This was reported by Kevin when he was testing handover. The problem
is the order of the signal handlers for S_ABISIP_CRCX_ACK. Right now
the handover signal handler is called before the one inside the libmsc
gsm_04_08.c. This means S_HANDOVER_ACK is signalled _before_ there is a
rtp socket created for the channel. The result is that the MDCX will
never be sent and the called will not be properly switched _after_ the
handover detection.
I do not want to play with the order of signal handlers, remove the
CRCX ack handling from the handover_logic.c and force the NITB (and
later the BSC) to check if the lchan is involved with a handover and
do the switching in there. This means right now we do what two signal
handlers did in one.
Reproduced and tested with the FakeBTS Handover test.
Log message:
<0004> abis_rsl.c:1954 (bts=1,trx=0,ts=3,ss=0) IPAC_CRCX_ACK ...
<000c> gsm_04_08.c:1400 no RTP socket for new_lchan
<001a> rtp_proxy.c:533 rtp_socket_create(): success
<001a> rtp_proxy.c:615 rtp_socket_bind(rs=0x48703c8, IP=0.0.0.0): ...
When the new_lchan for handover is failing we should stop the
handover operation. This is fixing a crash that we get a timeout
on the lchan and have no conn set to it. Introduce a flag to
the bsc_clear_handover to not free the lchan. In case the ho_lchan
is failing we do not want to call lchan_release as it would
reset the state.
With this commit, we can successfully hand over a channel from one cell to
another cell. We implement asynchronous intra-BSC (but inter-BTS) handover.
Changes:
* introduce new DHO log category
* extend rsl_chan_activate_lchan() with argument for HO reference
* introduce actual minimal handover decision making in handover_decision.c
* various fixes to bsc_handover_start() in handover_logic.c
Neels Hofmeyr
Holger Hans Peter Freyther