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Johannes Berg
83d5cc0124 mac80211: station state transition error handling
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>
2012-01-30 15:41:25 -05:00
Johannes Berg
ea086359a6 mac80211: make CQM RSSI support per virtual interface
Similar to the previous beacon filtering patch,
make CQM RSSI support depend on the flags that
the driver set for virtual interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-27 14:56:54 -05:00
Johannes Berg
c1288b1278 mac80211: make beacon filtering per virtual interface
Due to firmware limitations, we may not be able to
support beacon filtering on all virtual interfaces.
To allow this in mac80211, introduce per-interface
driver capability flags that the driver sets when
an interface is added.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-27 14:56:53 -05:00
Hong Wu
a48b13ac81 mac80211: Fix the maximum transmit power with power constraint
The local maximum transmit power for a channel is defined as the maximum
regulatory transmission power minus the local power constraint specified
for the channel in the Power Constraint element. (7.3.2.15 IEEE80211 2007)

Signed-off-by: Hong Wu <hong.wu@dspg.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-24 14:21:11 -05:00
Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
30fa904724 mac80211: use RCU read locks for sta_info_get
this is being recently introduced by the commit
a85e1d5597

Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2012-01-04 14:30:46 -05:00
Paul Stewart
a85e1d5597 cfg80211: Return beacon loss count in station
If station info contains a beacon loss count, return
it to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-19 14:34:13 -05:00
Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
1478acb392 mac80211: Fix power save in change interface
we found that power save is not getting enabled when we do
change interface in this order STA->IBSS->STA. this is
because ieee80211_setup_sdata clears type-dependent union

Reported-by: Leela Kella <leela@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15 14:46:35 -05:00
Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
9c38a8b491 mac80211: remove an unnecessary paraenthesis
Signed-off-by: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-12-15 14:46:35 -05:00
Johannes Berg
d9a7ddb05e mac80211: refactor station state transitions
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>
2011-12-15 14:46:34 -05:00
John W. Linville
d7a4858c0f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
2011-12-02 15:44:03 -05:00
John W. Linville
515db09338 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-debugfs.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-rx.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-scan.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-tx.c
	include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h
2011-11-22 14:05:46 -05:00
Ben Greear
ef96a84202 mac80211: Support ht-cap over-rides.
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>
2011-11-21 16:22:06 -05:00
Johannes Berg
fb4431bf60 mac80211: remove unused ASSOC_AP flag
WLAN_STA_ASSOC_AP indicates that the station entry
is for an AP we're associated to but isn't used so
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-21 16:20:43 -05:00
Felix Fietkau
fcac4fb00e mac80211: call ieee80211_recalc_idle() after sending packets
Some drivers (e.g. ath9k) assume that it's safe to go into low-power mode
immediately after the idle state changes. To support that, mac80211 even
calls drv_flush() before that happens.
In some instances, mac80211 sent a packet right after recalculating the
idle state, this patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-17 15:45:15 -05:00
Christian Lamparter
c74d084f91 mac80211: handle HT PHY BSS membership selector value correctly
802.11n-2009 extends the supported rates element with a
magic value which can be used to prevent legacy stations
from joining the BSS.

However, this magic value is not a rate like the others
and the magic can simply be ignored/skipped at this late
stage.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>---
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 16:00:59 -05:00
Johannes Berg
0ecfe806f1 mac80211: fix race between connection monitor & suspend
When the connection monitor timer fires right before
suspend, the following will happen:
 timer fires -> monitor_work gets queued
 suspend calls ieee80211_sta_quiesce
 ieee80211_sta_quiesce:
  - deletes timer
  - cancels monitor_work synchronously, running it
  [note wrong order of these steps]
 monitor_work runs, re-arming the timer
 later, timer fires while system should be quiesced

This causes a warning:

WARNING: at net/mac80211/util.c:540 ieee80211_can_queue_work+0x35/0x40 [mac80211]()

but is otherwise harmless. I'm not completely sure
this is the scenario Thomas stumbled across, but it
is the only way I can right now see the warning in
a scenario like the one he reported.

Reported-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-09 14:35:56 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
94956eed14 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (47 commits)
  forcedeth: fix a few sparse warnings (variable shadowing)
  forcedeth: Improve stats counters
  forcedeth: remove unneeded stats updates
  forcedeth: Acknowledge only interrupts that are being processed
  forcedeth: fix race when unloading module
  MAINTAINERS/rds: update maintainer
  wanrouter: Remove kernel_lock annotations
  usbnet: fix oops in usbnet_start_xmit
  ixgbe: Fix compile for kernel without CONFIG_PCI_IOV defined
  etherh: Add MAINTAINERS entry for etherh
  bonding: comparing a u8 with -1 is always false
  sky2: fix regression on Yukon Optima
  netlink: clarify attribute length check documentation
  netlink: validate NLA_MSECS length
  i825xx:xscale:8390:freescale: Fix Kconfig dependancies
  macvlan: receive multicast with local address
  tg3: Update version to 3.121
  tg3: Eliminate timer race with reset_task
  tg3: Schedule at most one tg3_reset_task run
  tg3: Obtain PCI function number from device
  ...
2011-11-07 10:55:33 -08:00
Eliad Peller
3432f92337 mac80211: use min rate as basic rate for buggy APs
Some buggy APs (and even P2P_GO) don't advertise their
basic rates in the association response.

In such case, use the min supported rate as the
basic rate.

Reported-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-07 13:19:13 -05:00
Johannes Berg
05cb910857 mac80211: disable powersave for broken APs
Only AID values 1-2007 are valid, but some APs have been
found to send random bogus values, in the reported case an
AP that was sending the AID field value 0xffff, an AID of
0x3fff (16383).

There isn't much we can do but disable powersave since
there's no way it can work properly in this case.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Bill C Riemers <briemers@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-11-02 15:23:13 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker
bc3b2d7fb9 net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules
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 <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker
d9b9384215 net: add moduleparam.h for users of module_param/MODULE_PARM_DESC
These files were getting access to these two via the implicit
presence of module.h everywhere.  They aren't modules, so they
don't need the full module.h inclusion though.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:29 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
7e0bb71e75 Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (63 commits)
  PM / Clocks: Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree()
  PM / Documentation: Update docs about suspend and CPU hotplug
  ACPI / PM: Add Sony VGN-FW21E to nonvs blacklist.
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A4R support (v4)
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP support (v4)
  PM / Sleep: Mark devices involved in wakeup signaling during suspend
  PM / Hibernate: Improve performance of LZO/plain hibernation, checksum image
  PM / Hibernate: Do not initialize static and extern variables to 0
  PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake TASK_KILLABLE tasks too
  PM / Hibernate: Add resumedelay kernel param in addition to resumewait
  MAINTAINERS: Update linux-pm list address
  PM / ACPI: Blacklist Vaio VGN-FW520F machine known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
  PM / ACPI: Blacklist Sony Vaio known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
  PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like devices as resume file
  PM / Hibernate: Fix typo in a kerneldoc comment
  PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory
  PM: Update the policy on default wakeup settings
  PM / VT: Cleanup #if defined uglyness and fix compile error
  PM / Suspend: Off by one in pm_suspend()
  PM / Hibernate: Include storage keys in hibernation image on s390
  ...
2011-10-25 15:18:39 +02:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
b6f35301ef mac80211: Send nullfunc frames at lower rate during connection monitor
Recently mac80211 was changed to use nullfunc instead of probe
request for connection monitoring for tx ack status reporting
hardwares. Sometimes in congested network, STA got disconnected
quickly after the association. It was observered that the rate
control was not adopted to environment due to minimal transmission.

As the nullfunc are used for monitoring purpose, these frames should
not be sacrificed for rate control updation. So it is better to send
the monitoring null func frames at minimum rate that could help to
retain the connection.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-10-03 15:22:32 -04:00
Johannes Berg
c2c98fdeb5 mac80211: optimise station flags
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>
2011-09-30 15:57:19 -04:00
Arik Nemtsov
07ba55d7f1 nl80211/mac80211: allow adding TDLS peers as stations
When adding a TDLS peer STA, mark it with a new flag in both nl80211 and
mac80211. Before adding a peer, make sure the wiphy supports TDLS and
our operating mode is appropriate (managed).

In addition, make sure all peers are removed on disassociation.

A TDLS peer is first added just before link setup is initiated. In later
setup stages we have more info about peer supported rates, capabilities,
etc. This info is reported via nl80211_set_station().

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Cc: Kalyan C Gaddam <chakkal@iit.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-30 15:57:08 -04:00
Eliad Peller
f6f3def323 mac80211: save tx params per sdata
save and configure tx param per sdata, rather than
per hardware.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-27 14:34:11 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
aad14ceb45 mac80211: Send the management frame at requested rate
Whenever the scan request or tx_mgmt is requesting not to
use CCK rate for managemet frames through
NL80211_ATTR_TX_NO_CCK_RATE attribute, then mac80211 should
select appropriate least non-CCK rate. This could help to
send P2P probes and P2P action frames at non 11b rates
without diabling 11b rates globally.

Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-27 14:34:10 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
7cc44ed48d mac80211: Fix regression on queue stop during 2040 bss change
The commit "mac80211: stop tx before doing hw config and
rate update" stops the tx queue and call drv_flush so frequently
whenever a beacon got received with 11n htcap. This leads to
massive "Failed to stop TX DMA" logspam on embedded hw. So the
queue stop and flush should be called if and only if there is a
change in the channel type.

Reported-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-19 16:10:11 -04:00
Shahar Levi
1ea57b1f12 mac80211: Update device channel in case of HW channel switch supported
The hw.conf.channel value is not updated properly for drivers that
support HW channel switch.  Since the switch is done entirely by the
driver and we don't call ieee80211_hw_config(), this value remains
untouched.  This patch fixes that by setting the new channel directly in
ieee80211_chswitch_work().

Signed-off-by: Shahar Levi <shahar_levi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-14 13:56:52 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
693828fe92 mac80211: stop tx before doing hw config and rate update
The assumption is that during the hw config, transmission was
already stopped by mac80211. Sometimes the AP can be switching
b/w the ht modes due to intolerant or etc where STA is in
the middle of transmission. In such scenario, buffer overflow
was observed at driver side. And also before updating the rate
control, the frames are continued to xmited with older rates.
This patch ensures that the frames are always xmitted with
updated rates and avoid buffer overflow.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-14 13:56:18 -04:00
Joe Perches
d15b84590a mac80211: Remove unnecessary OOM logging messages
Removing unnecessary messages saves code and text.

Site specific OOM messages are duplications of a generic MM
out of memory message and aren't really useful, so just
delete them.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-09-13 15:45:02 -04:00
Guy Eilam
2a33bee275 mac80211: fix race condition between assoc_done and first EAP packet
When associating to an AP, the station might miss the first EAP
packet that the AP sends due to a race condition between the association
success procedure and the rx flow in mac80211.
In such cases, the packet might fall in ieee80211_rx_h_check due to
the fact that the relevant rx->sta wasn't allocated yet.
Allocation of the relevant station info struct before actually
sending the association request and setting it with a new
dummy_sta flag solve this problem.
The station will accept only EAP packets from the AP while it
is in the pre-association/dummy state.
This dummy station entry is not seen by normal sta_info_get()
calls, only by sta_info_get_bss_rx().
The driver is not notified for the first insertion of the
dummy station. The driver is notified only after the association
is complete and the dummy flag is removed from the station entry.
That way, all the rest of the code flow should be untouched by
this change.

Signed-off-by: Guy Eilam <guy@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-26 10:47:55 -04:00
Jean Pihet
e8db0be124 PM QoS: Move and rename the implementation files
The PM QoS implementation files are better named
kernel/power/qos.c and include/linux/pm_qos.h.

The PM QoS support is compiled under the CONFIG_PM option.

Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@ti.com>
Acked-by: markgross <markgross@thegnar.org>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-08-25 15:35:03 +02:00
Johannes Berg
b2abb6e2bc mac80211: sync driver before TX
In P2P client mode, the GO (AP) to connect to might
have periods of time where it is not available due
to powersave. To allow the driver to sync with it
and send frames to the GO only when it is available
add a new callback tx_sync (and the corresponding
finish_tx_sync). These callbacks can sleep unlike
the actual TX.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-20 15:04:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
85a237fe30 mac80211: implement scan supported rates
Scanning currently uses the TX rate mask to
restrict the rate set, which is bogus. Make
it use the new set of rates from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-19 16:50:00 -04:00
Eliad Peller
2683d65bb0 mac80211: reconfigure tx on device reconfiguration
Add tx_conf array to save the current tx queues
configuration, and reconfig it on resume (ieee80211_reconfig).

On resume, the driver is being reconfigured. Without
reconfiguring the tx queues as well, the driver might
configure the device to use wrong ac params (e.g. ps-poll
instead of uapsd).

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-18 14:29:03 -04:00
Johannes Berg
95acac61ba mac80211: allow driver to disconnect after resume
In WoWLAN, devices may use crypto keys for TX/RX
and could also implement GTK rekeying. If the
driver isn't able to retrieve replay counters and
similar information from the device upon resume,
or if the device isn't responsive due to platform
issues, it isn't safe to keep the connection up
as GTK rekey messages from during the sleep time
could be replayed against it.

The only protection against that is disconnecting
from the AP. Modifying mac80211 to do that while
it is resuming would be very complex and invasive
in the case that the driver requires a reconfig,
so do it after it has resumed completely. In that
case, however, packets might be replayed since it
can then only happen after TX/RX are up again, so
mark keys for interfaces that need to disconnect
as "tainted" and drop all packets that are sent
or received with those keys.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-13 14:49:43 -04:00
Meenakshi Venkataraman
615f7b9bb1 mac80211: add driver RSSI threshold events
mac80211 maintains a running average of the RSSI when a STA
is associated to an AP. Report threshold events to any driver
that has registered callbacks for getting RSSI measurements.

Implement callbacks in mac80211 so that driver can set thresholds.
Add callbacks in mac80211 which is invoked when an RSSI threshold
event occurs.

mac80211: add tracing to rssi_reports api and remove extraneous fn argument
mac80211: scale up rssi thresholds from driver by 16 before storing

Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-11 15:02:06 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
676b58c274 mac80211: Restart STA timers only on associated state
A panic was observed when the device is failed to resume properly,
and there are no running interfaces. ieee80211_reconfig tries
to restart STA timers on unassociated state.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-08 11:42:25 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
5e34069cc4 mac80211: fix smatch complains
mlme.c
	l.757 ieee80211_dynamic_ps_enable_work(11)
	variable dereferenced before check 'sdata'

mesh_pathtbl.c
	l.650 mesh_path_del(20) double lock 'bottom_half'
	l.663 mesh_path_del(33) double unlock 'bottom_half'

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-07-05 15:26:53 -04:00
Arik Nemtsov
77b7023afe mac80211: dynamic PS - don't enter PS when TX frames are pending
Use the tx_frames_pending() driver callback to determine if Tx frames are
pending for its internal queues. If so postpone the dynamic PS timeout
to avoid interrupting Tx traffic.

The commit e8306f9894 enabled this
behavior for drivers with IEEE80211_HW_PS_NULLFUNC_STACK. We enable this
for all drivers supporting dynamic PS.

This patch helps improve performance in noisy environments.

Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-27 15:09:42 -04:00
Paul Stewart
a806c558e0 mac80211: Drop DS Channel PARAM in directed probe
Do not send DS Channel parameter for directed probe requests
in order to maximize the chance that we get a response.  Some
badly-behaved APs don't respond when this parameter is included.

Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-27 15:09:41 -04:00
Paul Stewart
a6af1d8481 mac80211: Start monitor work on restart
Trigger connection monitor on resume from suspend.  Since we
have been sleeping, there is reason to suspect that we might
not still be associated.  The speed of detecting loss of
{connection,authentication} is worth the cost of the small
additional traffic at resume.

Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-17 14:22:16 -04:00
Eliad Peller
1d34d108e0 mac80211: add ieee80211_get_operstate() function
Add ieee80211_get_operstate() function to get the operstate
of the netdevice.

This is needed for drivers that need to know when the interface
is IF_OPER_UP (e.g. wl12xx), and block notifiers can't be used
(e.g. because the interface is already IF_OPER_UP, like after
resuming from suspend)

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-10 14:26:50 -04:00
John W. Linville
bb77f63417 Revert "mac80211: stop queues before rate control updation"
This reverts commit 1d38c16ce4.

The mac80211 maintainer raised complaints about abuse of the CSA stop
reason, and about whether this patch actually serves its intended
purpose at all.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-06-07 14:03:08 -04:00
Eliad Peller
a331400bf0 mac80211: clear local->ps_data on disassoc
local->ps_data wasn't cleared on disassociation, which
(in some corner cases) caused reconnections to enter
psm before association completed.

Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-27 12:53:46 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
1d38c16ce4 mac80211: stop queues before rate control updation
Stop tx queues before updating rate control to ensure
proper rate selection. Otherwise packets can be transmitted
in 40 Mhz whereas hw is configured in HT20.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-26 15:43:33 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
1ddc286731 mac80211: Postpond ps timer if tx is stopped by others
Whenever the driver's queue depth reaches the max, the queues are
stopped by the driver till the driver can accept the frames.
At the mean time dynamic_ps_timer can be expired due to not
receiving packet from upper layer which could restart the transmission
at the end of ps work. Due to the mismatch with driver state,
mac80211 is unneccesarity buffering all the frames till the driver
wakes up the queue.

Check whether there is no transmit or the tx queues were stopped by some
reasons. If any of the queue was stopped, the postpond ps timer and
do not restart netif_tx.

Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-05 14:59:07 -04:00
Rajkumar Manoharan
470ab2a23b mac80211: use wake_queue to restart trasmit
netif_tx_start_all_queues is used to allow the upper layer
to transmit frames but it does not restart transmission.
To restart the trasmission use netif_tx_wake_all_queues.
Not doing so, sometimes stalls the transmission and the
application has to be restarted to proceed further.

This issue was originally found while sending udp traffic
in higer bandwidth in open environment without bgscan.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-05 14:59:04 -04:00
Vivek Natarajan
e8306f9894 mac80211: Check for queued frames before entering power save.
In a highly noisy environment, the tx rate of the driver drops and
the application slows down since it has not yet received ACKs for
the frames already queued in the hardware. Since this ACK may take
more than 100ms, stopping the dev queues for entering PS at this
stage breaks applications, WMM test cases in my testing.
If there are frames already pending in the tx queue, postponing the
PS logic helps to avoid redundant queue stops. When power save is
enabled by default and in a noisy environment, this API certainly
helps in improving the average throughput.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-04-12 16:57:34 -04:00