ieee80211: mark 802.11 related structs as being 2-byte aligned

Regardless of what header features they use, or if they align the IP
header or not, 802.11 packets from all drivers guarantee a 2-byte
alignment (and there's a debug WARN_ON in case they don't).

Annotate packet structs with __aligned(2) to allow the compiler to use
16-bit load/store operations on platforms with extremely inefficient
unaligned access (e.g. MIPS).

This reduces code size and improves performance on affected platforms
and causes no binary code change on others.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/ieee80211.h b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
index 5c8cc470a4171c78c4702387523976d8e98c5600..4515f385187d0dab33ec963e4d6dec770961c88e 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/linux/ieee80211.h
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ struct ieee80211_hdr {
        u8 addr3[6];
        __le16 seq_ctrl;
        u8 addr4[6];
-} __packed;
+} __packed __aligned(2);
 
 struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr {
        __le16 frame_control;
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr {
        u8 addr2[6];
        u8 addr3[6];
        __le16 seq_ctrl;
-} __packed;
+} __packed __aligned(2);
 
 struct ieee80211_qos_hdr {
        __le16 frame_control;
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ struct ieee80211_qos_hdr {
        u8 addr3[6];
        __le16 seq_ctrl;
        __le16 qos_ctrl;
-} __packed;
+} __packed __aligned(2);
 
 /**
  * ieee80211_has_tods - check if IEEE80211_FCTL_TODS is set
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ struct ieee80211s_hdr {
        __le32 seqnum;
        u8 eaddr1[6];
        u8 eaddr2[6];
-} __packed;
+} __packed __aligned(2);
 
 /* Mesh flags */
 #define MESH_FLAGS_AE_A4       0x1
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ struct ieee80211_mgmt {
                        } u;
                } __packed action;
        } u;
-} __packed;
+} __packed __aligned(2);
 
 /* Supported Rates value encodings in 802.11n-2009 7.3.2.2 */
 #define BSS_MEMBERSHIP_SELECTOR_HT_PHY 127
@@ -911,20 +911,20 @@ struct ieee80211_rts {
        __le16 duration;
        u8 ra[6];
        u8 ta[6];
-} __packed;
+} __packed __aligned(2);
 
 struct ieee80211_cts {
        __le16 frame_control;
        __le16 duration;
        u8 ra[6];
-} __packed;
+} __packed __aligned(2);
 
 struct ieee80211_pspoll {
        __le16 frame_control;
        __le16 aid;
        u8 bssid[6];
        u8 ta[6];
-} __packed;
+} __packed __aligned(2);
 
 /* TDLS */