From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Luca Coelho <luca@coelho.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] mac80211: use chanctx reservation for AP CSA
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 10:44:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1400834656.4358.1.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+BoTQmdNV3XMmiAmA=bP4ZQ7dRZOwX8=_NYqmZW+orEA=OysA@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20140523_084951_567483_00C06FBF)
On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 08:49 +0200, Michal Kazior wrote:
> > But you'll WARN_ON() if they're actually not at the same time and you
> > grab a beacon (or for the template case, call csa_update) in the
> > meantime, right? I'd really like to have all those driver requirements
> > (e.g. to stop beaconing) better documented.
>
> Good point. I suppose it should be stated in the docs that once you
> reach ieee80211_csa_is_complete() being true you must not call
> ieee80211_beacon_get() nor ieee80211_csa_update_counter(). ath9k and
> ath10k conform to this.
Right, it's still a bit strange that you just have to stop beaconing.
Dunno. I guess I don't care all that much since our driver won't support
multiple AP interfaces anyway :-)
> I wonder what driver should be supposed to look at before starting to
> beacon again? csa_active isn't well protected to be depended upon. If
> we should create a ieee80211_csa_is_active() that just checks if
> beacon->csa_counter_offset[0] != 0 (assuming my other csa counter
> patches are applied) then it's still racy:
> a) rcu_dereference() across ieee80211_csa_is_active(), _is_complete()
> and _beacon_get() can yield different beacon pointers
> b) cs_count <= 1 yields no beacon update (thus no counters/offsets,
> meaning both _csa_is_complete and _csa_is_active() are `false` thus
> suggesting driver can beacon as if nothing happened)
>
> We could fix (b) by simply not treating cs_count <= 1 so special and
> update the beacon anyway. For (a) to work we'd need either make a
> single-call do-all function or introduce an additional call and a
> generic pointer/structure to be passed to other functions so that a
> beacon pointer is consistent across calls.
You could technically just return NULL in this period, but I don't know
how well drivers would cope with that (though technically they have to
cope with it due to memory allocation failures anyway)
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-23 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-22 14:07 [PATCH v6 0/6] cfg/mac80211: implement multi-vif csa Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:07 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] mac80211: introduce switch_vif_chanctx op Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:45 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 2:38 ` [PATCH] mac80211: add a single-transaction driver op to switch contexts Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 2:49 ` Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 7:51 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 8:01 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 8:58 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 9:14 ` Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 9:30 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 9:52 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 11:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 11:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: use switch_vif_chanctx to change a running chanctx Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 11:35 ` Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 13:28 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 13:31 ` Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 13:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] mac80211: add a single-transaction driver op to switch contexts Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 13:30 ` Luca Coelho
2014-05-23 9:16 ` [PATCH] " Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 9:26 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 6:09 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] mac80211: introduce switch_vif_chanctx op Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 8:51 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 9:10 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 9:31 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-22 14:07 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] mac80211: implement multi-vif in-place reservations Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:51 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 6:16 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 12:23 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 13:14 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-22 14:07 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] mac80211: make check_combinations() aware of chanctx reservation Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:07 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] mac80211: use chanctx reservation for AP CSA Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:54 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 6:49 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 8:44 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2014-05-23 8:58 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 9:07 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 9:35 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 9:53 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-22 14:07 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] mac80211: use chanctx reservation for STA CSA Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:07 ` [PATCH v6 6/6] cfg80211: remove channel_switch combination check Michal Kazior
2014-05-22 14:57 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 7:04 ` Michal Kazior
2014-05-23 8:53 ` Johannes Berg
2014-05-23 9:11 ` Michal Kazior
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