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[wireless-next,v7,00/10] wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: add support to handle per link statistics of multi-link station

Message ID 20250514164857.227540-1-quic_sarishar@quicinc.com
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Series wifi: cfg80211/mac80211: add support to handle per link statistics of multi-link station | expand

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Sarika Sharma May 14, 2025, 4:48 p.m. UTC 
Current implementation of NL80211_CMD_GET_STATION does not work
for multi-link operation(MLO) since in case of MLO only deflink
(or one of the links) is considered and not all links.

Hence, add the link_sinfo structure to provide infrastructure
for link-level station statistics for multi-link operation(MLO).

Additionally, accumulated stats for MLO are included in a concise
manner to provide a comprehensive overview of the ML stations.

V7:
 - Redesign the approach according to provided comments( mentioned the
   current implemented approach below in "Purposed Flow").

V6:
 - Fix compilation failure.
 - Add expected_throughput, beacon_loss_count, rx_dropped_misc at MLO
   level.
 - Removed is_per_link_stats_support boolean from sinfo structure.
 - Used ether_addr_copy() instead of memcpy().

V5:
 - Rebased the patches.

V4:
 - Update helper function for link_sta derefrence.                    
 - Instead of using unnecessary rssi variable directly use return.
 - Correct commit tittle and message for some patches.
 - Corrected cfg80211_sinfo_release_content() unnecessary logic.
 - Split the patches for cfg80211/mac80211.
 - Add additional fields at MLO level.
 - Remove Ath12k patche from this series.
 - Remove unnecessary if condition check from "add additional MLO
   statistics".

V3:
 - Convert RFC patch to actual PATCH with each patch bisectable.
 - Add logic for MLO level signal and rates.

V2:
 - Update cover letter to give more details on structural changes.
 - Split the patch(1/7) in two patches.
 - Do the required changes for MLO bringup before as seperate patches.
 - Remove link_sinfo naming to sinfo for better clarity on changes.
 - Add accumulated stats logic in cfg80211.
 - Add flag to indicate driver supports per-link station statistics or not.

Current flow:
  cfg80211:
  - Structure station_info is used to fill all station information (station
    level as well link level).
  - Nl80211_get_station() - locally define sinfo, call -.get_station() ops

  mac80211:
  - Sta_set_sinfo() - fill station information and call mac80211
    ops - .sta_statistics()(to fill the station_info structure).

Purposed Flow:
 cfg80211:
 - introduce link_station_info structure for link level statistics
    structure link_station_info {
      filled
      rates
      ...etc // all link specific fields
    }
  - add link_station_info for MAX links in station_info structure
    structure station_info {
      filled
      packets
      sta_flags
      ... etc 

      valid_links
      link_station_info *links[IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS]
    }

 - Station_info structure is used for non-ML station statistics and
   update the sinfo_structure for MLO, for accumulated, best, least
   among all valid links in cfg80211_sta_set_mld_sinfo().
 - Allocate and free memory for link_sinfo for all links.
 - Embed NL message to include link level data, if valid_links are present.

mac80211:
  - Sta_set_sinfo() - fill station specific information as filled before
    if non-ML:
    - call mac80211 ops .sta_statistics() to fill station_info structure.
    if MLO:
    - call sta_set_link_sinfo(), for all valid links to fill
      link_station_info in *links[link_id].
    - introduce and call mac80211 ops for each link- .link_sta_statistics()
      to fill link statistics from drivers.
    - Maintain accumulated data for removed links in sta_info structure
      and fill in to station_info structure for consistency.

Sarika Sharma (10):
  wifi: mac80211: add support towards MLO handling of station statistics
  wifi: cfg80211: add link_station_info structure to support MLO
    statistics
  wifi: cfg80211: extend to embed link level statistics in NL message
  wifi: cfg80211: add statistics for providing overview for MLO station
  wifi: cfg80211: allocate memory for link_station info structure
  wifi: mac80211: add support to accumulate removed link statistics
  wifi: cfg80211: reset sinfo->filled for MLO station statistics
  wifi: mac80211: extend support to fill link level sinfo structure
  wifi: mac80211: add link_sta_statistics ops to fill link station
    statistics
  wifi: mac80211: correct RX stats packet increment for multi-link

 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/lib.c |   2 +-
 include/net/cfg80211.h                       | 124 ++++++
 include/net/mac80211.h                       |  16 +-
 net/mac80211/cfg.c                           |  13 +
 net/mac80211/driver-ops.h                    |  19 +
 net/mac80211/ibss.c                          |   4 +-
 net/mac80211/rx.c                            |  15 +-
 net/mac80211/sta_info.c                      | 393 +++++++++++++++--
 net/mac80211/sta_info.h                      |  36 +-
 net/mac80211/trace.h                         |   7 +
 net/mac80211/util.c                          |  14 +-
 net/wireless/nl80211.c                       | 434 ++++++++++++++++++-
 net/wireless/util.c                          |  12 +
 13 files changed, 1051 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)


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