1. 19 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  2. 07 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: async station powersave handling · af818581
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      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: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      af818581
  3. 05 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  4. 31 10月, 2009 3 次提交
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      mac80211: deprecate qual value · c27f2fde
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      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: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      c27f2fde
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      mac80211: introduce ieee80211_beacon_get_tim() · eddcbb94
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Compared to ieee80211_beacon_get(), the new function
      ieee80211_beacon_get_tim() returns information on the
      location and length of the TIM IE, which some drivers
      need in order to generate the TIM on the device. The
      old function, ieee80211_beacon_get(), becomes a small
      static inline wrapper around the new one to not break
      all drivers.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      eddcbb94
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      mac80211: remove RX_FLAG_RADIOTAP · 0869aea0
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      While there may be a case for a driver adding its
      own bits of radiotap information, none currently
      does. Also, drivers would have to copy the code
      to generate the radiotap bits that now mac80211
      generates. If some driver in the future needs to
      add some driver-specific information I'd expect
      that to be in a radiotap vendor namespace and we
      can add a different way of passing such data up
      and having mac80211 include it.
      
      Additionally, rename IEEE80211_CONF_RADIOTAP to
      IEEE80211_CONF_MONITOR since it's still used by
      b43(legacy) to obtain per-frame timestamps.
      
      The purpose of this patch is to simplify the RX
      code in mac80211 to make it easier to add paged
      skb support.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      0869aea0
  5. 28 10月, 2009 1 次提交
  6. 13 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: document ieee80211_rx() context requirement · d20ef63d
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      ieee80211_rx() must be called with softirqs disabled
      since the networking stack requires this for netif_rx()
      and some code in mac80211 can assume that it can not
      be processing its own tasklet and this call at the same
      time.
      
      It may be possible to remove this requirement after a
      careful audit of mac80211 and doing any needed locking
      improvements in it along with disabling softirqs around
      netif_rx(). An alternative might be to push all packet
      processing to process context in mac80211, instead of
      to the tasklet, and add other synchronisation.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      d20ef63d
  7. 29 8月, 2009 1 次提交
  8. 20 8月, 2009 2 次提交
  9. 14 8月, 2009 3 次提交
  10. 05 8月, 2009 2 次提交
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      mac80211: FIF_PSPOLL filter flag · e3b90ca2
      Igor Perminov 提交于
      When an interface is configured in the AP mode, the mac80211
      implementation doesn't inform the driver to receive PS Poll frames.
      It leads to inability to communicate with power-saving stations
      reliably.
      The FIF_CONTROL flag isn't passed by mac80211 to
      ieee80211_ops.configure_filter when an interface is in the AP mode.
      And it's ok, because we don't want to receive ACK frames and other
      control ones, but only PS Poll ones.
      
      This patch introduces the FIF_PSPOLL filter flag in addition to
      FIF_CONTROL, which means for the driver "pass PS Poll frames".
      
      This flag is passed to the driver:
      A) When an interface is configured in the AP mode.
      B) In all cases, when the FIF_CONTROL flag was passed earlier (in
      addition to it).
      Signed-off-by: NIgor Perminov <igor.perminov@inbox.ru>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      e3b90ca2
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      mac80211: redefine usage of the mac80211 workqueue · 42935eca
      Luis R. Rodriguez 提交于
      The mac80211 workqueue exists to enable mac80211 and drivers
      to queue their own work on a single threaded workqueue. mac80211
      takes care to flush the workqueue during suspend but we never
      really had requirements on drivers for how they should use
      the workqueue in consideration for suspend.
      
      We extend mac80211 to document how the mac80211 workqueue should
      be used, how it should not be used and finally move raw access to
      the workqueue to mac80211 only. Drivers and mac80211 use helpers
      to queue work onto the mac80211 workqueue:
      
        * ieee80211_queue_work()
        * ieee80211_queue_delayed_work()
      
      These helpers will now warn if mac80211 already completed its
      suspend cycle and someone is trying to queue work. mac80211
      flushes the mac80211 workqueue prior to suspend a few times,
      but we haven't taken the care to ensure drivers won't add more
      work after suspend. To help with this we add a warning when
      someone tries to add work and mac80211 already completed the
      suspend cycle.
      
      Drivers should ensure they cancel any work or delayed work
      in the mac80211 stop() callback.
      Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      42935eca
  11. 28 7月, 2009 1 次提交
  12. 25 7月, 2009 3 次提交
  13. 11 7月, 2009 2 次提交
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      cfg80211: introduce nl80211 testmode command · aff89a9b
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      This introduces a new NL80211_CMD_TESTMODE for testing
      and calibration use with nl80211. There's no multiplexing
      like like iwpriv had, and the command is not available by
      default, it needs to be explicitly enabled in Kconfig and
      shouldn't be enabled in most kernels.
      
      The command requires a wiphy index or interface index to
      identify the device to operate on, and the new TESTDATA
      attribute. There also is API for sending replies to the
      command, and testmode multicast messages (on a testmode
      multicast group).
      
      I've also updated mac80211 to be able to pass through the
      command to the driver, since it itself doesn't implement
      the testmode command.
      
      Additionally, to give people an idea of how to use the
      command, I've added a little code to hwsim that makes use
      of the new command to set the powersave mode, this is
      currently done via debugfs and should remain there, and
      the testmode command only serves as an example of how to
      use this best -- with nested netlink attributes in the
      TESTDATA attribute. A hwsim testmode tool can be found at
      http://git.sipsolutions.net/hwsim.git/. This tool is BSD
      licensed so people can easily use it as a basis for their
      own internal fabrication and validation tools.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      aff89a9b
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      mac80211: push rx status into skb->cb · f1d58c25
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Within mac80211, we often need to copy the rx status into
      skb->cb. This is wasteful, as drivers could be building it
      in there to start with. This patch changes the API so that
      drivers are expected to pass the RX status in skb->cb, now
      accessible as IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb). It also updates all
      drivers to pass the rx status in there, but only by making
      them memcpy() it into place before the call to the receive
      function (ieee80211_rx(_irqsafe)). Each driver can now be
      optimised on its own schedule.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      f1d58c25
  14. 11 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211: do not pass PS frames out of mac80211 again · 8f77f384
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      In order to handle powersave frames properly we had needed
      to pass these out to the device queues again, and introduce
      the skb->requeue bit. This, however, also has unnecessary
      overhead by needing to 'clean up' already tried frames, and
      this clean-up code is also buggy when software encryption
      is used.
      
      Instead of sending the frames via the master netdev queue
      again, simply put them into the pending queue. This also
      fixes a problem where frames for that particular station
      could be reordered when some were still on the software
      queues and older ones are re-injected into the software
      queue after them.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      8f77f384
  15. 04 6月, 2009 2 次提交
  16. 23 5月, 2009 1 次提交
  17. 21 5月, 2009 1 次提交
  18. 12 5月, 2009 2 次提交
  19. 07 5月, 2009 4 次提交
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      mac80211: tell driver when idle · 5cff20e6
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      When we aren't doing anything in mac80211, we can turn off
      much of the hardware, depending on the driver/hw. Not doing
      anything, aka being idle, means:
      
       * no monitor interfaces
       * no AP/mesh/wds interfaces
       * any station interfaces are in DISABLED state
       * any IBSS interfaces aren't trying to be in a network
       * we aren't trying to scan
      
      By creating a new function that verifies these conditions and calling
      it at strategic points where the states of those conditions change,
      we can easily make mac80211 tell the driver when we are idle to save
      power.
      
      Additionally, this fixes a small quirk where a recalculated powersave
      state is passed to the driver even if the hardware is about to stopped
      completely.
      
      This patch intentionally doesn't touch radio_enabled because that is
      currently implemented to be a soft rfkill which is inappropriate here
      when we need to be able to wake up with low latency.
      
      One thing I'm not entirely sure about is this:
      
        phy0: device no longer idle - in use
        wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:11:24:91:07:4d try 1
        wlan0 direct probe responded
        wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:11:24:91:07:4d
        wlan0: authenticated
      > phy0: device now idle
      > phy0: device no longer idle - in use
        wlan0: associate with AP 00:11:24:91:07:4d
        wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:11:24:91:07:4d (capab=0x401 status=0 aid=1)
        wlan0: associated
      
      Is it appropriate to go into idle state for a short time when we have
      just authenticated, but not associated yet? This happens only with the
      userspace SME, because we cannot really know how long it will wait
      before asking us to associate. Would going idle after a short timeout
      be more appropriate? We may need to revisit this, depending on what
      happens.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      5cff20e6
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      mac80211: unify config_interface and bss_info_changed · 2d0ddec5
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      The config_interface method is a little strange, it contains the
      BSSID and beacon updates, while bss_info_changed contains most
      other BSS information for each interface. This patch removes
      config_interface and rolls all the information it previously
      passed to drivers into bss_info_changed.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      2d0ddec5
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      mac80211: clean up beacon interval settings · 57c4d7b4
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      We currently have two beacon interval configuration knobs:
      hw.conf.beacon_int and vif.bss_info.beacon_int. This is
      rather confusing, even though the former is used when we
      beacon ourselves and the latter when we are associated to
      an AP.
      
      This just deprecates the hw.conf.beacon_int setting in favour
      of always using vif.bss_info.beacon_int. Since it touches all
      the beaconing IBSS code anyway, we can also add support for
      the cfg80211 IBSS beacon interval configuration easily.
      
      NOTE: The hw.conf.beacon_int setting is retained for now due
            to drivers still using it -- I couldn't untangle all
            drivers, some are updated in this patch.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      57c4d7b4
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      mac80211: rename max_sleep_interval to max_sleep_period · 9ccebe61
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Kalle points out that max_sleep_interval is somewhat confusing
      because the value is measured in beacon intervals, and not in
      TU. Rename it to max_sleep_period to be consistent with things
      like DTIM period that are also measured in beacon intervals.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      9ccebe61
  20. 23 4月, 2009 6 次提交
  21. 28 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mac80211/iwlwifi: move virtual A-MDPU queue bookkeeping to iwlwifi · e4e72fb4
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      This patch removes all the virtual A-MPDU-queue bookkeeping from
      mac80211. Curiously, iwlwifi already does its own bookkeeping, so
      it doesn't require much changes except where it needs to handle
      starting and stopping the queues in mac80211.
      
      To handle the queue stop/wake properly, we rewrite the software
      queue number for aggregation frames and internally to iwlwifi keep
      track of the queues that map into the same AC queue, and only talk
      to mac80211 about the AC queue. The implementation requires calling
      two new functions, iwl_stop_queue and iwl_wake_queue instead of the
      mac80211 counterparts.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
      Cc: Reinette Chattre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
      e4e72fb4