From: Felix Fietkau Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 19:46:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: round IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM up to multiple of 4 This ensures that mac80211 allocated management frames are properly aligned, which makes copying them more efficient. For instance, mt76 uses iowrite32_copy to copy beacon frames to beacon template memory on the chip. Misaligned 32-bit accesses cause CPU exceptions on MIPS and should be avoided. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau --- --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -4145,7 +4145,7 @@ void ieee80211_sta_uapsd_trigger(struct * The TX headroom reserved by mac80211 for its own tx_status functions. * This is enough for the radiotap header. */ -#define IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM 14 +#define IEEE80211_TX_STATUS_HEADROOM ALIGN(14, 4) /** * ieee80211_sta_set_buffered - inform mac80211 about driver-buffered frames