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authorAvraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com>2022-01-26 11:15:31 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2022-07-22 14:28:29 +0200
commitf9202638df34474f862109731203e71d8e71f85e (patch)
treee43fac0e56e1d25d9bb24ea52ba0f2a560592349 /include/net
parentwifi: cfg80211: add hardware timestamps to frame RX info (diff)
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wifi: mac80211: add hardware timestamps for RX and TX
When the low level driver reports hardware timestamps for frame TX status or frame RX, pass the timestamps to cfg80211. Signed-off-by: Avraham Stern <avraham.stern@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h28
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index 6f856da28d71..e9f8be7ba9a6 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -125,6 +125,22 @@
* via the usual ieee80211_tx_dequeue).
*/
+/**
+ * DOC: HW timestamping
+ *
+ * Timing Measurement and Fine Timing Measurement require accurate timestamps
+ * of the action frames TX/RX and their respective acks.
+ *
+ * To report hardware timestamps for Timing Measurement or Fine Timing
+ * Measurement frame RX, the low level driver should set the SKB's hwtstamp
+ * field to the frame RX timestamp and report the ack TX timestamp in the
+ * ieee80211_rx_status struct.
+ *
+ * Similarly, To report hardware timestamps for Timing Measurement or Fine
+ * Timing Measurement frame TX, the driver should set the SKB's hwtstamp field
+ * to the frame TX timestamp and report the ack RX timestamp in the
+ * ieee80211_tx_status struct.
+ */
struct device;
/**
@@ -1176,12 +1192,16 @@ struct ieee80211_rate_status {
* @rates: Mrr stages that were used when sending the packet
* @n_rates: Number of mrr stages (count of instances for @rates)
* @free_list: list where processed skbs are stored to be free'd by the driver
+ * @ack_hwtstamp: Hardware timestamp of the received ack in nanoseconds
+ * Only needed for Timing measurement and Fine timing measurement action
+ * frames. Only reported by devices that have timestamping enabled.
*/
struct ieee80211_tx_status {
struct ieee80211_sta *sta;
struct ieee80211_tx_info *info;
struct sk_buff *skb;
struct ieee80211_rate_status *rates;
+ ktime_t ack_hwtstamp;
u8 n_rates;
struct list_head *free_list;
@@ -1419,6 +1439,9 @@ enum mac80211_rx_encoding {
* (TSF) timer when the first data symbol (MPDU) arrived at the hardware.
* @boottime_ns: CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamp the frame was received at, this is
* needed only for beacons and probe responses that update the scan cache.
+ * @ack_tx_hwtstamp: Hardware timestamp for the ack TX in nanoseconds. Only
+ * needed for Timing measurement and Fine timing measurement action frames.
+ * Only reported by devices that have timestamping enabled.
* @device_timestamp: arbitrary timestamp for the device, mac80211 doesn't use
* it but can store it and pass it back to the driver for synchronisation
* @band: the active band when this frame was received
@@ -1452,7 +1475,10 @@ enum mac80211_rx_encoding {
*/
struct ieee80211_rx_status {
u64 mactime;
- u64 boottime_ns;
+ union {
+ u64 boottime_ns;
+ ktime_t ack_tx_hwtstamp;
+ };
u32 device_timestamp;
u32 ampdu_reference;
u32 flag;