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    mac80211: disable mesh · e2e414d9
    Johannes Berg authored
    
    
    My kvm instance was complaining a lot about sleeping
    in atomic contexts in the mesh code, and it turns out
    that both mesh_path_add() and mpp_path_add() need to
    be able to sleep (they even use synchronize_rcu()!).
    I put in a might_sleep() to annotate that, but I see
    no way, at least right now, of actually making sure
    those functions are only called from process context
    since they are both called during TX and RX and the
    mesh code itself even calls them with rcu_read_lock()
    "held".
    
    Therefore, let's disable it completely for now.
    
    It's possible that I'm only seeing this because the
    hwsim's beaconing is broken and thus the peers aren't
    discovered right away, but it is possible that this
    happens even if beaconing is working, for a peer that
    doesn't exist or so.
    
    It should be possible to solve this by deferring the
    freeing of the tables to call_rcu() instead of using
    synchronize_rcu(), and also using atomic allocations,
    but maybe it makes more sense to rework the code to
    not call these from atomic contexts and defer more of
    the work to the workqueue. Right now, I can't work on
    either of those solutions though.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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