mac80211: use RCU for RX aggregation

Currently we allocate some memory for each RX
aggregation session and additionally keep a
flag indicating whether or not it is valid.
By using RCU to protect the pointer and making
sure that the memory is fully set up before it
becomes visible to the RX path, we can remove
the need for the bool that indicates validity,
as well as for locking on the RX path since it
is always synchronised against itself, and we
can guarantee that all other modifications are
done when the structure is not visible to the
RX path.

The net result is that since we remove locking
requirements from the RX path, we can in the
future use any kind of lock for the setup and
teardown code paths.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
index 786bbd3103b1..16864a6045b4 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.h
@@ -102,8 +102,18 @@ struct tid_ampdu_tx {
  * @buf_size: buffer size for incoming A-MPDUs
  * @timeout: reset timer value (in TUs).
  * @dialog_token: dialog token for aggregation session
+ * @rcu_head: RCU head used for freeing this struct
+ *
+ * This structure is protected by RCU and the per-station
+ * spinlock. Assignments to the array holding it must hold
+ * the spinlock, only the RX path can access it under RCU
+ * lock-free. The RX path, since it is single-threaded,
+ * can even modify the structure without locking since the
+ * only other modifications to it are done when the struct
+ * can not yet or no longer be found by the RX path.
  */
 struct tid_ampdu_rx {
+        struct rcu_head rcu_head;
         struct sk_buff **reorder_buf;
         unsigned long *reorder_time;
         struct timer_list session_timer;
@@ -118,8 +128,7 @@ struct tid_ampdu_rx {
 /**
  * struct sta_ampdu_mlme - STA aggregation information.
  *
- * @tid_active_rx: TID's state in Rx session state machine.
- * @tid_rx: aggregation info for Rx per TID
+ * @tid_rx: aggregation info for Rx per TID -- RCU protected
  * @tid_state_tx: TID's state in Tx session state machine.
  * @tid_tx: aggregation info for Tx per TID
  * @addba_req_num: number of times addBA request has been sent.
@@ -127,7 +136,6 @@ struct tid_ampdu_rx {
  */
 struct sta_ampdu_mlme {
         /* rx */
-        bool tid_active_rx[STA_TID_NUM];
         struct tid_ampdu_rx *tid_rx[STA_TID_NUM];
         /* tx */
         u8 tid_state_tx[STA_TID_NUM];