This patch was adapted from 06f7bc7db7
(from linus's linux-2.6 tree of kernel.org)
here's the original message:
The queue stopping/waking functionality was broken in a way that could
cause huge latencies in TX transfers and even cause the TX to stall in the
right circumstances. Correct these problems.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@no-log.org>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The signal strength value in a single RX frame is not that reliable,
so it is better to delay start of CQM events until there is a real
average signal strength from more than a single Beacon frame
available.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The ave_beacon_signal value uses 1/16 dB unit and as such, must be
initialized with the signal level of the first Beacon frame multiplied
by 16. This fixes an issue where the initial CQM events are reported
incorrectly with a burst of events while the running average
approaches the correct value after the incorrect initialization. This
could cause user space -based roaming decision process to get quite
confused at the moment when we would like to go through authentication
and DHCP.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Somebody noticed this problem, and I outlined
to them how to fix it, but haven't heard back
from them. So while I was adding the state
field I figured I could use it to fix it.
The problem, as I understand it, is that when
we go offchannel while the driver has a queue
stopped, the driver will likely start draining
the queue and then enable it while offchannel.
This in turn will enable the interface queue,
and that leads to transmitting data frames on
the wrong channel.
Fix this by keeping track of offchannel status
per interface, and not enabling the interface
queues on interfaces that are offchannel when
the driver enables a queue.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add the trivial support for runtime interface
type changes to mac80211_hwsim for testing.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add support to mac80211 for changing the interface
type even when the interface is UP, if the driver
supports it.
To achieve this
* add a new driver callback for switching,
* split some of the interface up/down code out
into new functions (do_open/do_stop), and
* maintain an own __SDATA_RUNNING bit that will
not be set during interface type, so that any
other code doesn't use the interface.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Split the concurrent virtual interface checks
into a new function that can be used to check
for any given new interface type.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The libertas_tf special code for zero addresses
is a bit too complex, it compares against a stack
value instead of using is_zero_ether_addr() and
tries to update all interfaces even if just the
one that's being brought up needs to be changed.
Additionally, the repeated check for a valid MAC
address need only be done if we actually changed
it on the fly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since the introduction of ieee80211_sdata_running(),
some new code was introduced that uses netif_running()
instead. Switch all these instances over.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There's a lot of redundant code in mac80211's
interface cleanup/down, for example freeing
AP beacons is done both when the interface is
set DOWN as well as when it is torn down, of
which only the former has any effect.
Also, a bunch of things should be closer to
where they matter, like the MLME timers that
we should cancel when disassociating, rather
than only when the interface is set DOWN.
Clean up all this code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are subqueue helpers so that we don't
need to get the TX queue and then wake/stop
it, use those helpers.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some vendor specified mechanisms for 802.1X-style
functionality use a different protocol than EAP
(even if EAP is vendor-extensible). Support this
in mac80211 via the cfg80211 API for it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some vendor specified mechanisms for 802.1X-style
functionality use a different protocol than EAP
(even if EAP is vendor-extensible). Allow setting
the ethertype for the protocol when a driver has
support for this. The default if unspecified is
EAP, of course.
Note: This is suitable only for station mode, not
for AP implementation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Allow drivers to specify their own set of cipher
suites to advertise vendor-specific ciphers. The
driver is then required to implement hardware
crypto offload for it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
cfg80211 currently rejects all cipher suites it
doesn't know about for key length checking
purposes. This can lead to inconsistencies when
a driver advertises an algorithm that cfg80211
doesn't know about. Remove this rejection so
drivers can specify any algorithm they like.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
My previous patch erroneously included an
!A line (for some checking I am working on)
that isn't yet supported by the docbook
tools, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
While scanning, ANI is triggered unnecessarily where sta is in
unassociated state. And cancelling ani work in ath9k_htc_stop
is not required.
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With the scan callback now being callable from
any context, these unlocks/locks can go away.
This makes the code easier to understand, since
callers of these functions must no longer be
aware that the mutex may be dropped.
As Stanislaw is working on iwlwifi scanning, I
didn't change it to take advantage of the new
mac80211 semantics.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The ieee80211_scan_completed() function was a frequent
source of potential deadlocks, since it is called by
drivers but may call back into drivers, so drivers had
to make sure to call it without any locks held, which
frequently lead to more complex code in drivers. Avoid
that problem by allowing the function to be called in
any context, and queueing the actual work it does.
Also update the documentation for it to indicate this.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since cfg80211 manages the BSS list completely,
this define hasn't been used for a long time
and will never be used again.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
All major Atheros customers require the led to be in continuous
ON state rather than the blinking pattern.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If the symbol offset is 46, it will be counted in both
the third and fourth bytes of the mask, and in this
case the shift will be negative which can pollute
high order bits in the mask. This may negatively impact
OFDM symbol detection.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There was a small misordering here. In the original code, if we were to
go to err_free_ah then it wouldn't free the irq.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We're now ready to start using multiple contexts.
We do this by keeping track of the valid interface
types per context (exclusive [ibss] and normal)
and checking which context is "free" when a new
interface is added.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
It is necessary that the PAN context always
use the same beacon interval as the BSS
context unless it is in dual-station mode,
ie. the PAN context is a station as well,
so implement that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The PAN context requires also getting
RXON timing when we send an unassociated
RXON in some cases.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Sometimes we need to send RXON timing even
when we don't have a virtual interface yet,
so pass the context and allow passing one
without a virtual interface pointer.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
In order for the microcode to be able to handle
multiple interfaces, we need to give it the PAN
parameters that state how to allocate the time
between the two interfaces. Do this, and update
it wherever necessary.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Newer AGN microcode requires know the beacon
before starting the AP so that it can start
beaconing right away. Implement that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The PAN functionality requires us to send the
timing including a valid DTIM period to the
microcode before associating, so request this
data from mac80211 and send it to the device.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Frames for different contexts need to be put
on different queues, and multicast after DTIM
frames have a special queue yet which also
depends on the context, so put all this into
the context.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Since we have the beacon context now, we no
longer need to rely on iw_mode but can check
the beacon context interface's type. However,
that check must be in the work item instead
due to locking constraints (mutex must be
held when dereferencing beacon_ctx pointer).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Detect whether or not the ucode is PAN
capable and adjust the valid contexts
accordingly. To be able to do this, add
the PAN context to the array as well.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Define the new host commands and notifications
REPLY_WIPAN_PARAMS
REPLY_WIPAN_RXON
REPLY_WIPAN_RXON_TIMING
REPLY_WIPAN_RXON_ASSOC
REPLY_WIPAN_QOS_PARAM
REPLY_WIPAN_WEPKEY
REPLY_WIPAN_P2P_CHANNEL_SWITCH
REPLY_WIPAN_NOA_NOTIFICATION
and their corresponding structures along with the PAN
station flag, the PAN AP sta ID and new dev types for
the second context.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Only one context can be beaconing at a time,
but we need to track which one. Introduce a
new variable priv->beacon_ctx to do that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
A lot of HT configuration semantically belongs into
the context, even if right now it will never be
different between contexts. Move it so we're better
prepared for future changes in mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Sometimes we only pass around station
pointers but need to find the context
they belong to, so store it in there.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Since the default context is initialised to zero,
and the default flags are zero, no more code is
needed to initialise them right now, but another
context can have different default flags.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
HW crypto needs to be aware of the context, and there
are different command IDs for the WEP keys per context,
so move the key tracking variables and command IDs into
the context structure.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Each context needs to use a different AP sta
ID, so we need to move that into the context
struct instead of hardcoding it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The dwell time should at least fit into all
context's beacon intervals.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
iwlwifi occasionally needs to find the virtual
interface pointer to give it to mac80211, but right
now it only keeps one. Move it into the context so
that we can keep one pointer each.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
In status processing we'll need to find the context
for a given frame, so add a context pointer to the
TX info for each frame.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Since mac80211 doesn't currently enable/disable
QoS per interface, we can't yet do it properly,
but we can already prepare for it and move the
QoS data and command ID into the context struct.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Some commands will have different command IDs
for different contexts, so we need to store
those IDs in the context structure and use
them instead of hardcoding the commands.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The microcode tracks stations per context, so
the driver needs to do that as well for adding,
deleting and restoring them, especially in the
implicit removal case when we send an RXON.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
The broadcast station ID is per context, so
add a variable for the ID in the context and
use it everywhere we previously hardcoded it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
PAN capable microcode has a different
queue assignment (not just more queues
for PAN) due to the way multicast is
handled for AP mode.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
PAN ucode will require a different queue assignment,
in particular queue 9 instead of 4 should be used for
commands.
This is required because the ucode will stop/start
queues 4 and 8 depending on the PAN state, since
queue 8 will be used for PAN multicast (after DTIM).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
