mac80211: allow releasing driver-buffered frames

If there are frames for a station buffered in
the driver, mac80211 announces those in the TIM
IE but there's no way to release them. Add new
API to release such frames and use it when the
station polls for a frame.

Since the API will soon also be used for uAPSD
it is easily extensible.

Note that before this change drivers announcing
driver-buffered frames in the TIM bit actually
will respond to a PS-Poll with a potentially
lower priority frame (if there are any frames
buffered in mac80211), after this patch a driver
that hasn't been changed will no longer respond
at all. This only affects ath9k, which will need
to be fixed to implement the new API.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/driver-trace.h b/net/mac80211/driver-trace.h
index a46b279bbbe4..531fbd086794 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/driver-trace.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/driver-trace.h
@@ -1129,6 +1129,41 @@ TRACE_EVENT(drv_rssi_callback,
 	)
 );
 
+TRACE_EVENT(drv_release_buffered_frames,
+	TP_PROTO(struct ieee80211_local *local,
+		 struct ieee80211_sta *sta,
+		 u16 tids, int num_frames,
+		 enum ieee80211_frame_release_type reason,
+		 bool more_data),
+
+	TP_ARGS(local, sta, tids, num_frames, reason, more_data),
+
+	TP_STRUCT__entry(
+		LOCAL_ENTRY
+		STA_ENTRY
+		__field(u16, tids)
+		__field(int, num_frames)
+		__field(int, reason)
+		__field(bool, more_data)
+	),
+
+	TP_fast_assign(
+		LOCAL_ASSIGN;
+		STA_ASSIGN;
+		__entry->tids = tids;
+		__entry->num_frames = num_frames;
+		__entry->reason = reason;
+		__entry->more_data = more_data;
+	),
+
+	TP_printk(
+		LOCAL_PR_FMT STA_PR_FMT
+		" TIDs:0x%.4x frames:%d reason:%d more:%d",
+		LOCAL_PR_ARG, STA_PR_ARG, __entry->tids, __entry->num_frames,
+		__entry->reason, __entry->more_data
+	)
+);
+
 /*
  * Tracing for API calls that drivers call.
  */