Merge branch 'devlink-locking'
Jakub Kicinski says:
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devlink: hold the instance lock in eswitch callbacks
Series number 2 in the effort to hold the devlink instance lock
in call driver callbacks. We have the following drivers using
this API:
- bnxt, nfp, netdevsim - their own locking is removed / simplified
by this series; all of them needed a lock to protect from changes
to the number of VFs while switching modes, now the VF config bus
callback takes the devlink instance lock via devl_lock();
- ice - appears not to allow changing modes while SR-IOV enabled,
so nothing to do there;
- liquidio - does not contain any locking;
- octeontx2/af - is very special but at least doesn't have locking
so doesn't get in the way either;
- mlx5 has a wealth of locks - I chickened out and dropped the lock
in the callbacks so that I can leave the driver be, for now.
The last one is obviously not ideal, but I would prefer to transition
the API already as it make take longer.
v2: use a wrapper in mlx5 and extend the comment
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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