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mt76: testmode: use random payload for tx packets

Message ID 20220711141910.17573-1-shayne.chen@mediatek.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Felix Fietkau
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Series mt76: testmode: use random payload for tx packets | expand

Commit Message

Shayne Chen July 11, 2022, 2:19 p.m. UTC 
Compared to fixed payload packets, random payload packets have better
measured EVM under the same txpower. Our tests show EVM becomes at least
2-3 dB better in test cases with high rate and long tx length, which also
aligns the testing results to proprietary driver.

Suggested-by: Jm Chen <jm.chen@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Shayne Chen <shayne.chen@mediatek.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/testmode.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/testmode.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/testmode.c
index 47ac0ca1af32..fedc7a61ca37 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/testmode.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/testmode.c
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC
 /* Copyright (C) 2020 Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name> */
+
+#include <linux/random.h>
 #include "mt76.h"
 
 const struct nla_policy mt76_tm_policy[NUM_MT76_TM_ATTRS] = {
@@ -124,12 +126,14 @@  int mt76_testmode_alloc_skb(struct mt76_phy *phy, u32 len)
 	if (!head)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	hdr = __skb_put_zero(head, head_len);
+	hdr = __skb_put_zero(head, sizeof(*hdr));
 	hdr->frame_control = cpu_to_le16(fc);
 	memcpy(hdr->addr1, td->addr[0], ETH_ALEN);
 	memcpy(hdr->addr2, td->addr[1], ETH_ALEN);
 	memcpy(hdr->addr3, td->addr[2], ETH_ALEN);
 	skb_set_queue_mapping(head, IEEE80211_AC_BE);
+	get_random_bytes(__skb_put(head, head_len - sizeof(*hdr)),
+			 head_len - sizeof(*hdr));
 
 	info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(head);
 	info->flags = IEEE80211_TX_CTL_INJECTED |
@@ -157,7 +161,7 @@  int mt76_testmode_alloc_skb(struct mt76_phy *phy, u32 len)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
 
-		__skb_put_zero(frag, frag_len);
+		get_random_bytes(__skb_put(frag, frag_len), frag_len);
 		head->len += frag->len;
 		head->data_len += frag->len;