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authorMichal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>2014-04-09 15:10:59 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-05-06 15:10:00 +0200
commit59af6928d2099479c0bc2ef3f66cc7b33998120a (patch)
treeef9010f083ae04406516c0e8cac87d0ebcd23546 /include/net/mac80211.h
parent33926eb7785ac7ce7d45d1ae5afb0780a4270342 (diff)
mac80211: fix CSA tx queue stopping
It was possible for tx queues to be stuck stopped if AP CSA finalization failed. In that case neither stop_ap nor do_stop woke the queues up. This means it was impossible to perform tx at all until driver was reloaded or a successful CSA was performed later. It was possible to solve this in a simpler manner however this is more robust and future proof (having multi-vif CSA in mind). New sdata->csa_block_tx is introduced to keep track of which interfaces requested tx to be blocked for CSA. This is required because mac80211 stops all tx queues for that purpose. This means queues must be awoken only when last tx-blocking CSA interface is finished. It is still possible to have tx queues stopped after CSA failure but as soon as offending interfaces are stopped from userspace (stop_ap or ifdown) tx queues are woken up properly. Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/mac80211.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/mac80211.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h
index bdb4a7cbab31..3541c48a97cd 100644
--- a/include/net/mac80211.h
+++ b/include/net/mac80211.h
@@ -1113,7 +1113,9 @@ enum ieee80211_vif_flags {
* @addr: address of this interface
* @p2p: indicates whether this AP or STA interface is a p2p
* interface, i.e. a GO or p2p-sta respectively
- * @csa_active: marks whether a channel switch is going on
+ * @csa_active: marks whether a channel switch is going on. Internally it is
+ * write-protected by sdata_lock and local->mtx so holding either is fine
+ * for read access.
* @driver_flags: flags/capabilities the driver has for this interface,
* these need to be set (or cleared) when the interface is added
* or, if supported by the driver, the interface type is changed