On 2013-06-12 10:00 AM, Calvin Owens wrote: > Copying the rate table should be done in an RCU read-side critical > section. I think this approach is wrong. The sta entry is also under RCU protection (no locking for read access in that part of the code. In a normal driver tx path, no extra rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock is needed. Only if the driver does some scheduling outside of the tx function (which ath9k does), this RCU warning appears. How about this change instead: --- --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c @@ -1570,6 +1570,8 @@ void ath_txq_schedule(struct ath_softc * txq->axq_ampdu_depth >= ATH_AGGR_MIN_QDEPTH) return; + rcu_read_lock(); + ac = list_first_entry(&txq->axq_acq, struct ath_atx_ac, list); last_ac = list_entry(txq->axq_acq.prev, struct ath_atx_ac, list); @@ -1608,8 +1610,10 @@ void ath_txq_schedule(struct ath_softc * if (ac == last_ac || txq->axq_ampdu_depth >= ATH_AGGR_MIN_QDEPTH) - return; + break; } + + rcu_read_unlock(); } /***********/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
