[PATCH v3 3/3] wifi: ath12k: Add lock to protect the hardware state

[Jeff Johnson]

On 4/25/2024 2:03 AM, Karthikeyan Periyasamy wrote:
> Currently, hardware state is not protected across the reconfigure
> operations. However, in single wiphy models, multiple radio/links is
> exposed as a MAC hardware (ieee80211_hw) through the driver hardware
> abstraction (ath12k_hw) layer. In such scenario, we need to protect
> hardware state across the multiple radio/link at the driver hardware
> abstraction (ath12k_hw) layer. Therefore, introduce a new mutex in
> the ath12k_hw layer.
> 
> Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Periyasamy <quic_periyasa at quicinc.com>

I know there are concerns with adding a new lock, however this design has
already been productized with QSDK/OpenWrt, so the current goal is to get
upstream on par with QSDK/OpenWrt, and after that we can revisit the locking
model.

Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0.c5-00481-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3

Acked-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson at quicinc.com>