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  1. /*
  2. * Linux WiMAX
  3. * Kernel space API for accessing WiMAX devices
  4. *
  5. *
  6. * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Intel Corporation <linux-wimax@intel.com>
  7. * Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
  8. *
  9. * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  10. * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version
  11. * 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
  12. *
  13. * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  14. * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  15. * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  16. * GNU General Public License for more details.
  17. *
  18. * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  19. * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  20. * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
  21. * 02110-1301, USA.
  22. *
  23. *
  24. * The WiMAX stack provides an API for controlling and managing the
  25. * system's WiMAX devices. This API affects the control plane; the
  26. * data plane is accessed via the network stack (netdev).
  27. *
  28. * Parts of the WiMAX stack API and notifications are exported to
  29. * user space via Generic Netlink. In user space, libwimax (part of
  30. * the wimax-tools package) provides a shim layer for accessing those
  31. * calls.
  32. *
  33. * The API is standarized for all WiMAX devices and different drivers
  34. * implement the backend support for it. However, device-specific
  35. * messaging pipes are provided that can be used to issue commands and
  36. * receive notifications in free form.
  37. *
  38. * Currently the messaging pipes are the only means of control as it
  39. * is not known (due to the lack of more devices in the market) what
  40. * will be a good abstraction layer. Expect this to change as more
  41. * devices show in the market. This API is designed to be growable in
  42. * order to address this problem.
  43. *
  44. * USAGE
  45. *
  46. * Embed a `struct wimax_dev` at the beginning of the the device's
  47. * private structure, initialize and register it. For details, see
  48. * `struct wimax_dev`s documentation.
  49. *
  50. * Once this is done, wimax-tools's libwimaxll can be used to
  51. * communicate with the driver from user space. You user space
  52. * application does not have to forcibily use libwimaxll and can talk
  53. * the generic netlink protocol directly if desired.
  54. *
  55. * Remember this is a very low level API that will to provide all of
  56. * WiMAX features. Other daemons and services running in user space
  57. * are the expected clients of it. They offer a higher level API that
  58. * applications should use (an example of this is the Intel's WiMAX
  59. * Network Service for the i2400m).
  60. *
  61. * DESIGN
  62. *
  63. * Although not set on final stone, this very basic interface is
  64. * mostly completed. Remember this is meant to grow as new common
  65. * operations are decided upon. New operations will be added to the
  66. * interface, intent being on keeping backwards compatibility as much
  67. * as possible.
  68. *
  69. * This layer implements a set of calls to control a WiMAX device,
  70. * exposing a frontend to the rest of the kernel and user space (via
  71. * generic netlink) and a backend implementation in the driver through
  72. * function pointers.
  73. *
  74. * WiMAX devices have a state, and a kernel-only API allows the
  75. * drivers to manipulate that state. State transitions are atomic, and
  76. * only some of them are allowed (see `enum wimax_st`).
  77. *
  78. * Most API calls will set the state automatically; in most cases
  79. * drivers have to only report state changes due to external
  80. * conditions.
  81. *
  82. * All API operations are 'atomic', serialized thorough a mutex in the
  83. * `struct wimax_dev`.
  84. *
  85. * EXPORTING TO USER SPACE THROUGH GENERIC NETLINK
  86. *
  87. * The API is exported to user space using generic netlink (other
  88. * methods can be added as needed).
  89. *
  90. * There is a Generic Netlink Family named "WiMAX", where interfaces
  91. * supporting the WiMAX interface receive commands and broadcast their
  92. * signals over a multicast group named "msg".
  93. *
  94. * Mapping to the source/destination interface is done by an interface
  95. * index attribute.
  96. *
  97. * For user-to-kernel traffic (commands) we use a function call
  98. * marshalling mechanism, where a message X with attributes A, B, C
  99. * sent from user space to kernel space means executing the WiMAX API
  100. * call wimax_X(A, B, C), sending the results back as a message.
  101. *
  102. * Kernel-to-user (notifications or signals) communication is sent
  103. * over multicast groups. This allows to have multiple applications
  104. * monitoring them.
  105. *
  106. * Each command/signal gets assigned it's own attribute policy. This
  107. * way the validator will verify that all the attributes in there are
  108. * only the ones that should be for each command/signal. Thing of an
  109. * attribute mapping to a type+argumentname for each command/signal.
  110. *
  111. * If we had a single policy for *all* commands/signals, after running
  112. * the validator we'd have to check "does this attribute belong in
  113. * here"? for each one. It can be done manually, but it's just easier
  114. * to have the validator do that job with multiple policies. As well,
  115. * it makes it easier to later expand each command/signal signature
  116. * without affecting others and keeping the namespace more or less
  117. * sane. Not that it is too complicated, but it makes it even easier.
  118. *
  119. * No state information is maintained in the kernel for each user
  120. * space connection (the connection is stateless).
  121. *
  122. * TESTING FOR THE INTERFACE AND VERSIONING
  123. *
  124. * If network interface X is a WiMAX device, there will be a Generic
  125. * Netlink family named "WiMAX X" and the device will present a
  126. * "wimax" directory in it's network sysfs directory
  127. * (/sys/class/net/DEVICE/wimax) [used by HAL].
  128. *
  129. * The inexistence of any of these means the device does not support
  130. * this WiMAX API.
  131. *
  132. * By querying the generic netlink controller, versioning information
  133. * and the multicast groups available can be found. Applications using
  134. * the interface can either rely on that or use the generic netlink
  135. * controller to figure out which generic netlink commands/signals are
  136. * supported.
  137. *
  138. * NOTE: this versioning is a last resort to avoid hard
  139. * incompatibilities. It is the intention of the design of this
  140. * stack not to introduce backward incompatible changes.
  141. *
  142. * The version code has to fit in one byte (restrictions imposed by
  143. * generic netlink); we use `version / 10` for the major version and
  144. * `version % 10` for the minor. This gives 9 minors for each major
  145. * and 25 majors.
  146. *
  147. * The version change protocol is as follow:
  148. *
  149. * - Major versions: needs to be increased if an existing message/API
  150. * call is changed or removed. Doesn't need to be changed if a new
  151. * message is added.
  152. *
  153. * - Minor version: needs to be increased if new messages/API calls are
  154. * being added or some other consideration that doesn't impact the
  155. * user-kernel interface too much (like some kind of bug fix) and
  156. * that is kind of left up in the air to common sense.
  157. *
  158. * User space code should not try to work if the major version it was
  159. * compiled for differs from what the kernel offers. As well, if the
  160. * minor version of the kernel interface is lower than the one user
  161. * space is expecting (the one it was compiled for), the kernel
  162. * might be missing API calls; user space shall be ready to handle
  163. * said condition. Use the generic netlink controller operations to
  164. * find which ones are supported and which not.
  165. *
  166. * libwimaxll:wimaxll_open() takes care of checking versions.
  167. *
  168. * THE OPERATIONS:
  169. *
  170. * Each operation is defined in its on file (drivers/net/wimax/op-*.c)
  171. * for clarity. The parts needed for an operation are:
  172. *
  173. * - a function pointer in `struct wimax_dev`: optional, as the
  174. * operation might be implemented by the stack and not by the
  175. * driver.
  176. *
  177. * All function pointers are named wimax_dev->op_*(), and drivers
  178. * must implement them except where noted otherwise.
  179. *
  180. * - When exported to user space, a `struct nla_policy` to define the
  181. * attributes of the generic netlink command and a `struct genl_ops`
  182. * to define the operation.
  183. *
  184. * All the declarations for the operation codes (WIMAX_GNL_OP_<NAME>)
  185. * and generic netlink attributes (WIMAX_GNL_<NAME>_*) are declared in
  186. * include/linux/wimax.h; this file is intended to be cloned by user
  187. * space to gain access to those declarations.
  188. *
  189. * A few caveats to remember:
  190. *
  191. * - Need to define attribute numbers starting in 1; otherwise it
  192. * fails.
  193. *
  194. * - the `struct genl_family` requires a maximum attribute id; when
  195. * defining the `struct nla_policy` for each message, it has to have
  196. * an array size of WIMAX_GNL_ATTR_MAX+1.
  197. *
  198. * THE PIPE INTERFACE:
  199. *
  200. * This interface is kept intentionally simple. The driver can send
  201. * and receive free-form messages to/from user space through a
  202. * pipe. See drivers/net/wimax/op-msg.c for details.
  203. *
  204. * The kernel-to-user messages are sent with
  205. * wimax_msg(). user-to-kernel messages are delivered via
  206. * wimax_dev->op_msg_from_user().
  207. *
  208. * RFKILL:
  209. *
  210. * RFKILL support is built into the wimax_dev layer; the driver just
  211. * needs to call wimax_report_rfkill_{hw,sw}() to inform of changes in
  212. * the hardware or software RF kill switches. When the stack wants to
  213. * turn the radio off, it will call wimax_dev->op_rfkill_sw_toggle(),
  214. * which the driver implements.
  215. *
  216. * User space can set the software RF Kill switch by calling
  217. * wimax_rfkill().
  218. *
  219. * The code for now only supports devices that don't require polling;
  220. * If the device needs to be polled, create a self-rearming delayed
  221. * work struct for polling or look into adding polled support to the
  222. * WiMAX stack.
  223. *
  224. * When initializing the hardware (_probe), after calling
  225. * wimax_dev_add(), query the device for it's RF Kill switches status
  226. * and feed it back to the WiMAX stack using
  227. * wimax_report_rfkill_{hw,sw}(). If any switch is missing, always
  228. * report it as ON.
  229. *
  230. * NOTE: the wimax stack uses an inverted terminology to that of the
  231. * RFKILL subsystem:
  232. *
  233. * - ON: radio is ON, RFKILL is DISABLED or OFF.
  234. * - OFF: radio is OFF, RFKILL is ENABLED or ON.
  235. *
  236. * MISCELLANEOUS OPS:
  237. *
  238. * wimax_reset() can be used to reset the device to power on state; by
  239. * default it issues a warm reset that maintains the same device
  240. * node. If that is not possible, it falls back to a cold reset
  241. * (device reconnect). The driver implements the backend to this
  242. * through wimax_dev->op_reset().
  243. */
  244. #ifndef __NET__WIMAX_H__
  245. #define __NET__WIMAX_H__
  246. #ifdef __KERNEL__
  247. #include <linux/wimax.h>
  248. #include <net/genetlink.h>
  249. #include <linux/netdevice.h>
  250. struct net_device;
  251. struct genl_info;
  252. struct wimax_dev;
  253. /**
  254. * struct wimax_dev - Generic WiMAX device
  255. *
  256. * @net_dev: [fill] Pointer to the &struct net_device this WiMAX
  257. * device implements.
  258. *
  259. * @op_msg_from_user: [fill] Driver-specific operation to
  260. * handle a raw message from user space to the driver. The
  261. * driver can send messages to user space using with
  262. * wimax_msg_to_user().
  263. *
  264. * @op_rfkill_sw_toggle: [fill] Driver-specific operation to act on
  265. * userspace (or any other agent) requesting the WiMAX device to
  266. * change the RF Kill software switch (WIMAX_RF_ON or
  267. * WIMAX_RF_OFF).
  268. * If such hardware support is not present, it is assumed the
  269. * radio cannot be switched off and it is always on (and the stack
  270. * will error out when trying to switch it off). In such case,
  271. * this function pointer can be left as NULL.
  272. *
  273. * @op_reset: [fill] Driver specific operation to reset the
  274. * device.
  275. * This operation should always attempt first a warm reset that
  276. * does not disconnect the device from the bus and return 0.
  277. * If that fails, it should resort to some sort of cold or bus
  278. * reset (even if it implies a bus disconnection and device
  279. * dissapearance). In that case, -ENODEV should be returned to
  280. * indicate the device is gone.
  281. * This operation has to be synchronous, and return only when the
  282. * reset is complete. In case of having had to resort to bus/cold
  283. * reset implying a device disconnection, the call is allowed to
  284. * return inmediately.
  285. * NOTE: wimax_dev->mutex is NOT locked when this op is being
  286. * called; however, wimax_dev->mutex_reset IS locked to ensure
  287. * serialization of calls to wimax_reset().
  288. * See wimax_reset()'s documentation.
  289. *
  290. * @name: [fill] A way to identify this device. We need to register a
  291. * name with many subsystems (rfkill, workqueue creation, etc).
  292. * We can't use the network device name as that
  293. * might change and in some instances we don't know it yet (until
  294. * we don't call register_netdev()). So we generate an unique one
  295. * using the driver name and device bus id, place it here and use
  296. * it across the board. Recommended naming:
  297. * DRIVERNAME-BUSNAME:BUSID (dev->bus->name, dev->bus_id).
  298. *
  299. * @id_table_node: [private] link to the list of wimax devices kept by
  300. * id-table.c. Protected by it's own spinlock.
  301. *
  302. * @mutex: [private] Serializes all concurrent access and execution of
  303. * operations.
  304. *
  305. * @mutex_reset: [private] Serializes reset operations. Needs to be a
  306. * different mutex because as part of the reset operation, the
  307. * driver has to call back into the stack to do things such as
  308. * state change, that require wimax_dev->mutex.
  309. *
  310. * @state: [private] Current state of the WiMAX device.
  311. *
  312. * @rfkill: [private] integration into the RF-Kill infrastructure.
  313. *
  314. * @rf_sw: [private] State of the software radio switch (OFF/ON)
  315. *
  316. * @rf_hw: [private] State of the hardware radio switch (OFF/ON)
  317. *
  318. * @debugfs_dentry: [private] Used to hook up a debugfs entry. This
  319. * shows up in the debugfs root as wimax\:DEVICENAME.
  320. *
  321. * Description:
  322. * This structure defines a common interface to access all WiMAX
  323. * devices from different vendors and provides a common API as well as
  324. * a free-form device-specific messaging channel.
  325. *
  326. * Usage:
  327. * 1. Embed a &struct wimax_dev at *the beginning* the network
  328. * device structure so that netdev_priv() points to it.
  329. *
  330. * 2. memset() it to zero
  331. *
  332. * 3. Initialize with wimax_dev_init(). This will leave the WiMAX
  333. * device in the %__WIMAX_ST_NULL state.
  334. *
  335. * 4. Fill all the fields marked with [fill]; once called
  336. * wimax_dev_add(), those fields CANNOT be modified.
  337. *
  338. * 5. Call wimax_dev_add() *after* registering the network
  339. * device. This will leave the WiMAX device in the %WIMAX_ST_DOWN
  340. * state.
  341. * Protect the driver's net_device->open() against succeeding if
  342. * the wimax device state is lower than %WIMAX_ST_DOWN.
  343. *
  344. * 6. Select when the device is going to be turned on/initialized;
  345. * for example, it could be initialized on 'ifconfig up' (when the
  346. * netdev op 'open()' is called on the driver).
  347. *
  348. * When the device is initialized (at `ifconfig up` time, or right
  349. * after calling wimax_dev_add() from _probe(), make sure the
  350. * following steps are taken
  351. *
  352. * a. Move the device to %WIMAX_ST_UNINITIALIZED. This is needed so
  353. * some API calls that shouldn't work until the device is ready
  354. * can be blocked.
  355. *
  356. * b. Initialize the device. Make sure to turn the SW radio switch
  357. * off and move the device to state %WIMAX_ST_RADIO_OFF when
  358. * done. When just initialized, a device should be left in RADIO
  359. * OFF state until user space devices to turn it on.
  360. *
  361. * c. Query the device for the state of the hardware rfkill switch
  362. * and call wimax_rfkill_report_hw() and wimax_rfkill_report_sw()
  363. * as needed. See below.
  364. *
  365. * wimax_dev_rm() undoes before unregistering the network device. Once
  366. * wimax_dev_add() is called, the driver can get called on the
  367. * wimax_dev->op_* function pointers
  368. *
  369. * CONCURRENCY:
  370. *
  371. * The stack provides a mutex for each device that will disallow API
  372. * calls happening concurrently; thus, op calls into the driver
  373. * through the wimax_dev->op*() function pointers will always be
  374. * serialized and *never* concurrent.
  375. *
  376. * For locking, take wimax_dev->mutex is taken; (most) operations in
  377. * the API have to check for wimax_dev_is_ready() to return 0 before
  378. * continuing (this is done internally).
  379. *
  380. * REFERENCE COUNTING:
  381. *
  382. * The WiMAX device is reference counted by the associated network
  383. * device. The only operation that can be used to reference the device
  384. * is wimax_dev_get_by_genl_info(), and the reference it acquires has
  385. * to be released with dev_put(wimax_dev->net_dev).
  386. *
  387. * RFKILL:
  388. *
  389. * At startup, both HW and SW radio switchess are assumed to be off.
  390. *
  391. * At initialization time [after calling wimax_dev_add()], have the
  392. * driver query the device for the status of the software and hardware
  393. * RF kill switches and call wimax_report_rfkill_hw() and
  394. * wimax_rfkill_report_sw() to indicate their state. If any is
  395. * missing, just call it to indicate it is ON (radio always on).
  396. *
  397. * Whenever the driver detects a change in the state of the RF kill
  398. * switches, it should call wimax_report_rfkill_hw() or
  399. * wimax_report_rfkill_sw() to report it to the stack.
  400. */
  401. struct wimax_dev {
  402. struct net_device *net_dev;
  403. struct list_head id_table_node;
  404. struct mutex mutex; /* Protects all members and API calls */
  405. struct mutex mutex_reset;
  406. enum wimax_st state;
  407. int (*op_msg_from_user)(struct wimax_dev *wimax_dev,
  408. const char *,
  409. const void *, size_t,
  410. const struct genl_info *info);
  411. int (*op_rfkill_sw_toggle)(struct wimax_dev *wimax_dev,
  412. enum wimax_rf_state);
  413. int (*op_reset)(struct wimax_dev *wimax_dev);
  414. struct rfkill *rfkill;
  415. struct input_dev *rfkill_input;
  416. unsigned rf_hw;
  417. unsigned rf_sw;
  418. char name[32];
  419. struct dentry *debugfs_dentry;
  420. };
  421. /*
  422. * WiMAX stack public API for device drivers
  423. * -----------------------------------------
  424. *
  425. * These functions are not exported to user space.
  426. */
  427. extern void wimax_dev_init(struct wimax_dev *);
  428. extern int wimax_dev_add(struct wimax_dev *, struct net_device *);
  429. extern void wimax_dev_rm(struct wimax_dev *);
  430. static inline
  431. struct wimax_dev *net_dev_to_wimax(struct net_device *net_dev)
  432. {
  433. return netdev_priv(net_dev);
  434. }
  435. static inline
  436. struct device *wimax_dev_to_dev(struct wimax_dev *wimax_dev)
  437. {
  438. return wimax_dev->net_dev->dev.parent;
  439. }
  440. extern void wimax_state_change(struct wimax_dev *, enum wimax_st);
  441. extern enum wimax_st wimax_state_get(struct wimax_dev *);
  442. /*
  443. * Radio Switch state reporting.
  444. *
  445. * enum wimax_rf_state is declared in linux/wimax.h so the exports
  446. * to user space can use it.
  447. */
  448. extern void wimax_report_rfkill_hw(struct wimax_dev *, enum wimax_rf_state);
  449. extern void wimax_report_rfkill_sw(struct wimax_dev *, enum wimax_rf_state);
  450. /*
  451. * Free-form messaging to/from user space
  452. *
  453. * Sending a message:
  454. *
  455. * wimax_msg(wimax_dev, pipe_name, buf, buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
  456. *
  457. * Broken up:
  458. *
  459. * skb = wimax_msg_alloc(wimax_dev, pipe_name, buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
  460. * ...fill up skb...
  461. * wimax_msg_send(wimax_dev, pipe_name, skb);
  462. *
  463. * Be sure not to modify skb->data in the middle (ie: don't use
  464. * skb_push()/skb_pull()/skb_reserve() on the skb).
  465. *
  466. * "pipe_name" is any string, than can be interpreted as the name of
  467. * the pipe or destinatary; the interpretation of it is driver
  468. * specific, so the recipient can multiplex it as wished. It can be
  469. * NULL, it won't be used - an example is using a "diagnostics" tag to
  470. * send diagnostics information that a device-specific diagnostics
  471. * tool would be interested in.
  472. */
  473. extern struct sk_buff *wimax_msg_alloc(struct wimax_dev *, const char *,
  474. const void *, size_t, gfp_t);
  475. extern int wimax_msg_send(struct wimax_dev *, struct sk_buff *);
  476. extern int wimax_msg(struct wimax_dev *, const char *,
  477. const void *, size_t, gfp_t);
  478. extern const void *wimax_msg_data_len(struct sk_buff *, size_t *);
  479. extern const void *wimax_msg_data(struct sk_buff *);
  480. extern ssize_t wimax_msg_len(struct sk_buff *);
  481. /*
  482. * WiMAX stack user space API
  483. * --------------------------
  484. *
  485. * This API is what gets exported to user space for general
  486. * operations. As well, they can be called from within the kernel,
  487. * (with a properly referenced `struct wimax_dev`).
  488. *
  489. * Properly referenced means: the 'struct net_device' that embeds the
  490. * device's control structure and (as such) the 'struct wimax_dev' is
  491. * referenced by the caller.
  492. */
  493. extern int wimax_rfkill(struct wimax_dev *, enum wimax_rf_state);
  494. extern int wimax_reset(struct wimax_dev *);
  495. #else
  496. /* You might be looking for linux/wimax.h */
  497. #error This file should not be included from user space.
  498. #endif /* #ifdef __KERNEL__ */
  499. #endif /* #ifndef __NET__WIMAX_H__ */