[media] dvb: push down ioctl lock in dvb_usercopy

Since most dvb ioctls wrap their real work with dvb_usercopy, the static mutex
used in dvb_usercopy effectively is a global lock for dvb ioctls.
Unfortunately, frontend ioctls can be blocked by the frontend thread for
several seconds; this leads to unacceptable lock contention.  Mitigate that by
pushing the mutex from dvb_usercopy down to the individual, device specific
ioctls.
There are 10 such ioctl functions using dvb_usercopy, either calling it
directly, or via the trivial wrapper dvb_generic_ioctl. The following already
employ their own locking and look safe:
    • dvb_demux_ioctl           (as per dvb_demux_do_ioctl)
    • dvb_dvr_ioctl             (as per dvb_dvr_do_ioctl)
    • dvb_osd_ioctl             (as per single non-trivial callee)
    • fdtv_ca_ioctl             (as per callees)
    • dvb_frontend_ioctl
The following functions do not, and are thus changed to use a device specific
mutex:
    • dvb_net_ioctl             (as per dvb_net_do_ioctl)
    • dvb_ca_en50221_io_ioctl   (as per dvb_ca_en50221_io_do_ioctl)
    • dvb_video_ioctl
    • dvb_audio_ioctl
    • dvb_ca_ioctl

Signed-off-by: Nikolaus Schulz <schulz@macnetix.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/ttpci/av7110.h b/drivers/media/pci/ttpci/av7110.h
index a378662b1dcf..ef3d9606b269 100644
--- a/drivers/media/pci/ttpci/av7110.h
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/ttpci/av7110.h
@@ -271,6 +271,8 @@ struct av7110 {
 	struct dvb_frontend* fe;
 	fe_status_t fe_status;
 
+	struct mutex ioctl_mutex;
+
 	/* crash recovery */
 	void				(*recover)(struct av7110* av7110);
 	fe_sec_voltage_t		saved_voltage;