IB/mlx5: Introduce DEVX
Introduce DEVX to enable direct device commands in downstream patches
from this series.
In that mode of work the firmware manages the isolation between
processes' resources and as such a DEVX user id is created and assigned
to the given user context upon allocation request.
A capability check is done to make sure that this feature is really
supported by the firmware prior to creating the DEVX user id.
Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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