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rt2x00: Serialize TX operations on a queue.

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The rt2x00 driver gets frequent occurrences of the following error message
when operating under load:
phy0 -> rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Arrived at non-free entry in the
non-full queue 2.

This is caused by simultaneous attempts from mac80211 to send a frame via
rt2x00, which are not properly serialized inside rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame,
causing the second frame to fail sending with the above mentioned error
message.

Fix this by introducing a per-queue spinlock to serialize the TX operations
on that queue.

Reported-by: Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@01019freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Gertjan van Wingerde
2011-07-06 22:56:24 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent 9352f69c91
commit 77a861c405
2 changed files with 18 additions and 5 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h
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@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ enum data_queue_flags {
* @flags: Entry flags, see &enum queue_entry_flags.
* @status_lock: The mutex for protecting the start/stop/flush
* handling on this queue.
* @tx_lock: Spinlock to serialize tx operations on this queue.
* @index_lock: Spinlock to protect index handling. Whenever @index, @index_done or
* @index_crypt needs to be changed this lock should be grabbed to prevent
* index corruption due to concurrency.
@@ -458,6 +459,7 @@ struct data_queue {
unsigned long flags;
struct mutex status_lock;
spinlock_t tx_lock;
spinlock_t index_lock;
unsigned int count;