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author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2008-02-25 10:27:47 -0500 |
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committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2008-03-06 15:30:47 -0500 |
commit | 73651ee6396c499ccb59ebc84c9274db01ed026d (patch) | |
tree | 1d59027cbdaec732f3e1378770cbf7b42b48cd70 /Documentation/smart-config.txt | |
parent | d0709a65181beb787ef3f58cfe45536a2bb254c8 (diff) |
mac80211: split sta_info_add
sta_info_add() has two functions: allocating a station info
structure and inserting it into the hash table/list. Splitting
these two functions allows allocating with GFP_KERNEL in many
places instead of GFP_ATOMIC which is now required by the RCU
protection. Additionally, in many places RCU protection is now
no longer needed at all because between sta_info_alloc() and
sta_info_insert() the caller owns the structure.
This fixes a few race conditions with setting initial flags
and similar, but not all (see comments in ieee80211_sta.c and
cfg.c). More documentation on the existing races will be in
a follow-up patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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