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    ath10k: pci: use mutex for diagnostic window CE polling · 25733c4e
    Brian Norris authored
    The DIAG copy engine is only used via polling, but it holds a spinlock
    with softirqs disabled. Each iteration of our read/write loops can
    theoretically take 20ms (two 10ms timeout loops), and this loop can be
    run an unbounded number of times while holding the spinlock -- dependent
    on the request size given by the caller.
    
    As of commit 39501ea6 ("ath10k: download firmware via diag Copy
    Engine for QCA6174 and QCA9377."), we transfer large chunks of firmware
    memory using this mechanism. With large enough firmware segments, this
    becomes an exceedingly long period for disabling soft IRQs. For example,
    with a 500KiB firmware segment, in testing QCA6174A, I see 200 loop
    iterations of about 50-100us each, which can total about 10-20ms.
    
    In reality, we don't really need to block softirqs for this duration.
    The DIAG CE is only used in polling mode, and we only need to hold
    ce_lock to make sure any CE bookkeeping is done without screwing up
    another CE. Otherwise, we only need to ensure exclusion between
    ath10k_pci_diag_{read,write}_mem() contexts.
    
    This patch moves to use fine-grained locking for the shared ce_lock,
    while adding a new mutex just to ensure mutual exclusion of diag
    read/write operations.
    
    Tested on QCA6174A, firmware version WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00132-QCARMSWPZ-1.
    
    Fixes: 39501ea6 ("ath10k: download firmware via diag Copy Engine for QCA6174 and QCA9377.")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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