SCF 222.10.02, Table 3-35: the PDUSize parameter of a DL_TTI.request PDU
includes the 4 bytes required for PDUType and PDUSize parameters (each 2
bytes), not 2.
This is required for the Aerial interoperability.
SCF FAPI 222.10.02 had a bug on the description of CoreSetType:
0: CORESET is configured by the PBCH or SIB1
(subcarrier 0 of CRB0 for DMRS mapping)
1: otherwise (subcarrier 0 of CORESET)
That was fixed in SCF 222.10.04:
0: CORESET is configured by the PBCH or SIB1
(subcarrier 0 of the CORESET)
1: otherwise (subcarrier 0 of CRB0 for DMRS mapping)
That wrong description created a misunderstanding, to overcome it we "wrongly" added a third value. This commit fixes that and aligns the CoreSetType with FAPI 222.10.04
PDU Length is as per SCF 222.10.02: The total length (in bytes) of the
PDU description and PDU data, without the padding bytes. From
TX_DATA.request we get 8 (2 bytes PDU_Length + 2 bytes PDU_Index + 4
bytes num_TLV ) and from each TLV we get 4 + value size ( 2 bytes tag +
2 bytes length + value size without pading)
Therefore, add function to compute PDU_length() value for
TX_Data.request, taking into account how many TLVs there are.
compute_PDU_length() does not rely on access to `nfapi_nr_pdu_t`.
Put it into nr_mac_common.c to avoid introducing dependencies.
!SIB1 is not correctly filled! This commit does not work with COTS UEs!
The next commit fixes this.
- Move radio config (e.g., minRXTXTIME, SIB1 TDA, do_SRS, etc) down to
MAC.
- Some parameters in MAC are redundant: delete them.
- Remove call to nr_mac_config_scc() from RRC and simulators, the MAC
initialization routine calls it implicitly
The MasterInformationBlock is handled at the DU and sent to the CU in
the F1 Setup Response. Hence, move it down to the MAC. Furthermore:
- Change type because MIB_PDU_t is 4G type
- Simplify schedule_nr_mib()
Different threads (e.g., RRC, DU tasks) might access the scheduler at
the same time as the thread that drivers the scheduler itself
(ru_thread). To avoid data races, introduce this mutex.
Most functions of the scheduler are only used internally and have been
marked static in the previous commit. The remaining ones, in this
commit, either lock the scheduler mutex sched_lock, or a comment has
been added of the assumption of how such function is to be locked (e.g.,
if it might be called from different places, or if it is called by a
function that already locks the scheduler).
To know which functions are used from outside and which are
module-local, make many functions static. This will allow us to protect
only those functions with a mutex for which it is necessary.
This commit fixes a bug caused by global variables in the gNB_MAC_INST
structure used to transfer MAC scheduler's results to the PHY layer.
When using several threads in the PHY layer, it may happen that the
MAC scheduler is called a second time by the second PHY thread for the
next slot before the content of the global variables in the gNB_MAC_INST
structure used to store the result of the MAC scheduler for the current
slot have been consumed by the first thread, leading to unpredictable
results (all of them certainly wrong).
The solution is to introduce a small memory management module for the
interface between the PHY threads and the MAC scheduler. The MAC
scheduler now fills the data structures passed to it, and not a
global variable anymore. The PHY layer manages the structures and
ensures that no data is overwritten before being fully consumed by
the various threads of the PHY layer.
Some care has to be taken because several PHY threads will access the
same structures at the same time for a given slot (in read mode, so
it's okay). A mechanism of reference counting has thus been introduced.
Only one CC is supported. This restriction should not be too hard
to remove if/when needed. (The code before this commit does not seem
to work for more than one CC anyway.)
Creates function that have nr_pdcp_ prepended to their name, and change
the signature of some functions for the 5G PDCP:
- nr_pdcp_layer_init()
- nr_pdcp_data_req()
- nr_pdcp_remove_UE()
- nr_pdcp_config_set_security()
- nr_pdcp_remove_UE()
- Make separate functions for nr_pdcp_data_req_srb/drb()
