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2008-07-14mac80211: fix TX sequence numbersJohannes Berg
This patch makes mac80211 assign proper sequence numbers to QoS-data frames. It also removes the old sequence number code because we noticed that only the driver or hardware can assign sequence numbers to non-QoS-data and especially management frames in a race-free manner because beacons aren't passed through mac80211's TX path. This patch also adds temporary code to the rt2x00 drivers to not break them completely, that code will have to be reworked for proper sequence numbers on beacons. It also moves sequence number assignment down in the TX path so no sequence numbers are assigned to frames that are dropped. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-08mac80211: fix lots of kernel-docRandy Dunlap
Fix more than 50 kernel-doc warnings in ieee80211/mac80211 kernel-doc notation. Fix a few typos also. Note: Some fields are marked as TBD and need to have their description corrected. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-26mac80211: use separate spinlock for sta flagsJohannes Berg
David Ellingsworth posted a bug that was only noticable on UP/NO-PREEMPT and Michael correctly analysed it to be a spin_lock_bh() section within a spin_lock_irqsave() section. This adds a separate spinlock for the sta_info flags to fix that issue and avoid having to take much care about where the sta flag manipulation functions are called. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Reported-By: David Ellingsworth <david@identd.dyndns.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-05-21mac80211: 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>
2008-05-21mac80211: move TX info into skb->cbJohannes Berg
This patch converts mac80211 and all drivers to have transmit information and status in skb->cb rather than allocating extra memory for it and copying all the data around. To make it fit, a union is used where only data that is necessary for all steps is kept outside of the union. A number of fixes were done by Ivo, as well as the rt2x00 part of this patch. Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.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>
2008-04-08mac80211: rename filesJohannes Berg
This patch renames all mac80211 files (except ieee80211_i.h) to get rid of the useless ieee80211_ prefix. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08mac80211: fix key vs. sta locking problemsJohannes Berg
Up to now, key manipulation is supposed to run under RTNL to avoid concurrent manipulations and also allow the set_key() hardware callback to sleep. This is not feasible because STA structs are rcu-protected and thus a lot of operations there cannot take the RTNL. Also, key references are rcu-protected so we cannot do things atomically. This patch changes key locking completely: * key operations are now atomic * hardware crypto offload is enabled and disabled from a workqueue, due to that key freeing is also delayed * debugfs code is also run from a workqueue * keys reference STAs (and vice versa!) so during STA unlink the STAs key reference is removed but not the keys STA reference, to avoid races key todo work is run before STA destruction. * fewer STA operations now need the RTNL which was required due to key operations This fixes the locking problems lockdep pointed out and also makes things more light-weight because the rtnl isn't required as much. Note that the key todo lock/key mutex are global locks, this is not required, of course, they could be per-hardware instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-01mac80211: fix spinlock recursion on sta expirationLuis Carlos Cobo
Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-01mac80211: sta_info_flush() fixesJohannes Berg
When the IBSS code tries to flush the STA list, it does so in an atomic context. Flushing isn't safe there, however, and requires the RTNL, so we need to defer it to a workqueue. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-27mac80211: reorder fields to make some structures smallerJohannes Berg
This patch reorders some fields in various structures to have less padding within the structures, making them smaller. It doesn't yet make any type adjustments, but often size_t is used for example for IE lengths which is total overkill since size_t will be 8 bytes long on 64-bit yet the length can at most fill a u8. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-27mac80211: A-MPDU MLME use dynamic allocationRon Rindjunsky
This patch alters the A-MPDU MLME in sta_info to use dynamic allocation, thus drastically improving memory usage - from a constant ~2 Kbyte in the previous (static) allocation to a lower limit of ~200 Byte and an upper limit of ~2 Kbyte. Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-27mac80211: fix wrong Rx A-MPDU control via debugfsRon Rindjunsky
This patch eliminate the use of buf_size as a trigger in favor of a new flag to control Rx A-MPDU sessions through debugfs Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06mac80211: add PLINK_ prefix and kernel doc to enum plink_stateLuis Carlos Cobo
Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06mac80211: remove STA entries when taking down interfaceJohannes Berg
When we take down an interface, we need to remove the STA info items that belong to it because otherwise we might invoke a sta_notify() callback in the driver when we later delete the STA entries, but in that case the driver will already have removed its knowledge of the interface they belonged to leading to confusion. Also, we could invoke the set_tim() callback after the driver removed its knowledge of the interface, which can lead to a crash if it requests a beacon with a then-invalid vif pointer! A side effect of this patch is that, because it was easier, it disallows changing the WDS peer while an interface is up. Should that actually be necessary, it can be added back, but the WDS peer STA entry may not be added while the interface is UP so for now I've simplified the WDS peer's STA entry lifetime management. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06mac80211: clean up sta_info and document lockingJohannes Berg
This patch cleans up the sta_info struct and documents how each set of variables is locked. Notably, flags locking is completely missing. It also adds kernel-doc for some (but not all yet) members of the struct. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06mac80211: split sta_info_addJohannes Berg
sta_info_add() has two functions: allocating a station info structure and inserting it into the hash table/list. Splitting these two functions allows allocating with GFP_KERNEL in many places instead of GFP_ATOMIC which is now required by the RCU protection. Additionally, in many places RCU protection is now no longer needed at all because between sta_info_alloc() and sta_info_insert() the caller owns the structure. This fixes a few race conditions with setting initial flags and similar, but not all (see comments in ieee80211_sta.c and cfg.c). More documentation on the existing races will be in a follow-up patch. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06mac80211: RCU-ify STA info structure accessJohannes Berg
This makes access to the STA hash table/list use RCU to protect against freeing of items. However, it's not a true RCU, the copy step is missing: whenever somebody changes a STA item it is simply updated. This is an existing race condition that is now somewhat understandable. This patch also fixes the race key freeing vs. STA destruction by making sure that sta_info_destroy() is always called under RTNL and frees the key. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06mac80211: reorder a few fields in sta_infoJohannes Berg
Three __le16s followed by an enum (int) leave a two-byte hole of padding which we can use for two of the other fields. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06mac80211: clean up mesh RX path a bit moreJohannes Berg
Moves another ifdef into the sta_info header file in favour of compiling more code even w/o CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06mac80211: clean up mesh codeJohannes Berg
Various cleanups, reducing the #ifdef mess and other things. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-06mac80211: mesh data structures and first mesh changesLuis Carlos Cobo
Includes integration in struct sta_info of mesh peer link elements, previously on their own mesh peer link table. Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29mac80211: remove STA infos last_ack stuffJohannes Berg
These things aren't used and the only possible use is within rate control algorithms, however those can, if they need it, keep track of it in their private data. last_ack_ms isn't even updated so completely useless. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29mac80211: atomically check whether STA exists alreadyJohannes Berg
When a STA structure is added, it is often checked whether it already exists before adding it. This, however, isn't done atomically so there is a race condition that could lead to two STA structures being added with the same MAC address. This patch changes sta_info_add() to return an ERR_PTR in case of failure and adds the failure mode -EEXIST when the STA already exists. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29mac80211: rework TX filtered frame codeJohannes Berg
This reworks the code for TX filtered frames, splitting it out to a new function to handle those cases, making the clear instruction a flag and renaming a few things to be easier to understand and less Atheros hardware specific. Finally, it also makes the comments explain more. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29mac80211: consolidate TIM handling codeJohannes Berg
This consolidates all TIM handling code to avoid re-introducing errors with the bitmap/set_tim order and to reduce code. While reading the code I noticed a possible problem so I also added a comment about that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29mac80211: remove sta TIM flag, fix expiry TIM handlingJohannes Berg
The TIM flag that is kept in each station's info is completely useless, there's no code (aside from the debugfs display code) checking it, hence it can be removed. While doing that, I noticed that the TIM handling is broken when buffered frames expire, so fix that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29mac80211: convert sta_info.pspoll to a flagJohannes Berg
This doesn't really need to be a full int variable since it's just a flag to indicate a PS-poll is in progress. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29mac80211: remove port control enable switch, clean up sta flagsJohannes Berg
This patch removes the 802.1X port acess control enable flag since it is not required. Instead, set the authorized flag for each station that we normally communicate with (WDS peers, IBSS peers and APs we're associated to) and require hostapd to set the authorized flag for all stations when port control is not enabled. Also, since I was working in that area, this documents station flags and removes the unused "permanent" one. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversionJohannes Berg
This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k) are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations can be done. Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty much required for travelling. Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to the BSS conf stuff. I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29mac80211: A-MPDU add debugfs supportRon Rindjunsky
This patch adds A-MPDU status report per STA to the debugfs. The option to de/activate A-MPDU through debugfs is also present. Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29mac80211: A-MPDU Tx add MLME structuresRon Rindjunsky
This patch adds the needed structures to describe the Tx aggregation MLME per STA new: - struct tid_ampdu_tx: TID aggregation information (Tx) changed: - struct sta_ampdu_mlme: Tx aggregation information per TID and dialog token creator were added - struct sta_info: tid_to_tx_q added for tid<->tx queue mapping Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28mac80211: A-MPDU Rx add MLME structuresRon Rindjunsky
This patch adds the needed structures to describe the Rx aggregation MLME per STA new: - struct tid_ampdu_rx: TID aggregation information (Rx) - struct sta_ampdu_mlme: MLME aggregation information for STA changed: - struct sta_info: ampdu_mlme added to describe A-MPDU MLME per STA, and timer_to_tid added to map timer id into TID Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28mac80211: adding 802.11n HT framework definitionsRon Rindjunsky
New structures: - ieee80211_ht_info: describing STA's HT capabilities - ieee80211_ht_bss_info: describing BSS's HT characteristics Changed structures: - ieee80211_hw_mode: now also holds PHY HT capabilities for each HW mode - ieee80211_conf: ht_conf holds current self HT configuration ht_bss_conf holds current BSS HT configuration - flag IEEE80211_CONF_SUPPORT_HT_MODE added to indicate if HT use is desired - sta_info: now also holds Peer's HT capabilities Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: kill vlan_idJohannes Berg
Each station has a vlan_id that is useless. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: make assoc_ap a flagJohannes Berg
The sta_info.assoc_ap value is used as a flag, move it into flags. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: remove fake set_key() callJohannes Berg
Remove adding a fake key with a NONE key algorithm for each associated STA. If we have hardware with such TX filtering we should probably extend the sta_table_notification() callback with the sta information instead; the fact that it's treated as a key for some atheros hardware shouldn't bother the stack. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: remove unused ioctls (2)Johannes Berg
The ioctls * PRISM2_PARAM_STA_ANTENNA_SEL * PRISM2_PARAM_TX_POWER_REDUCTION * PRISM2_PARAM_DEFAULT_WEP_ONLY are not used by hostapd or wpa_supplicant. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: improve locking of sta_info related structuresMichael Wu
The sta_info code has some awkward locking which prevents some driver callbacks from being allowed to sleep. This patch makes the locking more focused so code that calls driver callbacks are allowed to sleep. It also converts sta_lock to a rwlock. Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-05-05[MAC80211]: Add debugfs attributes.Jiri Benc
Export various mac80211 internal variables through debugfs. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-05[MAC80211]: Add mac80211 wireless stack.Jiri Benc
Add mac80211, the IEEE 802.11 software MAC layer. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>