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2012-04-05simple_open: automatically convert to simple_open()Stephen Boyd
Many users of debugfs copy the implementation of default_open() when they want to support a custom read/write function op. This leads to a proliferation of the default_open() implementation across the entire tree. Now that the common implementation has been consolidated into libfs we can replace all the users of this function with simple_open(). This replacement was done with the following semantic patch: <smpl> @ open @ identifier open_f != simple_open; identifier i, f; @@ -int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f) -{ ( -if (i->i_private) -f->private_data = i->i_private; | -f->private_data = i->i_private; ) -return 0; -} @ has_open depends on open @ identifier fops; identifier open.open_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... -.open = open_f, +.open = simple_open, ... }; </smpl> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-06mac80211: call rate control only after initJohannes Berg
There are situations where we don't have the necessary rate control information yet for station entries, e.g. when associating. This currently doesn't really happen due to the dummy station handling; explicitly disabling rate control when it's not initialised will allow us to remove dummy stations. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-30mac80211: station state transition error handlingJohannes Berg
In the future, when we start notifying drivers, state transitions could potentially fail. To make it easier to distinguish between programming bugs and driver failures: * rename sta_info_move_state() to sta_info_pre_move_state() which can only be called before the station is inserted (and check this with a new station flag). * rename sta_info_move_state_checked() to just plain sta_info_move_state(), as it will be the regular function that can fail for more than just one reason (bad transition or an error from the driver) This makes the programming model easier -- one of the functions can only be called before insertion and can't fail, the other can fail. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem
2011-11-21mac80211: remove unused ASSOC_AP flagJohannes Berg
WLAN_STA_ASSOC_AP indicates that the station entry is for an AP we're associated to but isn't used so remove it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21mac80211: Fix AMSDU rate printout in debugfs.Ben Greear
It was flipped. See section 7.3.2.56 of the 802.11n spec for details. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: add missing station flags to debugfsJohannes Berg
My work and some previous work didn't add all the flags, add them now and while at it simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: optimise station flagsJohannes Berg
The flaglock in struct sta_info has long been something that I wanted to get rid of, this finally does the conversion to atomic bitops. The conversion itself is straight-forward in most places, a few things needed to change a bit since we can no longer use multiple bits at the same time. On x86-64, this is a fairly significant code size reduction: text data bss dec hex 427861 23648 1008 452517 6e7a5 before 425383 23648 976 450007 6ddd7 after Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: split PS buffers into ACsJohannes Berg
For uAPSD support we'll need to have per-AC PS buffers. As this is a major undertaking, split the buffers before really adding support for uAPSD. This already makes some reference to the uapsd_queues variable, but for now that will never be non-zero. Since book-keeping is complicated, also change the logic for keeping a maximum of frames only and allow 64 frames per AC (up from 128 for a station). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-19mac80211: fix debugfs printk format warningRandy Dunlap
Fix printf() format warning (tm_year is long int): net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c:113: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'long int' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-12{mac|nl}80211: Add station connected timeMohammed Shafi Shajakhan
Add station connected time in debugfs. This will be helpful to get a measure of stability of the connection and for debugging stress issues Cc: Senthilkumar Balasubramanian <Senthilkumar.Balasubramanian@Atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mshajakhan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-12-15mac80211: Add timeout to BA session start APISujith Manoharan
Allow drivers or rate control algorithms to specify BlockAck session timeout when initiating an ADDBA transaction. This is useful in cases where maintaining persistent BA sessions does not incur any overhead. The current timeout value of 5000 TUs is retained for all non ath9k/ath9k_htc drivers. Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-29mac80211: fix RX aggregation lockingJohannes Berg
The RX aggregation locking documentation was wrong, which led Christian to also code the timer timeout handling for it somewhat wrongly. Fix the documentation, the two places that need to hold the reorder lock across accesses to the structure, and the debugfs code that should just use RCU. Also, remove acquiring the sta->lock across reorder timeouts since it isn't necessary, and change a few places to GFP_KERNEL because the code path here doesn't need atomic allocations as I noticed when reviewing all this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15mac80211: refactor debugfs function generation codeEliad Peller
refactor mac80211 debugfs code by using a format&copy function, instead of duplicating the code for each generated function. this change reduces about 600B from mac80211.ko Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-10-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1699 commits) bnx2/bnx2x: Unsupported Ethtool operations should return -EINVAL. vlan: Calling vlan_hwaccel_do_receive() is always valid. tproxy: use the interface primary IP address as a default value for --on-ip tproxy: added IPv6 support to the socket match cxgb3: function namespace cleanup tproxy: added IPv6 support to the TPROXY target tproxy: added IPv6 socket lookup function to nf_tproxy_core be2net: Changes to use only priority codes allowed by f/w tproxy: allow non-local binds of IPv6 sockets if IP_TRANSPARENT is enabled tproxy: added tproxy sockopt interface in the IPV6 layer tproxy: added udp6_lib_lookup function tproxy: added const specifiers to udp lookup functions tproxy: split off ipv6 defragmentation to a separate module l2tp: small cleanup nf_nat: restrict ICMP translation for embedded header can: mcp251x: fix generation of error frames can: mcp251x: fix endless loop in interrupt handler if CANINTF_MERRF is set can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local traffic 9p: client code cleanup rds: make local functions/variables static ... Fix up conflicts in net/core/dev.c, drivers/net/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.c and drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c as per David
2010-10-06mac80211: avoid transmitting delBA to old APJohannes Berg
When roaming while we have active BA session, we can end up transmitting delBA frames to the old AP while we're already on the new AP's channel, which can cause warnings. Simply avoid sending those frames, but still tear down the internal session state, since they are not really necessary anyway as we will implicitly disassociate when sending the association to the new AP. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-27mac80211: Support multiple VIFS per AP in debugfs.Ben Greear
Create 'stations' sub-directory under each netdev:[vif-name] directory to hold all stations for that network device. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-09-16net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfsArnd Bergmann
The default llseek operation is changing from default_llseek to no_llseek, so all code relying on the current behaviour needs to make that explicit. The wireless driver infrastructure and some of the drivers make use of generated debugfs files, so they cannot be converted by our script that automatically determines the right operation. All these files use debugfs and they typically rely on simple_read_from_buffer, so the best llseek operation here is generic_file_llseek. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
2010-06-14mac80211: make TX aggregation start/stop request asyncJohannes Berg
When the driver or rate control requests starting or stopping an aggregation session, that currently causes a direct callback into the driver, which could potentially cause locking problems. Also, the functions need to be callable from contexts that cannot sleep, and thus will interfere with making the ampdu_action callback sleeping. To address these issues, add a new work item for each station that will process any start or stop requests out of line. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14mac80211: use RCU for TX aggregationJohannes Berg
Currently we allocate some memory for each TX aggregation session and additionally keep a state bitmap indicating the state it is in. By using RCU to protect the pointer, moving the state into the structure and some locking trickery we can avoid locking when the TX agg session is fully operational. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-14mac80211: use RCU for RX aggregationJohannes Berg
Currently we allocate some memory for each RX aggregation session and additionally keep a flag indicating whether or not it is valid. By using RCU to protect the pointer and making sure that the memory is fully set up before it becomes visible to the RX path, we can remove the need for the bool that indicates validity, as well as for locking on the RX path since it is always synchronised against itself, and we can guarantee that all other modifications are done when the structure is not visible to the RX path. The net result is that since we remove locking requirements from the RX path, we can in the future use any kind of lock for the setup and teardown code paths. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03mac80211: reduce debugfs code sizeFelix Fietkau
This patch reduces the binary size by around 25k (measured on MIPS, with CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG_COUNTERS enabled). Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-06-03mac80211: clean up ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_sessionJohannes Berg
There's no sense in letting anything but internal mac80211 functions set the initiator to anything but WLAN_BACK_INITIATOR, since WLAN_BACK_RECIPIENT is only valid when we have received a frame from the peer, which we react to directly in mac80211. The debugfs code I recently added got this wrong as well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-05-03mac80211: allow controlling aggregation manuallyJohannes Berg
This allows enabling TX and disabling both TX and RX aggregation sessions manually in debugfs. It is very useful for debugging session initiation and teardown problems since with this you don't have to force a lot of traffic to get aggregation and thus have less data to analyse. Also, to debug mac80211 code itself, make hwsim "support" aggregation sessions. It will still just transfer the frame, but go through the setup and teardown handshakes. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-09mac80211: fix typo for LDPC capabilityLuis R. Rodriguez
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-04-07mac80211: clean up/fix aggregation codeJohannes Berg
The aggregation code has a number of quirks, like inventing an unneeded WLAN_BACK_TIMER value and leaking memory under certain circumstances during station destruction. Fix these issues by using the regular aggregation session teardown code and blocking new aggregation sessions, all before the station is really destructed. As a side effect, this gets rid of the long code block to destroy aggregation safely. Additionally, rename tid_state_rx which can only have the values IDLE and OPERATIONAL to tid_active_rx to make it easier to understand that there is no bitwise stuff going on on the RX side -- the TX side remains because it needs to keep track of the driver and peer states. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-09mac80211: deprecate RX status noiseJohannes Berg
The noise value as is won't be used, isn't filled by most drivers and doesn't really make a whole lot of sense on a per packet basis -- proper cfg80211 survey support in mac80211 will need to be different. Mark the struct member as deprecated so it will be removed from drivers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01mac80211: reduce stack usage in sta_agg_status_read()Pavel Roskin
Use a more compact and readable format for "agg_status" to reduce the stack frame to less than 1024 bytes. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-01mac80211: reduce stack usage in sta_ht_capa_read()Pavel Roskin
The maximal size of the "ht_capa" file is 430 bytes. In most cases, it's much shorter. Use a 512 byte long buffer. 1024 bytes is too much and causes a warning with CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=1024. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22mac80211: only bother printing highest data rate on debugfs if its setLuis R. Rodriguez
IEEE-802.11n spec says the RX highest data rate field does not specify the highest supported RX data rate if its not set. Ignore it if not set then. Refer to section 7.3.56.4 Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22mac80211: parse the HT capabilities info through debugfsLuis R. Rodriguez
When debugging you want to be lazy and not have to parse bits yourself so let mac80211 debugfs do the parsing for you. This is what I get against my WRT610N: root@tux:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/stations/00\:22\:6b\:aa\:bb\:01/ht_capa ht supported cap: 0x000e HT20/HT40 SM Power Save disabled No RX STBC Max AMSDU length: 7935 bytes No DSSS/CCK HT40 ampdu factor/density: 2/6 MCS mask: ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 MCS rx highest: 0 MCS tx params: 0 Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-22mac80211: make debugfs mcs set entry reflect 16 bitsLuis R. Rodriguez
The MCS set is 16 bits so when debugging ensure the full 16 bits are represented. Current reading would make you think its only 8 bits. Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-12-21mac80211: reduce reliance on netdevJohannes Berg
For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so prepare for that by reducing the reliance on having a netdev. This patch moves the name and address fields into the sdata struct and uses them from there all over. Some work is needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not a lot of work and in slow paths anyway. In doing so, this also reduces the number of pointer dereferences in many places, because of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming sdata->vif.addr. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-19mac80211: add per-station HT capability fileJohannes Berg
This is sometimes useful to debug HT issues as it shows what exactly the stack thinks the peer supports. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-11-06mac80211: async station powersave handlingJohannes Berg
Some devices require that all frames to a station are flushed when that station goes into powersave mode before being able to send frames to that station again when it wakes up or polls -- all in order to avoid reordering and too many or too few frames being sent to the station when it polls. Normally, this is the case unless the station goes to sleep and wakes up very quickly again. But in that case, frames for it may be pending on the hardware queues, and thus races could happen in the case of multiple hardware queues used for QoS/WMM. Normally this isn't a problem, but with the iwlwifi mechanism we need to make sure the race doesn't happen. This makes mac80211 able to cope with the race with driver help by a new WLAN_STA_PS_DRIVER per-station flag that can be controlled by the driver and tells mac80211 whether it can transmit frames or not. This flag must be set according to very specific rules outlined in the documentation for the function that controls it. When we buffer new frames for the station, we normally set the TIM bit right away, but while the driver has blocked transmission to that sta we need to avoid that as well since we cannot respond to the station if it wakes up due to the TIM bit. Once the driver unblocks, we can set the TIM bit. Similarly, when the station just wakes up, we need to wait until all other frames are flushed before we can transmit frames to that station, so the same applies here, we need to wait for the driver to give the OK. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30mac80211: deprecate qual valueJohannes Berg
This value is unused by mac80211, because it was only be used by wireless extensions, and turned out to not be useful there because the quality value needs to be comparable between scan results and the current value which is impossible when the qual value is calculated taking into account noise, for example. Since it is unused anyway, this patch deprecates it in the hope that drivers will remove their sometimes quite expensive calculations of the value. I'm open to actual uses of the value, but the best way of using it seems to be what the Intel drivers do which should probably be generalised if we have noise values from the hardware. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-10-30cfg80211/mac80211: use debugfs_remove_recursiveJohannes Berg
We can save a lot of code and pointers in the structs by using debugfs_remove_recursive(). First, change cfg80211 to use debugfs_remove_recursive() so that drivers do not need to clean up any files they added to the per-wiphy debugfs (if and only if they are ok to be accessed until after wiphy_unregister!). Then also make mac80211 use debugfs_remove_recursive() where necessary -- it need not remove per-wiphy files as cfg80211 now removes those, but netdev etc. files still need to be handled but can now be removed without needing struct dentry pointers to all of them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10mac80211: improve per-sta debugfsJohannes Berg
We had code for a number of files, that we didn't publish in debugfs, fix that. Also make the agg_status file layout more readable and add more information to it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-01-29mac80211: 802.11w - STA flag for MFPJouni Malinen
Add flags for setting STA entries and struct ieee80211_if_sta to indicate whether management frame protection (MFP) is used. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31mac80211: minor code cleanupsJohannes Berg
Nothing very interesting, some checkpatch inspired stuff, some other things. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31mac80211: remove aggregation status write support from debugfsJohannes Berg
This code uses static variables and thus cannot be kept. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-28mac80211: convert to %pM away from print_macJohannes Berg
Also remove a few stray DECLARE_MAC_BUF that were no longer used at all. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-15mac80211: fix debugfs lockupJohannes Berg
When debugfs_create_dir fails, sta_info_debugfs_add_work will not terminate because it will find the same station again and again. This is possible whenever debugfs fails for whatever reason; one reason is a race condition in mac80211, unfortunately we cannot do much about it, so just document it, it just means some station may be missing from debugfs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-24mac80211: make master iface not wirelessJohannes Berg
There's no need to register the master netdev with cfg80211, in fact, this is quite dangerous and lead to having to add checks for the master interface all over the config handlers. This patch removes the "ieee80211_ptr" from the master iface in favour of having a small netdev_priv() associated with the master interface that stores the ieee80211_local pointer. Because of this, a lot of code in the configuration handlers can go away. To make this patch easier to verify I have also removed a number of wiphy_priv() calls in favour of getting the sdata first and then the local pointer from that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: share STA information with driverJohannes Berg
This patch changes mac80211 to share some more data about stations with drivers. Should help iwlwifi and ath9k when they get around to updating, and might also help with implementing rate control algorithms without internals. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22replace net_device arguments with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriateJasper Bryant-Greene
This patch replaces net_device arguments to mac80211 internal functions with ieee80211_{local,sub_if_data} as appropriate. It also does the same for many 802.11s mesh functions, and changes the mesh path table to be indexed on sub_if_data rather than net_device. If the mesh part needs to be a separate patch let me know, but since mesh uses a lot of mac80211 functions which were being converted anyway, the changes go hand-in-hand somewhat. This patch probably does not convert all the functions which could be converted, but it is a large chunk and followup patches will be provided. Signed-off-by: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@amiton.co.nz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-22mac80211: remove channel use statisticsJohannes Berg
The useless channel use statistics are quite a lot of code, currently use integer divisions in the packet fast path, are rather inaccurate since they do not account for retries and finally nobody even cares. Hence, remove them completely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14mac80211: use hardware flags for signal/noise unitsBruno Randolf
trying to clean up the signal/noise code. the previous code in mac80211 had confusing names for the related variables, did not have much definition of what units of signal and noise were provided and used implicit mechanisms from the wireless extensions. this patch introduces hardware capability flags to let the hardware specify clearly if it can provide signal and noise level values and which units it can provide. this also anticipates possible new units like RCPI in the future. for signal: IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC - unspecified, unknown, hw specific IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB - dB difference to unspecified reference point IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW for noise we currently only have dBm: IEEE80211_HW_NOISE_DBM - dBm, difference to 1mW if IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC or IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DB is used the driver has to provide the maximum value (max_signal) it reports in order for applications to make sense of the signal values. i tried my best to find out for each driver what it can provide and update it but i'm not sure (?) for some of them and used the more conservative guess in doubt. this can be fixed easily after this patch has been merged by changing the hardware flags of the driver. DRIVER SIGNAL MAX NOISE QUAL ----------------------------------------------------------------- adm8211 unspec(?) 100 n/a missing at76_usb unspec(?) (?) unused missing ath5k dBm dBm percent rssi b43legacy dBm dBm percent jssi(?) b43 dBm dBm percent jssi(?) iwl-3945 dBm dBm percent snr+more iwl-4965 dBm dBm percent snr+more p54 unspec 127 n/a missing rt2x00 dBm n/a percent rssi+tx/rx frame success rt2400 dBm n/a rt2500pci dBm n/a rt2500usb dBm n/a rt61pci dBm n/a rt73usb dBm n/a rtl8180 unspec(?) 65 n/a (?) rtl8187 unspec(?) 65 (?) noise(?) zd1211 dB(?) 100 n/a percent drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c: Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-14mac80211: proper STA info lockingJohannes Berg
As discussed earlier, we can unify locking in struct sta_info and use just a single spinlock protecting all members of the structure that need protection. Many don't, but one of the especially bad ones is the 'flags' member that can currently be clobbered when RX and TX is being processed on different CPUs at the same time. Because having four spinlocks for different, mostly exclusive parts of a single structure is overkill, this patch also kills the ampdu and mesh plink spinlocks and uses just a single one for everything. Because none of the spinlocks are nested, this is safe. It remains to be seen whether or not we should make the sta flags use atomic bit operations instead, for now though this is a safe thing and using atomic operations instead will be very simple using the new static inline functions this patch introduces for accessing sta->flags. Since spin_lock_bh() is used with this lock, there shouldn't be any contention even if aggregation is enabled at around the same time as both requires frame transmission/reception which is in a bh context. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com> Cc: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Cc: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-07mac80211: QoS related cleanupsJohannes Berg
This * makes the queue number passed to drivers a u16 (as it will be with skb_get_queue_mapping) * removes the useless queue number defines * splits hw->queues into hw->queues/ampdu_queues * removes the debugfs files for per-queue counters * removes some dead QoS code * removes the beacon queue configuration for IBSS so that the drivers now never get a queue number bigger than (hw->queues + hw->ampdu_queues - 1) for tx and only in the range 0..hw->queues-1 for conf_tx. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>