Commit 651b9920 authored Feb 10, 2018 by Felix Fietkau Committed by Johannes Berg Feb 19, 2018

mac80211: round IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM up to multiple of 4



This ensures that mac80211 allocated management frames are properly
aligned, which makes copying them more efficient.
For instance, mt76 uses iowrite32_copy to copy beacon frames to beacon
template memory on the chip.
Misaligned 32-bit accesses cause CPU exceptions on MIPS and should be
avoided.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

parent ce162bfb

include/net/mac80211.h

+1 −1

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		@@ -4141,7 +4141,7 @@ void ieee80211_sta_uapsd_trigger(struct ieee80211_sta *sta, u8 tid);
		* The TX headroom reserved by mac80211 for its own tx_status functions.
		* This is enough for the radiotap header.
		*/
		#define IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM 14
		#define IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM ALIGN(14, 4)

		/**
		* ieee80211_sta_set_buffered - inform mac80211 about driver-buffered frames

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