A tool for quick testing of PFCP interaction with a UPF, based on VTY
scripts / interaction.
The main motivation to create this tool was to test both the CPF and UPF
sides of the new PFCP protocol encoding and decoding, and then to test
interaction of osmo-upf with the kernel modules. It may also come in
handy as a fast way to verify basic operation in a production
environment.
Related: SYS#5599
Change-Id: I34a80d43a14c7b68952c7d337d8042d6f28ceae7
During code review, it was indicated that some TLV protocols that we
will likely deal with in the near future also employ an I, and instance
value of a tag. Add TLIV support.
A usage example for a manually implemented TLIV structure is found in
tests/libosmo-gtlv/gtlv_test.c.
A usage example for a generated TLIV protocol is found in
tests/libosmo-gtlv/test_tliv/.
Related: SYS#5599
Change-Id: I0a076e54dfba6038cc779cb7c8f3967d212226aa
Defining a protocol of message types with lists of IEs bears a lot of
repetitive, copy-paste-error-prone writing out of data structures.
Add a third layer to libosmo-gtlv, which allows helpful code generation.
By non-repetitive data structures that briefly describe the protocol's
messages and IEs, generate possibly repetitive IE list arrays and
decoded-struct definitions automatically, avoiding grunt work errors.
I tried C macros for this at first, but it became too convoluted.
Generating C code that can be read and grepped makes things easier.
A usage example is found in tests/libosmo-gtlv/test_gtlv_gen/.
Related: SYS#5599
Change-Id: Ifb3ea54d2797ce060b95834aa117725ec2d6c4cf
An all new TLV parser supporting:
- Any size of T and L (determined by callback function),
- "Grouped IEs", so that an IE payload is a nested IE structure,
- optional/mandatory/multi-occurence IEs,
- decoding unordered tags (or enforcing strict order).
Will be used for PFCP message decoding and encoding, a T16L16V protocol
which requires above features.
Upcoming patches add
- translating PDUs to plain C structs and vice versa
- TLV generator to reduce repetition a in protocol definition
- TLIV capability
Previously, the way we deal with TLVs causes a lot of code
re-implementation: the TL decoding is taken care of by the API, but for
encoding, we essentially re-implement each protocol and each encoded
message in the individual programs. This API is an improvement in that
we only once implement the TL coding (or just use osmo_t8l8v_cfg /
osmo_t16l16v_cfg), get symmetric de- and encoding of the TL, and only
need to deal with the value part of each IE.
The common pattern of
- store TL preliminarily,
- write V data and
- update L after V is complete
is conveniently done by osmo_gtlv_put_update_tl().
Related: SYS#5599
Change-Id: Ib0fd00d9f288ffe13b7e67701f3e47073587404a
Neels Hofmeyr