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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/8] mac80211 sta info and related changes
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:16:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080222111644.183587000@sipsolutions.net> (raw)

This patch series contains a few loosely related changes in mac80211
I did over the past few days:

 * clarify use of TX status/RX callbacks
   as per my previous mail, the irqsafe/non-irq-safe stuff

 * safely free beacon in ieee80211_if_reinit
   This is necessary for reentrancy reasons with ieee80211_beacon_get()

 * split ieee80211_key_alloc
   Preparation for RCU-ifying STA info, split key allocation into
   allocation and insertion

 * RCU-ify STA info structure access
   Remove STA refcount and instead protect them by RCU

 * split ieee80211_txrx_data
   Mostly unrelated, split up txrx_data and flags into one struct for TX
   and one for RX

 * split sta_info_add
   Split sta_info_add into _alloc and _link to resolve a few races and
   allow GFP_KERNEL allocations in many cases (which was removed by the
   RCU-ification patch)

 * remove STA info's last_ack stuff
   Remove some unused stats members

 * clean up sta_info and document locking
   Document and clean up the definition of struct sta_info and document
   the locking (deficiencies)

I'd like to have somebody else look over these but I'm confident that the
changes do not, at least, introduce regressions.

johannes


             reply	other threads:[~2008-02-22 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-22 11:16 Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-02-22 11:16 ` [PATCH 1/8] mac80211: clarify use of TX status/RX callbacks Johannes Berg
2008-02-22 11:16 ` [PATCH 2/8] mac80211: safely free beacon in ieee80211_if_reinit Johannes Berg
2008-02-22 11:16 ` [PATCH 3/8] mac80211: split ieee80211_key_alloc Johannes Berg
2008-02-22 11:16 ` [PATCH 4/8] mac80211: RCU-ify STA info structure access Johannes Berg
2008-03-05  1:57   ` Chatre, Reinette
2008-03-05  9:23     ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-05 19:25       ` Chatre, Reinette
2008-02-22 11:16 ` [PATCH 5/8] mac80211: split ieee80211_txrx_data Johannes Berg
2008-02-22 11:16 ` [PATCH 6/8] mac80211: split sta_info_add Johannes Berg
2008-02-22 11:16 ` [PATCH 7/8] mac80211: remove STA infos last_ack stuff Johannes Berg
2008-02-22 11:16 ` [PATCH 8/8] mac80211: clean up sta_info and document locking Johannes Berg
2008-02-22 21:41 ` [PATCH 0/8] mac80211 sta info and related changes Johannes Berg

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