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2021-10-21nl80211: vendor-cmd: intel: add more details for ↵Emmanuel Grumbach1-0/+29
IWL_MVM_VENDOR_CMD_HOST_GET_OWNERSHIP Explain more the expected flow for this command. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211020051147.29297-1-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2021-08-13nl80211: vendor-cmd: add Intel vendor commands for iwlmei usageEmmanuel Grumbach1-0/+77
iwlmei allows to integrate with the CSME firmware. There are flows that are prioprietary for this purpose: * Get the information of the AP the CSME firmware is connected to. This is useful when we need to speed up the connection process in case the CSME firmware has a TCP connection that must be kept alive across the ownership transition. * Forbid roaming, which will happen when the CSME firmware wants to tell the user space not disrupt the connection. * Request ownership, upon driver boot when the CSME firmware owns the device. This is a notification sent by the kernel. All those commands are expected to be used by any software managing the connection (mainly NetworkManager). Those commands are expected to be used only in case the CSME firmware owns the device and doesn't want to release the device unless the host made sure that it can keep the connectivity. Here are the steps of the expected flow: 1) The machine boots while AMT has an active TCP connection 2) iwlwifi starts and tries to access the device 3) The device is not available because of the active TCP connection. (If there are no active connections, the CSME firmware would have allowed iwlwifi to use the device) Note that all the steps up to here don't involve iwlmei. All this happens in iwlwifi (in iwl_pcie_prepare_card_hw). 4) iwlmei establishes a connection to the CSME firmware (through SAP) Here iwlwifi uses iwlmei to access the device's capabilities (since it can't touch the device), but this is not relevant for the vendor commands. 5) The CSME firmware tells iwlmei that it uses the NIC and that there is an acitve TCP connection, and hence, the host needs to think twice before asking the CSME firmware to release the device 6) iwlmei tells iwlwifi to report HW RFKILL with a special reason Up to here, there was no user space involved. 7) The user space (NetworkManager) boots and sees that the device is in RFKILL because the host doesn't own the device 8) The user space asks the kernel what AP the CSME firmware is connected to (with the first vendor command mentionned above) 9) The user space checks if it has a profile that matches the reply from the CSME firmware 10) The user space installs a network to the wpa_supplicant with a specific BSSID and a specific frequency 11) The user space prevents any type of full scan 12) The user space asks iwlmei to request ownership on the device (with the third vendor command) 13) iwlmei request ownership from the CSME firmware 14) The CSME firmware grants ownership 15) iwlmei tells iwlwifi to lift the RFKILL 16) RFKILL OFF is reported to userspace 17) The host boots the device, loads the firwmare, and connect to a specific BSSID without scanning including IP in less than 600ms (this is what I measured, of course it depends on many factors) 18) The host reports to the CSME firmware that there is a connection 19) The TCP connection is preserved and the host has now connectivity 20) Later, the TCP connection to the CSME firmware is terminated 21) The CSME firmware tells iwlmei that it is now free to do whatever it likes 22) iwlwifi sends the second vendor command to tell the user space that it can remove the special network configuration and pick any SSID / BSSID it likes. Co-Developed-by: Ayala Beker <ayala.beker@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210625081717.7680-4-emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>