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2012-04-11mac80211: add improved HW queue controlJohannes Berg
mac80211 currently only supports one hardware queue per AC. This is already problematic for off-channel uses since if we go off channel while the BE queue is full and then try to send an off-channel frame the frame will never go out. This will become worse when we support multi-channel since then a queue on one channel might be full, but we have to stop the software queue for all channels. That is obviously not desirable. To address this problem allow drivers to register more hardware queues, and allow them to map them to virtual interfaces. When they stop a hardware queue the corresponding AC software queues on the correct interfaces will be stopped as well. Additionally, there's an off-channel queue to solve that problem and a per-interface after-DTIM beacon queue. This allows drivers to manage software queues closer to how the hardware works. Currently, there's a limit of 16 hardware queues. This may or may not be sufficient, we can adjust it as needed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-11mac80211: add explicit monitor interface if neededJohannes Berg
The queue mapping redesign that I'm planning to do will break pure injection unless we handle monitor interfaces explicitly. One possible option would be to have the driver tell mac80211 about monitor mode queues etc., but that would duplicate the API since we already need to have queue assignments handled per virtual interface. So in order to solve this, have a virtual monitor interface that is added whenever all active vifs are monitors. We could also use the state of one of the monitor interfaces, but managing that would be complicated, so allocate separate state. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-11mac80211: Indicate basic rates when adding rate IEsAshok Nagarajan
Basic rates are added with supported rates IE and extended supported rates IE. Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-10mac80211: Implement mesh synchronization frameworkJavier Cardona
This patch adds MBSS extensible synchronization framework (Sec. 13.13.2 of IEEE Std. 802.11-2012). The framework is implemented via an ops table which defines the following functions: rx_bcn_presp() - this is called every time a mesh beacon is received. adjust_tbtt() - this is called immediately before a beacon is about to be transmitted. The default neighbor offset synchronization defined in the standard is implemented. We also provide template functions for vendor specific methods. When neighbor offset synchronization is active (which is the default) mesh neighbors in the same MBSS will track timing offsets to each other and compensate clock drift. In our tests we observed that this mesh synchronization implementation successfully corrected drifts between stations of ~2PPM while introducing a jitter of ~20us. It is also possible to test this framework on mac80211_hwsim simulated phys to see how it behaves under different topologies, over poor links, etc. Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@s2005.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Pavel Zubarev <pavel.zubarev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-10mac80211: sanity check for null SSIDStanislaw Gruszka
While associated we should never have empty SSID, but life can be full of surprises, and is allways better to print a warning than crash. Before memcpy() in ieee80211_probereq_get() check ssid_len instead of ssid pointer, sice pointer it always passed by "ssidie + 2" expression to send probe functions, so practically never can be NULL. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-10mac80211: use IEEE80211_NUM_ACSJohannes Berg
When comparing hw->queues to determine if the device is QoS capable, use IEEE80211_NUM_ACS instead of just 4. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-10mac80211: clean up uAPSD TX codeJohannes Berg
Clean up the code formatting and also replace the constant 0 by IEEE80211_AC_VO. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-10mac80211: fix mesh TX coding styleJohannes Berg
Fix bad indentation & pointless if nesting. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-09mac80211: optimize aggregation session timeout handlingFelix Fietkau
Calling mod_timer from the rx/tx hotpath is somewhat expensive, and the timeout doesn't need to be so precise. Switch to a different strategy: Schedule the timer initially, store jiffies of all last rx/tx activity which would previously modify the timer, and let the timer re-arm itself after checking the last rx/tx timestamp. Make the session timers deferrable to avoid causing extra wakeups on systems running on battery. This visibly reduces CPU load under high network load on small embedded systems. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-09wireless: rename ht_info to ht_operationJohannes Berg
Since some of the HT code pre-dates 802.11n-2009 some names are wrong. The one that bothers me most is that "HT operation" is called "HT information" in our code and that causes confusion. Rename "HT information" to "HT operation" and also the control_chan field to primary_chan to match the name used in the spec. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-15mac80211: make uapsd_* keys per-vifEliad Peller
uapsd_queues and uapsd_max_sp_len are relevant only for managed interfaces, and can be configured differently for each vif. Move them from the local struct to sdata->u.mgd, and update the debugfs functions accordingly. Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-12mac80211: Limit TID buffering during BA session setup/teardownHelmut Schaa
While setting up or tearing down a BA session mac80211 is buffering pending frames for the according TID. However, there's currently no limit on how many frames are buffered possibly leading to an out-of- memory situation. This can happen on systems with little memory when the CPU is fully loaded since the BA session work is executed in process context while frames can still come via softirq. Apply a limitation to the TIDs pending queue to avoid consuming too much memory in this situation. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-29mac80211: handle non-bufferable MMPDUs correctlyJohannes Berg
This renames the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE TX flag to IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER and also uses it for non-bufferable MMPDUs (all MMPDUs but deauth, disassoc and action frames.) Previously, mac80211 would let the MMPDU through but not set the flag so drivers supporting some hardware aids for avoiding the PS races would then reject the frame. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-27mac80211: remove local_to_hwJohannes Berg
That's a lot longer than open-coding it and doesn't really add value, so just remove it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-22cfg80211: restructure AP/GO mode APIJohannes Berg
The AP/GO mode API isn't very clearly defined, it has "set beacon" and "new beacon" etc. Modify the API to the following: * start AP -- all settings * change beacon -- new beacon data * stop AP -- stop AP mode operation This also reflects in the nl80211 API, rename the commands there correspondingly (but keep the old names for compatibility.) Overall, this makes it much clearer what's going on in the API. Kalle developed the ath6kl changes, I created the rest of the patch. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-30mac80211: add support for mcs masksSimon Wunderlich
* Handle MCS masks set by the user. * Match rates provided by the rate control algorithm to the mask set, also in HT mode, and switch back to legacy mode if necessary. * add debugfs files to observate the rate selection Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-16mac80211: fix tx->skb NULL pointer dereferenceYoni Divinsky
In function ieee80211_tx_h_encrypt the var info was initialized from tx->skb, since the fucntion is called after the function ieee80211_tx_h_fragment tx->skb is not valid anymore. Signed-off-by: Yoni Divinsky <yoni.divinsky@ti.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15mac80211: Use appropriate TID for sending BAR, ADDBA and DELBA framesHelmut Schaa
Currently BAR, ADDBA and DELBA frames are always sent using AC_VO. If the TID for which a BA session is established is assigned to a different queue BAR, ADDBA and DELBA frames can "overtake" frames of the according BA session. Hence, always put BA session related frames into the same queue as the BA sessions data frames. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15mac80211: reduce station management complexityJohannes Berg
Now that IBSS no longer needs to insert stations from atomic context, we can get rid of all the special cases for that, and even get rid of the sta_lock (though it needs to stay as tim_lock.) This makes the station management code much more straight-forward. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15mac80211: count authorized stations per BSSJohannes Berg
Currently, each AP interface will send multicast traffic if any interface has a station entry even if that station entry is allocated only. With the new station state management we can easily fix it by adding a counter that counts each authorized station only and send multicast traffic only when the correct interface has at least one authorized station. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15mac80211: refactor station state transitionsJohannes Berg
Station entries can have various states, the most important ones being auth, assoc and authorized. This patch prepares us for telling the driver about these states, we don't want to confuse drivers with strange transitions, so with this we enforce that they move in the right order between them (back and forth); some transitions might happen before the driver even knows about the station, but at least runtime transitions will be ordered correctly. As a consequence, IBSS and MESH stations will now have the ASSOC flag set (so they can transition to AUTHORIZED), and we can get rid of a special case in TX processing. When freeing a station, unwind the state so that other parts of the code (or drivers later) can rely on the transitions. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-06mac80211: fix retransmitJohannes Berg
This fixes another regression from my "pass all fragments to driver at once" patches -- if the packet is being retransmitted then we don't go through all handlers, but we still need to move it to the skbs list, otherwise we run into the first warning in __ieee80211_tx() and leak the skb. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28mac80211: don't initiate path discovery when forwarding frame with unknown DAThomas Pedersen
We used to initiate a path discovery when receiving a frame for which there is no forwarding information. To cut down on PREQ spam, just send a (gated) PERR in response. Also separate path discovery logic from nexthop querying. This patch means we no longer queue frames when forwarding, so kill the PERR TX stuff in discard_frame(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28{nl,cfg,mac}80211: Allow Setting Multicast Rate in MeshChun-Yeow Yeoh
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28mac80211: call skb_put() before copying the data (trivial)Eliad Peller
It doesn't have any actual effect here, but we should skb_put() *before* copying the data. Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28mac80211: fix TX warningJohannes Berg
Emmanuel reported that my previous patches to enable handing all fragments to drivers at once triggered the warning that the SKB queue wasn't empty. This is happening when we actually queue up some frames and don't hand them to the driver (queues are stopped). The reason for it is that my code that splices the frame(s) over to the pending queue didn't re-init the local queue, so skb_queue_empty() was false. Fix this by using the _init versions of the splicing. Also, convert the warning to WARN_ON_ONCE. Reported-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Tested-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28mac80211: timeout tx agg sessions in way similar to rx agg sessionsNikolay Martynov
Currently tx aggregation is not being timed out even if timeout is specified when aggregation is opened. Tx tid stays active until delba arrives from recipient (i.e. recipient times out tid when it is inactive). The problem with this approach is that delba can get lost in the air and tx tid will stay perpetually opened on the originator while closed on recipient thus all data sent via this tid will be lost. This patch implements tx tid timeouting in way very similar to rx tid timeouting. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Martynov <mar.kolya@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28mac80211: fix duration calculation for QoS NOACK framesSimon Wunderlich
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-28mac80211: remove debugfs noack testSimon Wunderlich
This feature has been superseded by the NoAck per Queue feature. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-22Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-debugfs.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-rx.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-scan.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-tx.c include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h
2011-11-21mac80211: transmit fragment list to driversJohannes Berg
Drivers can usually handle fragmented packets much easier when they get the entire list of fragments at once. The only thing they need to do is keep enough space on the queues for up to ten fragments of a single MSDU. This allows them to implement this with a new operation tx_frags. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21mac80211: make TX LED handling independent of fragmentationJohannes Berg
This just prepares for passing the entire fragment list to the driver. No significant changes, but the TX throughput is calculated slightly differently now and we blink only once for each MSDU. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21mac80211: move fragment flag adjustmentJohannes Berg
Instead of adjusting the fragment flags at TX time, adjust them at fragmentation time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21mac80211: use skb list for fragmentsJohannes Berg
We are currently linking the skbs by using skb->next directly. This works, but the preferred way is to use a struct sk_buff_head instead. That also prepares for passing that to drivers directly. While at it I noticed we calculate the duration for fragments twice -- remove one of them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-17mac80211: remove crypto special case for auth framesJohannes Berg
The shared key authentication frame that needs to be encrypted (the third one in the shared key handshake) is directly encrypted in ieee80211_send_auth and the IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT is set. All others are not encrypted, so the only way to get to this is erroneously on no-monitor AP side. Remove the special case for authentication frames to fix the AP shared key side when operating without cooked monitor interfaces -- with cooked monitor the IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT also gets set, so we never get here -- an AP never encrypts auth frames. Without this patch, an AP operating in WEP mode with my no-monitor patches would erroneously encrypt all authentication frames, instead of none. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-11mac80211: Save probe response data for bssArik Nemtsov
Allow setting a probe response template for an interface operating in AP mode. Low level drivers are notified about changes in the probe response template and are able to retrieve a copy of the current probe response. This data can, for example, be uploaded to hardware as a template. Signed-off-by: Guy Eilam <guy@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09mac80211: implement wifi TX statusJohannes Berg
Implement the socket wifi TX status error queue reflection in mac80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-08mac80211: add HT IEs to mesh framesThomas Pedersen
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <anagar6@uic.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-08mac80211: comment allocation of mesh framesThomas Pedersen
Remove most references to magic numbers, save a few bytes and hopefully improve readability. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-31net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modulesPaul Gortmaker
These files are non modular, but need to export symbols using the macros now living in export.h -- call out the include so that things won't break when we remove the implicit presence of module.h from everywhere. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-14mac80211: reformat TX unauthorised checkJohannes Berg
Reformat the check, the indentation is completely strange. Also change the last part of the condition to make the code shorter. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11mac80211: dont orphan TX skbJohannes Berg
This was another workaround for truesize "bugs". The reason we did this was that when we orphaned the SKB it wouldn't be truesize-checked later. Now that the check is gone (and we just charge the former smaller size to the socket) there's no longer a reason to orphan the skb here. Keep the skb charged to the socket until it is really freed (or orphaned in TX status). This helps flow control and allows us to get at the socket later for other purposes. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11mac80211: dont adjust truesizeJohannes Berg
There's no need to adjust truesize. The history of this was that we always ran into skb_truesize_bug (via skb_truesize_check) which has since been removed in commit 92a0acce186cd. skb_truesize_check() checked that truesize was bigger or equal to the actual allocation, which would trigger in mac80211 due to header adding. The check no longer exists and we shouldn't be messing with the truesize anwyay. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11mac80211: parse radiotap header earlierJohannes Berg
We can now move the radiotap header parsing into ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit(). This moves it out of the hotpath, and also helps the code since now the radiotap header will no longer be present in ieee80211_xmit() etc. which is easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11mac80211: move fragment flag to info flag as dont-fragmentJohannes Berg
The purpose of this is two-fold: 1) by moving it out of tx_data.flags, we can in another patch move the radiotap parsing so it no longer is in the hotpath 2) if a device implements fragmentation but can optionally skip it, the radiotap request for not doing fragmentation may be honoured Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11mac80211: remove tx_data ethertypeJohannes Berg
It's set, but never used, so kill it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-11mac80211: optimise monitor xmitJohannes Berg
Since the only way the interface can be a monitor interface in ieee80211_xmit() is because the frame came from ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit() we can move all the code there. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-03mac80211: Allow noack flag overwrite for injected framesHelmut Schaa
Allow injected unicast frames to be sent without having to wait for an ACK. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30mac80211: dont assign seqno to or aggregate QoS Null framesJohannes Berg
802.11 says: "Sequence numbers for QoS (+)Null frames may be set to any value." However, if we use the normal counters then peers will get confused with aggregation since there'll be holes in the sequence number sequence. To avoid that, neither assign a sequence number to QoS null frames nor put them on aggregation. 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>