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* mac80211: delete work timerJohannes Berg2010-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new workqueue changes helped me find this bug that's been lingering since the changes to the work processing in mac80211 -- the work timer is never deleted properly. Do that to avoid having it fire after all data structures have been freed. It can't be re-armed because all it will do, if running, is schedule the work, but that gets flushed later and won't have anything to do since all work items are gone by now (by way of interface removal). Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.34+] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Fix compilation warning when CONFIG_INET is not setJuuso Oikarinen2010-08-04
| | | | | | | | The warning is: net/mac80211/main.c:688: warning: label ‘fail_ifa’ defined but not used Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: inform drivers about the off-channel status on channel changesFelix Fietkau2010-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | For some drivers it can be useful to know whether the channel they're supposed to switch to is going to be used for short off-channel work or scanning, or whether the hardware is expected to stay on it for a while longer. This is important for various kinds of calibration work, which takes longer to complete and should keep some persistent state, even if the channel temporarily changes. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: remove wep dependencyJohn W. Linville2010-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The current mac80211 code assumes that WEP is always available. If WEP fails to initialize, ieee80211_register_hw will always fail. In some cases (e.g. FIPS certification), the cryptography used by WEP is unavailable. However, in such cases there is no good reason why CCMP encryption (or even no link level encryption) cannot be used. So, this patch removes mac80211's assumption that WEP (and TKIP) will always be available for use. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Fix ps-qos network latency handlingJuuso Oikarinen2010-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ps-qos latency handling is broken. It uses predetermined latency values to select specific dynamic PS timeouts. With common AP configurations, these values overlap with beacon interval and are therefore essentially useless (for network latencies less than the beacon interval, PSM is disabled.) This patch remedies the problem by replacing the predetermined network latency values with one high value (1900ms) which is used to go trigger full psm. For backwards compatibility, the value 2000ms is still mapped to a dynamic ps timeout of 100ms. Currently also the mac80211 internal value for storing user space configured dynamic PSM values is incorrectly in the driver visible ieee80211_conf struct. Move it to the ieee80211_local struct. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Fix circular locking dependency in ARP filter handlingJuuso Oikarinen2010-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a circular locking dependency when configuring the hardware ARP filters on association, occurring when flushing the mac80211 workqueue. This is what happens: [ 92.026800] ======================================================= [ 92.030507] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] [ 92.030507] 2.6.34-04781-g2b2c009 #85 [ 92.030507] ------------------------------------------------------- [ 92.030507] modprobe/5225 is trying to acquire lock: [ 92.030507] ((wiphy_name(local->hw.wiphy))){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8105b5c0>] flush_workq ueue+0x0/0xb0 [ 92.030507] [ 92.030507] but task is already holding lock: [ 92.030507] (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff812b9ce2>] rtnl_lock+0x12/0x20 [ 92.030507] [ 92.030507] which lock already depends on the new lock. [ 92.030507] [ 92.030507] [ 92.030507] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: [ 92.030507] [ 92.030507] -> #2 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}: [ 92.030507] [<ffffffff810761fb>] lock_acquire+0xdb/0x110 [ 92.030507] [<ffffffff81341754>] mutex_lock_nested+0x44/0x300 [ 92.030507] [<ffffffff812b9ce2>] rtnl_lock+0x12/0x20 [ 92.030507] [<ffffffffa022d47c>] ieee80211_assoc_done+0x6c/0xe0 [mac80211] [ 92.030507] [<ffffffffa022f2ad>] ieee80211_work_work+0x31d/0x1280 [mac80211] [ 92.030507] -> #1 ((&local->work_work)){+.+.+.}: [ 92.030507] [<ffffffff810761fb>] lock_acquire+0xdb/0x110 [ 92.030507] [<ffffffff8105a51a>] worker_thread+0x22a/0x370 [ 92.030507] [<ffffffff8105ecc6>] kthread+0x96/0xb0 [ 92.030507] [<ffffffff81003a94>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [ 92.030507] [ 92.030507] -> #0 ((wiphy_name(local->hw.wiphy))){+.+.+.}: [ 92.030507] [<ffffffff81075fdc>] __lock_acquire+0x1c0c/0x1d50 [ 92.030507] [<ffffffff810761fb>] lock_acquire+0xdb/0x110 [ 92.030507] [<ffffffff8105b60e>] flush_workqueue+0x4e/0xb0 [ 92.030507] [<ffffffffa023ff7b>] ieee80211_stop_device+0x2b/0xb0 [mac80211] [ 92.030507] [<ffffffffa0231635>] ieee80211_stop+0x3e5/0x680 [mac80211] The locking in this case is quite complex. Fix the problem by rewriting the way the hardware ARP filter list is handled - i.e. make a copy of the address list to the bss_conf struct, and provide that list to the hardware driver when needed. The current patch will enable filtering also in promiscuous mode. This may need to be changed in the future. Reported-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: refcount aggregation queue stopJohannes Berg2010-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mac80211 currently maintains the ampdu_lock to avoid starting a queue due to one aggregation session while another aggregation session needs the queue stopped. We can do better, however, and instead refcount the queue stops for this particular purpose, thus removing the need for the lock. This will help making ampdu_action able to sleep. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: move aggregation callback processingJohannes Berg2010-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This moves the aggregation callback processing to the per-sdata skb queue and a work function rather than the tasklet. Unfortunately, this means that it extends the pkt_type hack to that skb queue. However, it will enable making ampdu_action API changes gradually, my current plan is to get rid of this again by forcing drivers to only return from ampdu_action() when everything is done, thus removing the callbacks completely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Add netif state checking to ieee80211_ifa_changedJuuso Oikarinen2010-06-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's a window for ieee80211_ifa_changed() to get called whilst the managed mode mutex has not been initialized when opening and stopping the interface. Currently this causes a kernel BUG like the following: [ 132.460013] kernel BUG at /home/wifi/iwlwifi-2.6/net/mac80211/main.c:380! [ 132.460013] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP The mutex is initialized during open(), hence once netif_running() is true, the mutex should be valid. Fix by adding a netif_running() check to the function. Reported-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Tested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: make ARP filtering depend on CONFIG_INETJohn W. Linville2010-06-04
| | | | Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: simplify key lockingJohannes Berg2010-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Since I recently made station management able to sleep, I can now rework key management as well; since it will no longer need a spinlock and can also use a mutex instead, a bunch of code to allow drivers' set_key to sleep while key management is protected by a spinlock can now be removed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Add support for hardware ARP query filteringJuuso Oikarinen2010-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some hardware allow extended filtering of ARP frames not intended for the host. To perform such filtering, the hardware needs to know the current IP address(es) of the host, bound to its interface. Add support for ARP filtering to mac80211 by adding a new op to the driver interface, allowing to configure the current IP addresses. This op is called upon association with the currently configured address(es), and when associated whenever the IP address(es) change. This patch adds configuration of IPv4 addresses only, as IPv6 addresses don't need ARP filtering. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: add the minstrel_ht rate control algorithmFelix Fietkau2010-06-02
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2010-05-11
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/main.c
| * mac80211: improve HT channel handlingJohannes Berg2010-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, when one interface switches HT mode, all others will follow along. This is clearly undesirable, since the new one might switch to no-HT while another one is operating in HT. Address this issue by keeping track of the HT mode per interface, and allowing only changes that are compatible, i.e. switching into HT40+ is not possible when another interface is in HT40-, in that case the second one needs to fall back to HT20. Also, to allow drivers to know what's going on, store the per-interface HT mode (channel type) in the virtual interface's bss_conf. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2010-05-05
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/main.c
| * mac80211: improve IBSS scanningJohannes Berg2010-05-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When IBSS is fixed to a frequency, it can still scan to try to find the right BSSID. This makes sense if the BSSID isn't also fixed, but it need not scan all channels -- just one is sufficient. Make it do that by moving the scan setup code to ieee80211_request_internal_scan() and include a channel variable setting. Note that this can be further improved to start the IBSS right away if both frequency and BSSID are fixed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| * mac80211: Determine dynamic PS timeout based on ps-qos network latencyJuuso Oikarinen2010-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Determine the dynamic PS timeout based on the configured ps-qos network latency. For backwards wext compatibility, allow the dynamic PS timeout configured by the cfg80211 to overrule the automatically determined value. Signed-off-by: Juuso Oikarinen <juuso.oikarinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2010-04-15
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/phy.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
| * mac80211: enhance tracingJohannes Berg2010-04-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enhance tracing by adding tracing for a variety of callbacks that the drivers call, and also for internal calls (currently limited to queue status). This can aid debugging what is going on in mac80211 in interaction with drivers, since we can now see what drivers call and not just what mac80211 calls in the driver. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2010-04-11
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c net/core/ethtool.c net/mac80211/scan.c
| * mac80211: annotate station rcu dereferencesJohannes Berg2010-04-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new RCU lockdep support warns about these in some contexts -- make it aware of the locks used to protect all this. Different locks are used in different contexts which unfortunately means we can't get perfect checking. Also remove rcu_dereference() from two places that don't actually dereference the pointers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: Ensure initializing private mc_list in prepare_multicast().YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明2010-04-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix kernel panic by NULL pointer dereference in the context of ieee80211_ops->prepare_multicast(). This bug was introduced by commit 22bedad3c.. ("net: convert multicast list to list_head"). Call __hw_addr_init() in ieee80211_alloc_hw() to initialize list_head of private device multicast list, like we do in bond_init(). Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: convert multicast list to list_headJiri Pirko2010-04-03
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Converts the list and the core manipulating with it to be the same as uc_list. +uses two functions for adding/removing mc address (normal and "global" variant) instead of a function parameter. +removes dev_mcast.c completely. +exposes netdev_hw_addr_list_* macros along with __hw_addr_* functions for manipulation with lists on a sandbox (used in bonding and 80211 drivers) Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* mac80211: use listen interval 5 as defaultHelmut Schaa2010-02-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | Currently if a driver does not set hw.max_listen_interval a listen interval of 1 is negotiated with the AP. Thus, the AP could drop buffered frames for us after just one beacon interval which can easily happen with the current powersave and scan implementation. To avoid this issue increase the default interval to 5 which should be a reasonable safe default. Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: add debugfs interface for U-APSD queue configurationKalle Valo2010-01-12
| | | | | | | | Because it's not yet decided how to configure which queues are U-APSD enabled, add a debugfs interface for testing purposes. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: add U-APSD client supportKalle Valo2010-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add Unscheduled Automatic Power-Save Delivery (U-APSD) client support. The idea is that the data frames from the client trigger AP to send the buffered frames with ACs which have U-APSD enabled. This decreases latency and makes it possible to save even more power. Driver needs to use IEEE80211_HW_UAPSD to enable the feature. The current implementation assumes that firmware takes care of the wakeup and hardware needing IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK is not yet supported. Tested with wl1251 on a Nokia N900 and Cisco Aironet 1231G AP and running various test traffic with ping. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: No need to include WEXT headers hereJouni Malinen2010-01-05
| | | | | | | Remove the forgotten linux/wireless.h inclusion from mac80211. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: support remain-on-channel commandJohannes Berg2009-12-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | This implements the new remain-on-channel cfg80211 command in mac80211, extending the work interface. Also change the work purge code to be able to clean up events properly (pretending they timed out.) Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: proper bss private data handlingJohannes Berg2009-12-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | cfg80211 offers private data for each BSS struct, which mac80211 uses. However, mac80211 uses internal and external (cfg80211) BSS pointers interchangeably and has a hack to put the cfg80211 bss struct into the private struct. Remove this hack, properly converting between the pointers wherever necessary. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: generalise work handlingJohannes Berg2009-12-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to use auth/assoc for different purposes other than MLME, it needs to be split up. For other purposes, a generic work handling (potentially on another channel) will be useful. To achieve that, this patch moves much of the MLME work handling out of mlme into a new work API. The API can currently handle probing a specific AP, authentication and association. The MLME previously handled probe/authentication as one step and will continue to do so, but they are separate in the new work handling. Work items are RCU-managed to be able to check for existence of an item for a specific frame in the RX path, but they can be re-used which the MLME right now will do for its combined probe/auth step. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: add ieee80211_sdata_runningJohannes Berg2009-12-28
| | | | | | | | | Instead of always using netif_running(sdata->dev) use ieee80211_sdata_running(sdata) now which is just an inline containing netif_running() for now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6John W. Linville2009-12-28
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| * mac80211: Add define for TX headroom reserved by mac80211 itself.Gertjan van Wingerde2009-12-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a definition of the amount of TX headroom reserved by mac80211 itself for its own purposes. Also add BUILD_BUG_ON to validate the value. This define can then be used by drivers to request additional TX headroom in the most efficient manner. Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: allow disabling 40MHz on 2.4GHzJohannes Berg2009-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In some situations it is required that a system be configured with no support for 40 MHz channels in the 2.4 GHz band. Rather than imposing any such restrictions on everybody, allow configuration a system like that with a module parameter. It is writable at runtime but only takes effect at the time of the next association. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: enable spatial multiplexing powersaveJohannes Berg2009-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enable spatial multiplexing in mac80211 by telling the driver what to do and, where necessary, sending action frames to the AP to update the requested SMPS mode. Also includes a trivial implementation for hwsim that just logs the requested mode. For now, the userspace interface is in debugfs only, and let you toggle the requested mode at any time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: trace interface nameJohannes Berg2009-12-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's not all that useful to have the vif/sdata pointer, we'd rather refer to the interfaces by their name. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | mac80211: reduce reliance on netdevJohannes Berg2009-12-21
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For bluetooth 3, we will most likely not have a netdev for a virtual interface (sdata), so prepare for that by reducing the reliance on having a netdev. This patch moves the name and address fields into the sdata struct and uses them from there all over. Some work is needed to keep them sync'ed, but that's not a lot of work and in slow paths anyway. In doing so, this also reduces the number of pointer dereferences in many places, because of things like sdata->dev->dev_addr becoming sdata->vif.addr. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* net: Move && and || to end of previous lineJoe Perches2009-11-29
| | | | | | | | | | | Not including net/atm/ Compiled tested x86 allyesconfig only Added a > 80 column line or two, which I ignored. Existing checkpatch plaints willfully, cheerfully ignored. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* cfg80211: introduce capability for 4addr modeJohannes Berg2009-11-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's very likely that not many devices will support four-address mode in station or AP mode so introduce capability bits for both modes, set them in mac80211 and check them when userspace tries to use the mode. Also, keep track of 4addr in cfg80211 (wireless_dev) and not in mac80211 any more. mac80211 can also be improved for the VLAN case by not looking at the 4addr flag but maintaining the station pointer for it correctly. However, keep track of use_4addr for station mode in mac80211 to avoid all the derefs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211: convert bools into flagsJohannes Berg2009-11-19
| | | | | | | | | We've accumulated a number of options for wiphys which make more sense as flags as we keep adding more. Convert the existing ones. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: move TX status handlingJohannes Berg2009-11-18
| | | | | | | | It's enough code to have its own file, I think. Especially since I'm going to add to it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: convert aggregation to operate on vifs/stasJohannes Berg2009-11-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | The entire aggregation code currently operates on the hw pointer and station addresses, but that needs to change to make stations purely per-vif; As one step preparing for that make the aggregation code callable with the station, or by the combination of virtual interface and station address. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: reduce the amount of unnecessary traffic on cooked monitor interfacesFelix Fietkau2009-11-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to handle association and authentication in AP mode, hostapd needs access to the tx status info of its own frames through a cooked monitor interface. Without this patch the cooked monitor interfaces also passed on tx status information for packets from other virtual interfaces. This creates a significant performance issue on embedded system. Hostapd tries to work around this by installing a Linux Socket Filter that only captures the frames it's interested in, however data duplication and socket filter matching still uses up enough CPU cycles to be very noticeable on small systems. This patch ensures that tx status information of non-injected frames does not make it to cooked monitor interfaces. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: async station powersave handlingJohannes Berg2009-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix internal scan requestJohannes Berg2009-11-04
| | | | | | | | | | | The internal scan request mac80211 uses to scan for IBSS networks was set up to contain no channels at all because n_channels wasn't set after setting up the channels array. Fix this to properly scan for networks. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* cfg80211/mac80211: use debugfs_remove_recursiveJohannes Berg2009-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We can save a lot of code and pointers in the structs by using debugfs_remove_recursive(). First, change cfg80211 to use debugfs_remove_recursive() so that drivers do not need to clean up any files they added to the per-wiphy debugfs (if and only if they are ok to be accessed until after wiphy_unregister!). Then also make mac80211 use debugfs_remove_recursive() where necessary -- it need not remove per-wiphy files as cfg80211 now removes those, but netdev etc. files still need to be handled but can now be removed without needing struct dentry pointers to all of them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: remove tasklet enable/disableJohannes Berg2009-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to the way the tasklets work in mac80211 there's no need to ever disable them. However, we need to clear the pending packets when taking down the last interface because otherwise the tx_pending_tasklet might be queued if the driver mucks with the queues (which it shouldn't). I've had a situation occasionally with ar9170 in which ksoftirq was using 100% CPU time because a disabled tasklet was scheduled, and I think that was due to ar9170 receiving a packet while the tasklet was disabled. That's strange and it really should not do that for other reasons, but there's no need to waste that much CPU time over it, it should just warn instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: fix register_hw error pathJohannes Berg2009-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | "cfg80211: fix alignment problem in scan request" introduced a bug into the error path, because now we allocate the entire scan request and not just the channel list (the channel list is allocated together with the scan request) -- on errors we thus also need to free the entire scan request. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* mac80211: Decouple fail_avg stats used by mesh from rate control algorithm.Javier Cardona2009-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mesh uses the tx failure average to compute the (m)path metric. This used to be done inside the rate control module. This patch breaks the dependency between the mesh stack and the rate control algorithm. Mesh will now work independently of the chosen rate control algorithm. The mesh stack keeps a moving average of the average transmission losses for each mesh peer station. If the fail average exceeds a certain threshold, the peer link is marked as broken. Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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