ixgbevf: Remove mailbox spinlock from the reset function

The spinlocks are not required during reset.  There won't be any
contention for the mailbox resource.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
index 8b8a685df8493df636a7f429ac87d54956f9452d..592fe998a77fe1a88ece55bffc8c92549288d25c 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
@@ -1702,15 +1702,11 @@ void ixgbevf_reset(struct ixgbevf_adapter *adapter)
        struct ixgbe_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
        struct net_device *netdev = adapter->netdev;
 
-       spin_lock_bh(&adapter->mbx_lock);
-
        if (hw->mac.ops.reset_hw(hw))
                hw_dbg(hw, "PF still resetting\n");
        else
                hw->mac.ops.init_hw(hw);
 
-       spin_unlock_bh(&adapter->mbx_lock);
-
        if (is_valid_ether_addr(adapter->hw.mac.addr)) {
                memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, adapter->hw.mac.addr,
                       netdev->addr_len);