linux.git/net/mac80211/debugfs.c, branch v5.1

mac80211: indicate support for multiple BSSID

2019-02-08T12:56:37+00:00

Set multi-bssid support flags according to driver support.

Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: minstrel_ht: add flag to indicate missing/inaccurate tx A-MPDU length

2019-01-19T08:56:56+00:00

Some hardware (e.g. MediaTek MT7603) cannot report A-MPDU length in tx status
information. Add support for a flag to indicate that, to allow minstrel_ht
to use a fixed value in its internal calculation (which gives better results
than just defaulting to 1).

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Add airtime accounting and scheduling to TXQs

2019-01-19T08:31:43+00:00

This adds airtime accounting and scheduling to the mac80211 TXQ
scheduler. A new callback, ieee80211_sta_register_airtime(), is added
that drivers can call to report airtime usage for stations.

When airtime information is present, mac80211 will schedule TXQs
(through ieee80211_next_txq()) in a way that enforces airtime fairness
between active stations. This scheduling works the same way as the ath9k
in-driver airtime fairness scheduling. If no airtime usage is reported
by the driver, the scheduler will default to round-robin scheduling.

For drivers that don't control TXQ scheduling in software, a new API
function, ieee80211_txq_may_transmit(), is added which the driver can use
to check if the TXQ is eligible for transmission, or should be throttled to
enforce fairness. Calls to this function must also be enclosed in
ieee80211_txq_schedule_{start,end}() calls to ensure proper locking.

The API ieee80211_txq_may_transmit() also ensures that TXQ list will be
aligned aginst driver's own round-robin scheduler list. i.e it rotates
the TXQ list till it makes the requested node becomes the first entry
in TXQ list. Thus both the TXQ list and driver's list are in sync.

Co-developed-by: Rajkumar Manoharan 
Signed-off-by: Louie Lu 
[added debugfs write op to reset airtime counter]
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen 
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: add an option for station management TXQ

2018-09-05T08:10:11+00:00

We have a TXQ abstraction for non-data packets that need
powersave buffering. Since the AP cannot sleep, in case
of station we can use this TXQ for all management frames,
regardless if they are bufferable. Add HW flag to allow
that.

Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon 
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: introduce capability flags for VHT EXT NSS support

2018-09-05T08:03:14+00:00

Depending on whether or not rate control supports selecting
rates depending on the bandwidth, we can use VHT extended
NSS support. In essence, this is dot11VHTExtendedNSSBWCapable
from the spec, since depending on that we'll need to parse
the bandwidth.

If needed, also set/clear the VHT Capability Element bit for
this capability so that we don't advertise it erroneously or
don't advertise it when we actually use it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: add an optional TXQ for other PS-buffered frames

2018-09-05T08:03:13+00:00

Some drivers may want to also use the TXQ abstraction with
non-data packets that need powersave buffering, so add a
hardware flag to allow this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2018-03-23T15:31:58+00:00

Fun set of conflict resolutions here...

For the mac80211 stuff, these were fortunately just parallel
adds.  Trivially resolved.

In drivers/net/phy/phy.c we had a bug fix in 'net' that moved the
function phy_disable_interrupts() earlier in the file, whilst in
'net-next' the phy_error() call from this function was removed.

In net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c, David Ahern's changes to remove the
'rt_table_id' member of rtable collided with a bug fix in 'net' that
added a new struct member "rt_mtu_locked" which needs to be copied
over here.

The mlxsw driver conflict consisted of net-next separating
the span code and definitions into separate files, whilst
a 'net' bug fix made some changes to that moved code.

The mlx5 infiniband conflict resolution was quite non-trivial,
the RDMA tree's merge commit was used as a guide here, and
here are their notes:

====================

    Due to bug fixes found by the syzkaller bot and taken into the for-rc
    branch after development for the 4.17 merge window had already started
    being taken into the for-next branch, there were fairly non-trivial
    merge issues that would need to be resolved between the for-rc branch
    and the for-next branch.  This merge resolves those conflicts and
    provides a unified base upon which ongoing development for 4.17 can
    be based.

    Conflicts:
            drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c - Commit 42cea83f9524
            (IB/mlx5: Fix cleanup order on unload) added to for-rc and
            commit b5ca15ad7e61 (IB/mlx5: Add proper representors support)
            add as part of the devel cycle both needed to modify the
            init/de-init functions used by mlx5.  To support the new
            representors, the new functions added by the cleanup patch
            needed to be made non-static, and the init/de-init list
            added by the representors patch needed to be modified to
            match the init/de-init list changes made by the cleanup
            patch.
    Updates:
            drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h - Update function
            prototypes added by representors patch to reflect new function
            names as changed by cleanup patch
            drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/ib_rep.c - Update init/de-init
            stage list to match new order from cleanup patch
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mac80211: add ieee80211_hw flag for QoS NDP support

2018-03-21T09:56:18+00:00

Commit 7b6ddeaf27ec ("mac80211: use QoS NDP for AP probing") added an
argument qos_ok to ieee80211_nullfunc_get to support QoS NDP. Despite
the claim in the commit log "Change all the drivers to *not* allow
QoS NDP for now, even though it looks like most of them should be OK
with that", this commit enables QoS NDP in response to beacons (see
change to mlme.c:ieee80211_send_nullfunc), causing ath9k_htc to lose
IP connectivity. See:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10241109/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891060

Introduce a hardware flag to allow such buggy drivers to override the
correct default behaviour of mac80211 of sending QoS NDP packets.

Signed-off-by: Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Call mgd_prep_tx before transmitting deauthentication

2018-02-22T20:13:04+00:00

In multi channel scenarios, when disassociating from the AP before a
beacon was heard from the AP, it is not guaranteed that the virtual
interface is granted air time for the transmission of the
deauthentication frame. This in turn can lead to various issues as
the AP might never get the deauthentication frame.

To mitigate such possible issues, add a HW flag indicating that the
driver requires mac80211 to call the mgd_prep_tx() driver callback
to make sure that the virtual interface is granted immediate airtime
to be able to transmit the frame, in case that no beacon was heard
from the AP.

Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer 
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

Revert "mac80211: Add airtime account and scheduling to TXQs"

2017-12-19T09:12:26+00:00

This reverts commit b0d52ad821843a6c5badebd80feef9f871904fa6.

We need to revert the TXQ scheduling API due to conflicts
with a new driver, and this depends on that API.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg