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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2007-11-28 10:55:32 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-01-28 14:55:28 -0800 |
| commit | e38bad4766a110b61fa6038f10be16ced8c6cc38 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a1b3920dd5383c4a8312597c6d4570b22eae148 /net/mac80211/util.c | |
| parent | 76ee65bfaa1435320a72989a6413467ce446ae23 (diff) | |
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mac80211: make ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces not need rtnl
Interface iteration in mac80211 can be done without holding any
locks because I converted it to RCU. Initially, I thought this
wouldn't be needed for ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces but
it's turning out that multi-BSS AP support can be much simpler
in a driver if ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces can be called
without holding locks. This converts it to use RCU, it adds a
requirement that the callback it invokes cannot sleep.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/util.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c index 5227c16f113..7b278e9aa1a 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/util.c +++ b/net/mac80211/util.c @@ -482,10 +482,9 @@ void ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw); struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata; - ASSERT_RTNL(); + rcu_read_lock(); - /* we hold the RTNL here so can safely walk the list */ - list_for_each_entry(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(sdata, &local->interfaces, list) { switch (sdata->type) { case IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_INVALID: case IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_MNTR: @@ -503,5 +502,7 @@ void ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, iterator(data, sdata->dev->dev_addr, sdata->dev->ifindex); } + + rcu_read_unlock(); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces); |