This fixes some unintended resets of the rate control statistics
when minstrel_ht is used resulting in non-optimal throughput on mesh
links.
Tested-by: Emanuel Taube <emanuel.taube@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Convert mac80211 (and where necessary, some drivers a
little bit) to the new channel definition struct.
This will allow extending mac80211 for VHT, which is
currently restricted to channel contexts since there
are no drivers using that which makes it easier. As
I also don't care about VHT for drivers not using the
channel context API, I won't convert the previous API
to VHT support.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Use shortcut pointer instead where it is appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
estab_plinks is not a statistics member. Hence move estab_plinks from
struct mesh_stat to struct ieee80211_if_mesh
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Instead of operating on a single channel only,
use the new channel context infrastructure in
all mac80211 code.
This enables drivers that want to use the new
channel context infrastructure to use multiple
channels, while nothing should change for all
the other drivers that don't support it.
Right now this disables both TX power settings
and spatial multiplexing powersave. Both need
to be re-enabled on a channel context basis.
Additionally, when channel contexts are used
drop the connection when channel switch is
received rather than trying to handle it. This
will have to be improved later.
[With fixes from Eliad and Emmanuel incorporated]
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Peer link which is blocked using the "iw mesh0 station
set <MAC addr> plink_action block" is previously not able
to re-open using "iw mesh0 station set <MAC addr>
plink_action open". This patch is intended to solve this.
If the station plink state remains at OPN_SNT once open,
try block and open again should solve this problem.
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Using local->_oper_channel_type in the mesh code is
completely wrong as this value is the combination
of the various interface channel types and can be
a different value from the mesh interface in case
there are multiple virtual interfaces.
Use sdata->vif.bss_conf.channel_type instead as it
tracks the per-vif channel type.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify is called everytime a peer link is established
or closed, because the accepting_plinks flag in the meshconf IE *might* have changed.
With this patch the corresponding functions return the BSS_CHANGED_BEACON flag when a beacon update is necessary.
Also it makes mesh_accept_plinks_update the common place to update the accepting_plinks flag.
mesh_accept_plinks_update is called upon plink change and also periodically from ieee80211_mesh_housekeeping.
Thus, it also picks up changes of local->num_sta.
Signed-off-by: Marco Porsch <marco.porsch@etit.tu-chemnitz.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Although adding an IE is almost guaranteed to succeed since we already
accounted for its length while allocating the skb, we should still free
the skb in case of failure.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
It doesn't make a lot of sense to wait for an ack in response to a
peering close frame since either peer in this exchange could be going
down.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
When sending probe requests, e.g. during software scanning,
these will go out on the *current* channel, so their IEs
need to be built from the current channel. At other times,
e.g. for beacons or probe request templates, the IEs will
be used on the *operating* channel and using the current
channel instead might result in errors.
Add the appropriate parameters to respect the difference.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Rate control is re-initialized whenever a beacon from a mesh
peer received, breaking the algorithms and resulting in low
performance. Return early from mesh_peer_init if we already
established a link with this peer to avoid this.
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
[clarify commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fix incorrect start markers, wrapped summary lines, missing section
breaks, incorrect separators, and some name mismatches.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This and ieee80211_add_ext_srates_ie() aren't
exported, so can't be used by drivers anyway,
but there's also no reason that they should be
so make them private to mac80211 and use sdata
instead of vif arguments.
Acked-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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>
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>
Determining types of peers is modified to have less indentation. This change is
suggested by Johannes. This patch also corrects the reference in comment to
IEEE 802.11-2012 version.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Only send a cfg80211 new peer candidate notification if userspace has
yet to allocate this station entry.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch introduces a new mesh configuration parameter "ht_opmode" and will
allow user to check the current HT protection mode selected. Users could
configure the protection mode by the command "iw mesh_iface set mesh_param
mesh_ht_protection_mode=2". The default protection mode of mesh is set to
non-HT mixed mode.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Section 9.23.3.5 of IEEE 80211s standard describes the protection rules for
HT mesh STA in a MBSS. Three HT protection modes are supported for now:
non-HT mixed mode - is selected if any non-HT peers are present in our MBSS.
20MHz-protection mode - is selected if all peers in our 20/40MHz MBSS support
HT and atleast one HT20 peer is present.
no-protection mode - is selected otherwise.
This is a limited implementation of 9.23.3.5, which only considers mesh peers
when determining the HT protection mode. Station's channel_type needs to be
maintained.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If a mesh peer indicates it is operating as 20MHz-only in its HT
operation IE, have the rate control algorithm respect this by disabling
the equivalent bit in the ieee80211_sta HT capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Drivers need the station rate info when inserting a new sta_info. The
patch "mac80211: refactor mesh peer initialization" wrongly assumed the
rate info could be applied after insertion. After further review, this
is clearly not the case.
This fixes a regression where HT parameters were not applied before
inserting the sta_info, causing performance degradation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Blindly setting ht caps on a mesh peer's station entry would result in
MCS rates being used by the rate control algorithm even if no ht had
been configured. Fix this by checking the channel type before assigning
ht capabilites.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To avoid passing supp_rates and basic_rates around all the time, just
derive these when needed in mesh_matches_local() and mesh_peer_init().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch unifies the previous two paths toward mesh peer creation a
bit. It also fixes a bug where a peer's changing rates or HT mode
wouldn't register on leaving and then returning to the mesh with a sta
entry still present.
Also clean up locking and clear possibly stale ht cap.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Section 13.2.3 of IEEE 80211s standard requires BSSBasicRateSet of mesh nodes
to be identical to establish peer link.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Basic rates are added with supported rates IE and extended supported
rates IE.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Since some of the HT code pre-dates 802.11n-2009
some names are wrong. The one that bothers me most
is that "HT operation" is called "HT information"
in our code and that causes confusion.
Rename "HT information" to "HT operation" and also
the control_chan field to primary_chan to match
the name used in the spec.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The patch "{nl,cfg,mac}80211: Implement RSSI threshold for mesh peering"
has a potential null pointer dereferencing problem. Thanks to Dan Carpenter
for pointing out. This patch will fix the issue.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mesh peer links are established only if average rssi of the peer
candidate satisfies the threshold. This is not in 802.11s specification
but was requested by David Fulgham, an open80211s user. This is a way to avoid
marginal peer links with stations that are barely within range.
This patch adds a new mesh configuration parameter, mesh_rssi_threshold. This
feature is supported only for hardwares that report signal in dBm.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <ashok@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
In the future, when we start notifying drivers,
state transitions could potentially fail. To make
it easier to distinguish between programming bugs
and driver failures:
* rename sta_info_move_state() to
sta_info_pre_move_state() which can only be
called before the station is inserted (and
check this with a new station flag).
* rename sta_info_move_state_checked() to just
plain sta_info_move_state(), as it will be
the regular function that can fail for more
than just one reason (bad transition or an
error from the driver)
This makes the programming model easier -- one of
the functions can only be called before insertion
and can't fail, the other can fail.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use local->tx_headroom instad of local->hw.extra_tx_headroom.
local->tx_headroom is the max of hw.extra_tx_headroom required by the
driver and the headroom required by mac80211 for status reporting. On
drivers where hw.extra_tx_headroom is smaller than what mac80211
requires (e.g. ath5k), we would not reserve sufficient buffer space to
report tx status.
Also, don't reserve local->tx_headroom + local->hw.extra_tx_headroom.
Reported-by: Simon Morgenthaler <s.morgenthaler@students.unibe.ch>
Reported-by: Kai Scharwies <kai@scharwies.de>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Station entries can have various states, the most
important ones being auth, assoc and authorized.
This patch prepares us for telling the driver about
these states, we don't want to confuse drivers with
strange transitions, so with this we enforce that
they move in the right order between them (back and
forth); some transitions might happen before the
driver even knows about the station, but at least
runtime transitions will be ordered correctly.
As a consequence, IBSS and MESH stations will now
have the ASSOC flag set (so they can transition to
AUTHORIZED), and we can get rid of a special case
in TX processing.
When freeing a station, unwind the state so that
other parts of the code (or drivers later) can rely
on the transitions.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This implements ht-cap over-rides for mac80211 drivers.
HT may be disabled, making an /a/b/g/n station act like an
a/b/g station. HT40 may be disabled forcing the station to
be HT20 even if the AP and local hardware support HT40.
MAX-AMSDU may be disabled.
AMPDU-Density may be increased.
AMPDU-Factor may be decreased.
This has been successfully tested with ath9k using patched
wpa_supplicant and iw.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Set peer's HT capabilities, and disallow peering if we're on a different
channel type.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <anagar6@uic.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <anagar6@uic.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove most references to magic numbers, save a few bytes and hopefully
improve readability.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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>
Relocate the mesh implementation of adding the (extended) supported
rates IE to util.c, anticipating its use by other parts of mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Send a Mesh Peering Close frame when we deactivate a mesh peer link.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch updates the mesh peering frames to the format specified in
the recently ratified 802.11s standard. Several changes took place to
make this happen:
- Change RX path to handle new self-protected frames
- Add new Peering management IE
- Remove old Peer Link IE
- Remove old plink_action field in ieee80211_mgmt header
These changes by themselves would either break peering, or work by
coincidence, so squash them all into this patch.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Have the mesh peering frames use the self-protected action and reason codes
specified in 802.11s and defined in ieee80211.h. Remove the local enums.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Correct ordering of IEs in the mesh beacon while removing unneeded IEs
from mesh peering frames. Set privacy bit in capability info if security
is enabled. Add utility functions to aid in construction
of IEs and reduce code duplication.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These definitions need to be exposed now that we can set the peer link
states via NL80211_ATTR_STA_PLINK_STATE. They were already being
(opaquely) reported by NL80211_STA_INFO_PLINK_STATE.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Previous versions of 11s draft used the all zeroes address. Current
draft uses the same address as address 2.
Also, use the ANA-approved action category code for peer establishment frames.
Note: This breaks compatibility with previous mesh protocol instances.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Helmut Schaa