commit | dd33725c8fdf473f1f0268c693562692ea64169a | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Harald Welte <laforge@osmocom.org> | Mon May 25 22:38:24 2020 +0200 |
committer | Harald Welte <laforge@osmocom.org> | Mon May 25 22:56:41 2020 +0200 |
tree | 18cddd0b3ed43fd32de3dd0a916b9cc18b328046 | |
parent | 1eec53dbfb1429ac0bee3514f21f44b7716b43ce [diff] |
Enable async use of libosmo-simtrace2 libosmo-simtrace2 traditionally had only supported blocking, synchronous I/O, while remsim-client used asynchronous USB I/O. Using async USB I/O for IRQ + IN transfers while using blocking I/O for OUT transfers doesn't seem to work reliably, so we have to switch OUT also to async. Depends: simtrace2.git Ib8939bdb7f533cd20a34a30a97f12b782b9816c2 Change-Id: I18bf166a95bd4318d700b3e93401b2db5188acfc
This software suite is a work in progress.
The client interfaces with GSM phones / modems via dedicated "Card Emulation" devices such as the Osmocom SIMtrace2 or sysmocom sysmoQMOD board + firmware. This hardware implements the ISO7816-3 electrical interface and protocol handling and passes any TPDU headers received from the phone/modem to osmo-remsim-client for further processing of the TPDUs associated to the given APDU transfer.
osmo-remsim-client connects via a RSPRO control connection to osmo-remsim-server at startup and registers itself. It will receive configuration data such as the osmo-remsim-bankd IP+Port and the ClientId from osmo-remsim-server.
After receiving the configuration, osmo-remsim-client will establish a RSPRO data connection to the osmo-remsim-bankd IP:Port.
As the USB interface for remote SIM in simtrace2.git uses one interface per slot, we can implement the client in blocking mode, i.e. use blocking I/O on the TCP/RSPRO side. This simplifies the code compared to a more complex async implementation.
The osmo-remsim-bankd (SIM Bank Daemon) manages one given SIM bank. The initial implementation supports a PC/SC driver to expose any PC/SC compatible card readers as SIM bank.
osmo-remsim-bankd initially connects via a RSPRO control connection to osmo-remsim-server at startup, and will in turn receive a set of initial [client,slot]:[bankd,slot] mappings. These mappings determine which slot on the client (corresponding to a modem) is mapped to which slot on the SIM bank. Mappings can be updated by osmo-remsim-server at any given point in time.
osmo-remsim-bankd implements a RSPRO server, where it listens to connections from osmo-remsim-clients.
As PC/SC only offers a blocking API, there is one thread per PC/SC slot. This thread will perform blocking I/O on the socket towards the client, and blocking API calls on PC/SC.
In terms of thread handling, we do:
The worker threads initially don't have any mapping to a specific reader, and that mapping is only established at a later point after the client has identified itself. The advantage is that the entire bankd can live without any non-blocking I/O.
The main thread handles the connection to osmo-remsim-server, where it can also use non-blocking I/O. However, re-connection would be required, to avoid stalling all banks/cards in the event of a connection loss to the server.
worker threads have the following states:
Once the client disconnects, or any other error occurs (such as card I/O errors), the worker thread either returns to INIT state (closing client socket and reader), or it terminates. Termination would mean that the main thread would have to do non-blocking join to detect client termination and then re-spawn clients, so the "return to INIT state" approach seems to make more sense.
Open topics: