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Johannes Berg 30686bf7f5 mac80211: convert HW flags to unsigned long bitmap
As we're running out of hardware capability flags pretty quickly,
convert them to use the regular test_bit() style unsigned long
bitmaps.

This introduces a number of helper functions/macros to set and to
test the bits, along with new debugfs code.

The occurrences of an explicit __clear_bit() are intentional, the
drivers were never supposed to change their supported bits on the
fly. We should investigate changing this to be a per-frame flag.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-06-10 16:05:36 +02:00
Sara Sharon 74d803b602 mac80211: ignore invalid scan RSSI values
Channels in 2.4GHz band overlap, this means that if we
send a probe request on channel 1 and then move to channel
2, we will hear the probe response on channel 2. In this
case, the RSSI will be lower than if we had heard it on
the channel on which it was sent (1 in this case).

The scan result ignores those invalid values and the
station last signal should not be updated as well.

In case the scan determines the signal to be invalid turn on
the flag so the station last signal will not be updated with
the value and thus user space probing for NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL
and NL80211_STA_INFO_SIGNAL_AVG will not get this invalid RSSI
value.

Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-06-09 21:51:59 +02:00
Johannes Berg c526a46767 mac80211: rename single hw-scan flag to follow naming convention
The naming convention is to always have the flags prefixed with
IEEE80211_HW_ so they're 'namespaced', make this flag follow it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-06-02 20:32:00 +02:00
Janusz.Dziedzic@tieto.com 76bed0f43b mac80211: IBSS fix scan request
In case of wide bandwidth (wider than 20MHz) used by IBSS,
scan all channels in chandef to be able to find neighboring
IBSS netwqworks that use the same overall channels but a different
control channel.

Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-03-30 10:47:56 +02:00
Luciano Coelho 332ff7fe36 mac80211: complete scan work immediately if quiesced or suspended
It is possible that a deferred scan is queued after the queues are
flushed in __ieee80211_suspend().  The deferred scan work may be
scheduled by ROC or ieee80211_stop_poll().

To make sure don't start a new scan while suspending, check whether
we're quiescing or suspended and complete the scan immediately if
that's the case.

Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-01-23 10:54:22 +01:00
Eliad Peller 2726f23d2d mac80211: don't defer scans in case of radar detection
Radar detection can last indefinite time. There is no
point in deferring a scan request in this case - simply
return -EBUSY.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-01-14 09:37:07 +01:00
Eliad Peller 5cbc95a749 mac80211: remove local->radar_detect_enabled
local->radar_detect_enabled should tell whether
radar_detect is enabled on any interface belonging
to local.

However, it's not getting updated correctly
in many cases (actually, when testing with hwsim
it's never been set, even when the dfs master
is beaconing).

Instead of handling all the corner cases
(e.g. channel switch), simply check whether
radar detection is enabled only when needed,
instead of caching the result.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-01-14 09:37:06 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 3b24f4c653 mac80211: let flush() drop packets when possible
When roaming / suspending, it makes no sense to wait until
the transmit queues of the device are empty. In extreme
condition they can be starved (VO saturating the air), but
even in regular cases, it is pointless to delay the roaming
because the low level driver is trying to send packets to
an AP which is far away. We'd rather drop these packets and
let TCP retransmit if needed. This will allow to speed up
the roaming.

For suspend, the explanation is even more trivial.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-01-14 09:31:18 +01:00
Johannes Berg a344d6778a mac80211: allow drivers to support NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_RANDOM_ADDR
Allow drivers to support NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_RANDOM_ADDR with software
based scanning and generate a random MAC address for them for every
scan request with the flag.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-11-19 18:46:09 +01:00
Johannes Berg 6ea0a69ca2 mac80211: rcu-ify scan and scheduled scan request pointers
In order to use the scan and scheduled scan request pointers during
RX to check for randomisation, make them accessible using RCU.

Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-11-19 18:45:58 +01:00
Eliad Peller ff5db4392c mac80211: remove redundant check
local->scan_req was tested in the previous line, so it
can't be NULL.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliadx.peller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-11-19 18:45:48 +01:00
Johannes Berg d98ad83ee8 mac80211: add Intel Mobile Communications copyright
Our legal structure changed at some point (see wikipedia), but
we forgot to immediately switch over to the new copyright
notice.

For files that we have modified in the time since the change,
add the proper copyright notice now.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-09-05 13:52:06 +02:00
Andreea-Cristina Bernat ad053a962f mac80211: scan: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER()
The use of "rcu_assign_pointer()" is NULLing out the pointer.
According to RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s block comment:
"1.   This use of RCU_INIT_POINTER() is NULLing out the pointer"
it is better to use it instead of rcu_assign_pointer() because it has a
smaller overhead.

The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used:
@@
@@

- rcu_assign_pointer
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER
  (..., NULL)

Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-08-26 11:16:31 +02:00
David Spinadel 633e271326 mac80211: split sched scan IEs
Split sched scan IEs to band specific and not band specific
blocks. Common IEs blocks may be sent to the FW once per command,
instead of per band.

This allows optimization of size of the command, which may be
required by some drivers (eg. iwlmvm with newer firmware version).

As this changes the mac80211 API, update all drivers to use the
new version correctly, even if they don't (yet) make use of the
split data.

Signed-off-by: David Spinadel <david.spinadel@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Bondar <alexander.bondar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-06-25 09:10:43 +02:00
David Spinadel c56ef67250 mac80211: support more than one band in scan request
Some drivers (such as iwlmvm) can handle multiple bands in a single
HW scan request. Add a HW flag to indicate that the driver support
this. To hold the required data, create a separate structure for
HW scan request that holds cfg scan request and data about
different parts of the scan IEs.

As this changes the mac80211 API, update all drivers using it to
use the correct new function type/argument.

Signed-off-by: David Spinadel <david.spinadel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-06-25 09:10:42 +02:00
Johannes Berg f6837ba8c9 mac80211: handle failed restart/resume better
When the driver fails during HW restart or resume, the whole
stack goes into a very confused state with interfaces being
up while the hardware is down etc.

Address this by shutting down everything; we'll run into a
lot of warnings in the process but that's better than having
the whole stack get messed up.

Reviewed-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-05-09 12:21:34 +02:00
Monam Agarwal 0c2bef4621 mac80211: use RCU_INIT_POINTER
rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure is
carried out before storing a pointer to that structure. However, in the
case that NULL is assigned there's no structure to initialize so using
RCU_INIT_POINTER instead is safe and more efficient.

Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@gmail.com>
[squash eight tiny patches, rewrite commit log]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-04-09 10:55:30 +02:00
Alexander Bondar 71228a1eab mac80211: release sched_scan_sdata when stopping sched scan
Assuming sched_scan_stop operation is synchronous the driver may not
necessary call ieee80211_sched_scan_stopped_work. Since this work is
the only place where sched_scan_sdata is released we can possibly run
into situation when it is never released. Fix this by releasing it
just after calling drv_sched_scan_stop.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Bondar <alexander.bondar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-03-19 21:29:55 +01:00
Johannes Berg 37e3308cb2 mac80211: allow driver to return error from sched_scan_stop
In order to solve races with sched_scan_stop, it is necessary
for the driver to be able to return an error to propagate that
to cfg80211 so it doesn't send an event.

Reviewed-by: Alexander Bondar <alexander.bondar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-20 16:09:54 +01:00
David Spinadel e4dcbb375c mac80211: fix IE buffer len
Remove size of SSID IE from the IE buffer in scan and
sched scan, since this IE isn't added to this buffer.

Reviewed-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Bondar <alexander.bondar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Spinadel <david.spinadel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-11 13:00:01 +01:00
David Spinadel d43c6b6e6f mac80211: reschedule sched scan after HW restart
Keep the sched scan req when starting sched scan, and reschedule
it in case of HW restart during sched scan.
The upper layer don't have to know about the restart.

Signed-off-by: David Spinadel <david.spinadel@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-12-16 13:47:26 +01:00
Johannes Berg c4de673b77 Merge remote-tracking branch 'wireless-next/master' into mac80211-next 2013-12-16 11:23:45 +01:00
John W. Linville e08fd975bf Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/Kconfig
	net/mac80211/util.c
2013-12-06 09:50:45 -05:00
Eliad Peller a2b70e833e mac80211: start_next_roc only if scan was actually running
On scan completion we try start any pending roc.

However, if scan was just pending (and not actually started)
there is no point in trying to start the roc, as it might
have started already.

This solves the following warning:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3552 at net/mac80211/offchannel.c:269 ieee80211_start_next_roc+0x164/0x204 [mac80211]()
[<c001cd38>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf0)
[<c00181d0>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[<c05c0d8c>] (dump_stack+0x78/0x94)
[<c0047c08>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x68/0x8c)
[<c0047c48>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x24)
[<bf4d6660>] (ieee80211_start_next_roc+0x164/0x204 [mac80211])
[<bf4d5a74>] (ieee80211_scan_cancel+0xe8/0x190 [mac80211])
[<bf4df970>] (ieee80211_do_stop+0x63c/0x79c [mac80211])
[<bf4dfae0>] (ieee80211_stop+0x10/0x18 [mac80211])
[<c0504d84>] (__dev_close_many+0x84/0xcc)
[<c0504df4>] (__dev_close+0x28/0x3c)
[<c0509708>] (__dev_change_flags+0x78/0x144)
[<c0509854>] (dev_change_flags+0x10/0x48)
[<c055fe3c>] (devinet_ioctl+0x614/0x6d0)
[<c04f22a0>] (sock_ioctl+0x5c/0x2a4)
[<c0124eb4>] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x7c/0x5d8)
[<c012547c>] (SyS_ioctl+0x6c/0x7c)

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-12-05 17:17:42 +01:00
Eliad Peller 8bd2a24899 mac80211: determine completed scan type by defined ops
In some cases, determining the completed scan type was
done by testing the SCAN_HW_SCANNING flag.

However, this doesn't take care for the case in which
the hw scan was requested, but hasn't started yet (e.g.
due to active remain_on_channel).

Replace this test by checking whether ops->hw_scan is
defined.

This solves the following warning:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3552 at net/mac80211/offchannel.c:156 __ieee80211_scan_completed+0x1b4/0x2dc [mac80211]()
[<c001cd38>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf0)
[<c00181d0>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[<c05c0d8c>] (dump_stack+0x78/0x94)
[<c0047c08>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x68/0x8c)
[<c0047c48>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x24)
[<bf4d4504>] (__ieee80211_scan_completed+0x1b4/0x2dc [mac80211])
[<bf4d5a74>] (ieee80211_scan_cancel+0xe8/0x190 [mac80211])
[<bf4df970>] (ieee80211_do_stop+0x63c/0x79c [mac80211])
[<bf4dfae0>] (ieee80211_stop+0x10/0x18 [mac80211])
[<c0504d84>] (__dev_close_many+0x84/0xcc)
[<c0504df4>] (__dev_close+0x28/0x3c)
[<c0509708>] (__dev_change_flags+0x78/0x144)
[<c0509854>] (dev_change_flags+0x10/0x48)
[<c055fe3c>] (devinet_ioctl+0x614/0x6d0)
[<c04f22a0>] (sock_ioctl+0x5c/0x2a4)
[<c0124eb4>] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x7c/0x5d8)
[<c012547c>] (SyS_ioctl+0x6c/0x7c)

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-12-05 17:16:06 +01:00
Eliad Peller de61b610de mac80211: remove duplicate code
The same code appears just a few lines below.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-12-03 14:25:46 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 8fe02e167e cfg80211: consolidate passive-scan and no-ibss flags
These two flags are used for the same purpose, just
combine them into a no-ir flag to annotate no initiating
radiation is allowed.

Old userspace sending either flag will have it treated as
the no-ir flag. To be considerate to older userspace we
also send both the no-ir flag and the old no-ibss flags.
Newer userspace will have to be aware of older kernels.

Update all places in the tree using these flags with the
following semantic patch:

@@
@@
-NL80211_RRF_PASSIVE_SCAN
+NL80211_RRF_NO_IR
@@
@@
-NL80211_RRF_NO_IBSS
+NL80211_RRF_NO_IR
@@
@@
-IEEE80211_CHAN_PASSIVE_SCAN
+IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR
@@
@@
-IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS
+IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR
@@
@@
-NL80211_RRF_NO_IR | NL80211_RRF_NO_IR
+NL80211_RRF_NO_IR
@@
@@
-IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR | IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR
+IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR
@@
@@
-(NL80211_RRF_NO_IR)
+NL80211_RRF_NO_IR
@@
@@
-(IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR)
+IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IR

Along with some hand-optimisations in documentation, to
remove duplicates and to fix some indentation.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
[do all the driver updates in one go]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-11-25 20:49:35 +01:00
Johannes Berg 18db594a10 mac80211: fix scheduled scan rtnl deadlock
When changing cfg80211 to use RTNL locking, this caused a
deadlock in mac80211 as it calls cfg80211_sched_scan_stopped()
from a work item that's on a workqueue that is flushed with
the RTNL held.

Fix this by simply using schedule_work(), the work only needs
to finish running before the wiphy is unregistered, no other
synchronisation (e.g. with suspend) is really required since
for suspend userspace is already blocked anyway when we flush
the workqueue so will only pick up the event after resume.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5fe231e873 ("cfg80211: vastly simplify locking")
Reported-and-tested-by: Eliad Peller <eliadx.peller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-11-25 16:50:04 +01:00
John W. Linville 01925efdf7 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/pcie/drv.c
2013-11-04 14:45:14 -05:00
David S. Miller c3fa32b976 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c
	include/net/dst.h

Trivial merge conflicts, both were overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-23 16:49:34 -04:00
Emmanuel Grumbach a754055a12 mac80211: correctly close cancelled scans
__ieee80211_scan_completed is called from a worker. This
means that the following flow is possible.

 * driver calls ieee80211_scan_completed
 * mac80211 cancels the scan (that is already complete)
 * __ieee80211_scan_completed runs

When scan_work will finally run, it will see that the scan
hasn't been aborted and might even trigger another scan on
another band. This leads to a situation where cfg80211's
scan is not done and no further scan can be issued.

Fix this by setting a new flag when a HW scan is being
cancelled so that no other scan will be triggered.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-10-09 18:40:07 +02:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 392b9ffb05 mac80211: change beacon/connection polling
Since when we detect beacon lost we do active AP probing (using nullfunc
frame or probe request) there is no need to have beacon polling. Flags
IEEE80211_STA_BEACON_POLL seems to be used just for historical reasons.

Change also make that after we start connection poll due to beacon loss,
next received beacon will abort the poll.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-09-26 13:27:11 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich 7ca15a0ae8 mac80211: allow scanning for 5/10 MHz channels in IBSS
Use a chandef instead of just the channel for scanning, and enable
5/10 Mhz scanning for IBSS mode. Also reporting is changed to the new
inform_bss functions.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:09 +03:00
Simon Wunderlich 2103dec147 mac80211: select and adjust bitrates according to channel mode
The various components accessing the bitrates table must use consider
the used channel bandwidth to select only available rates or calculate
the bitrate correctly.

There are some rates in reduced bandwidth modes which can't be
represented as multiples of 500kbps, like 2.25 MBit/s in 5 MHz mode. The
standard suggests to round up to the next multiple of 500kbps, just do
that in mac80211 as well.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Kretschmer <mathias.kretschmer@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
[make rate unsigned in ieee80211_add_tx_radiotap_header(), squash fix]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2013-07-16 09:58:06 +03:00
Alexander Bondar 817cee7675 mac80211: track AP's beacon rate and give it to the driver
Track the AP's beacon rate in the scan BSS data and in the
interface configuration to let the drivers know which rate
the AP is using. This information may be used by drivers,
in our case to let the firmware optimise beacon RX.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Bondar <alexander.bondar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-06-13 11:58:47 +02:00
Johannes Berg b2e506bfc4 mac80211: parse VHT channel switch IEs
VHT introduces multiple IEs that need to be parsed for a
wide bandwidth channel switch. Two are (currently) needed
in mac80211:
 * wide bandwidth channel switch element
 * channel switch wrapper element

The former is contained in the latter for beacons and probe
responses, but not for the spectrum management action frames
so the IE parser needs a new argument to differentiate them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-04-16 15:29:45 +02:00
Johannes Berg 1946bed957 mac80211: check ERP info IE length in parser
It's always just one byte, so check for that and
remove the length field from the parser struct.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-04-08 09:16:57 +02:00
Karl Beldan 675a0b049a mac80211: Use a cfg80211_chan_def in ieee80211_hw_conf_chan
Drivers that don't use chanctxes cannot perform VHT association because
they still use a "backward compatibility" pair of {ieee80211_channel,
nl80211_channel_type} in ieee80211_conf and ieee80211_local.

Signed-off-by: Karl Beldan <karl.beldan@rivierawaves.com>
[fix kernel-doc]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-25 19:19:35 +01:00
Johannes Berg 39ecc01d1b mac80211: pass queue bitmap to flush operation
There are a number of situations in which mac80211 only
really needs to flush queues for one virtual interface,
and in fact during this frames might be transmitted on
other virtual interfaces. Calculate and pass a queue
bitmap to the driver so it knows which queues to flush.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-18 20:15:03 +01:00
Johannes Berg 511044ea0b mac80211: remove a few set but unused variables
Found by compiling with W=1.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-03-11 15:16:42 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich 164eb02d07 mac80211: add radar detection command/event
Add command to trigger radar detection in the driver/FW.
Once radar detection is started it should continuously
monitor for radars as long as the channel active.
If radar is detected usermode notified with 'radar
detected' event.

Scanning and remain on channel functionality must be disabled
while doing radar detection/scanning, and vice versa.

Based on original patch by Victor Goldenshtein <victorg@ti.com>

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:04 +01:00
Seth Forshee 9c35d7d236 mac80211: Add flushes before going off-channel
We've got a couple of races when enabling powersave with an AP for
off-channel operation. The first is fairly simple. If we go off-channel
before the nullfunc frame to enable PS is transmitted then it may not be
received by the AP. Add a flush after enabling off-channel PS to prevent
this from happening.

The second race is a bit more subtle. If the driver supports QoS and has
frames queued when the nullfunc frame is queued, those frames may get
transmitted after the nullfunc frame. If PM is not set then the AP is
being told that we've exited PS before we go off-channel and may try to
deliver frames. To prevent this, add a flush after stopping the queues
but before passing the nullfunc frame to the driver.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 22:52:21 +01:00
Seth Forshee 6c17b77b67 mac80211: Fix tx queue handling during scans
Scans currently work by stopping the netdev tx queues but leaving the
mac80211 queues active. This stops the flow of incoming packets while
still allowing mac80211 to transmit nullfunc and probe request frames to
facilitate scanning. However, the driver may try to wake the mac80211
queues while in this state, which will also wake the netdev queues.

To prevent this, add a new queue stop reason,
IEEE80211_QUEUE_STOP_REASON_OFFCHANNEL, to be used when stopping the tx
queues for off-channel operation. This prevents the netdev queues from
waking when a driver wakes the mac80211 queues.

This also stops all frames from being transmitted, even those meant to
be sent off-channel. Add a new tx control flag,
IEEE80211_TX_CTL_OFFCHAN_TX_OK, which allows frames to be transmitted
when the queues are stopped only for the off-channel stop reason. Update
all locations transmitting off-channel frames to use this flag.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 22:52:21 +01:00
Johannes Berg ef429dadf3 mac80211: introduce beacon-only timing data
In order to be able to predict the next DTIM TBTT
in the driver, add the ability to use timing data
from beacons only with the new hardware flag
IEEE80211_HW_TIMING_BEACON_ONLY and the BSS info
value sync_dtim_count which is only valid if the
timing data came from a beacon. The data can only
come from a beacon, and if no beacon was received
before association it is updated later together
with the DTIM count notification.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:45:00 +01:00
Johannes Berg 5b112d3d09 cfg80211: pass wiphy to cfg80211_ref_bss/put_bss
This prepares for using the spinlock instead of krefs
which is needed in the next patch to track the refs
of combined BSSes correctly.

Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> [mwifiex]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:52 +01:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 3f892b61a8 mac80211: improve latency and throughput while software scanning
Patch vastly improve latency while scanning. Slight throughput
improvements were observed as well. Is intended for improve performance
of voice and video applications, when scan is periodically requested by
user space (i.e. default NetworkManager behaviour).

Patch remove latency requirement based on PM_QOS_NETWORK_LATENCY,
this value is 2000 seconds by default (i.e. approximately 0.5 hour !?!).

Also remove listen interval requirement, which based on beaconing and
depending on BSS parameters. It can make we stay off-channel for a
second or more.

Instead try to offer the best latency that we could, i.e. be off-channel
no longer than PASSIVE channel scan time: 125 ms. That mean we will
scan two ACTIVE channels and go back to on-channel, and one PASSIVE
channel, and go back to on-channel.

Patch also decrease PASSIVE channel scan time to about 110 ms.

As drawback patch increase overall scan time. On my tests, when scanning
both 2GHz and 5GHz bands, scanning time increase from 5 seconds up to 10
seconds. Since that increase happen only when we are associated, I think
it can be acceptable. If eventually better scan time is needed for
situations when we lose signal and quickly need to decide to which AP
roam, additional scan flag or parameter can be introduced.

I tested patch by doing:

while true; do iw dev wlan0 scan; sleep 3; done > /dev/null

and

ping -i0.2 -c 1000 HOST

on remote and local machine, results are as below:

* Ping from local periodically scanning machine to AP:
Unpatched: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.928/24.946/182.135/36.873 ms
Patched:   rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.928/19.678/150.845/33.130 ms

* Ping from remote machine to periodically scanning machine:
Unpatched: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.637/120.683/709.139/164.337 ms
Patched:   rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.807/26.893/201.435/40.284 ms

Throughput measured by scp show following results.

* Upload to periodically scanning machine:
Unpatched: 3.9MB/s   03:15
Patched:   4.3MB/s   02:58

* Download from periodically scanning machine:
Unpatched: 5.5MB/s   02:17
Patched:   6.2MB/s   02:02

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31 16:45:05 +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
Johannes Berg 0fe20add2c mac80211: remove unused mesh data from bss
These pointers/values are never used, remove them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31 14:07:14 +01:00
Johannes Berg ce9877c0cd mac80211: remove last_probe_resp from bss
We track this, but never use it, so we can
just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-01-31 14:06:32 +01:00
John W. Linville 9ebea3829f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/tx.c
2013-01-28 13:54:03 -05:00