ath9k: Process BB watchdog events in the tasklet

Move the BB processing code to the tasklet and avoid
doing it in the ISR, there is no real benefit and this
makes the ISR less heavy.

Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
index 39d3af410834..0d730804c47d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
@@ -457,6 +457,11 @@ void ath9k_tasklet(unsigned long data)
 
         if ((ah->config.hw_hang_checks & HW_BB_WATCHDOG) &&
             (status & ATH9K_INT_BB_WATCHDOG)) {
+                spin_lock(&common->cc_lock);
+                ath_hw_cycle_counters_update(common);
+                ar9003_hw_bb_watchdog_dbg_info(ah);
+                spin_unlock(&common->cc_lock);
+
                 if (ar9003_hw_bb_watchdog_check(ah)) {
                         type = RESET_TYPE_BB_WATCHDOG;
                         ath9k_queue_reset(sc, type);
@@ -593,15 +598,8 @@ irqreturn_t ath_isr(int irq, void *dev)
                 goto chip_reset;
 
         if ((ah->config.hw_hang_checks & HW_BB_WATCHDOG) &&
-            (status & ATH9K_INT_BB_WATCHDOG)) {
-
-                spin_lock(&common->cc_lock);
-                ath_hw_cycle_counters_update(common);
-                ar9003_hw_bb_watchdog_dbg_info(ah);
-                spin_unlock(&common->cc_lock);
-
+            (status & ATH9K_INT_BB_WATCHDOG))
                 goto chip_reset;
-        }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ATH9K_WOW
         if (status & ATH9K_INT_BMISS) {