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>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h
index 8282def..1310c41 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h
@@ -896,6 +896,7 @@
/* spinlock */
spinlock_t lock; /* protect general shared data */
spinlock_t hcmd_lock; /* protect hcmd */
+ spinlock_t reg_lock; /* protect hw register access */
struct mutex mutex;
/* basic pci-network driver stuff */