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Jakub Kicinski says: ==================== 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 ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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