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| author | Sriram R <srirrama@codeaurora.org> | 2021-03-30 07:05:16 +0530 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2021-04-08 15:21:05 +0200 |
| commit | 55f8205e7dddb2151def733cefbbf63deba9e1a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 8d777ad7f6cd586022da0b16527f6856e486fbe4 | |
| parent | d84d13d6f6e03a7aaac9e7d064a11cf6f5087da6 (diff) | |
mac80211: Allow concurrent monitor iface and ethernet rx decap
Some HW/driver can support passing ethernet rx decap frames and
raw 802.11 frames for the monitor interface concurrently and
via separate RX calls to mac80211. Packets going to the monitor
interface(s) would be in 802.11 format and thus not have the
RX_FLAG_8023 set, and 802.11 format monitoring frames should have
RX_FLAG_ONLY_MONITOR set.
Drivers doing such can enable the SUPPORTS_CONC_MON_RX_DECAP to
allow using ethernet decap offload while a monitor interface is
active, currently RX decapsulation offload gets disabled when a
monitor interface is added.
Signed-off-by: Sriram R <srirrama@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1617068116-32253-1-git-send-email-srirrama@codeaurora.org
[add proper documentation, rewrite commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/debugfs.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/iface.c | 3 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index 2d1d629e5d14..c21a0e27b35e 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -2399,6 +2399,12 @@ struct ieee80211_txq { * @IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_RX_DECAP_OFFLOAD: Hardware supports rx decapsulation * offload * + * @IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_CONC_MON_RX_DECAP: Hardware supports concurrent rx + * decapsulation offload and passing raw 802.11 frames for monitor iface. + * If this is supported, the driver must pass both 802.3 frames for real + * usage and 802.11 frames with %RX_FLAG_ONLY_MONITOR set for monitor to + * the stack. + * * @NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS: number of hardware flags, used for sizing arrays */ enum ieee80211_hw_flags { @@ -2453,6 +2459,7 @@ enum ieee80211_hw_flags { IEEE80211_HW_AMPDU_KEYBORDER_SUPPORT, IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_TX_ENCAP_OFFLOAD, IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_RX_DECAP_OFFLOAD, + IEEE80211_HW_SUPPORTS_CONC_MON_RX_DECAP, /* keep last, obviously */ NUM_IEEE80211_HW_FLAGS diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c index 5296898875ff..9245c0421bda 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c +++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c @@ -456,6 +456,7 @@ static const char *hw_flag_names[] = { FLAG(AMPDU_KEYBORDER_SUPPORT), FLAG(SUPPORTS_TX_ENCAP_OFFLOAD), FLAG(SUPPORTS_RX_DECAP_OFFLOAD), + FLAG(SUPPORTS_CONC_MON_RX_DECAP), #undef FLAG }; diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c index b80c9b016b2b..b1c170939e44 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c @@ -807,7 +807,8 @@ static bool ieee80211_set_sdata_offload_flags(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdat ieee80211_iftype_supports_hdr_offload(sdata->vif.type)) { flags |= IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_DECAP_ENABLED; - if (local->monitors) + if (local->monitors && + !ieee80211_hw_check(&local->hw, SUPPORTS_CONC_MON_RX_DECAP)) flags &= ~IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_DECAP_ENABLED; } else { flags &= ~IEEE80211_OFFLOAD_DECAP_ENABLED; |