ixgbe: Fix issues with EEPROM access

There are two problems with EEPROM access. One is that it needs to
hold the semaphore until the entire response is read or else the
response can be corrupted by other firmware accesses. The second
problem is that acquiring and releasing the semaphore is slow, so
it should be taken and released once when multiple EEPROM accesses
will be done.

Both of these issues can be solved by adding a new function,
ixgbe_hic_unlocked, to issue firmware commands that will assume
that the caller has acquired the needed semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>
Tested-by: Krishneil Singh <krishneil.k.singh@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h
index 393aeabe2d8f..671a0cdf6935 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ s32 ixgbe_set_fw_drv_ver_generic(struct ixgbe_hw *hw, u8 maj, u8 min,
 u8 ixgbe_calculate_checksum(u8 *buffer, u32 length);
 s32 ixgbe_host_interface_command(struct ixgbe_hw *hw, void *, u32 length,
 				 u32 timeout, bool return_data);
+s32 ixgbe_hic_unlocked(struct ixgbe_hw *hw, u32 *buffer, u32 len, u32 timeout);
 void ixgbe_clear_tx_pending(struct ixgbe_hw *hw);
 bool ixgbe_mng_present(struct ixgbe_hw *hw);
 bool ixgbe_mng_enabled(struct ixgbe_hw *hw);