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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/mac80211/offchannel.c, branch v3.2.32</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>mac80211: clean up remain-on-channel on interface stop</title>
<updated>2012-06-19T22:18:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-31T13:09:27+00:00</published>
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commit 71ecfa1893034eeb1c93e02e22ee2ad26d080858 upstream.

When any interface goes down, it could be the one that we
were doing a remain-on-channel with. We therefore need to
cancel the remain-on-channel and flush the related work
structs so they don't run after the interface has been
removed or even destroyed.

It's also possible in this case that an off-channel SKB
was never transmitted, so free it if this is the case.
Note that this can also happen if the driver finishes
the off-channel period without ever starting it.

Reported-by: Nirav Shah &lt;nirav.j2.shah@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 71ecfa1893034eeb1c93e02e22ee2ad26d080858 upstream.

When any interface goes down, it could be the one that we
were doing a remain-on-channel with. We therefore need to
cancel the remain-on-channel and flush the related work
structs so they don't run after the interface has been
removed or even destroyed.

It's also possible in this case that an off-channel SKB
was never transmitted, so free it if this is the case.
Note that this can also happen if the driver finishes
the off-channel period without ever starting it.

Reported-by: Nirav Shah &lt;nirav.j2.shah@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: revert on-channel work optimisations</title>
<updated>2012-01-26T00:13:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-29T09:20:02+00:00</published>
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commit e76aadc572288a158ae18ae1c10fe395c7bca066 upstream.

Backport note:
This patch it's a full revert of commit b23b025f "mac80211: Optimize
scans on current operating channel.". On upstrem revert e76aadc5 we
keep some bits from that commit, which are needed for upstream version
of mac80211.

The on-channel work optimisations have caused a
number of issues, and the code is unfortunately
very complex and almost impossible to follow.
Instead of attempting to put in more workarounds
let's just remove those optimisations, we can
work on them again later, after we change the
whole auth/assoc design.

This should fix rate_control_send_low() warnings,
see RH bug 731365.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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commit e76aadc572288a158ae18ae1c10fe395c7bca066 upstream.

Backport note:
This patch it's a full revert of commit b23b025f "mac80211: Optimize
scans on current operating channel.". On upstrem revert e76aadc5 we
keep some bits from that commit, which are needed for upstream version
of mac80211.

The on-channel work optimisations have caused a
number of issues, and the code is unfortunately
very complex and almost impossible to follow.
Instead of attempting to put in more workarounds
let's just remove those optimisations, we can
work on them again later, after we change the
whole auth/assoc design.

This should fix rate_control_send_low() warnings,
see RH bug 731365.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-15T15:47:34+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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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 &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: Optimize scans on current operating channel.</title>
<updated>2011-02-04T21:30:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Greear</name>
<email>greearb@candelatech.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-04T19:54:17+00:00</published>
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This should decrease un-necessary flushes, on/off channel work,
and channel changes in cases where the only scanned channel is
the current operating channel.

* Removes SCAN_OFF_CHANNEL flag, uses SDATA_STATE_OFFCHANNEL
  and is-scanning flags instead.

* Add helper method to determine if we are currently configured
  for the operating channel.

* Do no blindly go off/on channel in work.c  Instead, only call
  appropriate on/off code when we really need to change channels.
  Always enable offchannel-ps mode when starting work,
  and disable it when we are done.

* Consolidate ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station and
  ieee80211_offchannel_stop_beaconing, call it
  ieee80211_offchannel_stop_vifs instead.

* Accept non-beacon frames when scanning on operating channel.

* Scan state machine optimized to minimize on/off channel
  transitions.  Also, when going on-channel, go ahead and
  re-enable beaconing.  We're going to be there for 200ms,
  so seems like some useful beaconing could happen.
  Always enable offchannel-ps mode when starting software
  scan, and disable it when we are done.

* Grab local-&gt;mtx earlier in __ieee80211_scan_completed_finish
  so that we are protected when calling hw_config(), etc.

* Pass probe-responses up the stack if scanning on local
  channel, so that mlme can take a look.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear &lt;greearb@candelatech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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This should decrease un-necessary flushes, on/off channel work,
and channel changes in cases where the only scanned channel is
the current operating channel.

* Removes SCAN_OFF_CHANNEL flag, uses SDATA_STATE_OFFCHANNEL
  and is-scanning flags instead.

* Add helper method to determine if we are currently configured
  for the operating channel.

* Do no blindly go off/on channel in work.c  Instead, only call
  appropriate on/off code when we really need to change channels.
  Always enable offchannel-ps mode when starting work,
  and disable it when we are done.

* Consolidate ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station and
  ieee80211_offchannel_stop_beaconing, call it
  ieee80211_offchannel_stop_vifs instead.

* Accept non-beacon frames when scanning on operating channel.

* Scan state machine optimized to minimize on/off channel
  transitions.  Also, when going on-channel, go ahead and
  re-enable beaconing.  We're going to be there for 200ms,
  so seems like some useful beaconing could happen.
  Always enable offchannel-ps mode when starting software
  scan, and disable it when we are done.

* Grab local-&gt;mtx earlier in __ieee80211_scan_completed_finish
  so that we are protected when calling hw_config(), etc.

* Pass probe-responses up the stack if scanning on local
  channel, so that mlme can take a look.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear &lt;greearb@candelatech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: implement off-channel TX using hw r-o-c offload</title>
<updated>2011-01-05T21:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-18T16:20:48+00:00</published>
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When the driver has remain-on-channel offload,
implement off-channel transmission using that
primitive.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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When the driver has remain-on-channel offload,
implement off-channel transmission using that
primitive.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mac80211: implement hardware offload for remain-on-channel</title>
<updated>2011-01-05T21:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-18T16:20:47+00:00</published>
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This allows drivers to support remain-on-channel
offload if they implement smarter timing or need
to use a device implementation like iwlwifi.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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This allows drivers to support remain-on-channel
offload if they implement smarter timing or need
to use a device implementation like iwlwifi.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: disable beacon monitor while going offchannel</title>
<updated>2010-09-16T19:46:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>lrodriguez@atheros.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-16T19:12:33+00:00</published>
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The beacon monitor should be disabled when going off channel
to prevent spurious warnings and triggering connection
deterioration work such as sending probe requests. Re-enable
the beacon monitor once we come back to the home channel.

This patch has fixes for stable kernels [2.6.34+].

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart &lt;pstew@google.com&gt;
Cc: Amod Bodas &lt;amod.bodas@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;lrodriguez@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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The beacon monitor should be disabled when going off channel
to prevent spurious warnings and triggering connection
deterioration work such as sending probe requests. Re-enable
the beacon monitor once we come back to the home channel.

This patch has fixes for stable kernels [2.6.34+].

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart &lt;pstew@google.com&gt;
Cc: Amod Bodas &lt;amod.bodas@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;lrodriguez@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: reset connection idle when going offchannel</title>
<updated>2010-09-16T19:46:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>lrodriguez@atheros.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-16T19:12:31+00:00</published>
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When we go offchannel mac80211 currently leaves alive the
connection idle monitor. This should be instead postponed
until we come back to our home channel, otherwise by the
time we get back to the home channel we could be triggering
unecesary probe requests. For APs that do not respond to
unicast probe requests (Nexus One is a simple example) this
means we essentially get disconnected after the probes
fails.

This patch has stable fixes for kernels [2.6.35+]

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart &lt;pstew@google.com&gt;
Cc: Amod Bodas &lt;amod.bodas@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;lrodriguez@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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When we go offchannel mac80211 currently leaves alive the
connection idle monitor. This should be instead postponed
until we come back to our home channel, otherwise by the
time we get back to the home channel we could be triggering
unecesary probe requests. For APs that do not respond to
unicast probe requests (Nexus One is a simple example) this
means we essentially get disconnected after the probes
fails.

This patch has stable fixes for kernels [2.6.35+]

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Paul Stewart &lt;pstew@google.com&gt;
Cc: Amod Bodas &lt;amod.bodas@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;lrodriguez@atheros.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: fix offchannel queue stop</title>
<updated>2010-08-27T17:53:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-27T11:45:28+00:00</published>
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Somebody noticed this problem, and I outlined
to them how to fix it, but haven't heard back
from them. So while I was adding the state
field I figured I could use it to fix it.

The problem, as I understand it, is that when
we go offchannel while the driver has a queue
stopped, the driver will likely start draining
the queue and then enable it while offchannel.
This in turn will enable the interface queue,
and that leads to transmitting data frames on
the wrong channel.

Fix this by keeping track of offchannel status
per interface, and not enabling the interface
queues on interfaces that are offchannel when
the driver enables a queue.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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Somebody noticed this problem, and I outlined
to them how to fix it, but haven't heard back
from them. So while I was adding the state
field I figured I could use it to fix it.

The problem, as I understand it, is that when
we go offchannel while the driver has a queue
stopped, the driver will likely start draining
the queue and then enable it while offchannel.
This in turn will enable the interface queue,
and that leads to transmitting data frames on
the wrong channel.

Fix this by keeping track of offchannel status
per interface, and not enabling the interface
queues on interfaces that are offchannel when
the driver enables a queue.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: Fixed netif_tx_wake_all_queues in IBSS mode</title>
<updated>2010-01-15T21:58:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benoit Papillault</name>
<email>benoit.papillault@free.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-14T22:20:31+00:00</published>
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When ieee80211_offchannel_return is called, it needs to re-enabled TX
queues that have been stopped in ieee80211_offchannel_stop_beaconing or
ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station. It happens if we are doing a scan with an
IBSS interface. In this case, the interface stopped transmitting.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault &lt;benoit.papillault@free.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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When ieee80211_offchannel_return is called, it needs to re-enabled TX
queues that have been stopped in ieee80211_offchannel_stop_beaconing or
ieee80211_offchannel_stop_station. It happens if we are doing a scan with an
IBSS interface. In this case, the interface stopped transmitting.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Papillault &lt;benoit.papillault@free.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
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