wifi: ath12k: handle WMI event for real noise floor calculation
authorRaj Kumar Bhagat <quic_rajkbhag@quicinc.com>
Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:49:09 +0000 (21:19 +0530)
committerJeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:10:45 +0000 (16:10 -0700)
commit0314ee81a91d22366e8ec6f5a993d75b246cbea8
tree3af6bc2d9ce043bf3cb115cbc87a3703133734dd
parentd8f07889e920493845fd628407ff0debbe96fa09
wifi: ath12k: handle WMI event for real noise floor calculation

At present, the ATH12K_DEFAULT_NOISE_FLOOR (-95) is used to calculate RSSI
value, providing an estimated noise floor value. Consequently, the RSSI
value is also approximate. This works but however, using actual noise floor
value will enable the reporting of the true RSSI value.

The firmware possesses the necessary data to determine the actual noise
floor. This data is provided to the host via the WMI event
WMI_PDEV_RSSI_DBM_CONVERSION_PARAMS_INFO_EVENTID, which includes the
runtime parameters needed for calculating the real noise floor in dBm. This
event is triggered by the firmware during channel changes, temperature
offset adjustments, and hardware chainmask modifications. The individual
TLVs may not always be present in each event. For instance, temperature
information might only appear if there is a change in offset due to
temperature variation.

Add support to handle and parse this WMI event. Use the received values to
calculate and store the noise floor value.

A subsequent change will use this noise floor value in the actual RSSI
calculation.

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Signed-off-by: Raj Kumar Bhagat <quic_rajkbhag@quicinc.com>
Co-developed-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <aditya.kumar.singh@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <aditya.kumar.singh@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanthakumar.thiagarajan@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250623-support_real_noise_floor-v2-1-974bbafa317e@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.c
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.h