rt2800usb: read TX_STA_FIFO asynchronously

Trying to fix the "TX status report missed" warnings
by reading the TX_STA_FIFO entries as quickly as possible.
The TX_STA_FIFO is too small in hardware, thus reading
it only from the workqueue is too slow and entries get lost.

Start an asynchronous read of the TX_STA_FIFO directly from
the TX URB completion callback (atomic context, thus it cannot
use the blocking rt2800_register_read()). If the async
read returns a valid FIFO entry, it is pushed into a larger
FIFO inside struct rt2x00_dev, until rt2800_txdone() picks
it up.

A .tx_dma_done callback is added to struct rt2x00lib_ops
to trigger the async read from the URB completion callback.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.h
index 6aaf51fc7ad8..e3faca6d2a4f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.h
@@ -345,6 +345,21 @@ int rt2x00usb_regbusy_read(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
 			   const struct rt2x00_field32 field,
 			   u32 *reg);
 
+/**
+ * rt2x00usb_register_read_async - Asynchronously read 32bit register word
+ * @rt2x00dev: Device pointer, see &struct rt2x00_dev.
+ * @offset: Register offset
+ * @callback: Functon to call when read completes.
+ *
+ * Submit a control URB to read a 32bit register. This safe to
+ * be called from atomic context.  The callback will be called
+ * when the URB completes. Otherwise the function is similar
+ * to rt2x00usb_register_read().
+ */
+void rt2x00usb_register_read_async(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev,
+				   const unsigned int offset,
+				   void (*callback)(struct rt2x00_dev*,int,u32));
+
 /*
  * Radio handlers
  */