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Marco Porsch 3f52b7e328 mac80211: mesh power save basics
Add routines to
- maintain a PS mode for each peer and a non-peer PS mode
- indicate own PS mode in transmitted frames
- track neighbor STAs power modes
- buffer frames when neighbors are in PS mode
- add TIM and Awake Window IE to beacons
- release frames in Mesh Peer Service Periods

Add local_pm to sta_info to represent the link-specific power
mode at this station towards the remote station. When a peer
link is established, use the default power mode stored in mesh
config. Update the PS status if the peering status of a neighbor
changes.
Maintain a mesh power mode for non-peer mesh STAs. Set the
non-peer power mode to active mode during peering. Authenticated
mesh peering is currently not working when either node is
configured to be in power save mode.

Indicate the current power mode in transmitted frames. Use QoS
Nulls to indicate mesh power mode transitions.
For performance reasons, calls to the function setting the frame
flags are placed in HWMP routing routines, as there the STA
pointer is already available.

Add peer_pm to sta_info to represent the peer's link-specific
power mode towards the local station. Add nonpeer_pm to
represent the peer's power mode towards all non-peer stations.
Track power modes based on received frames.

Add the ps_data structure to ieee80211_if_mesh (for TIM map, PS
neighbor counter and group-addressed frame buffer).

Set WLAN_STA_PS flag for STA in PS mode to use the unicast frame
buffering routines in the tx path. Update num_sta_ps to buffer
and release group-addressed frames after DTIM beacons.

Announce the awake window duration in beacons if in light or
deep sleep mode towards any peer or non-peer. Create a TIM IE
similarly to AP mode and add it to mesh beacons. Parse received
Awake Window IEs and check TIM IEs for buffered frames.

Release frames towards peers in mesh Peer Service Periods. Use
the corresponding trigger frames and monitor the MPSP status.
Append a QoS Null as trigger frame if neccessary to properly end
the MPSP. Currently, in HT channels MPSPs behave imperfectly and
show large delay spikes and frame losses.

Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Bezyazychnyy <ivan.bezyazychnyy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Krinkin <krinkin.m.u@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:47 +01:00
Johannes Berg 1672c0e319 mac80211: start auth/assoc timeout on frame status
When sending authentication/association frames they
might take a bit of time to go out because we may
have to synchronise with the AP, in particular in
the case where it's really a P2P GO. In this case
the 200ms fixed timeout could potentially be too
short if the beacon interval is relatively large.

For drivers that report TX status we can do better.
Instead of starting the timeout directly, start it
only when the frame status arrives. Since then the
frame was out on the air, we can wait shorter (the
typical response time is supposed to be 30ms, wait
100ms.) Also, if the frame failed to be transmitted
try again right away instead of waiting.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31 14:28:43 +01:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 8df6b7b11a mac80211: remove IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAIL
This is basically a revert of:

commit 5b632fe85e
Author: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon Dec 3 12:56:33 2012 +0100

    mac80211: introduce IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAIL

We do not need this flag any longer, rt2x00 BAR/BA problem was fixed
correctly by wireless-testing commit:

commit 84e9e8ebd3
Author: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 17 17:34:32 2013 +0100

    rt2x00: Improve TX status handling for BlockAckReq frames

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-29 12:16:34 +01:00
John W. Linville c66cfd5325 Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.sipsolutions.net/mac80211-next 2012-12-11 16:04:03 -05:00
John W. Linville 403e16731f Merge branch 'for-john' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2012-12-06 14:58:41 -05:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 5b632fe85e mac80211: introduce IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAIL
Commit f0425beda4 "mac80211: retry sending
failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggr" caused regression
on rt2x00 hardware (connection hangs). This regression was fixed by
commit be03d4a45c "rt2x00: Don't let
mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU subframe fails". But the latter
commit caused yet another problem reported in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42828#c22

After long discussion in this thread:
http://mid.gmane.org/20121018075615.GA18212@redhat.com
and testing various alternative solutions, which failed on one or other
setup, we have no other good fix for the issues like just revert both
mentioned earlier commits.

To do not affect other hardware which benefit from commit
f0425beda4, instead of reverting it,
introduce flag that when used will restore mac80211 behaviour before
the commit.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
[replaced link with mid.gmane.org that has message-id]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-12-05 09:53:31 +01:00
Saravana db94357dbd mac80211: add debugfs file for last ack signal
Add a debugfs file showing the signal strength
of the ack frame that is received for the
currently sent tx packet

Signed-off-by: Saravana <saravanad@posedge.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-29 13:36:43 +01:00
John W. Linville b311749477 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/tx.c
2012-11-21 12:57:56 -05:00
Felix Fietkau 1f98ab7fef mac80211: call skb_dequeue/ieee80211_free_txskb instead of __skb_queue_purge
Fixes more wifi status skb leaks, leading to hostapd/wpa_supplicant hangs.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-11-10 21:26:28 +01:00
Johannes Berg 8a2fbedcdc mac80211: combine status/drop reporting
The TX status reporting is done for both the
nl80211 report as well as the socket option.
The socket option is also reported when an
skb is dropped to guarantee that the copy in
the IDR tree is freed and status is reported
to userspace.

However, when a frame is dropped, no nl80211
status is reported. This can cause userspace
to stop making progress while waiting for a
status notification.

Combine the nl80211 and socket option status
reporting into a new function and call it in
both places -- when the status comes in from
the driver and when the skb is dropped.

While at it, also simplify the code in the
nl80211 portion a bit.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-30 09:33:23 +01:00
Johannes Berg 04ecd2578e mac80211: track needed RX chains for channel contexts
On each channel that the device is operating on, it
may need to listen using one or more chains depending
on the SMPS settings of the interfaces using it. The
previous channel context changes completely removed
this ability (before, it was available as the SMPS
mode).

Add per-context tracking of the required static and
dynamic RX chains and notify the driver on changes.
To achieve this, track the chains and SMPS mode used
on each virtual interface and update the channel
context whenever this changes.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-10-17 11:02:09 +02:00
Felix Fietkau c3e7724b6b mac80211: use ieee80211_free_txskb to fix possible skb leaks
A few places free skbs using dev_kfree_skb even though they're called
after ieee80211_subif_start_xmit might have cloned it for tracking tx
status. Use ieee80211_free_txskb here to prevent skb leaks.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-10-08 15:06:05 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 1bad538243 mac80211: validate skb->dev in the tx status path
skb->dev might contain a stale reference to a device that was already
deleted, and using it unchecked can lead to invalid pointer accesses.
Since this is only used for nl80211 tx, iterate over active interfaces
to find a match for skb->dev, and discard the tx status if the device
is gone.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-09-10 18:44:58 +02:00
Johannes Berg f142c6b906 mac80211: support P2P Device abstraction
After cfg80211 got a P2P Device abstraction, add
support to mac80211. Whether it really is supported
or not will depend on whether or not the driver has
support for it, but mac80211 needs to change to be
able to support drivers that need a P2P Device.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-08-20 13:58:22 +02:00
Johannes Berg 71bbc99438 cfg80211: use wdev in mgmt-tx/ROC APIs
The management frame and remain-on-channel APIs will be
needed in the P2P device abstraction, so move them over
to the new wdev-based APIs. Userspace can still use both
the interface index and wdev identifier for them so it's
backward compatible, but for the P2P Device wdev it will
be able to use the wdev identifier only.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-07-09 14:51:47 +02:00
Johannes Berg bdcbd8e0e3 mac80211: clean up debugging
There are a few things that make the logging and
debugging in mac80211 less useful than it should
be right now:
 * a lot of messages should be pr_info, not pr_debug
 * wholesale use of pr_debug makes it require *both*
   Kconfig and dynamic configuration
 * there are still a lot of ifdefs
 * the style is very inconsistent, sometimes the
   sdata->name is printed in front

Clean up everything, introducing new macros and
separating out the station MLME debugging into
a new Kconfig symbol.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-24 11:32:29 +02:00
Johannes Berg 08ce5abe3d mac80211: two small verbose debug cleanups
Two instances of CONFIG_MAC80211_VERBOSE_DEBUG
should be different, fix them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2012-06-22 12:53:05 +02:00
Johannes Berg 2eb278e083 mac80211: unify SW/offload remain-on-channel
Redesign all the off-channel code, getting rid of
the generic off-channel work concept, replacing
it with a simple remain-on-channel list.

This fixes a number of small issues with the ROC
implementation:
 * offloaded remain-on-channel couldn't be queued,
   now we can queue it as well, if needed
 * in iwlwifi (the only user) offloaded ROC is
   mutually exclusive with scanning, use the new
   queue to handle that case -- I expect that it
   will later depend on a HW flag

The bigger issue though is that there's a bad bug
in the current implementation: if we get a mgmt
TX request while HW roc is active, and this new
request has a wait time, we actually schedule a
software ROC instead since we can't guarantee the
existing offloaded ROC will still be that long.
To fix this, the queuing mechanism was needed.

The queuing mechanism for offloaded ROC isn't yet
optimal, ideally we should add API to have the HW
extend the ROC if needed. We could add that later
but for now use a software implementation.

Overall, this unifies the behaviour between the
offloaded and software-implemented case as much
as possible.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-06 15:31:18 -04:00
Joe Perches f0d232080f net: mac80211: Convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug
Standardize the debugging to be able to use dynamic_debug.

Coalesce formats, align arguments.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-06-05 15:27:16 -04:00
Joe Perches b203ca3912 mac80211: Convert compare_ether_addr to ether_addr_equal
Use the new bool function ether_addr_equal to add
some clarity and reduce the likelihood for misuse
of compare_ether_addr for sorting.

Done via cocci script:

$ cat compare_ether_addr.cocci
@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!compare_ether_addr(a, b)
+	ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	compare_ether_addr(a, b)
+	!ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!ether_addr_equal(a, b) == 0
+	ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!ether_addr_equal(a, b) != 0
+	!ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	ether_addr_equal(a, b) == 0
+	!ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	ether_addr_equal(a, b) != 0
+	ether_addr_equal(a, b)

@@
expression a,b;
@@
-	!!ether_addr_equal(a, b)
+	ether_addr_equal(a, b)

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-09 20:49:18 -04:00
Lorenzo Bianconi d01b31604c mac80211: fix an issue in ieee80211_tx_info count field management
I noticed a possible issue in the status count field management of the
ieee80211_tx_info data structure. In particular, when the AGGR
processing is employed,
status.rates[].count is set just for the first frame and not for
others belonging to the same burst, leading to wrong statistic data in
the mac80211 debug file system.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-04-13 14:32:49 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 888d04dfbe mac80211: use compare_ether_addr on MAC addresses instead of memcmp
Because of the constant size and guaranteed 16 bit alignment, the inline
compare_ether_addr function is much cheaper than calling memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-03-05 15:38:31 -05:00
Johannes Berg d26ad3771f mac80211: clean up asm/unaligned.h inclusion
Some files implicitly get this via mesh.h
which itself doesn't need it, so move the
inclusion into the right files. Some other
files don't need it at all but include it,
so remove it from there.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-02-27 14:06:32 -05:00
Johannes Berg 8e7c4e4dc6 mac80211: fix a few -Wshadow warnings
It seems that -Wshadow is no longer default in
sparse runs, but let's fix the warnings anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-27 14:56:55 -05:00
Helmut Schaa adf5ace5d8 mac80211: Make use of ieee80211_is_* functions in tx status path
Use ieee80211_is_data, ieee80211_is_mgmt and ieee80211_is_first_frag
in the tx status path. This makes the code easier to read and allows us
to remove two local variables: frag and type.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-13 15:30:46 -05:00
John W. Linville d7a4858c0f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
2011-12-02 15:44:03 -05:00
John W. Linville 515db09338 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-debugfs.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-rx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-scan.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-tx.c
	include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h
2011-11-22 14:05:46 -05:00
Helmut Schaa 9c8f2c42c9 mac80211: Fix endian bug in radiotap header generation
I intoduced this bug in commit a2fe816674
"mac80211: Build TX radiotap header dynamically"

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21 14:45:20 -05:00
Johannes Berg a729cff8ad mac80211: implement wifi TX status
Implement the socket wifi TX status error
queue reflection in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:14:09 -05:00
Johannes Berg 06500736c5 mac80211: support client probe
Support probing clients with null data frames
in AP mode.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:13:46 -05:00
Johannes Berg 6096de7fd4 mac80211: add helper to free TX skb
Drivers that need to drop a frame before it
can be transmitted will usually simply free
that frame. This is currently fine, but in
the future it'll be needed to tell mac80211
about this case, so add a new routine that
frees a TX skb.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:05:48 -05:00
Paul Gortmaker bc3b2d7fb9 net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules
These files are non modular, but need to export symbols using
the macros now living in export.h -- call out the include so
that things won't break when we remove the implicit presence
of module.h from everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
Helmut Schaa 7f2a5e214d 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>
2011-10-14 14:48:14 -04:00
Helmut Schaa a2fe816674 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>
2011-10-14 14:48:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg 28a1bcdb57 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>
2011-10-11 16:41:08 -04:00
Johannes Berg c2c98fdeb5 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>
2011-09-30 15:57:19 -04:00
Johannes Berg 47086fc51a 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>
2011-09-30 15:57:15 -04:00
Johannes Berg 8a8656fa5b 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>
2011-09-30 15:57:14 -04:00
Johannes Berg 948d887dec mac80211: split PS buffers into ACs
For uAPSD support we'll need to have per-AC PS
buffers. As this is a major undertaking, split
the buffers before really adding support for
uAPSD. This already makes some reference to the
uapsd_queues variable, but for now that will
never be non-zero.

Since book-keeping is complicated, also change
the logic for keeping a maximum of frames only
and allow 64 frames per AC (up from 128 for a
station).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:12 -04:00
Johannes Berg 6075039712 mac80211: also expire filtered frames
mac80211 will expire normal PS-buffered frames, but
if the device rejected some frames for a sleeping
station, these won't be on the ps_tx_buf queue but
on the tx_filtered queue instead; this is done to
avoid reordering.

However, mac80211 will not expire frames from the
filtered queue, let's fix that.

Also add a more comments to what all this expiry is
doing and how it works.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:11 -04:00
Johannes Berg c868cb35d0 mac80211: unify TIM bit handling
Currently, the TIM bit for a given station is set
and cleared all over the place. Since the logic to
set/clear it will become much more complex when we
add uAPSD support, as a first step let's collect
the entire logic in one place. This requires a few
small adjustments to other places.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:10 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 7107676a3a mac80211: fix endian issues and comments for BAR failure handling
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-16 16:45:42 -04:00
Felix Fietkau 8c771244fb mac80211: make ieee80211_send_bar available for drivers
To properly maintain the peer's block ack window, the driver needs to be
able to control the new starting sequence number that is sent along with
the BlockAckReq frame.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-14 13:56:16 -04:00
Felix Fietkau f0425beda4 mac80211: retry sending failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggr
Unfortunately failed BAR tx attempts happen more frequently than I
expected, and the resulting aggregation teardowns cause performance
issues, as the aggregation session does not always get re-established
properly.
Instead of tearing down the entire aggr session, we can simply store the
SSN of the last failed BAR tx attempt, wait for the first successful
tx status event, and then send another BAR with the same SSN.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-13 15:42:30 -04:00
Helmut Schaa e69deded2b mac80211: Tear down BA session on BAR tx failure
As described at [1] some STAs (i.e. Intel 5100 Windows) can end up
correctly BlockAcking incoming frames without delivering them to user
space if a AMPDU subframe got lost and we don't flush the receipients
reorder buffer with a BlockAckReq. This in turn results in stuck
connections.

According to 802.11n-2009 it is not necessary to send a BAR to flush
the recepients RX reorder buffer but we still do that to be polite.

However, assume the following frame exchange:

AP -> STA, AMPDU (failed)
AP -> STA, BAR (failed)

The client in question then ends up in the same situation and won't
deliver frames to userspace anymore since we weren't able to flush
its reorder buffer.

This is not a hypothetical situation but I was able to observe this
exact behavior during a stress test between a rt2800pci AP and a Intel
5100 Windows client.

In order to work around this issue just tear down the BA session as
soon as a BAR failed to be TX'ed.

[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/66867

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-22 14:45:58 -04:00
Johannes Berg b4ca6084a8 mac80211: remove offchannel_tx API
For iwlwifi, I decided not to use this API since
it just increased the complexity for little gain.
Since nobody else intends to use it, let's kill
it again. If anybody later needs to have it, we
can always revive it then.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-08 16:04:05 -04:00
Arik Nemtsov 8178d38b70 mac80211: allow low level drivers to report packet loss
Add API that allows low level drivers to notify mac80211 about TX
packet loss. This is useful when there are FW triggers to notify the
low level driver about these events.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-28 14:50:00 -04:00
Helmut Schaa be7974aa10 mac80211: Minor optimization in tx status handling
ieee80211_tx_status iterates over all tx rates the driver reports back
in order to
1) mark tx rates as invalid if the driver cannot have tried that rate
2) find the actually used tx rate for the final retransmission

By leaving the for loop when the first invalid rate index is found we
can move the rates_idx assignment after the loop and therefore save
a few assignments and conditionals.

Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-03-30 14:15:16 -04:00
Johannes Berg 5f16a43617 mac80211: support direct offchannel TX offload
For devices supported by iwlwifi sometimes
off-channel transmissions need to be handled
by the device completely. To support this
mac80211 needs to pass the frame directly
to the driver and not through the TX path
as the driver needs the frame and channel
information at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-25 15:33:40 -05:00
Vivek Natarajan f3e85b9ede mac80211: Fix a race on enabling power save.
There is a race on sending a data frame before the tx completion
of nullfunc frame for enabling power save. As the data quickly
follows the nullfunc frame, the AP thinks that the station is out
of power save and continues to send the frames. Whereas in the
station, the nullfunc ack will be processed after the tx completion
of data frame and mac80211 goes to powersave. Thus the power
save state mismatch between the station and the AP causes some
data loss and some applications fail because of that. This patch
fixes this issue.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-02-23 16:25:29 -05:00