From 34e895075e21be3e21e71d6317440d1ee7969ad0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:59:58 +0100 Subject: mac80211: allow station add/remove to sleep Many drivers would like to sleep during station addition and removal, and currently have a high complexity there from not being able to. This introduces two new callbacks sta_add() and sta_remove() that drivers can implement instead of using sta_notify() and that can sleep, and the new sta_add() callback is also allowed to fail. The reason we didn't do this previously is that the IBSS code wants to insert stations from the RX path, which is a tasklet, so cannot sleep. This patch will keep the station allocation in that path, but moves adding the station to the driver out of line. Since the addition can now fail, we can have IBSS peer structs the driver rejected -- in that case we still talk to the station but never tell the driver about it in the control.sta pointer. If there will ever be a driver that has a low limit on the number of stations and that cannot talk to any stations that are not known to it, we need to do come up with a new strategy of handling larger IBSSs, maybe quicker expiry or rejecting peers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- include/net/mac80211.h | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/net') diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index 74ccf30fdf8..a19fac35259 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ enum set_key_cmd { * mac80211, any ieee80211_sta pointer you get access to must * either be protected by rcu_read_lock() explicitly or implicitly, * or you must take good care to not use such a pointer after a - * call to your sta_notify callback that removed it. + * call to your sta_remove callback that removed it. * * @addr: MAC address * @aid: AID we assigned to the station if we're an AP @@ -840,8 +840,8 @@ struct ieee80211_sta { * indicates addition and removal of a station to station table, * or if a associated station made a power state transition. * - * @STA_NOTIFY_ADD: a station was added to the station table - * @STA_NOTIFY_REMOVE: a station being removed from the station table + * @STA_NOTIFY_ADD: (DEPRECATED) a station was added to the station table + * @STA_NOTIFY_REMOVE: (DEPRECATED) a station being removed from the station table * @STA_NOTIFY_SLEEP: a station is now sleeping * @STA_NOTIFY_AWAKE: a sleeping station woke up */ @@ -1534,9 +1534,14 @@ enum ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action { * @set_rts_threshold: Configuration of RTS threshold (if device needs it) * The callback can sleep. * - * @sta_notify: Notifies low level driver about addition, removal or power - * state transition of an associated station, AP, IBSS/WDS/mesh peer etc. - * Must be atomic. + * @sta_add: Notifies low level driver about addition of an associated station, + * AP, IBSS/WDS/mesh peer etc. This callback can sleep. + * + * @sta_remove: Notifies low level driver about removal of an associated + * station, AP, IBSS/WDS/mesh peer etc. This callback can sleep. + * + * @sta_notify: Notifies low level driver about power state transition of an + * associated station, AP, IBSS/WDS/mesh peer etc. Must be atomic. * * @conf_tx: Configure TX queue parameters (EDCF (aifs, cw_min, cw_max), * bursting) for a hardware TX queue. @@ -1635,6 +1640,10 @@ struct ieee80211_ops { void (*get_tkip_seq)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u8 hw_key_idx, u32 *iv32, u16 *iv16); int (*set_rts_threshold)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 value); + int (*sta_add)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif, + struct ieee80211_sta *sta); + int (*sta_remove)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif, + struct ieee80211_sta *sta); void (*sta_notify)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_vif *vif, enum sta_notify_cmd, struct ieee80211_sta *sta); int (*conf_tx)(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u16 queue, -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2