wireless : use a dedicated workqueue for cfg80211.
This patch moves the works cleanup, scan and events to a cfg80211
dedicated workqueue.
Platform driver like eeepc-laptop ought to use works to rfkill (as
new rfkill does lock in rfkill_unregister and the platform driver is
called from rfkill_switch_all which also lock the same mutex).
This raise a new issue in itself that the work scheduled by the platform
driver to the global worqueue calls wiphy_unregister which flush_work
scan and event works (which thus flush works on the global workqueue inside
a work on the global workqueue) and also put on hold the wdev_cleanup_work
(which prevents the dev_put on netdev thus indefinite Usage count error on
wifi device).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Alban Browaeys <prahal@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
index fe6f402..c2a2c56 100644
--- a/net/wireless/core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/core.c
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@
/* for debugfs */
static struct dentry *ieee80211_debugfs_dir;
+/* for the cleanup, scan and event works */
+struct workqueue_struct *cfg80211_wq;
+
/* requires cfg80211_mutex to be held! */
struct cfg80211_registered_device *cfg80211_rdev_by_wiphy_idx(int wiphy_idx)
{
@@ -727,7 +730,7 @@
break;
case NETDEV_DOWN:
dev_hold(dev);
- schedule_work(&wdev->cleanup_work);
+ queue_work(cfg80211_wq, &wdev->cleanup_work);
break;
case NETDEV_UP:
/*
@@ -845,8 +848,14 @@
if (err)
goto out_fail_reg;
+ cfg80211_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("cfg80211");
+ if (!cfg80211_wq)
+ goto out_fail_wq;
+
return 0;
+out_fail_wq:
+ regulatory_exit();
out_fail_reg:
debugfs_remove(ieee80211_debugfs_dir);
out_fail_nl80211:
@@ -868,5 +877,6 @@
wiphy_sysfs_exit();
regulatory_exit();
unregister_pernet_device(&cfg80211_pernet_ops);
+ destroy_workqueue(cfg80211_wq);
}
module_exit(cfg80211_exit);