mac80211: redefine usage of the mac80211 workqueue

The mac80211 workqueue exists to enable mac80211 and drivers
to queue their own work on a single threaded workqueue. mac80211
takes care to flush the workqueue during suspend but we never
really had requirements on drivers for how they should use
the workqueue in consideration for suspend.

We extend mac80211 to document how the mac80211 workqueue should
be used, how it should not be used and finally move raw access to
the workqueue to mac80211 only. Drivers and mac80211 use helpers
to queue work onto the mac80211 workqueue:

  * ieee80211_queue_work()
  * ieee80211_queue_delayed_work()

These helpers will now warn if mac80211 already completed its
suspend cycle and someone is trying to queue work. mac80211
flushes the mac80211 workqueue prior to suspend a few times,
but we haven't taken the care to ensure drivers won't add more
work after suspend. To help with this we add a warning when
someone tries to add work and mac80211 already completed the
suspend cycle.

Drivers should ensure they cancel any work or delayed work
in the mac80211 stop() callback.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index aec6853cb435..316825be2019 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -614,6 +614,12 @@ struct ieee80211_local {
 
         const struct ieee80211_ops *ops;
 
+        /*
+         * private workqueue to mac80211. mac80211 makes this accessible
+         * via ieee80211_queue_work()
+         */
+        struct workqueue_struct *workqueue;
+
         unsigned long queue_stop_reasons[IEEE80211_MAX_QUEUES];
         /* also used to protect ampdu_ac_queue and amdpu_ac_stop_refcnt */
         spinlock_t queue_stop_reason_lock;