mt76: add support for reporting tx status with skb

MT76x2/MT76x0 has somewhat unreliable tx status reporting, and for that
reason the driver currently does not report per-skb tx ack status at all.
This breaks things like client idle polling, which relies on the tx ack
status of a transmitted nullfunc frame.

This patch adds code to report skb-attached tx status if requested by
mac80211 or the rate control module. Since tx status is polled from a
simple FIFO register, the code needs to account for the possibility of
tx status events getting lost.

The code keeps a list of skbs for which tx status is required and passes
them to mac80211 once tx status has been filled in and the DMA queue is
done with it.
If a tx status event is not received after one second, the status rates
are cleared, and a succesful ACK is indicated to avoid spurious disassoc
during assoc or client polling.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
This commit is contained in:
Felix Fietkau
2018-10-25 16:11:34 +02:00
parent 59b55d066f
commit 88046b2c9f
11 changed files with 231 additions and 95 deletions

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@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ mt76_alloc_device(unsigned int size, const struct ieee80211_ops *ops)
spin_lock_init(&dev->cc_lock);
mutex_init(&dev->mutex);
init_waitqueue_head(&dev->tx_wait);
skb_queue_head_init(&dev->status_list);
return dev;
}
@@ -326,6 +327,7 @@ int mt76_register_device(struct mt76_dev *dev, bool vht,
ieee80211_hw_set(hw, TX_FRAG_LIST);
ieee80211_hw_set(hw, MFP_CAPABLE);
ieee80211_hw_set(hw, AP_LINK_PS);
ieee80211_hw_set(hw, REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS);
wiphy->flags |= WIPHY_FLAG_IBSS_RSN;
@@ -357,6 +359,7 @@ void mt76_unregister_device(struct mt76_dev *dev)
{
struct ieee80211_hw *hw = dev->hw;
mt76_tx_status_flush(dev, NULL);
ieee80211_unregister_hw(hw);
mt76_tx_free(dev);
}