iwlcore: register locks
Add new lock to be used when accessing some registers. Also move the register lock and iwl_grab_nic_access inside the function for register access. This will prevent from forgetting to hold locks and nic access in the right way and make code easier to maintain. We over use the priv->lock spin lock and I guess we need to add new one for Tx queue after that we might need to change most of these lock to BH and just keep priv->lock as irq type. Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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@@ -896,6 +896,7 @@ struct iwl_priv {
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/* spinlock */
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spinlock_t lock; /* protect general shared data */
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spinlock_t hcmd_lock; /* protect hcmd */
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spinlock_t reg_lock; /* protect hw register access */
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struct mutex mutex;
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/* basic pci-network driver stuff */
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