Add a CU-UP load tester and improve GTP performance
This adds a simple tester program for the CU-UP. It sets up a number of
UEs/bearers in the CU-UP via the E1 interface, then streams data in
downlink/uplink (as seen by the CU-UP). More information is available in
tests/nr-cuup/README.md.
Includes some fixes to properly verify that SCTP is installed, and use
"the right cmake way" to use it in cmake code (see commit for details).
remove specific directory for LTE SIM management tools
This is very old code has never been integrated with the "main" OAI
cmake infrastructure and more recent libraries.
This MR integrates the three binaries for LTE virtual sim management in
the regular build process and log system
Remove the --usim-test option: to my knowledge, it's not used by users,
and is misleadingly placed in various places where there should not be a
difference w.r.t. USIM configuration.
When making the changes, I assumed that --usim-test would be 0 (the
default), which is the case in all executables when not specified in
options except for the nr_dlsim, nr_pbchsmi, nr_ulsim simulators.
The only exception is the initialization of PDCP from the MAC, which is
not correct (the PDCP is in the CU, so it does not make sense to call it
from the MAC which is in the DU). Instead, always initialize from main,
even in the NSA case (NSA was covered by the incorrect initialization
from MAC).
This in turn let to some more cleanup around function du_rlc_data_req().
After receiving GTP packets at the DU, they were given to the PDCP to
enqueue the packet at RLC. This does not work anymore, since the PDCP is
not initialized; it also does not seem necessary, as this enqueue
functionality is necessary to decouple PDCP and RLC to avoid deadlocks
in monolithic, but in split-mode, this cannot happen. Instead, call
directly into the RLC when receiving GTP packets.
Adds 3 new function pointers to the P5 and P7 PNF structures, allowing to configure which function to use to pack/unpack the messages, as well as unpack the message header, being then used seamlessly regardless of using the FAPI or nFAPI functions.
Changes the header unpack and message unpack functions to return true on success and false on failure, instead of an int
Encapsulate the asn1c call from cmake in a cmake function run_asn1c().
As a notable change to the previous manual add_custom_command()
invocation, in suppresses the output of asn1c by default [1] and stores
it in a log file. In case of asn1c4 error, the output will output on
stdout.
Use the new run_asn1c() in all occasions for code generation.
[1] it is quite verbose, with many warnings that we cannot influence nor
suppress, and lists all generated files which is verified by the build
system automatically, anyway.
NAS 5GS refactor
The goal of this MR is to reorganize the NR NAS code into:
- enc/dec library functions (5GS, 5GMM, 5GSM, NR_NAS_defs.h,
nr_fgs_nas_lib.c)
- handlers and callbacks (nr_nas_msg.c)
The following changes are introduced:
1. migrate 5GS enc/dec lib (5GMM and 5GSM) to a dedicated folder
2. add a nested CMakeLists structure
3. refactor NR NAS enc/dec functions
4. refactor NR NAS messages struct definitions
5. remove most of dependency from NAS LTE
6. further refactor of PDU Session Establishment Accept processing to
separate enc/dec from handling
7. made naming of 5GS definitions consistent whenever necessary
8. cleanup unused code
9. remove redundant struct definitions
Also:
1. fix decoding of AMF Set ID in 5G-S-TMSI UE identity
2. replace Byte_t directly with uint8_t
- rename as_nas_info_t member data to nas_data to have a uniq name to
trace between complex malloc/free of this pointer
- fix, maybe not perfect, these pais od malloc/free
- remove typedef name changes across transmission of these as_nas_info_t
over itti, as name changing makes it even more confusing
- remove globals that are likely possible races
- in as_message_decode() fix memcpy size, it is hard to understand the
initial idea, likely the author beleives a struct of struct makes a
intermediate pointer
- in network_api.c remove globals (static but used globally)
- remove casts that are there to hide gcc warnings on probable unaligned
access
- remain a weird mix of packed/unpacked versions of the same typedef,
but gcc is happy
Prior to this commit, there was a global variable baseNetAddress that
could be set independently through a setter and also through the
configuration module. This baseNetAddress (16 bits IPv4) would then be
complemented with two more bytes in nas_config().
However, this is counter-productive, as not only we have a global
variable that is avoidable (we can give the entire address to
nas_config() directly), but it also would not work with IPv6. Hence,
modify to give nas_config() the entire address. A follow-up commit will
add IPv6 support.
Instead of implicitly using a hardcoded prefix "oaitun_" interface
name, move that out to the callers of these functions to make it clear.
The ID still remains outside.
The "sister functions" nas_config_mbms()/netlink_init_tun_mbms() will do
the same change in the next commit.
The starting point was the function do_NR_DLInformationTransfer() which
may deal with more than 256 bytes.
Then why not cleanup all the functions in the same file.
(And do a bit of formattting fixing while we're here.)
Then cleanup the callers of those functions.
Then, because of do_SIB23_NR() let's also cleanup in some
structures.
Not all the codebase was cleaned up, there surely remain some uint8_t
(and char/short/uint16_t) which are wrong.
remove several unused files
remove mem_block_t that is never used in a different way than a simple heap buffer
move up IP address type and remove duplications of the same struct declaration
A COTS UE is sending UE capabilities with accessStratumRelease "rel16"
which is not decoded by our RRC. Switching to RRC 16.13.0 lets our RRC
accept these capabilities (and as a positive side effect lets this
particular UE work nicely in NSA fr1).
CMake now takes the option ASN1C_EXEC to select an asn1c to use for
compilation. For instance, run with
cmake .. -GNinja -DASN1C_EXEC=/opt/asn1c/bin/asn1c
or
./build_oai --cmake-opt -DASN1C_EXEC=/opt/asn1c/bin/asn1c
to select the alternative asn1c. For instance, this is important for the
CI to allow to build multiple versions of OAI in parallel that might use
different commits of OAI.
Further, this patch introduces functionality to check for the support of
asn1c options that we require, and alerts the user if they are missing,
alongside a message of how to resolve the problem.
We don't work much on asn1c. The version we use has several bugs.
There is an active community out there that fixes bugs and improves
asn1c. Let's use their version.
francescomani