cleanup SFE (shortcut fe) related code as we're not using it on NSS

ath11k_nss: idr, ampdu, and skb headroom check optimizations

ath11k_nss: get valid last_rate for rx_bitrate from cpu stats

ath11k_nss: Fix BCCA counter for EMA

Currently BCCA counter is updated to FW via csa counter offs and
beacon with new countdown is updated for every beacon tx completion event.
For EMA, all EMA beacons are updated in one shot, and counter update for
every tx event will mess up the actual sequence of countdown sent over the air.

Allow FW to update the countdown till 1 and finalize the color
change.

ath11k_nss: Fix compile for TRACE feature

ath11k_nss: set pbuf to 'auto'

Since SKB recycler was merged into main nss-wifi branch, it is not
necessary to manually tinker with pbuf script. Memory is now properly
managed between NSS driver allocating/deallocating SKBs. For optimal
wifi performance, especially upload, it is advised to leave the script
to 'auto'.

Users who use sysupgrade should manually set the uci config
'/etc/config/pbuf' as it will not overwrite existing configuration.

ath11k_nss: refresh and fixup patches

ath11k_nss: Fix IPQ6018 wifi offloading

This patch was mostly cosmetic for ipq8074 to supress warnings about
invalid memory region. In this case the M3 dump region. This isn't
necessary for operation or offloading, and is used for firmware
debugging.

However due to the memory layout of ipq6018 it was causing issues of NSS
offloading properly loading. 'idx' shouldn't be incremented, and instead
should just break.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

ath11k_nss: add tracing for update_muedca_params_event

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

ath11k_nss: Remove unecessary ignore frags patch

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
This patch adds support for allocating 1MB of reserved memory
for ramoops on IPQ807x and IPQ6018 platforms.

This is required to get PSTORE option working.

Tested with the following options:

```
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-pstore=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-ramoops=y
CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-reed-solomon=y
```

dmesg output
```
➤ dmesg | grep -Ei "psto|ramo"

[Sun Jun  9 23:22:01 2024] OF: reserved mem: 0x0000000051200000..0x00000000512fffff (1024 KiB) map non-reusable ramoops@51200000
[Sun Jun  9 23:22:05 2024] pstore: Using crash dump compression: deflate
[Sun Jun  9 23:22:05 2024] pstore: Registered ramoops as persistent store backend
[Sun Jun  9 23:22:05 2024] ramoops: using 0x100000@0x51200000, ecc: 0
```

Triggering kernel panic

```
sh -c 'echo 10 > /proc/sys/kernel/panic; echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger'
```

After rebooting

```
mkdir -p /tmp/ramoops
mount -t pstore pstore /tmp/ramoops
```

```
➤ l /tmp/ramoops
drwxr-x---    2 root     root           0 Jun  9 23:02 .
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root        4.0K Jun  9 23:23 ..
-r--r--r--    1 root     root        6.6K Jun  9 23:21 dmesg-ramoops-0
```

Truncated output
```
Panic#1 Part1
<6>[   21.656119] remoteproc remoteproc0: remote processor cd00000.q6v5_wcss is now up
<14>[   21.657910] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
<6>[   21.710545] ath11k c000000.wifi: chip_id 0x0 chip_family 0x0 board_id 0xff soc_id 0xffffffff
<6>[   21.710594] ath11k c000000.wifi: fw_version 0x270204a5 fw_build_timestamp 2022-08-04 13:05 fw_build_id WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01744-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
<6>[   91.416867] br-lan: topology change detected, sending tcn bpdu
<6>[ 1256.023874] sysrq: Trigger a crash
<0>[ 1256.023911] Kernel panic - not syncing: sysrq triggered crash
<4>[ 1256.026176] CPU: 2 PID: 2842 Comm: sh Tainted: G           O       6.6.32 #0
<4>[ 1256.031993] Hardware name: Linksys MX5300 (DT)
<4>[ 1256.039106] Call trace:
<4>[ 1256.043354]  dump_backtrace+0xb0/0x10c
<4>[ 1256.045701]  show_stack+0x18/0x24
<4>[ 1256.049519]  dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x60
<4>[ 1256.052906]  dump_stack+0x18/0x24
<4>[ 1256.056550]  panic+0x2d0/0x31c
<4>[ 1256.059848]  sysrq_handle_moom+0x0/0x30
<4>[ 1256.062800]  __handle_sysrq+0xe4/0x1e0
<4>[ 1256.066534]  write_sysrq_trigger+0xbc/0xfc
<4>[ 1256.070354]  proc_reg_write+0xb0/0xf8
<4>[ 1256.074434]  vfs_write+0xa4/0x298
<4>[ 1256.078165]  ksys_write+0x5c/0xe0
<4>[ 1256.081464]  __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28
<4>[ 1256.084763]  invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x5c/0x100
<4>[ 1256.088758]  do_el0_svc+0x40/0xc8
<4>[ 1256.093355]  el0_svc+0x30/0xb8
<4>[ 1256.096740]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c
<4>[ 1256.099694]  el0t_64_sync+0x178/0x17c
<2>[ 1256.104122] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
<0>[ 1256.107773] Kernel Offset: disabled
<0>[ 1256.111759] CPU features: 0x0,00000000,00000000,0000400b
<0>[ 1256.114975] Memory Limit: none
```

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
When running ubi rootfs upgrade on nand based OpenWrt device after
pivot_root init process is still "hooked" on the old file system.
Thus, the old file system can not be umounted. If the filesystem is
mounted it can not be upgraded with using for example ubiupdatevol
or removed with ubirmvol. Forcing umount would allow to run the
before mentioned commands.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
QSDK NSS builds utilize skbuff recycling for better handling of memory.

On a Dynalink DL-WRX36 (pbuf script should be set to 'auto') a significant drop in
memory usage was observed as well consistent sustained RX/TX speeds.

BEFORE:
echo 3 >! /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

free -m
					total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:             867         338         547          90         101         528
Swap:              0           0           0

AFTER:
					total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:             867         242         594           1          81         624
Swap:              0           0           0

NOTE:

For 512MB platforms, users need to test with the following scenarios,
as the patch `999-233-ath11k-Disable-rx_header-tlv-for-2K-SKB.patch` is
really only testable on platforms with 512M or less RAM.

1.) Explicitly setting 'ATH11K_MEM_PROFILE_512M' on and see if system
crashes on boot.

2.) Explicitly setting 'ATH11K_MEM_PROFILE_1G'

3.) Remove patches
999-233-ath11k-Disable-rx_header-tlv-for-2K-SKB.patch
999-311-ath11k-configure-nss-thread-priority-during-pdev_ini.patch

And re-test with qosmio#1 and qosmio#2

It was incorrectly assumed that setting a 512M for 1G platforms would save
memory, instead it needs to be explicitly set to know proper memory
regions, otherwise it would cause fw crash.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
qosmio and others added 26 commits February 28, 2026 17:38
…N filtering.

Signed-off-by: qosmio <datapronix@protonmail.com>
NSS radio thread priority is only ever set for ipq5018 platforms,
however during module unload the ath11k driver calls
`nss_wifili_thread_scheme_dealloc` regardless of platform causing a kernel panic
when the NSS radio thread priority was never set (i.e. for ipq8074 platforms).

Track whether the NSS radio thread priority was set during initialization, and only
then call `nss_wifili_thread_scheme_dealloc` during module unload.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Fix race in peer kickout handling by ensuring `base_lock` covers peer checks.
Avoids spurious kick events when firmware triggers removal before peer is in mac80211.

Also fix a possible deadlock in peer_sta_ps_state_chg by ensuring spin_unlock on all exit paths.

Patch-by: Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com>

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Refresh against: 5fbde38
("ath11k_nss: Rework 6.12 patches for backports 6.14")

Refresh against: f10732f
("mac80211: estimate expected throughput if not provided by driver/rc")

Refresh against: 1e84b91
("mac80211: backport upstream fixes")

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
GRO fraglist causes issues when NSS offload is enabled,
paticularly with UDP packets (e.g. DNS queries). Rather than rely on
hotplug script disable by default.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
* Restructure the README.md to provide concise UCI configs.
* Add section for WWAN configuration.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Selecting kmod-nft-netdev enables `NETFILTER_EGRESS` and
`NET_XGRESS`. With only those options active, the
net_device_read_tx cacheline group is expected to fit within the
160-byte ceiling enforced by CACHELINE_ASSERT_GROUP_SIZE.

However, the NSS offload patch also inserts priv_flags_ext (4 bytes,
aligned to 8) into that same group, pushing the total beyond 160 bytes
and triggering the BUILD_BUG_ON.

Raise the limit from 160 to 168 bytes so the extra field is accounted
for.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Refresh PPPoE patch against latest upstream commit 991dd40
("kernel: improve pppoe performance")

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

qualcommax: NSS: Update patches for 6.12.45

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

qualcommax: NSS: Update patches for 6.12.48

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

ath11k_nss: Refresh 6.18 patches after backports 6.18 upgrade

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Several users have reported stability issues with firmware 2.9.0.1
in regards to WDS/STA/Mesh modes. FW 2.12 has been out for a while, and
shown to resolve these issues. It is not merged into OpenWrt yet, or
upstream Linux, so we have to manually bump it here.

Supported platforms:

- ipq8074
- ipq6018
- ipq5018

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

ath11k-firmware: Fix hashes

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

ath11k-firmware: Fix build for QCN9074

`board-2.bin` is already included in `QCN9074/hw1.0/testing/2.12/WLAN.HK.2.12-01460-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1`
which is already being copied over by the Makefile.

Addresses the build error:

ath11k-firmware-2.12.01460/QCN9074/hw1.0/board-2.bin': No such file or directory

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>

ath11k-firmware: Use date versioning to match upstream

Rather than using firmware version use date based versioning to match
upstream firmware releases. This avoids apk/opkg confusion.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Fix reference counting for L2TP PPP sessions by replacing incorrect
sock_put(sk) calls with l2tp_session_put(session) in helper functions
pppol2tp_get_channel_protocol_ver() and pppol2tp_get_addressing().

The function pppol2tp_sock_to_session() increments the session refcount,
not the socket refcount. Callers must release it using l2tp_session_put()
instead of sock_put(). Using sock_put() without corresponding sock_hold()
leads to reference counting bugs and kernel panics when L2TP is used with
NSS ECM offload.

This fixes kernel panics and system freezes on IPQ807x devices
when using L2TP VPN connections with NSS ECM hardware offload enabled.

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Nikulov <nikulov@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Mainline OpenWrt now includes PREEMPT options by in base config.
(5d72011 kernel: add preemption models). This makes the options in
config/Config-ipq.in redundant.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Cleanup duplicated logic in L2TP/PPTP patches that was accidently added
in initial commit.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
…vements"

Upstream commit 316492b ("kernel: backport pppoe improvements") moved to per‑CPU
netstats invalidating previous logic using `stats64`.

Update to add rx/tx packet and byte counts into dev->tstats using
u64_stats.

Also remove unecessary whitespace changes.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
…lock usage"

Upstream commit 316492b ("kernel: backport pppoe improvements") replaced rwlock
with a spinlock for writers, and RCU for readers.

Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Khan <datapronix@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: mingww64 <me@lcia.eu.org>
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