On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 09:54 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 6/20/2018 9:53 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 09:51 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > > On 6/19/2018 5:39 PM, Denis Kenzior wrote:
> > > > On pre-emption enabled kernels the following oops was being seen due
> > > > to missing local_bh_disable/local_bh_enable calls.  mac80211 assumes
> > > > that pre-emption is disabled in the data path.
> > > 
> > > No sure if "assumes" is the right term here. It seems like it is
> > > required and there is probably a good reason for that. Would be nice to
> > > know what that reason is.
> > 
> > It's using per-CPU data.
> 
> Hence the smp_processor_id() call which Denis mentioned in the bug report?

Yeah, I think that's an implementation detail thereof.

johannes

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