From patchwork Fri Sep 11 15:07:23 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Michael Buesch X-Patchwork-Id: 46869 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8BF8Kxm030856 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:08:20 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754088AbZIKPIO (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:08:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753944AbZIKPIO (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:08:14 -0400 Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:39927 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752605AbZIKPIN (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:08:13 -0400 Received: by vs166246.vserver.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) id 1Mm7jT-0004cE-5y; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:08:15 +0000 From: Michael Buesch To: Kalle Valo Subject: Re: mac80211: NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:07:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg , "John W. Linville" References: <200909111648.50902.mb@bu3sch.de> <877hw534wd.fsf@litku.valot.fi> In-Reply-To: <877hw534wd.fsf@litku.valot.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909111707.23971.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org On Friday 11 September 2009 16:57:54 Kalle Valo wrote: > Michael Buesch writes: > > > Hi, > > Hallo, > > > mac80211 (or some other part of the networking stack) triggers this > > warning in the NOHZ code: NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08 > > > > 08 seems to be NET_RX_SOFTIRQ. > > > > It happens, because my test driver b43 handles all RX and TX-status > > callbacks in process context. I guess some part of the networking > > stack expects RX to be in tasklet and/or softirq context. > > > > We also have a report of this warning in wl1251, so it's probably not > > a b43 problem. > > Yes, I see this with wl1251. It uses workqueues everywhere. > This patch seems to fix it. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch Tested-by: Kalle Valo Index: wireless-testing/net/mac80211/cfg.c =================================================================== --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/cfg.c 2009-08-09 18:47:11.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/cfg.c 2009-09-11 16:59:12.000000000 +0200 @@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ static void ieee80211_send_layer2_update skb->dev = sta->sdata->dev; skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, sta->sdata->dev); memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb)); - netif_rx(skb); + ieee80211_netif_rx(skb); } static void sta_apply_parameters(struct ieee80211_local *local, Index: wireless-testing/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h =================================================================== --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h 2009-08-23 00:06:41.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h 2009-09-11 17:02:05.000000000 +0200 @@ -1053,6 +1053,14 @@ void ieee80211_tx_pending(unsigned long int ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev); int ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev); +/* rx handling */ +static inline int ieee80211_netif_rx(struct sk_buff *skb) +{ + if (in_interrupt()) + return netif_rx(skb); + return netif_rx_ni(skb); +} + /* HT */ void ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_sta_ht_cap(struct ieee80211_supported_band *sband, struct ieee80211_ht_cap *ht_cap_ie, Index: wireless-testing/net/mac80211/main.c =================================================================== --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/main.c 2009-08-23 00:06:41.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/main.c 2009-09-11 16:59:35.000000000 +0200 @@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee8021 skb2 = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC); if (skb2) { skb2->dev = prev_dev; - netif_rx(skb2); + ieee80211_netif_rx(skb2); } } @@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ void ieee80211_tx_status(struct ieee8021 } if (prev_dev) { skb->dev = prev_dev; - netif_rx(skb); + ieee80211_netif_rx(skb); skb = NULL; } rcu_read_unlock(); Index: wireless-testing/net/mac80211/rx.c =================================================================== --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/rx.c 2009-09-04 19:08:05.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/rx.c 2009-09-11 17:00:08.000000000 +0200 @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ ieee80211_rx_monitor(struct ieee80211_lo skb2 = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC); if (skb2) { skb2->dev = prev_dev; - netif_rx(skb2); + ieee80211_netif_rx(skb2); } } @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ ieee80211_rx_monitor(struct ieee80211_lo if (prev_dev) { skb->dev = prev_dev; - netif_rx(skb); + ieee80211_netif_rx(skb); } else dev_kfree_skb(skb); @@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ ieee80211_deliver_skb(struct ieee80211_r /* deliver to local stack */ skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev); memset(skb->cb, 0, sizeof(skb->cb)); - netif_rx(skb); + ieee80211_netif_rx(skb); } } @@ -1943,7 +1943,7 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_cooked_monitor( skb2 = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC); if (skb2) { skb2->dev = prev_dev; - netif_rx(skb2); + ieee80211_netif_rx(skb2); } } @@ -1954,7 +1954,7 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_cooked_monitor( if (prev_dev) { skb->dev = prev_dev; - netif_rx(skb); + ieee80211_netif_rx(skb); skb = NULL; } else goto out_free_skb;