RDMA/mlx5: Relax DEVX access upon modify commands
authorYishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>
Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:29:13 +0000 (11:29 +0200)
committerLeon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Wed, 31 Jan 2024 09:15:39 +0000 (11:15 +0200)
commitbe551ee1574280ef8afbf7c271212ac3e38933ef
tree809d25aac51f59146cc42ba20bfbe5dba7d2ba01
parent43fdbd140238d44e7e847232719fef7d20f9d326
RDMA/mlx5: Relax DEVX access upon modify commands

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>
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c