ath10k: pci: use mutex for diagnostic window CE polling
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: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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