habanalabs: define soft-reset as inference op
Soft-reset is the procedure where we reset only the compute/DMA engines
of the device, without requiring the current user-space process to
release the device.
This type of reset can happen if TDR event occurred (a workload got
stuck) or by a root request through sysfs.
This is only relevant for inference ASICs, as there is no real-world
use-case to do that in training, because training runs on multiple
devices.
In addition, we also do (in certain ASICs) a reset upon device release.
That reset uses the same code as the soft-reset.
Therefore, to better differentiate between the two resets, it is better
to rename the soft-reset support as "inference soft-reset", to make
the code more self-explanatory.
Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@kernel.org>
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