Hi!

commit 3d3248dbd018502f654064c78efcd2e165ab3486 upstream.

The pci_epc_ops is not intended to be invoked from interrupt context.
Hence replace spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore with
mutex_lock and mutex_unlock respectively.

Could I get some kind of explanation why this is good idea?

As long as code protected by the locks does not sleep, spinlocks are
okay... (but they should not need "_irqsave" variants).

They are likely to have better performance, too, when protected code
is small and fast.

Best regards,
Pavel
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