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RDMA/mlx5: Relax DEVX access upon modify commands
authorYishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>
Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:29:13 +0000 (11:29 +0200)
committerSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 22:19:11 +0000 (18:19 -0400)
commit19faac40496822dba1a5bc9e40f06256d44ab249
treed86949e26fd178d2d08cef28e91d469c995f64da
parent9a624a5f95733bac4648ecadb320ca83aa9c08fd
RDMA/mlx5: Relax DEVX access upon modify commands

[ Upstream commit be551ee1574280ef8afbf7c271212ac3e38933ef ]

Relax DEVX access upon modify commands to be UVERBS_ACCESS_READ.

The kernel doesn't need to protect what firmware protects, or what
causes no damage to anyone but the user.

As firmware needs to protect itself from parallel access to the same
object, don't block parallel modify/query commands on the same object in
the kernel side.

This change will allow user space application to run parallel updates to
different entries in the same bulk object.

Tested-by: Tamar Mashiah <tmashiah@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7407d5ed35dc427c1097699e12b49c01e1073406.1706433934.git.leon@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c