Helmut Schaa [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:08:55 +0000 (18:08 +0200)]
mac80211: Populate radiotap header with MCS info for TX frames
mac80211 already filled in the MCS rate info for rx'ed frames but tx'ed
frames that are sent to a monitor interface during the status callback
lack this information.
Add the radiotap fields for MCS info to ieee80211_tx_status_rtap_hdr
and populate them when sending tx'ed frames to the monitors.
The needed headroom is only extended by one byte since we don't include
legacy rate information in the rtap header for HT frames.
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Helmut Schaa [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:08:54 +0000 (18:08 +0200)]
mac80211: Build TX radiotap header dynamically
Get rid of the ieee80211_tx_status_rtap_hdr struct and instead build the
rtap header dynamically. This makes it easier to extend the rtap header
generation in the future.
Add ieee80211_tx_radiotap_len to calculate the expected size of the
rtap header before generating it. Since we can't check if the rtap
header fits into the requested headroom during compile time anymore
add a WARN_ON_ONCE.
Also move the actual rtap header generation into its own function.
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
iwl-core.c and iwl-trans-pcie-tx.c don't need to include iwl-dev.h
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
iwlagn: move iwl_enable_rfkill_int and kill iwl-helpers.h
Move iwl_enable_rfkill_int to iwl-core.h, and remove the empty
iwl-helpers.h
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
iwlagn: move iwl_beacon_time_mask_XXX near to usage
Since iwl_beacon_time_mask_[high,low] are used in iwl-core.c only,
move them to there.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:27:15 +0000 (07:27 -0700)]
iwlagn: remove 6000 hw header
The constants can be moved together with
the similar ones for other devices and we
can then remove the file.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:27:14 +0000 (07:27 -0700)]
iwlagn: remove 5000 hw header
The inline function in this header is only used
in a single file, so we can move it there.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
While inspecting the code, I saw that iwl_tx_queue_unmap modifies
the read pointer of the Tx queue without taking any locks. This means
that it can race with the reclaim flow. This can possibly lead to
a DMA warning complaining that we unmap the same buffer twice.
This is more a W/A than a fix since it is really weird to take
sta_lock inside iwl_tx_queue_unmap, but it can help until we revamp
the locking model in the transport layer.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:26:57 +0000 (07:26 -0700)]
iwlagn: stop interrupts when suspending
Occasionally, the device will send interrupts
while it is resuming, at a point where we are
not set up again to handle them. This causes
the core IRQ handling to completely disable
the IRQ, and then the driver won't work again
until it is reloaded/rebound.
To fix this issue disable the IRQ on suspend,
this will cause us to only get interrupts
again after we've setup everything on resume.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don Fry [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:26:56 +0000 (07:26 -0700)]
iwlagn: eliminate bus pointer from iwl_priv structure
A pointer to the bus structure is still in iwl_priv. Finish
cleanup and remove it.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:26:54 +0000 (07:26 -0700)]
iwlagn: send simple LQ command for WoWLAN
For some reason, WoWLAN doesn't always seem to
be happy with more advanced LQ commands. Since
we don't need them as we're not going to send
a lot of data, simply program the station with
the very simple default LQ command.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:26:53 +0000 (07:26 -0700)]
iwlagn: don't assign seqno to QoS Null frames
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, don't assign sequence numbers to
QoS Null frames.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi GUy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:26:52 +0000 (07:26 -0700)]
iwlagn: update beacon smarter
Updating the beacon every time right after one was
transmitted is pointless, most of the time we might
not even have to update it. We will update it every
time it changes, which includes from set_tim(), a
callback iwlwifi didn't implement so far.
This also reduces latency for clients, previously
we would update the beacon right after the previous
one was transmitted, and then a TIM change would
only take effect after that again -- updating the
beacon right after the TIM changes makes the TIM
change go out to the air faster.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Sat, 8 Oct 2011 20:02:58 +0000 (22:02 +0200)]
ath9k_hw: fix a regression in key miss handling
The commit "ath9k_hw: Fix incorrect key_miss handling" changed the code
to only report key miss errors if a MIC error wasn't reported.
When checking the flags in that order in the MAC code, it might miss some
real events, because the value of the MIC error flag is undefined under
some conditions.
The primary issue addressed by the previous commit is making sure that
MIC errors are properly reported on the STA side. This can be fixed in
a better way by adding a separate rx status flag for key miss and
ignoring it for multicast frames.
This fix slightly improves stability in AP mode on some older hardware,
like AR9132.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:06:20 +0000 (20:06 +0200)]
ath9k_hw: clean up tx power handling
The code for handling various restrictions concerning regulatory limits,
antenna gain, etc. is very convoluted and duplicated across various
EEPROM parsing implementations, making it hard to review.
This patch partially cleans up the mess by unifying regulatory limit
handling in one function and simplifying handling of antenna gain.
It also removes unused transmit power scaling arrays from the EEPROM code,
which belonged to an unimplemented API that isn't supposed to be in
the driver anyway.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Sat, 8 Oct 2011 13:49:57 +0000 (15:49 +0200)]
ath9k: disable unnecessary PHY error reporting
PHY errors relevant for ANI are always tracked by hardware counters, the
bits that allow them to pass through the rx filter are independent of that.
Enabling PHY errors in the rx filter often creates lots of useless DMA traffic
and might be responsible for some of the rx dma stop failure warnings.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry Finger [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:27:33 +0000 (11:27 -0500)]
rtlwifi: Change debug parameter to apply to individual drivers
The current debug parameter is applied to rtlwifi, which means that all
loaded drivers have the same level of debugging applied. In addition,
the previous method requires a two-step load process to enable debugging.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:55:40 +0000 (14:55 +0200)]
mac80211: dont orphan TX skb
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>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:55:39 +0000 (14:55 +0200)]
mac80211: dont adjust truesize
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>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:01:26 +0000 (14:01 +0200)]
mac80211: parse radiotap header earlier
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>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:01:25 +0000 (14:01 +0200)]
mac80211: move fragment flag to info flag as dont-fragment
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>
Johannes Berg [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:01:23 +0000 (14:01 +0200)]
mac80211: optimise monitor xmit
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>
Felix Fietkau [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:28:15 +0000 (02:28 +0200)]
ath9k: fix retry counting / BAR handling during queue flush
When tx is suspended temporarily and the queue is flushed, do not increase
the retry count or attempt to send out BAR frames. Instead simply retry
the affected subframes normally after the reset.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:28:14 +0000 (02:28 +0200)]
ath9k: improve PS filter clearing and retry counting for A-MPDU
Do not increment the retry counter if packets to a sleeping station
were not sent because of tx failure, instead of only checking the filter
flag.
Clear the PS filter only after an A-MPDU was reported as filtered,
otherwise the hardware might do some unnecessary extra retransmissions.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Dan Carpenter [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 05:48:20 +0000 (08:48 +0300)]
ath9k: remove some bogus error handling code
If "axq_qnum >= ARRAY_SIZE(sc->tx.txq)", then the call to
ath9k_hw_releasetxqueue() would read beyond the end of the ah->txq[]
array and possibly corrupt memory. Fortunately,
ath9k_hw_setuptxqueue() doesn't return high values of "axq_qnum" and
this code can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Dan Carpenter [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 05:46:37 +0000 (08:46 +0300)]
ath5k: remove some unneeded error handling code
th5k_hw_setup_tx_queue() returns a valid offset into the ah->ah_txq[]
array. The ah->ah_txq[] and the ah->txqs[] array are the same size.
Both have AR5K_NUM_TX_QUEUES elements. So this error handling code
will never trigger.
Also it's wrong. The call to ath5k_hw_release_tx_queue() with a qnum
of AR5K_NUM_TX_QUEUES or more will just trigger a WARN_ON() and
return. Or if it missed the WARN_ON(), it would just corrupt some
memory and return.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 16:27:10 +0000 (18:27 +0200)]
mac80211: fix offchannel TX cookie matching
When I introduced in-kernel off-channel TX I
introduced a bug -- the work can't be canceled
again because the code clear the skb pointer.
Fix this by keeping track separately of whether
TX status has already been reported.
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+] Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Tested-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add the brcm80211 tree to drivers/net/wireless, and disable the version that's
in drivers/staging. This version includes the sources currently in staging,
plus any changes that have been sent out for review.
Sources in staging will be deleted in a followup patch.
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
John W. Linville [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:33:10 +0000 (15:33 -0400)]
ath6kl: fixup merge damage in ath6kl_mgmt_tx
CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.o
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c:1838:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
Shahar Levi [Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:01:33 +0000 (13:01 +0300)]
wl12xx: Add support for HW channel switch
The wl12xx FW supports HW channel switch. If we don't use it,
sometimes the firmware gets confused when recalibrating to the new
channel, causing RX problems. This commit adds HW channel switch
support by implementing the channell_switch op.
Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
[added one comment, remove the tx_flush and rephrased the commit message] Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
The wiphy max_sched_scan_ie_len attribute was not set correctly and
remained as 0, so when IEs were being passed in a scheduled scan, we
were returning -EINVAL.
Eliad Peller [Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:06:36 +0000 (12:06 +0200)]
wl12xx: configure rate policy for p2p operations
p2p packets should go out only with OFDM rates.
Configure a new rate policy that will (later) be used
during p2p_find (when the p2p_cli / p2p_go interfaces
are in use, we won't have to use this policy, as
the configured rates should already be OFDM-only).
Additionally, update CONF_TX_MAX_RATE_CLASSES to reflect
the current value from the fw api.
ath9k_hw: set pci_express capability true for AR9480
the AR_SREV register does not seems to indicate whether AR9480 is
pci_express capable or not though the other information like macVersion
etc can be obtained properly. this fix is essential as ASPM won't be intialized
and its related driver functionality ath9k_hw_configpcipowersave won't be
called
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
this patch fixes the assumption of maximum number of GPIO pins present
in AR9287/AR9300. this fix is essential as we might encounter some
functionality issues involved in accessing the status of GPIO pins which
are all incorrectly assumed to be not within the range of max_num_gpio
of AR9300/AR9287 chipsets
Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Daniel Drake [Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:33:02 +0000 (11:33 +0100)]
libertas: detect TX lockups and reset hardware
Recent patches added support for resetting the SD8686 hardware when
commands time out, which seems to happen quite frequently soon after
resuming the system from a Wake-on-WLAN-triggered resume.
At http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10969 we see the same thing happen
with transmits. In this case, the hardware will fail to respond to
a frame passed for transmission, and libertas (correctly) will block
all further commands and transmissions as the hardware can only
deal with one thing at a time. This results in a lockup while the
system waits indefinitely for the dead card to respond.
Hook up a TX lockup timer to detect this and reset the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don Fry [Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:40:20 +0000 (11:40 -0700)]
iwlagn: rename iwlagn module iwlwifi and alias to iwlagn.
Rename the iwlagn module as iwlwifi in preparation for future
changes. Add an alias to iwlagn for backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <donald.h.fry@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In failure case locks are not allocated in mwifiex_register().
So mwifiex_free_lock_list() routine call becomes redundant.
Also we don't need to check return type for mwifiex_init_lock_list()
routine. It never fails.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The commit "mwifiex: remove list traversal.."(fcf2176c87..)
wrongly modifies AMSDU aggregation check. Due to this even though
packet size for iperf traffic is already large, we unnecessarily
try to aggregate them which adds some delay. If Tx iperf is started
on UUT for 30 seconds, UUT keeps sending Tx packets for few more
seconds.
That commit is reverted to fix the problem.
Also, MIN_NUM_AMSDU check is moved inside the loop to optimize the
loop.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This was reported and tested by Martin Walter over at AVM GmbH Berlin.
This also applies to 3.0.1 so sendint to stable.
Cc: s.kirste@avm.de Cc: d.friedel@avm.de Cc: Martin Walter <m.walter@avm.de> Cc: Peter Grabienski <pgrabien@qca.qualcomm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Tested-by: Martin Walter <m.walter@avm.de> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211: Send nullfunc frames at lower rate during connection monitor
Recently mac80211 was changed to use nullfunc instead of probe
request for connection monitoring for tx ack status reporting
hardwares. Sometimes in congested network, STA got disconnected
quickly after the association. It was observered that the rate
control was not adopted to environment due to minimal transmission.
As the nullfunc are used for monitoring purpose, these frames should
not be sacrificed for rate control updation. So it is better to send
the monitoring null func frames at minimum rate that could help to
retain the connection.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Sangwook Lee [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:57:17 +0000 (12:57 +0100)]
net:rfkill: add a gpio setup function into GPIO rfkill
Add a gpio setup function which gives a chance to set up
platform specific configuration such as pin multiplexing,
input/output direction at the runtime or booting time.
Signed-off-by: Sangwook Lee <sangwook.lee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Kalle Valo [Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:44:40 +0000 (13:44 +0300)]
ath6kl: include vmalloc.h in debug.c
Fixes compilation errors when compiling for ARM:
ath6kl/debug.c:312: error: implicit declaration of function 'vmalloc'
ath6kl/debug.c:312: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
ath6kl/debug.c:342: error: implicit declaration of function 'vfree'
ath6kl/debug.c:696: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
ath6kl/debug.c:871: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Kalle Valo [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 06:43:09 +0000 (09:43 +0300)]
ath6kl: fix size_t related warnings
My earlier debug log additions added these warnings when compiling 64 bit
kernels:
ath6kl/init.c:962: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
ath6kl/init.c:975: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
ath6kl/init.c:988: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
ath6kl/init.c:1009: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
ath6kl/init.c:1192: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 4 has type 'size_t'
ath6kl/init.c:1236: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 4 has type 'size_t'
ath6kl/init.c:1267: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 4 has type 'size_t'
Reported-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:40 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: document client powersave
With the addition of uAPSD and driver buffering
the powersave handling has gotten quite complex.
Add a section to the documentation to explain it
for anyone wanting to implement it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:39 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: allow out-of-band EOSP notification
iwlwifi has a separate EOSP notification from
the device, and to make use of that properly
it needs to be passed to mac80211. To be able
to mix with tx_status_irqsafe and rx_irqsafe
it also needs to be an "_irqsafe" version in
the sense that it goes through the tasklet,
the actual flag clearing would be IRQ-safe
but doing it directly would cause reordering
issues.
This is needed in the case of a P2P GO going
into an absence period without transmitting
any frames that should be driver-released as
in this case there's no other way to inform
mac80211 that the service period ended. Note
that for drivers that don't use the _irqsafe
functions another version of this function
will be required.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:38 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: explicitly notify drivers of frame release
iwlwifi needs to know the number of frames that are
going to be sent to a station while it is asleep so
it can properly handle the uCode blocking of that
station.
Before uAPSD, we got by by telling the device that
a single frame was going to be released whenever we
encountered IEEE80211_TX_CTL_POLL_RESPONSE. With
uAPSD, however, that is no longer possible since
there could be more than a single frame.
To support this model, add a new callback to notify
drivers when frames are going to be released.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:36 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: optimise station flags
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>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:35 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: reply only once to each PS-poll
If a PS-poll frame is retried (but was received)
there is no way to detect that since it has no
sequence number. As a consequence, the standard
asks us to not react to PS-poll frames until the
response to one made it out (was ACKed or lost).
Implement this by using the WLAN_STA_SP flags to
also indicate a PS-Poll "service period" and the
IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_EOSP flag for the response
packet to indicate the end of the "SP" as usual.
We could use separate flags, but that will most
likely completely confuse drivers, and while the
standard doesn't exclude simultaneously polling
using uAPSD and PS-Poll, doing that seems quite
problematic.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:33 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: implement uAPSD
Add uAPSD support to mac80211. This is probably not
possible with all devices, so advertising it with
the cfg80211 flag will be left up to drivers that
want it.
Due to my previous patches it is now a fairly
straight-forward extension. Drivers need to have
accurate TX status reporting for the EOSP frame.
For drivers that buffer themselves, the provided
APIs allow releasing the right number of frames,
but then drivers need to set EOSP and more-data
themselves. This is documented in more detail in
the new code itself.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:32 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: allow releasing driver-buffered frames
If there are frames for a station buffered in
the driver, mac80211 announces those in the TIM
IE but there's no way to release them. Add new
API to release such frames and use it when the
station polls for a frame.
Since the API will soon also be used for uAPSD
it is easily extensible.
Note that before this change drivers announcing
driver-buffered frames in the TIM bit actually
will respond to a PS-Poll with a potentially
lower priority frame (if there are any frames
buffered in mac80211), after this patch a driver
that hasn't been changed will no longer respond
at all. This only affects ath9k, which will need
to be fixed to implement the new API.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:04:31 +0000 (16:04 +0200)]
mac80211: clear more-data bit on filtered frames
It doesn't seem likely, but maybe possible, that the
more-data bit needs to be recomputed due to changes
in the queued frames. Clear it for filtered frames
to ensure that we never send it incorrectly. It'll
be set again as necessary when we retransmit this
frame.
The more likely case is maybe where the station woke
up after the filtered frame in which case more-data
should be clear when the frame is transmitted to the
station since it is now awake.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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