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Johannes Berg 8921d04e8d mac80211: track number of spatial streams
With VHT, a station can change the number of spatial
streams it can receive on the fly, not unlike spatial
multiplexing in HT. Prepare for that by tracking the
maximum number of spatial streams it can receive when
the connection is established.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:31 +01:00
Johannes Berg e1a0c6b3a4 mac80211: stop toggling IEEE80211_HT_CAP_SUP_WIDTH_20_40
For VHT, many more bandwidth changes are possible. As a first
step, stop toggling the IEEE80211_HT_CAP_SUP_WIDTH_20_40 flag
in the HT capabilities and instead introduce a bandwidth field
indicating the currently usable bandwidth to transmit to the
station. Of course, make all drivers use it.

To achieve this, make ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_sta_ht_cap() get
the station as an argument, rather than the new capabilities,
so it can set up the new bandwidth field.

If the station is a VHT station and VHT bandwidth is in use,
also set the bandwidth accordingly.

Doing this allows us to get rid of the supports_40mhz flag as
the HT capabilities now reflect the true capability instead of
the current setting.

While at it, also fix ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_sta_ht_cap() to not
ignore HT cap overrides when MCS TX isn't supported (not that it
really happens...)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:30 +01:00
Johannes Berg 4a34215ef7 mac80211: pass station to ieee80211_vht_cap_ie_to_sta_vht_cap
Like with HT, make things a bit simpler in future patches by
passing the station to ieee80211_vht_cap_ie_to_sta_vht_cap()
instead of the vht_cap pointer. Also disable VHT here if HT
isn't supported.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:29 +01:00
Johannes Berg 8cdc196b74 Merge remote-tracking branch 'mac80211/master' into HEAD 2013-02-15 09:41:21 +01:00
Johannes Berg 03395003bf mac80211: use spin_lock_bh() for TKIP lock
Since no driver calls the TKIP functions from interrupt
context, there's no need to use spin_lock_irqsave().
Just use spin_lock_bh() (and spin_lock() in the TX path
where we're in a BH or they're already disabled.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:13 +01:00
Johannes Berg 65f704a52e mac80211: use spin_lock_bh() for tim_lock
There's no need to use _irqsave() as the lock
is never used in interrupt context.

This also fixes a problem in the iwlwifi MVM
driver that calls spin_unlock_bh() within its
set_tim() callback.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:12 +01:00
Johannes Berg 441a33baf1 mac80211: don't pick up WPA vendor IE
There's no use for it, WPA is entirely handled in
wpa_supplicant in userspace, so don't pick the IE.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:12 +01:00
Johannes Berg 5b36ebd824 mac80211: always unblock CSA queue stop when disconnecting
In some cases when disconnecting after (or during?) CSA
the queues might not recover, and then the only way to
recover is reloading the module.

Fix this by always unblocking the queue CSA reason when
disconnecting.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Jan-Michael Brummer <jan.brummer@tabos.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:11 +01:00
Johannes Berg 5bbe754d9e mac80211: don't call bss_info_changed on p2p-device/monitor
Since the idle decision rework, mac80211 started calling
bss_info_changed() for the driver's monitor interface,
which causes a crash for iwlwifi, but drivers generally
don't expect this to happen. Therefore, avoid it.

While at it, also prevent calling it in such cases and
only print a warning. For the P2P Device interface the
idle will no longer be called (no channel context), so
also prevent that and warn on it.

Reported-by: Chaitanya <chaitanya.mgit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:11 +01:00
Johannes Berg 89afe614c0 mac80211: fix auth/assoc timeout handling
In my commit 1672c0e319
("mac80211: start auth/assoc timeout on frame status")
I broke auth/assoc timeout handling: in case we wait
for the TX status, it now leaves the timeout field set
to 0, which is a valid time and can compare as being
before now ("jiffies"). Thus, if the work struct runs
for some other reason, the auth/assoc is treated as
having timed out.

Fix this by introducing a separate "timeout_started"
variable that tracks whether the timeout has started
and is checked before timing out.

Additionally, for proper TX status handling the change
requires that the skb->dev pointer is set up for all
the frames, so set it up for all frames in mac80211.

Reported-by: Wojciech Dubowik <Wojciech.Dubowik@neratec.com>
Tested-by: Wojciech Dubowik <Wojciech.Dubowik@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:10 +01:00
Wojciech Dubowik cab1c7fd80 mac80211: fix ieee80211_sta_tx_notify for nullfunc
Function ieee80211_sta_reset_conn_monitor has been
resetting probe_send_count too early and nullfunc
check was never called after succesfull ack.

Reported-by: Magnus Cederlöf <mcider@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Magnus Cederlöf <mcider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wojciech Dubowik <Wojciech.Dubowik@neratec.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:09 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen 39886b618a mac80211: consolidate MBSS change notification
A few mesh utility functions will call
ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify(), and then the caller
might notify the driver of the same change again. Avoid
this redundancy by propagating the BSS changes and
generally calling bss_info_change_notify() once per
change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:09 +01:00
Michael Braun de74a1d903 mac80211: fix WPA with VLAN on AP side with ps-sta
When sending a broadcast while at least on of the connected stations is
sleeping, it gets queued and send after a DTIM beacon is sent.
If the packet was to be sent on a vlan interface, the vif used for dequeing
from the per-bss queue does not hold the per-vlan sdata. The correct sdata is
required to use the correct per-vlan broadcast/multicast key.

This patch fixes this by restoring the per-vlan sdata using the skb->dev entry.

Signed-off-by: Michael Braun <michael-dev@fami-braun.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:08 +01:00
Michael Braun 397a7a24ef mac80211: free ps->bc_buf skbs on vlan device stop
When the vlan device is removed, ps->bc_buf processing can no longer
send its frames.

Signed-off-by: Michael Braun <michael-dev@fami-braun.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-15 09:41:08 +01:00
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
Felix Fietkau a0497f9f57 mac80211/minstrel_ht: add support for using CCK rates
When MCS rates start to get bad in 2.4 GHz because of long range or
strong interference, CCK rates can be a lot more robust.

This patch adds a pseudo MCS group containing CCK rates (long preamble
in the lower 4 slots, short preamble in the upper slots).

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
[make minstrel_ht_get_stats static]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-13 10:56:33 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach 66d5757051 mac80211: allow driver to be stateless wrt. SMSP requests
Bail out if no update is made to the SMPS state. This
allows the driver to avoid duplicating the state.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-12 10:10:28 +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
Felix Fietkau df15a6c4fa mac80211/minstrel_ht: remove the sampling bypass check for the lowest rate
It's more of an unnecessary micro-optimization and it prevents switching
from long-GI to short-GI in HT20/single-stream for the lowest rate

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 22:43:24 +01:00
Felix Fietkau 7f4fe17bc2 mac80211/minstrel_ht: show the number of retries for each rate in debugfs
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 22:43:11 +01:00
Johannes Berg 3e4d40fa11 mac80211: remove unused code to mark AP station authenticated
When we get to association, the AP station already exists and
is marked authenticated, so moving it into IEEE80211_STA_AUTH
again is a NOP, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:45:02 +01:00
Johannes Berg fd0f979a1b mac80211: simplify idle handling
Now that we have channel contexts, idle is (pretty
much) equivalent to not having a channel context.
Change the code to use this relation so that there
no longer is a need for a lot of idle recalculate
calls everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:45:01 +01:00
Johannes Berg f1e3e05156 mac80211: remove IEEE80211_HW_SCAN_WHILE_IDLE
There are only a few drivers that use HW scan, and
all of those don't need a non-idle transition before
starting the scan -- some don't even care about idle
at all. Remove the flag and code associated with it.

The only driver that really actually needed this is
wl1251 and it can just do it itself in the hw_scan
callback -- implement that.

Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:45:01 +01:00
Johannes Berg 09b85568c1 mac80211: remove dynamic PS driver interface
The functions were added for some sort of Bluetooth
coexistence, but aren't used, so remove them again.

Reviewed-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:45:00 +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 8cef2c9df8 cfg80211: move TSF into IEs
While technically the TSF isn't an IE, it can be
necessary to distinguish between the TSF from a
beacon and a probe response, in particular in
order to know the next DTIM TBTT, as not all APs
are spec compliant wrt. TSF==0 being a DTIM TBTT
and thus the DTIM count needs to be taken into
account as well.

To allow this, move the TSF into the IE struct
so it can be known whence it came.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:59 +01:00
Alexander Bondar b207cdb07f mac80211: add vif debugfs driver callbacks
Add debugfs driver callbacks so drivers can add
debugfs entries for interfaces. Note that they
_must_ remove the entries again as add/remove in
the driver doesn't correspond to add/remove in
debugfs; the former is up/down while the latter
is netdev create/destroy.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Bondar <alexander.bondar@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:58 +01:00
Johannes Berg 1f4ac5a63f mac80211: explicitly copy channels to VLANs where needed
Currently the code assigns channel contexts to VLANs
(for use by the TX/RX code) when the AP master gets
its channel context assigned. This works fine, but
in the upcoming radar detection work the VLANs don't
require a channel context (during radar detection)
and assigning one to them anyway causes issues with
locking and also inconsistencies -- a VLAN interface
that is added before radar detection would get the
channel context, while one added during it wouldn't.

Fix these issues moving the channel context copying
to a new explicit operation that will not be used
in the radar detection code.

Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:57 +01:00
Johannes Berg 757af6fefd mac80211: fix chandef tracing bug
The chandef tracing writes center_freq1 twice, so
that it is always 0 (no driver supports 80+80 yet)
and leaves center_freq2 unset. Fix this mistake.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:56 +01:00
Johannes Berg 112c31f095 mac80211: fix AP beacon loss messages
The messages currently refer to probe request probes,
but on some devices null data packets will be used
instead. Make the messages more generic.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:55 +01:00
Christian Lamparter f9e124fbd8 mac80211: protect rx-path with spinlock
This patch fixes the problem which was discussed in
"mac80211: Fix PN corruption in case of multiple
virtual interface" [1].

Amit Shakya reported a serious issue with my patch:
mac80211: serialize rx path workers" [2]:

In case, ieee80211_rx_handlers processing is going on
for skbs received on one vif and at the same time, rx
aggregation reorder timer expires on another vif then
sta_rx_agg_reorder_timer_expired is invoked and it will
push skbs into the single queue (local->rx_skb_queue).

ieee80211_rx_handlers in the while loop assumes that
the skbs are for the same sdata and sta. This assumption
doesn't hold good in this scenario and the PN gets
corrupted by PN received in other vif's skb, causing
traffic to stop due to PN mismatch."

[1] Message-Id: http://mid.gmane.org/201302041844.44436.chunkeey@googlemail.com
[2] Commit-Id: 24a8fdad35

Reported-by: Amit Shakya <amit.shakya@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:55 +01:00
Emanuel Taube 601513aa20 mac80211: Add the DS Params for mesh to every band
There seems to be no reason, why it has to be limited to 2.4 GHz.

Signed-off-by: Emanuel Taube <emanuel.taube@gmail.com>
[remove 'local' variable]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:54 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen 45b5028e86 mac80211: fix mesh sta teardown
The patch "mac80211: clean up mesh sta allocation warning"
moved some mesh initialization into a path which is only
called when the kernel handles peering. This causes a hang
when mac80211 tries to clean up a userspace-allocated
station entry and delete a timer which has never been
initialized.

To avoid this, only do any mesh sta peering teardown if
the kernel is actually handling it.

The same is true when quiescing before suspend.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:54 +01:00
Johannes Berg 077f897a8b wireless: fix kernel-doc
Fix most kernel-doc warnings, for some reason it
seems to have issues with __aligned, don't remove
the documentation entries it considers to be in
excess due to that.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 18:44:53 +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
Johannes Berg 3d9646d0ab mac80211: fix channel selection bug
When trying to connect to an AP that advertises HT but not
VHT, the mac80211 code erroneously uses the configuration
from the AP as is instead of checking it against regulatory
and local capabilities. This can lead to using an invalid
or even inexistent channel (like 11/HT40+).

Additionally, the return flags from downgrading must be
ORed together, to collect them from all of the downgrades.
Also clarify the message.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-11 11:12:26 +01:00
Johannes Berg d601cd8d95 mac80211: fix managed mode channel context use
My commit f2d9d270c1
("mac80211: support VHT association") introduced a
very stupid bug: the loop to downgrade the channel
width never attempted to actually use it again so
it would downgrade all the way to 20_NOHT. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-07 20:56:01 +01:00
Cong Ding 9887dbf5b2 mac80211: fix error in sizeof() usage
Using 'sizeof' on array given as function argument returns
size of a pointer rather than the size of array.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-06 17:31:55 +01:00
Thomas Pedersen aa5a1b8e68 mac80211: stop plink timer only on mesh interfaces
Since mesh_plink_quiesce() would unconditionally delete
the plink timer, and the timer initialization was recently
moved into the mesh code path, suspending with a non-mesh
interface now causes a crash. Fix this by only deleting
the plink timer for mesh interfaces.

Reported-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Tested-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pedersen <thomas@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-05 11:00:09 +01:00
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 6b684db1db mac80211: send deauth if connection was lost during suspend
If the driver determined the connection was lost or that
it couldn't securely maintain the connection when coming
out of WoWLAN, send a deauth frame to the AP to also let
it know.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:44 +01:00
Johannes Berg e54faf29e0 mac80211: allow transmitting deauth with tainted key
When we had a connection for WoWLAN and after resume it
needed to be disconnected, the previous commit enabled
sending a deauth frame to the AP. This frame would not
go through on MFP-enabled networks as the key for it is
marked tainted before the frame is transmitted.

Allow a tainted key to be used for deauth frames. Worst
case, we'll use a wrong key because the PTK was rekeyed
while suspended, but more likely the PTK is still fine
and the taint flag really only applies to the GTK(s).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:44 +01:00
Johannes Berg 3146a7da83 mac80211: remove unused SSID from BSS
The ssid/ssid_len fields in the private BSS
struct are unused, contrary to the comment
we do look up the SSID in the few cases we
need it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 18:57:42 +01:00
Johannes Berg 682bd38b8a mac80211: always allow calling ieee80211_connection_loss()
With multi-channel, there's a corner case where a driver
doesn't receive a beacon soon enough to be able to sync
its timers with the AP. In this case, the only recovery
(after trying again) is to disconnect from the AP. Allow
calling ieee80211_connection_loss() for such cases. To
make that possible, modify the work function to not rely
on the IEEE80211_HW_CONNECTION_MONITOR flag but use new
state kept in the interface instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 16:09:58 +01:00
Johannes Berg eef9e54ce8 mac80211: send deauth when connection is lost
If the driver determines the connection is lost,
send a deauth frame to the AP anyway just in case
it still considers the connection alive. The frame
might not go through, but at least we've tried.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2013-02-04 16:09:53 +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