Re: [PATCH v5.1-rc] iwlwifi: make locking in iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu() BH-safe

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Sep 20 2019 - 17:34:37 EST


On Wed, 11 Sep 2019, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> > From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [PATCH] iwlwifi: make locking in iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu() BH-safe
>
> Hm, scratch that, that might actually spuriously enable BHs if called from
> contexts that already did disabled BHs.
>
> So what solution would you prefer here? Just stick another par of
> bh_disable() / bh_enable() somewhere to the wake_txs() ->
> iwl_mvm_mac_itxq_xmit() -> iwl_mvm_tx_skb() -> iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu() path?

Ping? This seems to be still the case.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs