linux-dev/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c, branch linus/master

mac80211: use ifmgd->bssid instead of ifmgd->associated->bssid

2022-05-16T07:13:22Z

Since we always track the BSSID there when we get associated, these are equivalent, but ifmgd->bssid saves a dereference and thus makes the code a bit smaller, and more readable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: remove unused macros

2022-02-04T15:26:27Z

Various macros in mac80211 aren't used, remove them. In one case it's used under ifdef, so ifdef it for the W=2 warning. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20220202104617.5172d7fd878e.I2f1fce686a2b71003f083b2566fb09cf16b8165a@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Switch to a virtual time-based airtime scheduler

2021-06-23T16:12:00Z

This switches the airtime scheduler in mac80211 to use a virtual time-based scheduler instead of the round-robin scheduler used before. This has a couple of advantages: - No need to sync up the round-robin scheduler in firmware/hardware with the round-robin airtime scheduler. - If several stations are eligible for transmission we can schedule both of them; no need to hard-block the scheduling rotation until the head of the queue has used up its quantum. - The check of whether a station is eligible for transmission becomes simpler (in ieee80211_txq_may_transmit()). The drawback is that scheduling becomes slightly more expensive, as we need to maintain an rbtree of TXQs sorted by virtual time. This means that ieee80211_register_airtime() becomes O(logN) in the number of currently scheduled TXQs because it can change the order of the scheduled stations. We mitigate this overhead by only resorting when a station changes position in the tree, and hopefully N rarely grows too big (it's only TXQs currently backlogged, not all associated stations), so it shouldn't be too big of an issue. To prevent divisions in the fast path, we maintain both station sums and pre-computed reciprocals of the sums. This turns the fast-path operation into a multiplication, with divisions only happening as the number of active stations change (to re-compute the current sum of all active station weights). To prevent this re-computation of the reciprocal from happening too frequently, we use a time-based notion of station activity, instead of updating the weight every time a station gets scheduled or de-scheduled. As queues can oscillate between empty and occupied quite frequently, this can significantly cut down on the number of re-computations. It also has the added benefit of making the station airtime calculation independent on whether the queue happened to have drained at the time an airtime value was accounted. Co-developed-by: Yibo Zhao Signed-off-by: Yibo Zhao Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210623134755.235545-1-toke@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Remove redundant assignment to ret

2021-06-23T08:57:55Z

Variable 'ret' is set to -ENODEV but this value is never read as it is overwritten with a new value later on, hence it is a redundant assignment and can be removed. Clean up the following clang-analyzer warning: net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c:60:2: warning: Value stored to 'ret' is never read [clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores] Reported-by: Abaci Robot Signed-off-by: Yang Li Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1619774483-116805-1-git-send-email-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: remove trailing semicolon in macro definitions

2020-12-11T11:51:55Z

The macro uses should have (and already have) the semicolon. Signed-off-by: Tom Rix Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201127193842.2876355-1-trix@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: remove WDS-related code

2020-11-11T07:39:13Z

Now that all the mac80211-based drivers have removed WDS code and in particular the ability to advertise such devices, also remove all the code related to WDS here. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109105103.38960c413d46.I3603c90a44562d847c39d15d5ff33d8c00df5834@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211/mac80211: add connected to auth server to meshconf

2020-07-31T07:24:24Z

Besides information about num of peerings and gate connectivity, the mesh formation byte also contains a flag for authentication server connectivity, that currently cannot be set in the mesh conf. This patch adds this capability, which is necessary to implement 802.1X authentication in mesh mode. Signed-off-by: Markus Theil Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611140238.427461-1-markus.theil@tu-ilmenau.de Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

cfg80211/mac80211: add mesh_param "mesh_nolearn" to skip path discovery

2020-07-31T07:24:23Z

Currently, before being able to forward a packet between two 802.11s nodes, both a PLINK handshake is performed upon receiving a beacon and then later a PREQ/PREP exchange for path discovery is performed on demand upon receiving a data frame to forward. When running a mesh protocol on top of an 802.11s interface, like batman-adv, we do not need the multi-hop mesh routing capabilities of 802.11s and usually set mesh_fwding=0. However, even with mesh_fwding=0 the PREQ/PREP path discovery is still performed on demand. Even though in this scenario the next hop PREQ/PREP will determine is always the direct 11s neighbor node. The new mesh_nolearn parameter allows to skip the PREQ/PREP exchange in this scenario, leading to a reduced delay, reduced packet buffering and simplifies HWMP in general. mesh_nolearn is still rather conservative in that if the packet destination is not a direct 11s neighbor, it will fall back to PREQ/PREP path discovery. For normal, multi-hop 802.11s mesh routing it is usually not advisable to enable mesh_nolearn as a transmission to a direct but distant neighbor might be worse than reaching that same node via a more robust / higher throughput etc. multi-hop path. Cc: Sven Eckelmann Cc: Simon Wunderlich Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200617073034.26149-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue [fix nl80211 policy to range 0/1 only] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: mlme: remove duplicate AID bookkeeping

2020-04-24T09:46:11Z

Maintain the connection AID only in sdata->vif.bss_conf.aid, not also in sdata->u.mgd.aid. Keep setting that where we set ifmgd->aid before, which has the side effect of exposing the AID to the driver before the station entry (AP) is marked associated, in case it needs it then. Requested-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Tested-by: Lorenzo Bianconi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200417123802.085d4a322b0c.I2e7a2ceceea8c6880219f9e9ee4d4ac985fd295a@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: Remove support for changing AP SMPS mode

2020-02-07T11:48:29Z

The SMPS feature is defined in the specification only to be used by non-AP stations and not by APs, so remove the support for changing the AP's SMPS mode dynamically. Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200131111300.891737-20-luca@coelho.fi Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg