Re: hung task in mac80211

[Johannes Berg]

On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 16:27 +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the extended bothering :) but here, you're extending quite
> a bit the scope of the lock also
> when__ieee80211_start_rx_ba_session() is called by
> ieee80211_process_addba_request().

I know, but it doesn't matter.

> No idea what the hit can be, but we can't safely assume it's

> nothing either.   

We don't really have to assume anything, we can read the code :-)

Trust me, I probably wrote most of it. It's fine, just sanity checks.

> What about simply introducing a 'ampdu_mlme_lock_held' argument
> instead?

Eww, no.

johannes