Commit 85ad181e authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by John W. Linville
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mac80211: allow drivers to sleep in ampdu_action 



Allow drivers to sleep, and indicate this in
the documentation. ath9k has some locking I
don't understand, so keep it safe and disable
BHs in it, all other drivers look fine with
the context change.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent cfcdbde3

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c

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@@ -1769,6 +1769,8 @@ static int ath9k_ampdu_action(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, 
	struct ath_softc *sc = aphy->sc;

	int ret = 0;



	local_bh_disable();



	switch (action) {

	case IEEE80211_AMPDU_RX_START:

		if (!(sc->sc_flags & SC_OP_RXAGGR))
@@ -1798,6 +1800,8 @@ static int ath9k_ampdu_action(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, 
			  "Unknown AMPDU action\n");

	}



	local_bh_enable();



	return ret;

}

include/net/mac80211.h

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@@ -1640,7 +1640,7 @@ enum ieee80211_ampdu_mlme_action { 
 * 	is the first frame we expect to perform the action on. Notice

 * 	that TX/RX_STOP can pass NULL for this parameter.

 *	Returns a negative error code on failure.

 *	The callback must be atomic.

 *	The callback can sleep.

 *

 * @get_survey: Return per-channel survey information

 *

net/mac80211/driver-ops.h

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@@ -352,11 +352,10 @@ static inline int drv_ampdu_action(struct ieee80211_local *local, 


	might_sleep();



	local_bh_disable();

	if (local->ops->ampdu_action)

		ret = local->ops->ampdu_action(&local->hw, &sdata->vif, action,

					       sta, tid, ssn);

	local_bh_enable();



	trace_drv_ampdu_action(local, sdata, action, sta, tid, ssn, ret);

	return ret;

}

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