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76 
77 #ifndef __IF_IWM_STA_H__
78 #define __IF_IWM_STA_H__
79 
80 /**
81  * DOC: station table - introduction
82  *
83  * The station table is a list of data structure that reprensent the stations.
84  * In STA/P2P client mode, the driver will hold one station for the AP/ GO.
85  * In GO/AP mode, the driver will have as many stations as associated clients.
86  * All these stations are reflected in the fw's station table. The driver
87  * keeps the fw's station table up to date with the ADD_STA command. Stations
88  * can be removed by the REMOVE_STA command.
89  *
90  * All the data related to a station is held in the structure %iwl_sta
91  * which is embed in the mac80211's %ieee80211_sta (in the drv_priv) area.
92  * This data includes the index of the station in the fw, per tid information
93  * (sequence numbers, Block-ack state machine, etc...). The stations are
94  * created and deleted by the %sta_state callback from %ieee80211_ops.
95  *
96  * The driver holds a map: %fw_id_to_mac_id that allows to fetch a
97  * %ieee80211_sta (and the %iwl_sta embedded into it) based on a fw
98  * station index. That way, the driver is able to get the tid related data in
99  * O(1) in time sensitive paths (Tx / Tx response / BA notification). These
100  * paths are triggered by the fw, and the driver needs to get a pointer to the
101  * %ieee80211 structure. This map helps to get that pointer quickly.
102  */
103 
104 /**
105  * DOC: station table - locking
106  *
107  * As stated before, the station is created / deleted by mac80211's %sta_state
108  * callback from %ieee80211_ops which can sleep. The next paragraph explains
109  * the locking of a single stations, the next ones relates to the station
110  * table.
111  *
112  * The station holds the sequence number per tid. So this data needs to be
113  * accessed in the Tx path (which is softIRQ). It also holds the Block-Ack
114  * information (the state machine / and the logic that checks if the queues
115  * were drained), so it also needs to be accessible from the Tx response flow.
116  * In short, the station needs to be access from sleepable context as well as
117  * from tasklets, so the station itself needs a spinlock.
118  *
119  * The writers of %fw_id_to_mac_id map are serialized by the global mutex of
120  * the mvm op_mode. This is possible since %sta_state can sleep.
121  * The pointers in this map are RCU protected, hence we won't replace the
122  * station while we have Tx / Tx response / BA notification running.
123  *
124  * If a station is deleted while it still has packets in its A-MPDU queues,
125  * then the reclaim flow will notice that there is no station in the map for
126  * sta_id and it will dump the responses.
127  */
128 
129 /**
130  * DOC: station table - internal stations
131  *
132  * The FW needs a few internal stations that are not reflected in
133  * mac80211, such as broadcast station in AP / GO mode, or AUX sta for
134  * scanning and P2P device (during the GO negotiation).
135  * For these kind of stations we have %iwl_int_sta struct which holds the
136  * data relevant for them from both %iwl_sta and %ieee80211_sta.
137  * Usually the data for these stations is static, so no locking is required,
138  * and no TID data as this is also not needed.
139  * One thing to note, is that these stations have an ID in the fw, but not
140  * in mac80211. In order to "reserve" them a sta_id in %fw_id_to_mac_id
141  * we fill ERR_PTR(EINVAL) in this mapping and all other dereferencing of
142  * pointers from this mapping need to check that the value is not error
143  * or NULL.
144  *
145  * Currently there is only one auxiliary station for scanning, initialized
146  * on init.
147  */
148 
149 /**
150  * DOC: station table - AP Station in STA mode
151  *
152  * %iwl_vif includes the index of the AP station in the fw's STA table:
153  * %ap_sta_id. To get the point to the corresponding %ieee80211_sta,
154  * &fw_id_to_mac_id can be used. Due to the way the fw works, we must not remove
155  * the AP station from the fw before setting the MAC context as unassociated.
156  * Hence, %fw_id_to_mac_id[%ap_sta_id] will be NULLed when the AP station is
157  * removed by mac80211, but the station won't be removed in the fw until the
158  * VIF is set as unassociated. Then, %ap_sta_id will be invalidated.
159  */
160 
161 /**
162  * DOC: station table - Drain vs. Flush
163  *
164  * Flush means that all the frames in the SCD queue are dumped regardless the
165  * station to which they were sent. We do that when we disassociate and before
166  * we remove the STA of the AP. The flush can be done synchronously against the
167  * fw.
168  * Drain means that the fw will drop all the frames sent to a specific station.
169  * This is useful when a client (if we are IBSS / GO or AP) disassociates. In
170  * that case, we need to drain all the frames for that client from the AC queues
171  * that are shared with the other clients. Only then, we can remove the STA in
172  * the fw. In order to do so, we track the non-AMPDU packets for each station.
173  * If mac80211 removes a STA and if it still has non-AMPDU packets pending in
174  * the queues, we mark this station as %EBUSY in %fw_id_to_mac_id, and drop all
175  * the frames for this STA (%iwl_rm_sta). When the last frame is dropped
176  * (we know about it with its Tx response), we remove the station in fw and set
177  * it as %NULL in %fw_id_to_mac_id: this is the purpose of
178  * %iwl_sta_drained_wk.
179  */
180 
181 /**
182  * DOC: station table - fw restart
183  *
184  * When the fw asserts, or we have any other issue that requires to reset the
185  * driver, we require mac80211 to reconfigure the driver. Since the private
186  * data of the stations is embed in mac80211's %ieee80211_sta, that data will
187  * not be zeroed and needs to be reinitialized manually.
188  * %IWL_STATUS_IN_HW_RESTART is set during restart and that will hint us
189  * that we must not allocate a new sta_id but reuse the previous one. This
190  * means that the stations being re-added after the reset will have the same
191  * place in the fw as before the reset. We do need to zero the %fw_id_to_mac_id
192  * map, since the stations aren't in the fw any more. Internal stations that
193  * are not added by mac80211 will be re-added in the init flow that is called
194  * after the restart: mac80211 call's %iwl_mac_start which calls to
195  * %iwl_up.
196  */
197 
198 /**
199  * Send the STA info to the FW.
200  *
201  * @sc: the iwm_softc* to use
202  * @sta: the STA
203  * @update: this is true if the FW is being updated about a STA it already knows
204  *	about. Otherwise (if this is a new STA), this should be false.
205  * @flags: if update==true, this marks what is being changed via ORs of values
206  *	from enum iwm_sta_modify_flag. Otherwise, this is ignored.
207  */
208 extern	int iwm_sta_send_to_fw(struct iwm_softc *sc, struct iwm_node *in,
209 				   boolean_t update);
210 extern	int iwm_add_sta(struct iwm_softc *sc, struct iwm_node *in);
211 extern	int iwm_update_sta(struct iwm_softc *sc, struct iwm_node *in);
212 extern	int iwm_rm_sta(struct iwm_softc *sc, struct ieee80211vap *vap,
213 			   boolean_t is_assoc);
214 extern	int iwm_rm_sta_id(struct iwm_softc *sc, struct ieee80211vap *vap);
215 
216 extern	int iwm_add_aux_sta(struct iwm_softc *sc);
217 extern	void iwm_del_aux_sta(struct iwm_softc *sc);
218 
219 extern	int iwm_drain_sta(struct iwm_softc *sc, struct iwm_vap *ivp,
220 			      boolean_t drain);
221 
222 #endif /* __IF_IWM_STA_H__ */
223