linux-toradex.git/net/mac80211/sta_info.h, branch v2.6.31.4

mac80211: fix kernel-doc

2009-05-20T18:46:32+00:00

Moving information from config_interface to bss_info_changed
removed struct ieee80211_if_conf which the documentation still
refers to, additionally there's one kernel-doc description too
much and one other missing, fix all this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: cancel/restart all timers across suspend/resume

2009-05-20T18:46:25+00:00

We forgot to cancel all timers in mac80211 when suspending.
In particular we forgot to deal with some things that can
cause hardware reconfiguration -- while it is down.

While at it we go ahead and add a warning in ieee80211_sta_work()
if its run while the suspend->resume cycle is in effect. This
should not happen and if it does it would indicate there is
a bug lurking in either mac80211 or mac80211 drivers.

With this now wpa_supplicant doesn't blink when I go to suspend
and resume where as before there where issues with some timers
running during the suspend->resume cycle. This caused a lot of
incorrect assumptions and would at times bring back the device
in an incoherent, but mostly recoverable, state.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: Add a timeout for frames in the RX reorder buffer

2009-05-06T19:15:04+00:00

This patch allows skbs to be released from the RX reorder buffer in
case they have been there for an unexpectedly long time without us
having received the missing frames before them. Previously, these
frames were only released when the reorder window moved and that could
take very long time unless new frames were received constantly (e.g.,
TCP connections could be killed more or less indefinitely).

This situation should not happen very frequently, but it looks like
there are some scenarious that trigger it for some reason. As such,
this should be considered mostly a workaround to speed up recovery
from unexpected siutation that could result in connections hanging for
long periods of time.

The changes here will only check for timeout situation when adding new
RX frames to the reorder buffer. It does not handle all possible
cases, but seems to help for most cases that could result from common
network usage (e.g., TCP retrying at least couple of times). For more
completely coverage, a timer could be used to periodically check
whether there are any frames remaining in the reorder buffer if no new
frames are received.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: convert to cfg80211 IBSS API

2009-04-22T20:57:17+00:00

This converts mac80211 to the new cfg80211 IBSS API, the
wext handling functions are called where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211/iwlwifi: move virtual A-MDPU queue bookkeeping to iwlwifi

2009-03-28T00:13:23+00:00

This patch removes all the virtual A-MPDU-queue bookkeeping from
mac80211. Curiously, iwlwifi already does its own bookkeeping, so
it doesn't require much changes except where it needs to handle
starting and stopping the queues in mac80211.

To handle the queue stop/wake properly, we rewrite the software
queue number for aggregation frames and internally to iwlwifi keep
track of the queues that map into the same AC queue, and only talk
to mac80211 about the AC queue. The implementation requires calling
two new functions, iwl_stop_queue and iwl_wake_queue instead of the
mac80211 counterparts.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Reinette Chattre 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: fix aggregation to not require queue stop

2009-03-28T00:13:22+00:00

Instead of stopping the entire AC queue when enabling aggregation
(which was only done for hardware with aggregation queues) buffer
the packets for each station, and release them to the pending skb
queue once aggregation is turned on successfully.

We get a little more code, but it becomes conceptually simpler and
we can remove the entire virtual queue mechanism from mac80211 in
a follow-up patch.

This changes how mac80211 behaves towards drivers that support
aggregation but have no hardware queues -- those drivers will now
not be handed packets while the aggregation session is being
established, but only after it has been fully established.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: Tear down aggregation sessions for suspend/resume

2009-03-28T00:12:55+00:00

When the driver has been notified with a STA_REMOVE, it tears down
the internal ADDBA state. On resume, trying to initiate aggregation would
fail because mac80211 has not cleared the operational state for that .
This can be fixed by tearing down the existing sessions on a suspend.

Also, the driver can initiate a new BA session when suspend is in progress.
This is fixed by marking the station as being in suspend state and
denying ADDBA requests for such STAs.

Signed-off-by: Sujith 
Acked-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: add missing kernel-doc

2009-02-27T19:52:41+00:00

Document the new shutdown member.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: fix aggregation for hardware with ampdu queues

2009-02-27T19:51:42+00:00

Hardware with AMPDU queues currently has broken aggregation.

This patch fixes it by making all A-MPDUs go over the regular AC queues,
but keeping track of the hardware queues in mac80211. As a first rough
version, it actually stops the AC queue for extended periods of time,
which can be removed by adding buffering internal to mac80211, but is
currently not a huge problem because people rarely use multiple TIDs
that are in the same AC (and iwlwifi currently doesn't operate as AP).

This is a short-term fix, my current medium-term plan, which I hope to
execute soon as well, but am not sure can finish before .30, looks like
this:
 1) rework the internal queuing layer in mac80211 that we use for
    fragments if the driver stopped queue in the middle of a fragmented
    frame to be able to queue more frames at once (rather than just a
    single frame with its fragments)
 2) instead of stopping the entire AC queue, queue up the frames in a
    per-station/per-TID queue during aggregation session initiation,
    when the session has come up take all those frames and put them
    onto the queue from 1)
 3) push the ampdu queue layer abstraction this patch introduces in
    mac80211 into the driver, and remove the virtual queue stuff from
    mac80211 again

This plan will probably also affect ath9k in that mac80211 queues the
frames instead of passing them down, even when there are no ampdu queues.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

mac80211: fix aggregation timer lockups

2009-02-13T18:45:43+00:00

As far as I can tell, there are possible lockups because both the RX
session_timer and TX addba_resp_timer are del_timer_sync'ed under
the sta spinlock which both timer functions take. Additionally, the
TX agg code seems to leak memory when TX aggregation is not disabled
before the sta_info is freed.

Fix this by making the free code a little smarter in the RX agg case,
and actually make the sta_info_destroy code free the TX agg info in
the TX agg case. We won't notify the peer, but it'll notice something
is wrong anyway, and normally this only happens after we've told it
in some other way we will no longer talk to it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville