mwifiex: avoid gettimeofday in ba_threshold setting

mwifiex_get_random_ba_threshold() uses a complex homegrown implementation
to generate a pseudo-random number from the current time as returned
from do_gettimeofday().

This currently requires two 32-bit divisions plus a couple of other
computations that are eventually discarded as only eight bits of
the microsecond portion are used at all.

We could replace this with a call to get_random_bytes(), but that
might drain the entropy pool too fast if this is called for each
packet.

Instead, this patch converts it to use ktime_get_ns(), which is a
bit faster than do_gettimeofday(), and then uses a similar algorithm
as before, but in a way that takes both the nanosecond and second
portion into account for slightly-more-but-still-not-very-random
pseudorandom number.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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